Ricardo Mena
Biographic Data
| ID | 6147935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ricardo Mena |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ricardo |
| FAMILY NAME | Mena |
| SIGNATURE | MENA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Instituto de Filosofía |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1185-9510 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Vagueness and common ground
This paper offers a criticism of Barker and MacFarlane’s approach to vagueness and communication. In their view, it is not problematic, as far as vagueness is concerned, to specify the content of a vague sentence: it is simply a function that updates the common ground. What is tricky, as far as vagueness is concerned, is to specify the common ground. In this paper, I will argue that their view is committed to attributing unreasonable propositiona…
Metalinguistic effects
We can communicate linguistic information by asserting sentences that are not explicitly about linguistic matters. Stalnaker offers a pragmatic account of this phenomenon. It is not clear that such an account is correct. In this article I offer an alternative account that does not rely on pragmatic mechanisms and which captures many of the insights in Stalnaker's theory of linguistic communication. The view is inspired by Barker's semantics of va…
Efectos metalingüisticos y metacontextuales
Algunas aseveraciones que no son acerca del significado de las palabras usadas pueden transmitir información acerca de ese significado. En (Mena, 2022) ofrecí una teoría para explicar este fenómeno de manera puramente semántica. Lo novedoso de la teoría consiste en incluir las interpretaciones del lenguaje en las circunstancias de evaluación: los parámetros respecto a los cuales evaluamos los contenidos de las expresiones ling ̈üísticas. En este …
Empty Names and Negative Existentials
Empty Names and Negative Existentials
The Quietist’s Gambit
In this paper I develop a semantic theory of vagueness that is immune to worries regarding the use of precise mathematical tools. I call this view semantic quietism. This view has the advantage of being clearly compatible with the phenomenon of vagueness. The cost is that it cannot capture every robust semantic fact
Dependencia ontológica y fundamentalidad
Se examina una de las maneras más naturales e intuitivas de entender las nociones de entidad fundamental y dependencia ontológica. Se argumenta que quienes adoptan estas nociones enfrentan serios problemas y se recomienda abandonarlas, lo que no quiere decir que no haya otra forma plausible de entender estos conceptos
On Imagination and Convention. Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language
Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone, Imagination and Convention: Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014, 272 pp
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On Imagination and Convention. Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language
Ernie Lepore and Matthew Stone, Imagination and Convention: Distinguishing Grammar and Inference in Language, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014, 272 pp
The Quietist’s Gambit
In this paper I develop a semantic theory of vagueness that is immune to worries regarding the use of precise mathematical tools. I call this view semantic quietism. This view has the advantage of being clearly compatible with the phenomenon of vagueness. The cost is that it cannot capture every robust semantic fact
Dependencia ontológica y fundamentalidad
Se examina una de las maneras más naturales e intuitivas de entender las nociones de entidad fundamental y dependencia ontológica. Se argumenta que quienes adoptan estas nociones enfrentan serios problemas y se recomienda abandonarlas, lo que no quiere decir que no haya otra forma plausible de entender estos conceptos
Empty Names and Negative Existentials
Empty Names and Negative Existentials
Efectos metalingüisticos y metacontextuales
Algunas aseveraciones que no son acerca del significado de las palabras usadas pueden transmitir información acerca de ese significado. En (Mena, 2022) ofrecí una teoría para explicar este fenómeno de manera puramente semántica. Lo novedoso de la teoría consiste en incluir las interpretaciones del lenguaje en las circunstancias de evaluación: los parámetros respecto a los cuales evaluamos los contenidos de las expresiones ling ̈üísticas. En este …
Metalinguistic effects
We can communicate linguistic information by asserting sentences that are not explicitly about linguistic matters. Stalnaker offers a pragmatic account of this phenomenon. It is not clear that such an account is correct. In this article I offer an alternative account that does not rely on pragmatic mechanisms and which captures many of the insights in Stalnaker's theory of linguistic communication. The view is inspired by Barker's semantics of va…
Vagueness and common ground
This paper offers a criticism of Barker and MacFarlane’s approach to vagueness and communication. In their view, it is not problematic, as far as vagueness is concerned, to specify the content of a vague sentence: it is simply a function that updates the common ground. What is tricky, as far as vagueness is concerned, is to specify the common ground. In this paper, I will argue that their view is committed to attributing unreasonable propositiona…
Philosophy (6 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Phenomenon (3 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works) · Humanities (2 works) · Metaphysics (2 works) · Philosophy of language (2 works)