Graham Stevens
Biographic Data
| ID | 3873301 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Graham Stevens |
| GIVEN NAMES | Graham |
| FAMILY NAME | Stevens |
| SIGNATURE | STEVENS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-3341-108X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What’s so bad about being a manageress
A feminitive is a noun which restricts its extension to women/girls. They have a long history of use within English (e.g. princess, temptress), as well as more recent additions to English (e.g. manageress, hostess). The desirability of introducing feminitives as a device of feminist language reforms is controversial. While some are a helpful tool for raising the visibility of women in traditionally male roles and environments, some seem counterpr…
Faultless disagreement without contradiction: Expressive-relativism and predicates of personal taste
In this paper we motivate and develop a new approach to predicates of personal taste within the framework of semantic relativism. Our primary goal is to explain faultless disagreement—the phenomenon where two parties disagree, yet both have uttered something true—which is often thought to arise from the use of predicates of personal taste. We combine semantic relativism with an expressivist semantics to yield a novel hybrid theory which we call E…
Metalinguistic Monstrosity and Displaced Communication
David Kaplan's semantic theory for indexicals yields a distinct logic for indexical languages that generates contingent a priori truths. These special truths of the logic of indexicals include examples like "I am here now", an utterance of which expresses a contingent state of affairs and yet which, according to Kaplan, cannot fail to be true when it is uttered. This claim is threatened by the problem of displaced communications: answerphone mess…
The scope of logical atomism: Gregory Landini: Russell. London: Routledge, 2011, 472pp, £17.99 PB
The Unity of the Proposition - Richard Gaskin: Book Reviews
Russell and the Unity of the Proposition
In this article I present a summary of Bertrand Russell's protracted attempts to solve the problem of the unity of the proposition, and explain the significance of the problem for Russell's philosophy. Unlike many other accounts which take the problem to be confined to Russell's early theories of propositional content, I argue that the problem (or variants of it) is a recurring theme throughout the whole of Russell's career
Russell’s Repsychologising of the Proposition
From Russell's Paradox to the Theory of Judgement: Wittgenstein and Russell on the Unity of the Proposition
It is fairly well known that Wittgenstein's criticisms of Russell's multiple‐relation theory of judgement had a devastating effect on the latter's philosophical enterprise. The exact nature of those criticisms however, and the explanation for the severity of their consequences, has been a source of confusion and disagreement amongst both Russell and Wittgenstein scholars. In this paper, I offer an interpretation of those criticisms which shows th…
Information design
An analysis of the relationships between design and text, to show how the physical shape given to information can affect its impact
Russell and the Unity of the Proposition
In this article I present a summary of Bertrand Russell's protracted attempts to solve the problem of the unity of the proposition, and explain the significance of the problem for Russell's philosophy. Unlike many other accounts which take the problem to be confined to Russell's early theories of propositional content, I argue that the problem (or variants of it) is a recurring theme throughout the whole of Russell's career
Russell’s Repsychologising of the Proposition
Information design
An analysis of the relationships between design and text, to show how the physical shape given to information can affect its impact
From Russell's Paradox to the Theory of Judgement: Wittgenstein and Russell on the Unity of the Proposition
It is fairly well known that Wittgenstein's criticisms of Russell's multiple‐relation theory of judgement had a devastating effect on the latter's philosophical enterprise. The exact nature of those criticisms however, and the explanation for the severity of their consequences, has been a source of confusion and disagreement amongst both Russell and Wittgenstein scholars. In this paper, I offer an interpretation of those criticisms which shows th…
Russell’s Repsychologising of the Proposition
Russell and the Unity of the Proposition
In this article I present a summary of Bertrand Russell's protracted attempts to solve the problem of the unity of the proposition, and explain the significance of the problem for Russell's philosophy. Unlike many other accounts which take the problem to be confined to Russell's early theories of propositional content, I argue that the problem (or variants of it) is a recurring theme throughout the whole of Russell's career
The Unity of the Proposition - Richard Gaskin: Book Reviews
The scope of logical atomism: Gregory Landini: Russell. London: Routledge, 2011, 472pp, £17.99 PB
Metalinguistic Monstrosity and Displaced Communication
David Kaplan's semantic theory for indexicals yields a distinct logic for indexical languages that generates contingent a priori truths. These special truths of the logic of indexicals include examples like "I am here now", an utterance of which expresses a contingent state of affairs and yet which, according to Kaplan, cannot fail to be true when it is uttered. This claim is threatened by the problem of displaced communications: answerphone mess…
Faultless disagreement without contradiction: Expressive-relativism and predicates of personal taste
In this paper we motivate and develop a new approach to predicates of personal taste within the framework of semantic relativism. Our primary goal is to explain faultless disagreement—the phenomenon where two parties disagree, yet both have uttered something true—which is often thought to arise from the use of predicates of personal taste. We combine semantic relativism with an expressivist semantics to yield a novel hybrid theory which we call E…
What’s so bad about being a manageress
A feminitive is a noun which restricts its extension to women/girls. They have a long history of use within English (e.g. princess, temptress), as well as more recent additions to English (e.g. manageress, hostess). The desirability of introducing feminitives as a device of feminist language reforms is controversial. While some are a helpful tool for raising the visibility of women in traditionally male roles and environments, some seem counterpr…
Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Proposition (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Metaphysics (3 works) · Philosophy of language (3 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (2 works)