Aleksander Domosławski
Biographic Data
| ID | 5995905 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aleksander Domosławski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aleksander |
| FAMILY NAME | Domosławski |
| SIGNATURE | DOMOSŁAWSKI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8612-4335 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Inferential Magnetism
Recent years have seen the resurgence of the inferentialist approach to metasemantics (Chalmers, 2021a; Peregrin, 2014, 2024). However, there remain worries as to whether inferentialism can give us an account of language that would be ‘in good standing’. One worry concerns the risk of a kind of conceptual parochialism: inferential rules seem to float free of the fundamental structure of the world. This would make natural language unsuitable for s…
Leibniz on modality and counterparts
In this paper, I present a novel problem for the interpretation of Leibniz’s discourse about possible individuals (e.g. possible ‘Adams’). Possibilia play an important role in Leibniz’s philosophy: they allow him to account for freedom and contingency present in the world. I attempt to square Leibniz’s discourse about possibilia with his theory of truth and the infinite analysis conception of modal notions. It turns out that this is not a straigh…
Shifty morals
Epistemicism explains ignorance due to vagueness through semantic plasticity: the propensity of intensions of vague terms to shift across close linguistic communities. In the case of moral vagueness, e.g. when it’s vague whether it’s permissible to terminate a pregnancy after a certain number of days, epistemicism predicts that ‘permissible’ denotes distinct properties in different close linguistic communities. This epistemicist prediction has be…
Ethics in the Gray Area
Recenzja książki Martina Petersona pt. "Ethics in the Gray Area: A Gradualist Theory of Right and Wrong"
The omniscient speaker puzzle
The epistemicist theory aims to explain ignorance due to vagueness by semantic plasticity: the shiftiness of intensions across close possible worlds resulting from shiftiness in usage. This explanation is challenged by the Omniscient Speaker Puzzle (Sennet in Philos Stud 161(2):273–285, 2012). Suppose that an omniscient speaker, Barney, who knows all the facts about usage and how these facts determine the intensions of expressions, cooks up a sch…
Defining Definiteness
Epistemicism associates vagueness with ignorance produced by semantic plasticity: the shiftiness of intensions in our language resulting from small changes in usage. The recent literature (Caie 2012; Magidor 2018; Yli-Vakkuri 2016) points to a missing piece in the epistemicist theory of vagueness, namely a clear account of the semantics of the definiteness operator Δ. The fundamentals of the epistemicist theory are well understood. However, the t…
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Defining Definiteness
Epistemicism associates vagueness with ignorance produced by semantic plasticity: the shiftiness of intensions in our language resulting from small changes in usage. The recent literature (Caie 2012; Magidor 2018; Yli-Vakkuri 2016) points to a missing piece in the epistemicist theory of vagueness, namely a clear account of the semantics of the definiteness operator Δ. The fundamentals of the epistemicist theory are well understood. However, the t…
Ethics in the Gray Area
Recenzja książki Martina Petersona pt. "Ethics in the Gray Area: A Gradualist Theory of Right and Wrong"
The omniscient speaker puzzle
The epistemicist theory aims to explain ignorance due to vagueness by semantic plasticity: the shiftiness of intensions across close possible worlds resulting from shiftiness in usage. This explanation is challenged by the Omniscient Speaker Puzzle (Sennet in Philos Stud 161(2):273–285, 2012). Suppose that an omniscient speaker, Barney, who knows all the facts about usage and how these facts determine the intensions of expressions, cooks up a sch…
Shifty morals
Epistemicism explains ignorance due to vagueness through semantic plasticity: the propensity of intensions of vague terms to shift across close linguistic communities. In the case of moral vagueness, e.g. when it’s vague whether it’s permissible to terminate a pregnancy after a certain number of days, epistemicism predicts that ‘permissible’ denotes distinct properties in different close linguistic communities. This epistemicist prediction has be…
Inferential Magnetism
Recent years have seen the resurgence of the inferentialist approach to metasemantics (Chalmers, 2021a; Peregrin, 2014, 2024). However, there remain worries as to whether inferentialism can give us an account of language that would be ‘in good standing’. One worry concerns the risk of a kind of conceptual parochialism: inferential rules seem to float free of the fundamental structure of the world. This would make natural language unsuitable for s…
Leibniz on modality and counterparts
In this paper, I present a novel problem for the interpretation of Leibniz’s discourse about possible individuals (e.g. possible ‘Adams’). Possibilia play an important role in Leibniz’s philosophy: they allow him to account for freedom and contingency present in the world. I attempt to square Leibniz’s discourse about possibilia with his theory of truth and the infinite analysis conception of modal notions. It turns out that this is not a straigh…
Philosophy and Theoretical Science (5 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (4 works) · Metaphysics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy of language (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Ignorance (2 works)