Work in Progress Seminar, Spring 2023

“Communication, Competences and Kinds."

Abstract: This is a ground-clearing exercise to underpin a project on the metaphysics of natural languages. I characterise two popular conceptions. First, is what I call the communication contract conception; where an NL is a collection of rules…

“First-Person Authority, Expressivism, and Gender”

 will argue that our concept of gender is inextricably linked up with that of expression. This has the consequence that we have a privileged first-personal relation to our gender identities that resembles the first-personal relation we have to…

“Moot Consent”