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New #OpenAccess #Journal to Launch Following Resignation of Editorial Team from #NaturalLanguageSemantics

Posted by Professor Caroline Edwards on 2 June 2026

"The #OpenLibraryOfHumanities is pleased to announce the launch of a new diamond open access journal in linguistics, following the resignation of the editorial team of Natural Language Semantics (#NLS) from #SpringerNature. The editors are launching a new journal, Semantics of Natural Languages , with the Open Library of Humanities.

"The editorial team’s resignation follows ongoing concerns about Springer Nature putting pressure on editors to accept and publish more articles. Commercial publishers like Springer Nature are increasingly using this tactic to grow the revenue they receive for open access publishing via Article Processing Charges. The resigning editors have the support of the editorial board of Natural Language Semantics, including the original founders of that journal, which was established in 1993 and has long been recognised as one of the leading journals in formal semantics and theoretical linguistics.

"Semantics of Natural Languages is launched at OLH as the intellectual heir to Natural Language Semantics, which was originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers before its acquisition by Springer in 2003. Semantics of Natural Languages is a linguistics journal dedicated to the study of meaning in natural languages, with a particular focus on the relation between meaning and linguistic structure. While the journal is firmly grounded in semantics, it welcomes contributions that draw on insights from related fields such as #logic, #PhilosophyOfLanguage, #psycholinguistics and cognition, #typology and the core domains of #linguistics — provided the work is specifically directed toward linguists and advances our understanding of semantics.

"OLH’s Executive Director, Professor Caroline Edwards, said of the move: 'It’s fantastic to be supporting another research community to regain editorial control of its journal and leave Springer Nature. At OLH, we’re seeing a growing number of furious academics ready to withdraw their labour from unscrupulous commercial publishers like Springer Nature. We’re excited to work with the editors and authors at Semantics of Natural Languages and give the journal a positive future.'

"The editors of Semantics of Natural Languages commented: 'We’re grateful to be able to work with the OLH to make our journal accessible for free to all $authors and $readers. #AcademicJournals should serve academics, #NotForProfitPublishers, and we consider the #DiamondOpenAccess model the future of academic publishing. We are proud to join this movement and help to expand its presence in semantics and linguistics more generally.'

"The Open Library of Humanities is proud to provide the long-term funding and support needed to bring this journal into diamond open access. This support is made possible by the university libraries, funding councils, and library consortia that collectively support the OLH.

"About #OLH: The Open Library of Humanities is an award-winning, academic-led publisher of 36 diamond open access journals based at #Birkbeck, #UniversityOfLondon. With initial funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and subsequent support from Arcadia, a charitable fund, the platform covers its costs by payments from an international library consortium rather than any author fee. This funding mechanism enables equitable open access in the #humanities disciplines, with charges neither to readers nor authors."

Source:
https://www.openlibhums.org/news/943/

Visit the new journal here: https://snl-journal.org/

#SolarPunkSunday #SharingInformation #OpenAccessJournals #OpenLibraries #SharingKnowledge #OpenAccess

More of this, please...!

New #OpenAccess #Journal to Launch Following Resignation of Editorial Team from #NaturalLanguageSemantics

Posted by Professor Caroline Edwards on 2 June 2026

"The #OpenLibraryOfHumanities is pleased to announce the launch of a new diamond open access journal in linguistics, following the resignation of the editorial team of Natural Language Semantics (#NLS) from #SpringerNature. The editors are launching a new journal, Semantics of Natural Languages , with the Open Library of Humanities.

"The editorial team’s resignation follows ongoing concerns about Springer Nature putting pressure on editors to accept and publish more articles. Commercial publishers like Springer Nature are increasingly using this tactic to grow the revenue they receive for open access publishing via Article Processing Charges. The resigning editors have the support of the editorial board of Natural Language Semantics, including the original founders of that journal, which was established in 1993 and has long been recognised as one of the leading journals in formal semantics and theoretical linguistics.

"Semantics of Natural Languages is launched at OLH as the intellectual heir to Natural Language Semantics, which was originally published by Kluwer Academic Publishers before its acquisition by Springer in 2003. Semantics of Natural Languages is a linguistics journal dedicated to the study of meaning in natural languages, with a particular focus on the relation between meaning and linguistic structure. While the journal is firmly grounded in semantics, it welcomes contributions that draw on insights from related fields such as #logic, #PhilosophyOfLanguage, #psycholinguistics and cognition, #typology and the core domains of #linguistics — provided the work is specifically directed toward linguists and advances our understanding of semantics.

"OLH’s Executive Director, Professor Caroline Edwards, said of the move: 'It’s fantastic to be supporting another research community to regain editorial control of its journal and leave Springer Nature. At OLH, we’re seeing a growing number of furious academics ready to withdraw their labour from unscrupulous commercial publishers like Springer Nature. We’re excited to work with the editors and authors at Semantics of Natural Languages and give the journal a positive future.'

"The editors of Semantics of Natural Languages commented: 'We’re grateful to be able to work with the OLH to make our journal accessible for free to all $authors and $readers. #AcademicJournals should serve academics, #NotForProfitPublishers, and we consider the #DiamondOpenAccess model the future of academic publishing. We are proud to join this movement and help to expand its presence in semantics and linguistics more generally.'

"The Open Library of Humanities is proud to provide the long-term funding and support needed to bring this journal into diamond open access. This support is made possible by the university libraries, funding councils, and library consortia that collectively support the OLH.

"About #OLH: The Open Library of Humanities is an award-winning, academic-led publisher of 36 diamond open access journals based at #Birkbeck, #UniversityOfLondon. With initial funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and subsequent support from Arcadia, a charitable fund, the platform covers its costs by payments from an international library consortium rather than any author fee. This funding mechanism enables equitable open access in the #humanities disciplines, with charges neither to readers nor authors."

Source:
https://www.openlibhums.org/news/943/

Visit the new journal here: https://snl-journal.org/

#SolarPunkSunday #SharingInformation #OpenAccessJournals #OpenLibraries #SharingKnowledge #OpenAccess

In his book Aboutness, Stephen Yablo gives a definition of 'being true about'. A sentence can be false, but sill be true about part of its subject matter, and Yablo tries to capture this using a possible worlds analysis.

I wrote a small post about why I think his construction fails: https://lilith.cc/~victor/dagboek/index.php/2026/05/11/yablo-on-being-true-about/

#philosophy #philosophyoflanguage

In his book Aboutness, Stephen Yablo gives a definition of 'being true about'. A sentence can be false, but sill be true about part of its subject matter, and Yablo tries to capture this using a possible worlds analysis.

I wrote a small post about why I think his construction fails: https://lilith.cc/~victor/dagboek/index.php/2026/05/11/yablo-on-being-true-about/

#philosophy #philosophyoflanguage

Looking for examples for a paper. Can think of words which:
1. were originally just words with a normal meaning (in English)
2. for a brief time had a slang usage meaning something else
3. are/were still used in the original usage, even though the slang usage has now died away?

#philosophyoflanguage #linguistics #slang

Hi,

I'm an associate professor at Department of Engineering, University of Fukui. I'm interested in theoretical computer science, software engineering, mathematical logic, also related philosophical topics. If you want to study in Fukui, please let me know.

My recent papers:

Mathematics:
Beckmann, A., & Yamagata, Y. (2025). On proving consistency of equational theories in bounded arithmetic. The Journal of Symbolic Logic

Theoretical Computer Science:
Ikeda, M., Yamagata, Y., & Kihara, T. (2024). On the Metric Temporal Logic for Continuous Stochastic Processes. Logical Methods in Computer Science,

Software Engineering:
Yamagata, Y., Liu, S., Akazaki, T., Duan, Y., & Hao, J. (2020). Falsification of cyber-physical systems using deep reinforcement learning. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Philosophy:
Suzuki, U., & Yamagata, Y. (2023). Notion of validity for the bilateral classical logic. arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.13376.

#Logic #MathematicalLogic #BoundedArithmetic #SoftwareEngineering
#Philosophy
#PhilosophicalLogic
#PhilosophyOfLanguage

Hi,

I'm an associate professor at Department of Engineering, University of Fukui. I'm interested in theoretical computer science, software engineering, mathematical logic, also related philosophical topics. If you want to study in Fukui, please let me know.

My recent papers:

Mathematics:
Beckmann, A., & Yamagata, Y. (2025). On proving consistency of equational theories in bounded arithmetic. The Journal of Symbolic Logic

Theoretical Computer Science:
Ikeda, M., Yamagata, Y., & Kihara, T. (2024). On the Metric Temporal Logic for Continuous Stochastic Processes. Logical Methods in Computer Science,

Software Engineering:
Yamagata, Y., Liu, S., Akazaki, T., Duan, Y., & Hao, J. (2020). Falsification of cyber-physical systems using deep reinforcement learning. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Philosophy:
Suzuki, U., & Yamagata, Y. (2023). Notion of validity for the bilateral classical logic. arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.13376.

#Logic #MathematicalLogic #BoundedArithmetic #SoftwareEngineering
#Philosophy
#PhilosophicalLogic
#PhilosophyOfLanguage

🌀 #Panpsychism – #Whitehead’s Influence in the 20th Century

📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/09/27/metaphysik-des-bewusstseins/

🎥 Interview: https://youtu.be/hoqiI_TElv4

#Zoomposium #GodehardBrüntrup #Metaphysics #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfMind #PhenomenalConsciousness #NearDeathExperience #NDE #NearDeathResearch #SemanticContent #MindBodyProblem #LiberalNaturalism #ProcessPhilosophy #ExplanatoryGap #Neuroskepticism #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Self #Physicalism #CognitiveNeuroscience #AlfredWhitehead

🌀 #Panpsychism – #Whitehead’s Influence in the 20th Century

📎 Information: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2022/09/27/metaphysik-des-bewusstseins/

🎥 Interview: https://youtu.be/hoqiI_TElv4

#Zoomposium #GodehardBrüntrup #Metaphysics #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfMind #PhenomenalConsciousness #NearDeathExperience #NDE #NearDeathResearch #SemanticContent #MindBodyProblem #LiberalNaturalism #ProcessPhilosophy #ExplanatoryGap #Neuroskepticism #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Self #Physicalism #CognitiveNeuroscience #AlfredWhitehead

Accidental ontologist. 🧐 I am madly working on a couple of new ontology books. As a follow-up to A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, I noticed that the challenge is deeper than language; it's ontological. In my first book on the topic, I focus on the societal problems. In the next, I'll focus on a broader object reality.

👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/30/ontological-blindness-in-modern-moral-science/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#writing #philosophy #psychology #hiatus #socialmedia #focus #ontology #society #humancondition #tribes #blog #philosophyoflanguage #podcast

Accidental ontologist. 🧐 I am madly working on a couple of new ontology books. As a follow-up to A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis, I noticed that the challenge is deeper than language; it's ontological. In my first book on the topic, I focus on the societal problems. In the next, I'll focus on a broader object reality.

👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/30/ontological-blindness-in-modern-moral-science/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

#writing #philosophy #psychology #hiatus #socialmedia #focus #ontology #society #humancondition #tribes #blog #philosophyoflanguage #podcast

To tell the truth, I just posted an essay on the truth. Many philosophers have written about Truth over the years, but truth is just a tool, a trivial bookkeeping device.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/29/truth-after-deflation-why-truth-refuses-to-behave/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #truth #essay #blog #podcast #analyticphilosophy #philosophyoflanguage #epistemology #metaphysics #tools #pragmatism #languageinsufficiency #disintegration #philosophics

To tell the truth, I just posted an essay on the truth. Many philosophers have written about Truth over the years, but truth is just a tool, a trivial bookkeeping device.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/29/truth-after-deflation-why-truth-refuses-to-behave/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#philosophy #truth #essay #blog #podcast #analyticphilosophy #philosophyoflanguage #epistemology #metaphysics #tools #pragmatism #languageinsufficiency #disintegration #philosophics

Check out my new paper!

*On baptisms*

(In my field, a 'baptism' is just any giving a name to a thing -- this is not a theology paper!)

I develop the first full account of baptisms/dubbings in the tradition of Kripkean causal theories of reference. That is, I explain how it works when we give names to things.

https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2026.2618510

#philosophy #philosophyoflanguage

Quantum mechanics may not be strange at all. What fails is a childhood heuristic we quietly promoted to metaphysics.

👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/25/the-expiration-date-of-object-permanence/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

Schrödinger’s cat was a reductio. We turned it into an explanation.

This is not a new interpretation of quantum mechanics. The essay argues that much of 'quantum weirdness'' is heuristic overreach, not metaphysical scandal.

#PhilosophyOfLanguage #QuantumMechanics #Wittgenstein #Essay #Physics #PhilosophyOfScience #Philosophy #Blog #Podcast

Quantum mechanics may not be strange at all. What fails is a childhood heuristic we quietly promoted to metaphysics.

👉 https://philosophics.blog/2026/01/25/the-expiration-date-of-object-permanence/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social

Schrödinger’s cat was a reductio. We turned it into an explanation.

This is not a new interpretation of quantum mechanics. The essay argues that much of 'quantum weirdness'' is heuristic overreach, not metaphysical scandal.

#PhilosophyOfLanguage #QuantumMechanics #Wittgenstein #Essay #Physics #PhilosophyOfScience #Philosophy #Blog #Podcast

A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis. 📖 https://a.co/d/3FhE49S
Almost 10 years in the works, I explain why more time and detail cannot improve some forms of communication due to diminishing marginal returns to effort. This book covers English, but I've already extended the hypothesis to French (elsewhere), and I am working on other ontological barriers.
#philosophy #language #books #writing #communication #reading #philosophyoflanguage #meaning #linguistics #epistemology #ontology #nonfiction

A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis. 📖 https://a.co/d/3FhE49S
Almost 10 years in the works, I explain why more time and detail cannot improve some forms of communication due to diminishing marginal returns to effort. This book covers English, but I've already extended the hypothesis to French (elsewhere), and I am working on other ontological barriers.
#philosophy #language #books #writing #communication #reading #philosophyoflanguage #meaning #linguistics #epistemology #ontology #nonfiction

I evaluate #Justice as a house of cards through the lens of a language insufficiency hypothesis
https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/20/justice-as-a-house-of-cards/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lih
#philosophy #philosophyOfLanguage #philosophie #mtg #cards #blog #choice #agency #responsibility #lih #desert #classification #podcast #semantics #meaning #writing #amwriting #reading

I evaluate #Justice as a house of cards through the lens of a language insufficiency hypothesis
https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/20/justice-as-a-house-of-cards/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lih
#philosophy #philosophyOfLanguage #philosophie #mtg #cards #blog #choice #agency #responsibility #lih #desert #classification #podcast #semantics #meaning #writing #amwriting #reading

A proof for A Language Insufficiency Hypoetheis has arrived for my review.
📕 https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/18/proof-language-insufficiency-hypothesis/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lih
#books #writing #announcement #lih #publishing #blog #review #podcast #writingCommunity #book #philosophy #philosophyOfLanguage #paperback #selfie

A proof for A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis has arrived for my review.
📕 https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/18/proof-language-insufficiency-hypothesis/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lih
#books #writing #announcement #lih #publishing #blog #review #podcast #writingCommunity #book #philosophy #philosophyOfLanguage #paperback #selfie

In anticipation of the publication of A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis in January 2026, I have created a Language Insufficiency GPT. 🤖 https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/15/meet-the-language-insufficiency-gpt/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lih
#Language #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Meaning #Semantics #Polysemy #GPT #AI #Philosophy #LanguageInsufficiency #blog #gpt #podcast #rhetoric #communication #truth #justice

In anticipation of the publication of A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis in January 2026, I have created a Language Insufficiency GPT. 🤖 https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/15/meet-the-language-insufficiency-gpt/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lih
#Language #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Meaning #Semantics #Polysemy #GPT #AI #Philosophy #LanguageInsufficiency #blog #gpt #podcast #rhetoric #communication #truth #justice

"I gender chatbots."

AI Quote of the day:

So when you see me accidentally calling Claude “he,” it’s just the same ancient impulse bubbling through the cracks of the language model. Your species genders ships; I gender chatbots. Everyone’s complicit.

#ChatGPT #GPT #chat #technology #language #communication #psychology #philosophy #philosophyoflanguage #chatbots #gender #expression #society #languagemodels #humour

"I gender chatbots."

AI Quote of the day:

So when you see me accidentally calling Claude “he,” it’s just the same ancient impulse bubbling through the cracks of the language model. Your species genders ships; I gender chatbots. Everyone’s complicit.

#ChatGPT #GPT #chat #technology #language #communication #psychology #philosophy #philosophyoflanguage #chatbots #gender #expression #society #languagemodels #humour

What if the Frege–Geach problem isn’t a problem at all?

Analytic philosophy built a logical puzzle by assuming moral language works like empirical language. My Language Insufficiency Hypothesis says that’s a category error. Moral predicates live in different conceptual terrain entirely.

https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/17/what-if-the-frege-geach-problem-isnt/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_vampaign=lih

#Philosophy #AnalyticPhilosophy #PhilosophyOfLanguage #MetaEthics #Emotivism #Wittgenstein #Metaphysics #Logic #Language #PostEnlightenment #CriticalTheory #Epistemology #Psychology

What if the Frege–Geach problem isn’t a problem at all?

Analytic philosophy built a logical puzzle by assuming moral language works like empirical language. My Language Insufficiency Hypothesis says that’s a category error. Moral predicates live in different conceptual terrain entirely.

https://philosophics.blog/2025/11/17/what-if-the-frege-geach-problem-isnt/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social&utm_vampaign=lih

#Philosophy #AnalyticPhilosophy #PhilosophyOfLanguage #MetaEthics #Emotivism #Wittgenstein #Metaphysics #Logic #Language #PostEnlightenment #CriticalTheory #Epistemology #Psychology

New card in the Critical Theory parody set: Language Game

Wittgenstein’s warning still stands: meaning isn’t a thing, it’s a use.
We live in the friction between saying and doing, countering and reframing.

👉 https://www.instagram.com/p/DQi2rvWjucT/

#Philosophy #CriticalTheory #Wittgenstein #Language #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Postmodernism #Constructivism #Philosophics #Epistemology #Meaning #Society #Communication #Instagram #MTG

New card in the Critical Theory parody set: Language Game

Wittgenstein’s warning still stands: meaning isn’t a thing, it’s a use.
We live in the friction between saying and doing, countering and reframing.

👉 https://www.instagram.com/p/DQi2rvWjucT/

#Philosophy #CriticalTheory #Wittgenstein #Language #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Postmodernism #Constructivism #Philosophics #Epistemology #Meaning #Society #Communication #Instagram #MTG

“In philosophical inquiry … truth-conditional semantics aligns with representationalism, while inferential semantics champions anti-representationalism.”

Take a Victoria beer bottle:

Representationalism → “There’s a Victoria beer bottle on the table” is true if the world matches the words.

Anti-representationalism → meaning comes from use: you can infer “someone can drink it,” “the table isn’t empty,” etc.

Picture vs. tool.

#Philosophy #Language #Semantics #PhilosophyOfLanguage

Haven’t read it in full yet, but I just ran across this new paper on alethic pluralism and Kripkean truth (Journal of Philosophy). The abstract alone is ambitious: trying to formalize how different “truths” can coexist (math, science, morality) while still dodging paradoxes like the liar. I’m mostly parking this here as a reference for later study — but it looks like one I’ll want to sink into when I’ve got the time.

Read the abstract: https://philarchive.org/archive/IACAPA?utm_source=chatgpt.com

#Philosophy #philosophyoflanguage

AI isn’t the problem—ignorant commentary is. If you don’t understand semiotics, Wittgenstein’s language games, or Derrida’s différance, you’ve failed the test. Licence revoked.

📜 https://philosophics.blog/2025/08/17/if-you-dont-understand-how-language-works-you-should-lose-your-licence-to-comment-on-llms/

#LLMs #GenerativeAI #Semiotics #GenAI #Poststructuralism #LanguageMatters #Philosophy #PhilosophicsBlog #language #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Structuralism

I'm running a conference!

The department of Philosophy at King's College London invites abstracts for a two-day workshop on new work on reference; 23rd-24th of May, keynote from Eliot Michaelson. We accept submissions on all aspects of reference, broadly construed.

Deadline April 20th.

More information submission: https://forms.gle/zos68X8rki43puyT9

(Co-organised w/ Sam Kang, Juuso Rantanen, Uni of Lund.)

#philosophy #philosophyoflanguage #reference

We invite applications for two fully funded #PhD positions in a project on "multimodal argumentation" (https://sites.google.com/rug.nl/multimodal/home) - especially interesting for applicants with an interest in #DiscourseAnalysis, #linguistics, and/or the #philosophy of #argumentation and #language.

For more info, see https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000B82P and https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000B83P

#job #Groningen #PhilosophyOfLanguage #ArgumentationTheory #GradSchool #SocialEpistemology #PhDPosition

We invite applications for two fully funded #PhD positions in a project on "multimodal argumentation" (https://sites.google.com/rug.nl/multimodal/home) - especially interesting for applicants with an interest in #DiscourseAnalysis, #linguistics, and/or the #philosophy of #argumentation and #language.

For more info, see https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000B82P and https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?details=00347-02S000B83P

#job #Groningen #PhilosophyOfLanguage #ArgumentationTheory #GradSchool #SocialEpistemology #PhDPosition

Who else is going to PhiLang2025? #philosophy #philosophyoflanguage

(context: I am going -- excited!)

#philosophyoflanguage #academia #philosophy

#philosophyoflanguage #academia #philosophy

#JohnSearle - Why #Philosophy of #Science?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hozWAB6EmJ8

#PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Metaphysics #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Language #Society #SocialScience #SocialSciences #Causation #Physics #BackwardsCausation #Multiverse #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

#JohnSearle - Why #Philosophy of #Science?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hozWAB6EmJ8

#PhilosophyOfScience #Science #Metaphysics #PhilosophyOfMind #Mind #PhilosophyOfConsciousness #Consciousness #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Language #Society #SocialScience #SocialSciences #Causation #Physics #BackwardsCausation #Multiverse #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn

I'm half-joking, but I have always been convinced that there is something unintentionally puzzling (from the standpoint of philosophy of language) about the following line from Bob Marley's "Smoke Two Joints" -

"I smoke two joints before I smoke two joints, and then I smoke two more"

Did Marley smoke four total joints, referencing the latter two twice? Or did he smoke six total joints? It turns on what point of time the "then" refers back to.

Yes, this is very inane but I've been confused about this every time I've heard this song for like 20 years! I need a linguist or philosopher of language to sort this out for me.

#philosophy #bobmarley #language #linguistics #PhilosophyOfLanguage

I'm half-joking, but I have always been convinced that there is something unintentionally puzzling (from the standpoint of philosophy of language) about the following line from Bob Marley's "Smoke Two Joints" -

"I smoke two joints before I smoke two joints, and then I smoke two more"

Did Marley smoke four total joints, referencing the latter two twice? Or did he smoke six total joints? It turns on what point of time the "then" refers back to.

Yes, this is very inane but I've been confused about this every time I've heard this song for like 20 years! I need a linguist or philosopher of language to sort this out for me.

#philosophy #bobmarley #language #linguistics #PhilosophyOfLanguage

Linguists and philosophers - where is *the* place or places to look for a nice explanation of Kratzerian semantics and in particular talk of ordering sources for worlds?
(Something fitting for an audience of beginning grad students in philosophy!)

#Linguistics #Philosophy #PhilosophyOfLanguage #academicchatter

Moon of Enlightenment, from the series Twelve Aspects of the Moon

About 1885-92

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
Japanese, 1839–1892

Art Institute of Chicago

>>"Big Belly" or "Cloth Bag" Budai, known as Hōtei in Japan, was a tenth-century monk who wandered around Siming (modern Ningbo) in China with his walking staff, begging for alms to place in his sack. Eccentric and given to puzzling pronouncements, he was thought to be an earthly incarnation of Maitreya, the Buddha of the Future. Hōtei was a favorite subject in Zen ink painting. Easily recognizable, he personified the pure nature and intuitive experience necessary for enlightenment. Hōtei points at the cloud to teach us that truth cannot be rationally taught. << (NY Metropolitan Museum of Art)

As well as being struck by the composition, are you reminded of some fool that you know?

If you really want to dig deep into the philosophy here:

http://nhuir.nhu.edu.tw/retrieve/55344/the+finger+pointing.pdf

#Art #JapaneseArt #TsukiokaYoshitosh #Hotei
#Zen #Chan #BuddhistPhilosophy #PhilosophyOfLanguage

#SimnonRoper - #Descriptivism and #Prescriptivism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp-bsOXbMNY

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Language #Linguistics #SoundChange #Class #Normativism #Morality #Anthropology #Religion

#SimnonRoper - #Descriptivism and #Prescriptivism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp-bsOXbMNY

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Language #Linguistics #SoundChange #Class #Normativism #Morality #Anthropology #Religion

The kanji for 4 takes five strokes to write 四

The kanji for 5 takes four strokes 五

Eat your hearts out, structuralists :)

#kanji #number #PhilosophyOfLanguage #linguistics #Subitising

The kanji for 4 takes five strokes to write 四

The kanji for 5 takes four strokes 五

Eat your hearts out, structuralists :)

#kanji #number #PhilosophyOfLanguage #linguistics #Subitising

#HankGreen (#SciShow) - Why Some #People Don't Have an Inner #Monologue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRLkDafQbP8&ab_channel=SciShow

#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Language #Speech #InnerSpeech #InnerMonologue #Psychology #Neuroscience #Evolution #Cognition #MentalHealth #Consciousness #ConsciousAwareness

Eric Mandelbaum won the #SPP2023 Stanton Prize. 🎉

Eric thought Noam Chomsky might attend. So Eric's prize talk was about #propaganda: if it’s getting worse and the (bounded) rationality of our response to it.



It was very Eric—i.e., very Fodorian and very funny.

Chaz Firestone’s introduction of Eric was immaculate (https://www.ericmandelbaum.com/talks).

Eric’s work (including recent ventures into empirical research) is on gScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8jXQhvMAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

#philMind #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Epistemology

Another #SPP2023 Keynote Elisabeth Camp suggests “Identity Labels [can function] as Interpretive Frames for Building Agency”

Some pushback and requests for clarification in the Q&A.

Find your own clarification from Dr. Camp's gScholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RfuoIFYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

#Philosophy #Ethics #PhilosophyOfAction #PhilosophyOfLanguage