Jussi Haukioja
Biographic Data
| ID | 5722760 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jussi Haukioja |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jussi |
| FAMILY NAME | Haukioja |
| SIGNATURE | HAUKIOJA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turku |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3906-8278 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How to tame a catoblepas
Two recent experimental studies, by Shaun Nichols et al. and by Michael Devitt & Brian Porter claim to find evidence for the view that both causal-historical factors and descriptive factors play a role in determining the extensions of natural kind terms. Both studies use versions of a vignette featuring the fictional natural kind term “Catoblepas”. We conducted an experiment where we used vignettes and corresponding tasks that were otherwise full…
Testing name swapping
All the experimental work on the reference of proper names during the last 20 years has utilised setups modelled after Kripke’s Gödel and Jonah cases. Doubts remain, however, about the viability of the setup. This paper reports the results from a new experiment, using a different and novel kind of setup. The novel setup is simultaneously used on proper names, artefact terms, and definitional terms, with the last two categories serving as controls…
Semantics, Cross-Category Style
Ever since Machery and co-workers first decided to test whether non-philosophers assign reference in accordance with the causal-historical account, the reference of proper names has been tested by means of setups modelled on Kripke’s Gödel and Jonah cases. Over the years, the use of these setups as a means to test theories of reference has attracted much criticism. However, previous follow-up studies have supposedly accounted for these criticisms…
Reports from Twin Earth
Following the influential thought experiments by Hilary Putnam and others, philosophers of language have for the most part adopted semantic externalism concerning natural kind terms. In this article, we present results from three experiments on the reference of natural kind terms. Our results confirm some standard externalist assumptions, but are in conflict with others: Ordinary speakers take both appearance and underlying nature to be central i…
Semantic burden-shifting and temporal externalism
Temporal externalism is the view that the meanings and extensions of linguistic expressions can be partly determined by contingent linguistic and/or conceptual developments that take place after the time of utterance. In this paper, I first clarify what it would take for temporal externalism to be true, relying on the notion of burden-shifting dispositions. I then go on to argue that existing thought experiments give us reason to expect that temp…
A Sceptical Guide to Meaning and Rules
Saul Kripke's 1982 book Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language started a discussion in which hundreds of papers have responded both to Kripke's arguments and to his interpretation of Wittgenstein's remarks on rule‐following. Martin Kusch's new book is the first book‐length study that seriously tries to react to this huge discussion as a whole. It does so in a most impressive fashion. Kusch defends a reading of ‘Kripke's Wittgenstein’ (hencefo…
Proto-Rigidity
Grammaticality, response-dependence and the ontology of linguistic objects
The problem of explaining the knowledge possessed by a native speaker of a natural language and the philosophical problem of rule-following are juxtaposed, and the former is seen to be an instance of the latter. A recent solution to the rule-following problem is reviewed, with special attention to the consequences that the solution has for the nature of those concepts acquired from exemplars. The concept of a grammatical sentence is one of these.…
Grammaticality, response-dependence and the ontology of linguistic objects
The problem of explaining the knowledge possessed by a native speaker of a natural language and the philosophical problem of rule-following are juxtaposed, and the former is seen to be an instance of the latter. A recent solution to the rule-following problem is reviewed, with special attention to the consequences that the solution has for the nature of those concepts acquired from exemplars. The concept of a grammatical sentence is one of these.…
Proto-Rigidity
A Sceptical Guide to Meaning and Rules
Saul Kripke's 1982 book Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language started a discussion in which hundreds of papers have responded both to Kripke's arguments and to his interpretation of Wittgenstein's remarks on rule‐following. Martin Kusch's new book is the first book‐length study that seriously tries to react to this huge discussion as a whole. It does so in a most impressive fashion. Kusch defends a reading of ‘Kripke's Wittgenstein’ (hencefo…
Semantic burden-shifting and temporal externalism
Temporal externalism is the view that the meanings and extensions of linguistic expressions can be partly determined by contingent linguistic and/or conceptual developments that take place after the time of utterance. In this paper, I first clarify what it would take for temporal externalism to be true, relying on the notion of burden-shifting dispositions. I then go on to argue that existing thought experiments give us reason to expect that temp…
Reports from Twin Earth
Following the influential thought experiments by Hilary Putnam and others, philosophers of language have for the most part adopted semantic externalism concerning natural kind terms. In this article, we present results from three experiments on the reference of natural kind terms. Our results confirm some standard externalist assumptions, but are in conflict with others: Ordinary speakers take both appearance and underlying nature to be central i…
Testing name swapping
All the experimental work on the reference of proper names during the last 20 years has utilised setups modelled after Kripke’s Gödel and Jonah cases. Doubts remain, however, about the viability of the setup. This paper reports the results from a new experiment, using a different and novel kind of setup. The novel setup is simultaneously used on proper names, artefact terms, and definitional terms, with the last two categories serving as controls…
Semantics, Cross-Category Style
Ever since Machery and co-workers first decided to test whether non-philosophers assign reference in accordance with the causal-historical account, the reference of proper names has been tested by means of setups modelled on Kripke’s Gödel and Jonah cases. Over the years, the use of these setups as a means to test theories of reference has attracted much criticism. However, previous follow-up studies have supposedly accounted for these criticisms…
How to tame a catoblepas
Two recent experimental studies, by Shaun Nichols et al. and by Michael Devitt & Brian Porter claim to find evidence for the view that both causal-historical factors and descriptive factors play a role in determining the extensions of natural kind terms. Both studies use versions of a vignette featuring the fictional natural kind term “Catoblepas”. We conducted an experiment where we used vignettes and corresponding tasks that were otherwise full…
Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Metaphysics (3 works) · Philosophy of language (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Cognitive science (2 works)