Jeff Engelhardt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3943854 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeff Engelhardt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeff |
| FAMILY NAME | Engelhardt |
| SIGNATURE | ENGELHARDT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dickinson College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7472-9468 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Using the Ideal/Nonideal Distinction in Philosophy of Language (and Elsewhere)
Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever (C&D) have recently argued that the ideal/non-ideal distinction is ‘useless’ in philosophy of language. This paper responds to C&D’s argument, develops an account of the distinction, and applies it to philosophy of language. Section 1 summarizes C&D’s argument against Charles Mills’s version of the distinction. Section 2 develops an account of the distinction that’s inspired by Mills’s work but that differs from wha…
Nonideal Theory and Content Externalism
This book examines the intersection of systemic oppression and philosophical methodology. Focusing on philosophical theories of mind and language, it makes the case that they tend to be systematically inaccurate because they abstract away from systemic oppression when they model society, but the phenomena they aim to describe, explain, and predict are in fact systematically influenced by oppression. In short, philosophers of mind/language have te…
Linguistic labor and its division
Resources, Rules, and Oppression
There is a large and growing literature on communal interpretive resources: the concepts, theories, narratives, and so on that a community draws on in interpreting its members and their world. (They're also called “hermeneutical resources” in some places and “epistemic resources” in others.) Several recent contributions to this literature have concerned dominant and resistant interpretive resources and how they affect concrete lived interactions.…
What we talk about when we talk about content externalism
Nonideal Theory and Content Externalism
This book examines the intersection of systemic oppression and philosophical methodology. Focusing on philosophical theories of mind and language, it makes the case that they tend to be systematically inaccurate because they abstract away from systemic oppression when they model society, but the phenomena they aim to describe, explain, and predict are in fact systematically influenced by oppression. In short, philosophers of mind/language have te…
What we talk about when we talk about content externalism
Linguistic labor and its division
Resources, Rules, and Oppression
There is a large and growing literature on communal interpretive resources: the concepts, theories, narratives, and so on that a community draws on in interpreting its members and their world. (They're also called “hermeneutical resources” in some places and “epistemic resources” in others.) Several recent contributions to this literature have concerned dominant and resistant interpretive resources and how they affect concrete lived interactions.…
Nonideal Theory and Content Externalism
This book examines the intersection of systemic oppression and philosophical methodology. Focusing on philosophical theories of mind and language, it makes the case that they tend to be systematically inaccurate because they abstract away from systemic oppression when they model society, but the phenomena they aim to describe, explain, and predict are in fact systematically influenced by oppression. In short, philosophers of mind/language have te…
Using the Ideal/Nonideal Distinction in Philosophy of Language (and Elsewhere)
Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever (C&D) have recently argued that the ideal/non-ideal distinction is ‘useless’ in philosophy of language. This paper responds to C&D’s argument, develops an account of the distinction, and applies it to philosophy of language. Section 1 summarizes C&D’s argument against Charles Mills’s version of the distinction. Section 2 develops an account of the distinction that’s inspired by Mills’s work but that differs from wha…
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (3 works) · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Metaphysics (3 works) · Philosophy of language (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)