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  • Conceptual Engineering and Semantic Deference 
    Pollock, Joanna (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    Many ameliorative projects aim at moral goods such as social equality. For example, the amelioration of the concept MARRIAGE forms part of efforts to achieve equal rights for the LGBT+ community. What does implementation ...
  • Content internalism and conceptual engineering 
    Pollock, Joanna (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Cappelen (Fixing language, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2018) proposes a radically externalist framework (the ‘Austerity Framework’) for conceptual engineering. This approach embraces the following two theses. Firstly, ...
  • Context and communicative success 
    Pollock, Joanna (Chapter / Bokkapittel / SubmittedVersion, 2020)
    Traditional accounts of the conditions on communicative success are invariantist. For example, some authors claim that, for communication to succeed, a hearer must always grasp the very content that the speaker expressed ...
  • Holism, conceptual role, and conceptual similarity 
    Pollock, Joanna (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2020)
    Holistic views of content claim that we each speak and think in distinct and idiosyncratic idiolects: although we may often entertain thoughts with similar contents, the content of our thoughts can never be type-identical. ...