Herbert I Schiller

Datos Biográficos

ID1141261
NOMBREHerbert I Schiller
NOMBRESHerbert I
APELLIDOSchiller
FIRMASCHILLER H I
AFILIACIONESUniversity of Sheffield
ORCID0000-0001-7229-9337
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS47
TOTAL DE CITAS209
TOTAL COMO AUTOR46
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1955
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H4

  • Advocacy and the function of folk psychology

    Open AccessHerbert I SchillerARTICLEMind & Language2026

    Why do we care about getting mental state attributions right? A common answer is that folk psychology is a proto‐scientific theory that allows us to predict and explain the behavior of physical systems. I argue that this position is inconsistent with one of the central practices in which attribution of desire occurs: to advocate for our interests and for the interests of others. I explain how such advocating speech works, and in which contexts su…

  • How do instructions help us make rational decisions

    Open AccessHerbert I SchillerARTICLELinguistics and Philosophy2026

    On one plausible story about how we rationally acquire reasons for action, an individual rationally acquires a new reason to $$\phi $$ φ only if there is something that individual learns about the world. It can also be said without much of a doubt that, in talking to each other, we sometimes rationally acquire reasons for action. This combination of claims is easy to square with declarative sentences, which we clearly use to provide each other wi…

  • Directing Thought

    Open AccessHerbert I SchillerARTICLEErgo an Open Access Journal of…2025

    I consider the claim that directing is a more fundamental kind of speech act than asserting, in the sense that the conditions under which an action counts as an assertion are sufficient for it to count as a directive. I show how this follows from a particular way of conceiving intentionalism about speech acts, on which acts of assertion are attempts at changing a common body of information—or conversational common ground—grounded in conversationa…

  • How to make people do things with words

    Open AccessHerbert I Schiller, Shaun Nichol et al.ARTICLENoûs2025

    Sometimes we do what other people tell us to. A natural thought is that the motivation to act on an instruction comes about rationally as the result of interpreting an imperative and deciding to act on it; that is, by updating on information that gets mediated through belief‐desire reasoning. We defend an alternative “Spinozan” view about how instructions—specifically those performed with imperative sentences —might give rise to a motivation to a…

  • Default domain restriction possibilities

    Open AccessKatherine Ritchie, Herbert I Schiller et al.ARTICLESemantics and Pragmatics2024

    We start with an observation about implicit quantifier domain restriction: certain implicit restrictions (e.g., restricting objects by location and time) appear to be more natural and widely available than others (e.g., restricting objects by color, aesthetic, or historical properties). Our aim is to explain why this is. That is, we aim to explain why some implicit domain restriction possibilities are available by default. We argue that, regardle…

  • Meaning and responsibility

    Open AccessRay Buchanan, Herbert I SchillerARTICLEMind & Language2023

    In performing an act of assertion we are sometimes responsible for more than the content of the literal meaning of the words we have used, sometimes less. A recently popular research program seeks to explain certain of the commitments we make in speech in terms of responsiveness to the conversational subject matter. We raise some issues for this view with the aim of providing a more general account of linguistic commitment: one that is grounded i…

  • Genericity and Inductive Inference

    Open AccessHerbert I Schiller, Henry Ian SchillerARTICLEPhilosophy of Science2023Citada por: 1Referencias: 32

    We are often justified in acting on the basis of evidential confirmation. I argue that this is because inductive inference supports belief in non-quantificational—or generic —generalizations, rather than universally quantified generalizations. I show how this account supports, rather than undermines, a Bayesian account of inductive inference. Induction from confirming instances of a generalization to belief in the corresponding generic is part of…

  • What’s your Opinion? Negation and ‘Weak’ Attitude Verbs

    Open AccessHerbert I Schiller, Henry Ian SchillerARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly2023Referencias: 17

    Attitude verbs like ‘believe’ and ‘want’ exhibit neg-raising: an ascription of the form a doesn’t believe that p tends to convey that a disbelieves—i.e., believes the negation of—p. In ‘Belief is Weak’, Hawthore et al. observe that neg-raising does not occur with verbs like ‘know’ or ‘need’. According to them, an ascription of the form a believes that p is true just in case a is in a belief state that makes p more likely than not, and so—exceptin…

  • Illocutionary harm

    Open AccessHerbert I SchillerARTICLEPhilosophical Studies2021

  • This paper might change your mind

    Open AccessJosh Dever, Herbert I SchillerARTICLENoûs2021

    Linguistic intervention in rational decision making is standardly captured in terms of information change. But the standard view gives us no way to model interventions involving expressions that only have an attentional effects on conversational contexts. How are expressions with non‐informational content – like epistemic modals – used to intervene in rational decision making? We show how to model rational decision change without information chan…

  • A Hole in the Box and a Pain in the Mouth

    Open AccessLaurenz Casser, Laurenz C Casser et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly2021Referencias: 32

    The following argument is widely assumed to be invalid: there is a pain in my finger; my finger is in my mouth; therefore, there is a pain in my mouth. The apparent invalidity of this argument has recently been used to motivate the conclusion that pains are not spatial entities. We argue that this is a mistake. We do so by drawing attention to the metaphysics of pains and holes and provide a framework for their location which both vindicates the …

  • Pragmatic Particularism

    Open AccessRay Buchanan, Herbert I SchillerARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2021Citada por: 4Referencias: 1

    For the Intentionalist , utterance content is wholly determined by a speaker’s meaning‐intentions; the sentence uttered serves merely to facilitate the audience’s recovering these intentions. We argue that Intentionalists ought to be Particularists , holding that the only “principles” of meaning recovery needed are those governing inferences to the best explanation; “principles” that are both defeasible and, in a sense to be elaborated, variable …

  • Phenomenal dispositions

    Open AccessHerbert I SchillerARTICLESynthese2020Referencias: 26

  • Communication and Cultural Domination

    Herbert I SchillerBOOKRevival2019

    This title was first published in 1976. The attainment of political independence by more than ninety countries since the Second World War has directed attention to the conditions of economic helplessness and dependency that continue to frustrate the development of at least two-thirds of the world's nations. Two and sometimes three decades of disappointing efforts to extricate themselves from dependency have begun to provoke serious reappraisals i…

  • Revival

    Herbert I SchillerBOOKRevival2019

  • The Technology of Cultural Domination

    Herbert I SchillerCHAPTERRevival2019

  • Invisible Crises

    George Gerbner, Hamid Mowlana et al.BOOKInvisible Crises2018

    Hidden from public sight and mind today are invisible crises that threaten our democracy and existence even more than the crises we know about - or think we know about. These invisible crises include the promotion of practices that drug, hurt, poison, and kill thousands every day; cults of violence that desensitize, terrorize, and brutalize; the growing siege mentality of our cities; widening resource gaps and the most glaring inequalities in the…

  • Living in the Number 1 Society

    Open AccessHerbert I SchillerARTICLEGazette (Leiden Netherlands1998Referencias: 3

    Attention in recent decades has been paid to the presence and impact of US cultural domination on most of the world. Less observed are the effects of this powerful culture on the people of the USA itself. When examined, the most striking effect is the narrowed and impoverished cultural life of the domestic population

  • Not Yet the Postimperialist Era

    Herbert I SchillerCHAPTERCommunication and Culture in War…1993

  • Corporate Sponsorship

    Herbert I SchillerARTICLEArt Journal1991Citada por: 1

    In 1978 the foremost historian of American broadcasting, Erik Barnouw, distilled a lifetime of radio and television experience into a brief but illuminating book. It was titled The Sponsor, but it might just as appropriately have been called “The Real History of Broadcasting in America.” On the last page, Barnouw concluded

  • Not yet the post‐imperialist era

    Herbert I SchillerARTICLECritical Studies in Mass…1991Citada por: 71Referencias: 4

    The early formulation in the late 1960s of the cultural domination thesis occurred in a specific historical era. Although that period is over, this by no means indicates that cultural domination no longer exists. The difference today is that national (largely American) media‐cultural power has been largely (though not fully) subordinated to transnational corporate authority. A total cultural package—film, TV, music, sports, theme parks, shopping …

  • The Arts and Arts Policy

    Judith Huggins Balfe, Milton C Cummings et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1990

  • Comunicacion de Masas E Imperialismo Yanqui

    Herbert I Schiller, Herbert SchillerBOOKComunicacion de Masas E…1989Citada por: 103

  • Hope and Folly

    Andrew J Pierre, W D Preston et al.ARTICLEForeign Affairs1989Citada por: 6

    Hope and Folly was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Created in a burst of idealism after World War II, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) existed for forty years in a state of troubled yet often successful collaboration wit…

  • La privatisation de l’espace culturel aux États-Unis

    Open AccessHerbert I Schiller, Nicole HalpertARTICLECahiers de recherche sociologique1986