Brendan Balcerak Jackson
Biographic Data
| ID | 9505365 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brendan Balcerak Jackson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brendan Balcerak |
| FAMILY NAME | Jackson |
| SIGNATURE | JACKSON B B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Inferential practical knowledge of meaning
Speakers of a natural language regularly form justified beliefs about what others are saying when they utter sentences of the language. What accounts for these justified beliefs? At one level, we already have a plausible answer: there is a perfectly good ordinary sense in which users of a language know what its sentences mean, and it is very plausible that the hearer’s knowledge of the meaning of S helps explain her justification for her belief a…
In Defense of Clutter
expresses ambivalence about the principle, on the basis of doubts about whether believing more (or more complex) propositions really is a burden on our cognitive resources
Metaphysics, Verbal Disputes and the Limits of Charity
Metaphysics, Verbal Disputes and the Limits of Charity
In Defense of Clutter
expresses ambivalence about the principle, on the basis of doubts about whether believing more (or more complex) propositions really is a burden on our cognitive resources
Inferential practical knowledge of meaning
Speakers of a natural language regularly form justified beliefs about what others are saying when they utter sentences of the language. What accounts for these justified beliefs? At one level, we already have a plausible answer: there is a perfectly good ordinary sense in which users of a language know what its sentences mean, and it is very plausible that the hearer’s knowledge of the meaning of S helps explain her justification for her belief a…
Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Citation (1 work) · Clutter (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work)