David Bordonaba Plou- Doctor of Philosophy
- Assistant Professor at Complutense University of Madrid
David Bordonaba Plou
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Assistant Professor at Complutense University of Madrid
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In this work, we examine the limitations of digital tools in facilitating cross-linguistic and cross-cultural research from a humanistic perspective. Our primary objective is to draw comparisons between the TenTen corpora, assessing their degree of similarity. In order to achieve this goal, we will conduct cluster analysis on the 43 corpora within...
Corpus linguistics is an essential tool in digital humanities, and multilingual corpora are valuable resources in cross-linguistic studies. In this article we address the multilingual layout of the TenTen corpus family, questioning the rationale to call it a family, and advancing the idea of different degrees of kinship for its language members. Th...
Cappelen (2012) argues against the Thesis of Centrality, that is, against the idea that analytic philosophers rely on intuitions as evidential support for their theories. Cappelen challenges this notion by targeting the “Argument from ‘Intuition’-Talk”, i.e., the idea that intuitions must play a decisive role in the arguments of analytic philosophe...
En filosofía del lenguaje existen tres comprensiones distintas de la idea de contexto: una noción intuitiva de contexto, el contexto-K (Lewis, 1980; Kaplan,1989) y el contexto como terreno común (Stalnaker, 2002). Asimismo, desde la misma filosofía se ha defendido la idea de que la lengua concreta que hablamos y en la que hacemos filosofía podría i...
The aim of this work is twofold. First, to distinguish a phenomenon that produces a new type of linguistic injustice, “the paradox of Anglocentric multilingualism.” This paradox arises when a multilingual philosophy is pursued in constructing complex systems of analysis in the digital environment; however, these systems imply advantages in the stud...
Several recent studies (see Knobe & Yalcin, 2014; Khoo, 2015; Marques, 2018; Kneer, 2021a) address linguistic retraction from an experimental perspective. In these studies, speakers’ intuitions regarding the mandatory nature of retraction are tested. Pace MacFarlane, competent speakers (of English) do not consider retraction to be obligatory. This...
Several recent studies (see Knobe & Yalcin, 2014; Khoo, 2015; Marques, 2018; Kneer, 2021a) address linguistic retraction from an experimental perspective. In these studies, speakers' intuitions regarding the mandatory nature of retraction are tested. Pace MacFarlane, competent speakers (of English) do not consider retraction to be obligatory. This...
Experimental philosophy of language, as a subdiscipline of experimental philosophy, shares its most important defining characteristic: conducting empirical studies to solve traditional problems in the philosophy of language. Much of the attention in the field has been directed to theories of reference because of the influential 2004 article by Edou...
The debate about the meaning of color terms in the philosophy of language has been dominated by two main issues. Firstly, there is the discussion about the context-dependency of color terms, specifically, quantity, the degree to which the object is of the color, and one of the dimensions of color quality, hue. Secondly, there is the question of how...
El objetivo de este trabajo es doble. Primero, investigar y evaluar la situación en la que se encuentra actualmente la filosofía experimental del lenguaje. Para ello, expondré las dos metodologías predominantes en el campo: los cuestionarios y los métodos de corpus, mostrando los problemas comunes y los específicos. Segundo, defender que los método...
La existencia fáctica de los desacuerdos profundos goza de un estatus incierto en la literatura. Por un lado, algunos autores afirman que los desacuerdos profundos sí existen en la práctica, defendiendo que las partes implicadas usarán tácticas de persuasión no-racional para resolver el desacuerdo. Por otro lado, hay quienes defienden que los desac...
El objetivo de este artículo es doble. Primero, analizar los desacuerdos estratégicos, es decir, aquellas situaciones en las que una de las partes usa una expresión que le permite reestructurar el debate y, de este modo, obtener alguna ventaja estratégica para hacer avanzar su agenda política. El trabajo examina este tipo de desacuerdos en un conte...
El objetivo de este trabajo es defender el uso tanto de métodos cualitativos como de métodos cuantitativos en investigación en filosofía del lenguaje. Concretamente, defenderé que la mejor opción para llevar a cabo este tipo de investigación es usar métodos propios de la lingüística de corpus, pero aplicando también métodos cualitativos. Para ello,...
This paper investigates the expressions speakers use to express disagreement in everyday taste discussions. I first show that the standard way of representing taste disagreements implies that speakers express their disagreement using instances of the following pattern: EMD + x is not φ, where EMD refers to an explicit mark of disagreement, x to an...
A new wave of thinkers from across different disciplines within the analytical tradition in philosophy has recently focused on critical, societal challenges, such as the silencing and questioning of the credibility of oppressed groups, the political polarization that threatens the good functioning of democratic societies across the globe, or the mo...
The chapter argues for the benefits of applying both quantitative and qualitative methods to resolve philosophical problems.
El objetivo de este trabajo es doble. Primero, explorar la tensión existente entre estas dos características de la retractación: por un lado, la peculiar dificultad que encontramos para retractarnos en contextos evaluativos; por otro lado, la enorme fuerza con la que se demanda una retractación en aquellos casos en los que se exige que alguien reti...
This chapter characterizes the idea of the political turn in analytic philosophy. It first examines possible connections between analytic philosophy and politics, situating analytic feminism as the precursor of the turn.We then consider some of the attempts that have been made in analytic philosophy to make explicit the political turn. Specifically...
According to Cappelen (2012), analytic philosophers have traditionally used two arguments to defend the role of intuitions in philosophy. On the one hand, The Argument from Philosophical Practice claims that analytic philosophers rely on intuitions when defending their theories. On the other hand, The Argument from Intuition Talk contends that intu...
Abstract: Menas is a term that has attracted a great deal of attention on the political scene in Spain at present. Although the term had a neutral usage originally, being an acronym for unaccompanied foreign minors, it has recently evolved into a term with clear negative connotations. This article explores what kind of term menas is today. Specific...
The relevance of cognitive penetration has been pointed out concerning three fields within philosophy: philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. This paper argues that this phenomenon is also relevant to the philosophy of language. First, I will defend that there are situations where ethical, social, or cultural rules can affect...
This paper defends the claim that the traditional Kantian division between two different types of judgments, judgments of personal preference (subjectively valid) and judgments of taste (intersubjectively valid), does not apply to some contexts in which metalinguistic negotiations take place. To begin, I first highlight some significant similaritie...
En #Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media, Cass R. Sunstein presenta uno de los fenómenos sociales que más repercusión han tenido en el debate en política durante los últimos años: las cámaras de eco. El presente trabajo tiene por objeto analizar la relación que existe entre este fenómeno y la polarización política, relación que a...
In this paper, I will defend that there is an asymmetry between straightforwardly factual and non-straightforwardly factual disagreements (Field 2009) in terms of persistency and retraction, and that we can use what I will call coordination of contexts to explain these two asymmetries. To make my point I will focus on the kinematics of this type of...
En Septiembre de 2018, la editorial Ariel publicó la traducción de Gemma Deza Guil del libro How Democracies Die, de Steven Levitsky y Daniel Ziblatt. Ambos, profesores de Harvard, han dedicado sus carreras a investigar cuestiones relacionadas con la democracia y el autoritarismo. El trabajo de Steven Levitsky se centra en Latinoamérica y el de Dan...
El trabajo se propone, en primer lugar, analizar el desacuerdo sin falta como elemento central en los juicios de gusto, y examinar tres posiciones: contextualismo deíctico, no deíctico y relativismo. En segundo lugar, mostrar cómo el contextualismo deíctico y el relativismo dan cuenta de dicho fenómeno, pero solo el segundo puede hacerlo y acomodar...
The aim of this paper is to defend the idea of polarization as impermeability, a sense of polarization that has been overlooked in the debate on political polarization. According to this sense of polarization, a person or group is polarized to the extent that it is impervious to the ideas or reasons of others. In this way, and contrary to the idea...
El objetivo de este trabajo es doble. Primero, distinguir tres sentidos en los que puede entenderse el término ‘relativismo’ en el debate acerca del significado de los predicados de gusto y examinar si las posiciones en el debate –contextualismo deíctico (Stanley 2000; Glanzberg 2007; Schaffer 2011), contextualismo no deíctico (Kölbel 2003; Laserso...
This dissertation discusses the meaning of taste statements. Specifically, it offers an expressivist explanation of the meaning of this kind of statements that highlights their dynamic features. The rationale for an expressivist treatment are the following: 1. Some expressions that allow speakers to manifest their taste preferences can be treated a...
In The Nature of Truth: An Updated Approach to the Meaning of Truth Ascriptions, M. J. Frápolli presents a novel approach to the meaning of truth ascriptions, defending that this kind of expression should play an essential role in our understanding of the notion of truth. A crucial part of that account is a detailed taxonomy of the different types...
