Evidence, Experiment and Argument in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language

Examining experiments in language from a variety of perspectives, this volume asks what form they should take and what should count as evidence. Looking at corpora, intuitions and thought experiments, the collection shows linguists and philosophers how the use of experimental methods can affect the arguments they employ and the claims they make.

This volume is concerned with issues in experimental philosophy and experimental linguistics. Examining experiments in language from a variety of perspectives, it asks what form they should take and what should count as evidence. There is particular focus on the status of linguistic intuitions and the use of language corpora. A number of papers address issues of methodology in experimental work, while other contributions examine the use of thought experiments and what the hypothetical can tell us about the actual. The aim of this collection is to bring together the work of linguists and philosophers in order that they may learn from one another, and to help both groups understand how the use of experimental methods can affect the arguments they employ and the claims they make.

Autorentext

Martin Hinton is a lecturer at the Institute of English at the University of ód . He graduated in philosophy from the University of St Andrews before completing a second masters degree and a doctorate in linguistics in ód . He combines these two fields with research work on argumentation theory and the methodology of linguistics.

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Contents: Martin Hinton: Introduction Geoffrey Sampson: Two Ideas of Creativity Katarzyna Paprzycka: Methodological Reflections on Academic and Experimental Philosophy: The Case of the Omissions Account Mark Pinder: Folk Semantic Intuitions, Arguments from Reference and Eliminative Materialism Anna Dro d owicz: Speakers Intuitions about Meaning Provide Empirical Evidence - Towards Experimental Pragmatics Roland Bluhm: Corpus Analysis in Philosophy Leszek Szymäski: The Interaction of Negated Must and Grammatical Aspect in Contemporary American English - an Empirical Contribution to Aspect-modality Interaction Studies Martin Hinton: Lies, Damned Lies and Linguistic Intuitions Martin Vacek: Possible Worlds and Advanced Modalizing Problems Luká Bielik: Thought Experiments in Semantics Arkadiusz Gut/Michä Wilczewski: The Role of Language in the Emergence of Mature Belief Reasoning and Social Cognition.