Nicolò D'Agruma
Biographic Data
| ID | 4601692 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicolò D'Agruma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicolò |
| FAMILY NAME | D'Agruma |
| SIGNATURE | AGRUMA N D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vita-Salute San Raffaele University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-4989-9159 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Social facts, circularity and causal-historical connections in experimental semantics
This paper offers a critical analysis of Ding and Liu’s (2022) contribution to the ongoing debate stemming from Machery et al.’s (2004) experimental investigation of Kripke’s Gödel Case. Machery et al. test referential intuitions on proper names among laypeople from American and Chinese backgrounds and contend that their results challenge Kripke’s refutation of descriptivism. Ding and Liu argue that descriptions in Gödel-style scenarios are ambig…
Eye-tracking evidence for the causal-historical theory of reference
Semantics, lying, and additive particularised conversational implicatures
Do the Gödel Vignettes Involve a New Descriptivist Meaning? A Critical Discussion of Devitt and Porot's Elicited Production Test on Proper Names
Proper names—expressions such as “Barack Obama” or “New York”—play a crucial role in the philosophical debate on reference, that is, the relation that allows words to stand for entities of the world. In an elicited production test, Devitt and Porot prompt participants to use proper names to compare the Descriptivist Theory and the Causal‐Historical Theory on proper names’ reference. According to the Descriptivist Theory, names refer to the entity…
From the epistemic perspectives in experimental semantics to the ambiguity of proper names
In her engaging book, The referential mechanism of proper names , Li presents empirical studies involving American and Chinese laypeople. Li interprets her results as supporting an epistemic‐perspective reading of the variability in referential intuitions on proper names. Building upon this thesis, Li defends the ambiguity view , claiming that names are ambiguous between a descriptivist and a causal‐historical meaning. I argue that either Li's da…
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From the epistemic perspectives in experimental semantics to the ambiguity of proper names
In her engaging book, The referential mechanism of proper names , Li presents empirical studies involving American and Chinese laypeople. Li interprets her results as supporting an epistemic‐perspective reading of the variability in referential intuitions on proper names. Building upon this thesis, Li defends the ambiguity view , claiming that names are ambiguous between a descriptivist and a causal‐historical meaning. I argue that either Li's da…
Social facts, circularity and causal-historical connections in experimental semantics
This paper offers a critical analysis of Ding and Liu’s (2022) contribution to the ongoing debate stemming from Machery et al.’s (2004) experimental investigation of Kripke’s Gödel Case. Machery et al. test referential intuitions on proper names among laypeople from American and Chinese backgrounds and contend that their results challenge Kripke’s refutation of descriptivism. Ding and Liu argue that descriptions in Gödel-style scenarios are ambig…
Eye-tracking evidence for the causal-historical theory of reference
Semantics, lying, and additive particularised conversational implicatures
Do the Gödel Vignettes Involve a New Descriptivist Meaning? A Critical Discussion of Devitt and Porot's Elicited Production Test on Proper Names
Proper names—expressions such as “Barack Obama” or “New York”—play a crucial role in the philosophical debate on reference, that is, the relation that allows words to stand for entities of the world. In an elicited production test, Devitt and Porot prompt participants to use proper names to compare the Descriptivist Theory and the Causal‐Historical Theory on proper names’ reference. According to the Descriptivist Theory, names refer to the entity…
Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (3 works) · Programming language (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Metaphysics (2 works) · Natural language processing (2 works)