Tamara Dobler

Biographic Data

ID6481336
NAMETamara Dobler
GIVEN NAMESTamara
FAMILY NAMEDobler
SIGNATUREDOBLER T
AFFILIATIONSInstitute for Logic, Language, and Computation, Amsterdam University College, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
ORCID0000-0003-4913-4176
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Polysemy and roots

    Open AccessJohn Collins, Tamara DoblerARTICLEMind & Language2025

    The paper argues for a model of polysemy based on the blueprint offered by Paul Pietroski whereby the meaning of a lexical item is an instruction to fetch a concept from an address. We show that the bare idea of fetching admits of a deep construal, where a concept is fetched, and a shallow construal, where the instruction merely links a lexical item to an address without automatically retrieving anything from the address; retrieval only occurs wh…

  • Pluralist conceptual engineering

    Open AccessTamara DoblerARTICLEInquiry2025

    Building on Wittgenstein’s ideas, I defend a brand of pluralism that associates words with conceptual families and appeals to this notion in the course of philosophical problem solving. I argue that certain problems that the received view of conceptual engineering (‘improvement by replacement’) faces can be more easily overcome if we adopt a pluralist perspective. I show that the proposed approach can circumvent the problem of topic discontinuity…

  • Pragmatic enrichment, issues and domain goals

    Open AccessTamara DoblerARTICLEMind & Language2023

    In this article, I propose an inquisitive approach to semantic underdetermination using the model of issue resolution to describe how occasion meanings are determined in the process of pragmatic enrichment. I appeal to “Travis cases” to motivate the account of semantic underdetermination based on alternative ways for some object a to be F. When interpreting a sentence, we look how to narrow down the space of metalinguistic alternatives and achiev…

  • The Philosophy of Charles Travis

    John Collins, Tamara DoblerEDITORBOOKPhilosophy of Charles Travis2018

    The work of Charles Travis belongs to the analytical tradition, yet is also radically at odds with many assumptions characteristic of the tradition. Such an approach, while being at odds with some dominant strains of thought, does speak to a strand of the analytical tradition running from Frege, through Cook Wilson, Wittgenstein, and Austin, up to aspects of contemporary thinkers as diverse as Chomsky and McDowell. This volume is the first of its…

  • On Rule-Following

    Marie Mcginn, John Collins et al.BOOKPhilosophy of Charles Travis2018

    In Philosophical Investigations , Wittgenstein raises difficulties for the idea that what comes before my mind when I hear, or suddenly understand, a word can impose any normative constraint on what I go on to do. The conclusion his reflections seem to force on us gives rise to a paradox: there is no such thing as going on to apply an expression in a way that accords with what is meant by it. The paradox can be seen as one horn of a dilemma, the …

  • The autonomy of grammar and semantic internalism

    Open AccessTamara DoblerARTICLEFilozofija i drustvo2014

    In his post-Tractatus work on natural language use, Wittgenstein defended the notion of what he dubbed the autonomy of grammar. According to this thought, grammar - or semantics, in a more recent idiom - is essentially autonomous from metaphysical considerations, and is not answerable to the nature of things. The argument has several related incarnations in Wittgenstein?s post-Tractatus writings, and has given rise to a number of important insigh…