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This book presents the current state of experimental philosophy of language, drawing attention to corpus methods. The volume highlights new trends in experimental philosophy of language, thus exploring the future's discipline. It includes cross-linguistics studies that reveal the differences and similarities in how speakers of different languages use specific terms, and scrutinizes methodological advances used in experimental philosophy of language. The book also includes politically engaged experimental philosophy of language studies focusing on slurs, pejoratives, and hate speech. The topic's interdisciplinary nature makes the volume of interest to a broad range of scholars across disciplines including philosophy, linguistics, philology, psychology, and computational linguistics.
List of contents
1. Introduction: 20 Years of Experimental Philosophy of Language (David Bordonaba-Plou).- Part 1. The Experimental Philosophy of Language Methodology.- 2. A Bibliometric Analysis of Experimental Philosophy of Language (Javier Osorio-Mancilla).- 3. Experimental Philosophy and Ordinary Language Philosophy (Masaharu Mizumoto).- 4. Does Scientific Conceptual Analysis Provide Better Justification than Armchair Conceptual Analysis? (Hristo Valchev).- 5. Distributional Theories of Meaning: Experimental Philosophy of Language (Jumbly Grindrod).- Part 2. Experimental Philosophy of Language and Corpus Methods.- 6. Are Moral Predicates Subjective? A Corpus Study (Isidora Stojanovic and Louise McNally).- 7. Linguistic Corpora and Ordinary Language: On the Dispute between Ryle and Austin about the Use of 'Voluntary', 'Involuntary', 'Voluntarily', and 'Involuntarily' (Michael Zahorec, Robert Bishop, Nat Hansen, John Schwenkler and Justin Sytsma).- 8. Light in Assessing Color Quality: An Arabic-Spanish Cross-Linguistic Study (David Bordonaba-Plou and Laila M. Jreis-Navarro).- Part 3. Politically-Engaged Experimental Philosophy of Language.- 9. Experimentally-Informed Philosophy of Hate Speech (Bianca Cepollaro).- 10. Slurs in the Rio de la Plata (Ana C. Polakof).- 11. Who Has a Free Speech Problem? Motivated Censorship across the Ideological Divide? (Manuel Almagro-Holgado, Ivar A. Rodríguez and Neftalí Villanueva).- Part 4. Experimental Philosophy of Language and Psychology.- 12. How Understanding Shapes Reasoning: Experimental Argument Analysis with Methods from Psycholinguistics and Computational Linguistics (Eugen Fischer and Aurélie Herbelot).- 13. From Infants to Great Apes: False Belief Attribution and Primitivism about Truth (Joseph Ulatowski and Jeremy Wyatt).
About the author
David Bordonaba-Plou is a Lecturer in Philosophy of Language at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). He graduated in Philosophy from the Universidad de Granada (Spain) in 2010. Master in Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia by the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela (Spain) in 2011. Predoctoral grant of the Programa de Formación de Personal Investigador granted by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain) from 2011 to 2015. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Universidad de Granada (Spain) in 2017 with the dissertation "Operadores de orden superior y predicados de gusto: Una aproximación expresivista". He was the principal investigator of the FONDECYT project "A Computational Dynamic Analysis of Public Debates on Politics, Aesthetics and Taste" at the Universidad de Valparaíso (Chile) from 2018 to 2021.
