Nikhil Mahant
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5966746 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nikhil Mahant |
| NOMBRES | Nikhil |
| APELLIDO | Mahant |
| FIRMA | MAHANT N |
| AFILIACIONES | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0007-6406 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 5 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Being metalinguistic doesn’t make it circular
Metalinguistic views of proper names are often written off on the ground that they are ‘blatantly circular’ (Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity, 72). This article exonerates metalinguistic views from the charge of circularity. I begin by distinguishing a word from its associated form: while words have semantic properties, forms – which are types of sounds, inscriptions, or gestures – do not. Quotation marks can be used to form a quote-name of eith…
A Criterion of Literality for Names
In recent years, several kinds of non-referential uses of names have received attention within semantics. However, the lack of a principled basis for drawing the distinction between uses that a semantic theory of names must account for (‘literal’ uses) and other uses that it need not explain by itself (‘non-literal uses’) represents an important deficiency in the debate. A prominent objection (the ‘Sceptic’s Challenge’) against semantic views tha…
The cross‐linguistic uses of proper names
A distinctive and widely recognized feature of proper names is that, unlike other words, names can be used across languages without modification. Yet, this feature of names—the prevalence and acceptability of their ‘cross‐linguistic’ uses—has been mostly overlooked within philosophy. This article highlights the theoretical importance of the cross‐linguistic uses of names in the debate concerning their syntax and semantics. It identifies an anomal…
Making AI Intelligible
Journal Article Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations Get access Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations. By Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever. (Oxford: OUP, 2021. Pp. viii + 175. Price £34.99.) Nikhil Mahant Nikhil Mahant Central European University, Vienna, Austria https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0007-6406 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, pqad088, https://doi.or…
The metaphysical burden of Millianism
The Millian semantic view of names relies on a metaphysical view of names—often given the label ‘common currency conception’ (‘CCC’)—on which the names of distinct individuals count as distinct names. While even defenders of the Millian view admit that the CCC ‘does not agree with the most common usage’ (Kripke in Naming & Necessity, Harvard University Press, 1980), I will argue further that the CCC makes names exceptional amongst the class of li…
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The metaphysical burden of Millianism
The Millian semantic view of names relies on a metaphysical view of names—often given the label ‘common currency conception’ (‘CCC’)—on which the names of distinct individuals count as distinct names. While even defenders of the Millian view admit that the CCC ‘does not agree with the most common usage’ (Kripke in Naming & Necessity, Harvard University Press, 1980), I will argue further that the CCC makes names exceptional amongst the class of li…
Making AI Intelligible
Journal Article Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations Get access Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations. By Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever. (Oxford: OUP, 2021. Pp. viii + 175. Price £34.99.) Nikhil Mahant Nikhil Mahant Central European University, Vienna, Austria https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0007-6406 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, pqad088, https://doi.or…
A Criterion of Literality for Names
In recent years, several kinds of non-referential uses of names have received attention within semantics. However, the lack of a principled basis for drawing the distinction between uses that a semantic theory of names must account for (‘literal’ uses) and other uses that it need not explain by itself (‘non-literal uses’) represents an important deficiency in the debate. A prominent objection (the ‘Sceptic’s Challenge’) against semantic views tha…
The cross‐linguistic uses of proper names
A distinctive and widely recognized feature of proper names is that, unlike other words, names can be used across languages without modification. Yet, this feature of names—the prevalence and acceptability of their ‘cross‐linguistic’ uses—has been mostly overlooked within philosophy. This article highlights the theoretical importance of the cross‐linguistic uses of names in the debate concerning their syntax and semantics. It identifies an anomal…
Being metalinguistic doesn’t make it circular
Metalinguistic views of proper names are often written off on the ground that they are ‘blatantly circular’ (Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity, 72). This article exonerates metalinguistic views from the charge of circularity. I begin by distinguishing a word from its associated form: while words have semantic properties, forms – which are types of sounds, inscriptions, or gestures – do not. Quotation marks can be used to form a quote-name of eith…
Philosophy (3 obras) · Proper noun (3 obras) · Computer Science (2 obras) · Epistemology (2 obras) · History (2 obras) · Linguistics (2 obras) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (2 obras) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (2 obras) · Ambiguity (1 obras) · Class (philosophy) (1 obras)