Robert J Stainton

Datos Biográficos

ID495163
NOMBRERobert J Stainton
NOMBRESRobert J
APELLIDOStainton
FIRMASTAINTON R J
AFILIACIONESCarleton University
ORCID0000-0001-6661-8266
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS36
TOTAL DE CITAS6
TOTAL COMO AUTOR33
TOTAL COMO EDITOR4
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1994
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H1

  • Stewart Duncan, Materialism from Hobbes to Locke

    Open AccessBenjamin Hill, Robert J Stainton et al.ARTICLECritica2024

    Stewart Duncan, Materialism from Hobbes to Locke, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2022, 248pp., ISBN: 9780197613009

  • Troubles with Rey's linguistic Eliminativism

    Open AccessRobert J Stainton, Christopher VigerARTICLEMind & Language2022

    We focus on Folieism, Rey's brand of Eliminativism about languages, according to which words, sentences, phonemes, and such, and consequently languages, do not exist; they are intentional inexistents, on a par with unicorns that speakers, under an ineluctable illusion, mistake as real. We present a simplified reconstruction of his argument, challenge what we take to be its presuppositions, and argue that its conclusion has unwanted social/ethical…

  • Linguistic Prescriptivism

    Alex Barber, Robert J StaintonCHAPTERRoutledge Handbook of Social and…2021

    Alex Barber and Robert Stainton grapple with the issue of whether there really is a plausible and non-trivial notion of linguistic prescriptivism that might characterize the attitudes of people commonly associated with the view. They argue that we should drop the notion in favour of “language norming” (which is intended to include paradigm instances of ameliorative projects as well as injunctions not to split infinitives) and then argue that some…

  • Critical notice of Words and Contents , by Richard Vallée

    Open AccessRobert J Stainton, Arthur SullivanARTICLECanadian Journal of Philosophy2021

    Section I gives an overview of the contents of “Words and Contents”, and lays out the plan for this Critical Notice. Section II expounds Vallée’s Perry-inspired Pluri-Propositional semantic framework, and Section III is an in-depth case study, focused on complex demonstratives. In Sections IV-V we develop some criticisms, and in Section VI we suggest a solution to these difficulties, which builds on Vallée’s innovative work

  • Emociones, ofensa y registro sociolingüístico

    Open AccessJustina Díaz Legaspe, Robert J Stainton et al.ARTICLECritica2020

    Existe un tipo particular de usos de términos discriminatorios en el que las emociones negativas típicamente asociadas a él (odio, enojo) no se hallan de hecho presentes. Aun así, lo incorrecto o inadecuado sigue resonando en esos usos. Este tipo de ``uso distante'' resulta interesante per se, en cuanto fenómeno conversacional rara vez advertido. Sin embargo, también presta apoyo a una aproximación a los términos discriminatorios basada en el con…

  • Slurs and register

    Open AccessJustina Díaz Legaspe, Justina Diaz‐Legaspe et al.ARTICLEMind & Language2019Citada por: 5Referencias: 3

    Most theories of slurs fall into two families: Those which understand slurring terms to involve special descriptive/informational content (however conveyed), and those which understand them to encode special emotive/expressive content. Both offer essential insights, but part of what sets slurs apart is use-theoretic content. Slurring words belong at the intersection of categories in a sociolinguistic register taxonomy, one that usually includes […

  • Verbing and Nouning

    Open AccessGrace A Gomashie, Robert J StaintonCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Evolutionary…2016

  • Linguistic Content

    Margaret Cameron, Robert J StaintonBOOKLinguistic Content2015

  • Linguistic Content

    Margaret Cameron, Robert J StaintonBOOKLinguistic Content2015

  • Revisiting pragmatic abilities in autism spectrum disorders

    Jessica de Villiers, Brooke Myers et al.ARTICLEPragmatics & Cognition2013

    In a 2007 paper, we argued that speakers with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) exhibit pragmatic abilities which are surprising given the usual understanding of communication in that group. That is, it is commonly reported that people diagnosed with an ASD have trouble with metaphor, irony, conversational implicature and other non-literal language. This is not a matter of trouble with knowledge and application of rules of grammar. The difficultie…

  • Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values

    Open AccessGennaro Chierchia, K Fintel et al.BOOKCompositionality, context and…2009

  • Perry, Wittgenstein’s builders, and metasemantics

    Robert J StaintonARTICLEPragmatics & Cognition2009

    The paper discusses in detail John Perry’s important article “Davidson’s Sentences and Wittgenstein’s Builders”. Perry argues, on the basis of Wittgenstein’s famous block/slab language, that words make direct metasemantic contact with the world. The present paper urges that, while Perry’s conclusions are correct and important, the arguments provided for them, in his 1994 article, ignore essential features of genuine words in natural language. A m…

  • The Achilles of Rationalist Psychology

    Open AccessRobert Stainton, Thomas M Lennon et al.BOOKThe achilles of rationalist…2008

    "How is it that the mind perceives the words of a verse as a verse and not just as a string of words? One answer to this question is that to do so the mind itself must already be unified as a simple thing without parts (and perhaps must therefore be immortal). Kant called this argument the Achilles, perhaps because of its apparent invincibility, and perhaps also because it has a fatal weak spot, or perhaps because it is the champion argument of r…

  • Revenge

    Open AccessRobert J StaintonARTICLECritica2006

    This paper discusses, in a preliminary manner, what revenge is. (It does not address the rationality or moral standing of revenge.) In particular, it proposes four elements of revenge —an agent, a recipient, a harm intended by the former, and a harm done by the latter which provokes the revenge. Based on these four elements, it highlights both agent-internal conditions for getting revenge, and agentexternal ones. Along the way, the paper contrast…

  • The Things We Mean

    Robert J StaintonARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2006

  • The Things We Mean

    Robert J StaintonARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2006Referencias: 4

    Book Review| January 01 2006 The Things We Mean Stephen Schiffer, The Things We Mean. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 362 pp. Robert J. Stainton Robert J. Stainton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (1): 124–127. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2005-010 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Robert J. Stainton; The Things We Mean. The Philosophic…

  • Terminological Reflections of an Enlightened Contextualist1

    Open AccessRobert J StaintonARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2006Citada por: 1

  • Quotation

    Open AccessAndrew Botterell, Robert J StaintonARTICLECritica2005

    We discuss two kinds of quotation, namely indirect quotation (e.g., 'Anita said that Mexico is beautiful') and pure quotation (e.g., 'Mexico' has six letters). With respect to each, we have both a negative and a positive plaint. The negative plaint is that the strict Davidsonian (1968, 1979a) treatment of indirect and pure quotation cannot be correct. The positive plaint is an alternative account of how quotation of these two sorts works

  • Speaker Meaning and Davidson on Metaphor

    Open AccessRobert J StaintonARTICLEDialogue2003

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  • Unshadowed Thought

    Reinaldo Elugardo, Robert J Stainton et al.ARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2002

  • Unshadowed Thought

    Reinaldo Elugardo, Robert J StaintonARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2002

    Book Review| July 01 2002 Unshadowed Thought: Representations in Thought and Language Charles Travis, Unshadowed Thought: Representations in Thought and Language. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2000.Pp. 263. Reinaldo Elugardo; Reinaldo Elugardo Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Robert J. Stainton Robert J. Stainton Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (3): 47…

  • Knowledge and Mind

    Andrew Brooks, Andrew Brook et al.BOOKKnowledge and Mind2001

  • Knowledge and Mind

    Andrew Brook, Robert J StaintonBOOKKnowledge and Mind2000

    This is the only contemporary text to cover both epistemology and philosophy of mind at an introductory level. It also serves as a general introduction to philosophy: it discusses the nature and methods of philosophy as well as basic logical tools of the trade. The book is divided into three parts. The first focuses on knowledge, in particular, skepticism and knowledge of the external world, and knowledge of language. The second focuses on mind, …

  • Objects and Senses and Substitutions

    Open AccessRobert J StaintonARTICLEDialogue2000

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  • The semantics-pragmatics boundary in philosophy

    Maite Ezcurdia, Robert J Stainton

    A comprehensive selection of readings on one of the key issues in the philosophy of language.