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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Herman Wright Cappelen is a Norwegian philosopher. He is currently the Chair Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong. Biography Cappelen is the son of author and publisher Peder Wright Cappelen and actress Kari Simonsen. Cappelen received a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Oxford, Balliol College, in 1989. In 1996, Cappelen received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. The title of his dissertation was "The Metaphysics of Words and the Semantics of Quotation". His advisors were Charles Chihara, Stephen Neale, and John Searle.
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Published Works
- Insensitive Semantics: A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism (2005) (453)
- Philosophy Without Intuitions (2012) (340)
- Relativism and Monadic Truth (2009) (316)
- Varieties of quotation (1997) (198)
- Fixing Language. An Essay on Conceptual Engineering (2018) (173)
- On an alleged connection between indirect speech and the theory of meaning (1997) (110)
- The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology (2016) (85)
- Language Turned on Itself: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Metalinguistic Discourse (2007) (63)
- The Inessential Indexical: On the Philosophical Insignificance of Perspective and the First Person (2013) (62)
- Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics (2019) (59)
- Assertion: New Philosophical Essays (2011) (57)
- Content Relativism and Semantic Blindness (2008) (54)
- A Guided Tour of Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics (2018) (43)
- Varieties of Quotation Revisited (2003) (42)
- Intentions in Words (1999) (37)
- Indexicality, binding, anaphora and a priori truth (2002) (35)
- A Tall Tale: In Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism (2004) (34)
- Context shifting arguments (2003) (30)
- X-Phi without Intuitions? (2014) (30)
- Language Turned on Itself (2007) (29)
- Using, Mentioning and Quoting: A Reply to Saka (1999) (28)
- Reply to Hawthorne (2006) (28)
- Radical and Moderate Pragmatics: Does Meaning Determine Truth Conditions? (2005) (28)
- Conceptual Engineering (2020) (26)
- THE CREATIVE INTERPRETER: CONTENT RELATIVISM AND ASSERTION1 (2008) (24)
- The Minimal Theory (2007) (21)
- The Myth of Unarticulated Constituents (2007) (21)
- NONSENSE AND ILLUSIONS OF THOUGHT (2013) (21)
- Relative Truth (2018) (18)
- Relevance Theory and Shared Content (2007) (18)
- Reply to Lasersohn, MacFarlane, and Richard (2011) (16)
- Replies to Weatherson, Chalmers, Weinberg, and Bengson (2014) (15)
- Précis of Insensitive Semantics (2006) (14)
- Locations and binding (2007) (13)
- The Crisis of Method in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy (2018) (13)
- Semantics and Psychology (2005) (13)
- Empathy and transformative experience without the first person point of view (a reply to L. A. Paul)1 (2017) (11)
- Why Philosophers Shouldn’t Do Semantics (2017) (11)
- Sufficiency and Excess (2006) (10)
- Assertion: An introduction and overview (2011) (10)
- Semantics and Pragmatics : Some Central Issues (2016) (10)
- Context and Communication (2016) (9)
- Pluralistic Skepticism: Advertisement for Speech Act Pluralism (2005) (9)
- Introduction (2020) (8)
- Against Assertion 1 (2010) (7)
- Discussion. Reply to Tshohatzidis (1998) (6)
- Reference externalized and the role of intuitions in semantic theory (1999) (6)
- Reply to Richard and Reimer (1998) (6)
- Reply to Glanzberg, Soames and Weatherson (2011) (5)
- Believing in Words (2001) (5)
- Semantic Theory and Indirect Speech (1997) (5)
- Conceptual Engineering, Topics, Metasemantics, and Lack of Control (2020) (5)
- Speech Act Pluralism (2005) (4)
- Progress And Disagreement in Philosophy: An Optimistic Perspective (2017) (4)
- Snatching Hope from the Jaws of Epistemic Defeat (2014) (4)
- Puzzles of Reference (2018) (3)
- Reply to Boghossian, Brogaard and Richard (2014) (3)
- Making AI Intelligible (3)
- Assertion: A Defective Theoretical Category (2018) (3)
- QUOTATION, CONTEXT SENSITIVITY, SIGNS AND EXPRESSIONS (2006) (3)
- Does “ ‘ Quotation ’ ” Quote “ Quotation ” ? (2011) (2)
- Disagreement in Philosophy (2017) (2)
- Omitted Quotation Marks (2007) (2)
- Propositional Skeletons and Disquotational Reports (2007) (2)
- Précis of Philosophy without intuitions (2014) (1)
- Prkcis of Insensitive Semantics (2007) (1)
- Index to Volume 13 (1989) (1)
- On the Uselessness of the Distinction between Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory (at least in the Philosophy of Language) (2021) (1)
- Radical and Moderate Pragmatics (2002) (1)
- Introduction to Conceptual Engineering (2018) (1)
- In defense of ordinary language philosophy (2022) (1)
- The Creative Interpreter (2015) (1)
- The Worldliness of Conceptual Engineering (2018) (0)
- Conceptual Engineering without Bedrock and without Fixed Points (2018) (0)
- On Appeals to a Concept’s Purpose or Function (2018) (0)
- Metasemantics, Metasemantic Superstructure, and Metasemantic Base (2018) (0)
- Semantics for quotation1 (1999) (0)
- Introduction (0)
- Application: Names and the Mental Files Framework (2021) (0)
- The Illusion of Incoherent/Inconsistent Concepts (2018) (0)
- Objections to Radical Contextualism (I): Fails Context Sensitivity Tests (2005) (0)
- Indexicality, the De Se, and Agency (2013) (0)
- Objections, Replies, and Clarifications (2018) (0)
- The Proper Name and the Definite Description Theories (2007) (0)
- Terminology: Aboutness, Representation, and Metasemantics (2021) (0)
- Functionalism to the Rescue (2013) (0)
- Objections to Radical Contextualism (II): Makes Communication Impossible (2005) (0)
- Acting Without Me (2020) (0)
- Centrality and Philosophical Practice (2012) (0)
- Alfred (the Dismissive Sceptic): Philosophers, Go Away! (2021) (0)
- 1 Pluralistic Skepticism : Advertisement for Speech Act Pluralism (0)
- A Brief Note on Perceptual Content and the De Se (2013) (0)
- Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism Applied to ‘Knows’ (2017) (0)
- Varieties of Conceptual Engineering (2018) (0)
- Application: Predication and Commitment (2021) (0)
- Reply to Strawson 1 (2018) (0)
- Varieties of Quotation HERMAN CAPPELEN AND ERNIE LEPORE (1997) (0)
- The Limits of Revision (2018) (0)
- Externalist Conceptual Engineering (2018) (0)
- Lewis on the De Se, Self-Ascription, and Centered Worlds (2013) (0)
- Diagnosis: Why Context Shifting Arguments are Misused (2005) (0)
- Reply to Lasersohn, MacFarlane, and Richard (2011) (0)
- Experimental philosophy without intuitions: an illustration of why it fails (2020) (0)
- Semantics and Metaphysics (2005) (0)
- Concluding Remarks and the Limits of the Intellect (2018) (0)
- Indexicality and Immunity to Error (2013) (0)
- Objections to Radical Contextualism (III): Internal Inconsistency (2005) (0)
- Reply to Zoltan Szabo (1996) (0)
- Philosophers’ Use of ‘Intuitive’ (III): Against the Explaining Away of Intuitions (2012) (0)
- Our Theory: De-Anthropocentrized Externalism (2021) (0)
- Using, Mentioning, and QuotingA Reply to Saka (2015) (0)
- Diagnostics for Intuitiveness (2012) (0)
- Reply to Strawson 2 (2018) (0)
- Semantics for Quotation 1 (2019) (0)
- Why Philosophers Shouldn’t Do Semantics (2017) (0)
- Experimental philosophy without intuitions: an illustration of why it fails (2020) (0)
- Overview: Simplicity, Possible Worlds Semantics, and Relativism (2009) (0)
- The Master Argument (2019) (0)
- Précis of Philosophy without intuitions (2014) (0)
- Chalmers’s Subscript Gambit, the Importance of Topics, and Lack of Control (2018) (0)
- Corollaries of Externalism (2018) (0)
- On the Nature of Quotable Items: Signs and Expressions (2007) (0)
- Indexicality, Opacity, and Fregeanism (2013) (0)
- The Instability of Incompleteness Arguments (2005) (0)
- The Effects of an Equine-Assisted Therapeutic Intervention on Well-Being in Persons Diagnosed with Schizophrenia. A Pilot Study (2023) (0)
- The Demonstrative Theory (2007) (0)
- Diagnostics for Shared Content: From ‘Say’ to ‘Agree’ (2009) (0)
- Philosophers’ Use of ‘Intuitive’ (II): Some Strategies for Charitable Reinterpretation (2012) (0)
- 1 Quotation , Context Sensitivity , Signs and Expressions (2006) (0)
- Intuitions (1999) (0)
- Predicates of Personal Taste (2009) (0)
- Digressions: Binding and Hidden Indexicals (2005) (0)
- Preliminaries: ‘Quotation’ and Varieties of Quotation (2007) (0)
- Replies to the Commentaries (2019) (0)
- The View from Everywhere (2013) (0)
- Application: The Predicate ‘High Risk’ (2021) (0)
- The De Se and the Semantics of PRO Constructions (2013) (0)
- Arguments for the Importance of Conceptual Engineering and Implications for Philosophical Methodology (2018) (0)
- The Instability of Context Shifting Arguments (2005) (0)
- Conceptual Analysis and Intuitions (2012) (0)
- Reply to Richard and Reimer HERMAN CAPPELEN AND ERNIE LEPORE (1999) (0)
- Mixed Quotation—Semantically Redundant? (2007) (0)
- Lessons Learned, Replies to Objections, and Comparison to Williamson (2012) (0)
- Philosophers’ Use of ‘Intuitive’ (I): A Defective Practice and the Verbal Virus Theory (2012) (0)
- Operators, the Anaphoric ‘That’, and Temporally Neutral Propositions (2009) (0)
- ‘Intuitive’, ‘Intuitively’, ‘Intuition’, and ‘Seem’ in English (2012) (0)
- A Big Mistake: Experimental Philosophy (2012) (0)
- ‘Impure’ Direct Quotes (2007) (0)
- On the Importance of a General Theory and an Overview of the Austerity Framework (2018) (0)
- Four Concluding Thoughts (2021) (0)
- Exegesis: the Methodology of Contextualism (2005) (0)
- Intuitions in Philosophy: Overview and Taxonomy (2012) (0)
- Replies to Weatherson, Chalmers, Weinberg, and Bengson (2014) (0)
- Quotation and Context Sensitivity (2007) (0)
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