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Index
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Detailed Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Idealized Communication
1.1 Seven Typical Idealizations
1.2 Taking Stock and Returning to the Real World
1.3 Some Qualifications
1.4 An Overview of the Book
Further Reading and Exercises
2. Three Forms of Non-Ideal Language
2.1 Devious Intentions: Conversational Implicature
2.2 Why Bother with Implicatures?
2.3 Devious Meanings: Presupposition
2.4 Devious Scoreboards: Context Control
2.5 From the Devious to the Bad
Further Reading and Exercises
3. Messing with the Truth
3.1 Speaking Falsely
3.2 Lying and Misleading
3.3 Is Respect for Truth Fundamental to All Communication?
Further Reading and Exercises
4. Bullshitting and Deep Bullshitting
4.1 Bullshit
4.2 From Lying, Misleading, and Bullshit to Fake News
4.3 Deep Bullshit (i.e., Nonsense and Gibberish)
Further Reading and Exercises
5. Conceptual Engineering
5.1 Introduction to Conceptual Engineering: We Care about What Words Mean
5.2 The Master Argument for Conceptual Engineering (and a Little Bit of History)
5.3 Some Challenges for Conceptual Engineers
Further Reading and Exercises
6. Slurs and Pejoratives
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Descriptive Content Views
6.3 Presuppositional Views
6.4 Expressivist Views
6.5 Prohibitionist Views
6.6 Final Thoughts
Further Reading and Exercises
7. Lexical Effects
7.1 Introducing Lexical Effects: The Non-Cognitive, Associative, Effects of Words
7.2 Non-Cognitive Lexical Effects: Some Illustrations
7.3 Exploitation of Lexical Effects in Public Debates and Theoretical Work
7.4 A General Theory of Lexical Effects?
7.5 Why are Lexical Effects Largely Ignored in Philosophy of Language?
Further Reading and Exercises
8. Generics and Defective Reasoning
8.1 Introduction: What are Generics?
8.2 More on the Behavior of Generics
8.3 Some Interesting Experiments
8.4 Generics: Interaction of Meaning and Epistemology
8.5 Summary
Further Reading and Exercises
9. Non-Ideal Speech Acts
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Scattered Audiences
9.3 Scattered Speakers
9.4 Speech Acts in the Digital Age
Further Reading and Exercises
10. Linguistic Oppressing and Linguistic Silencing
10.1 A Brief Introduction to Speech Acts
10.2 Linguistic Oppressing
10.3 Pornographic Linguistic Oppressing
10.4 Silencing
Further Reading and Exercises
11. The Speech Act of Consent
11.1 Paradigms of Consent: Home-Visits, Medical Procedures, Consent Forms, and Sex
11.2 Some Questions about Consent
11.3 The Imprecision/Vagueness of Implicit Consent
11.4 Can Deception Invalidate Consent?
11.5 The Dynamic Conception of Consent
11.6 Consent as an Illustration of How the Idealizations Fail
Further Reading and Exercises
12. Thoughts on Ideal vs Non-Ideal Theories of Language
12.1 Are Idealized Theories Absurd?
12.2 Prediction and Galilean Idealization
12.3 Understanding and Minimalist Idealization
12.4 What to Idealize Away?
12.5 Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory in the Social Sciences
12.6 Ideal and Non-Ideal Theories of Language
Further Reading and Exercises
References
Index
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