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Emma Borg Professor of Philosophy University of Reading See my CV
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Emma Borg joined the Department
in 1998, having taken her M.Phil and Ph.D at University College London.
Her thesis was entitled 'Noun Phrases: the nature of reference and ambiguity'
and looked at how we determine semantic allegiance for object words. A
brief introduction to some of the aspects of the philosophy of language in which she is
interested can be found in her article 'The
Name Game', in The Philosophers' Magazine, 15 (Summer 2001).
She regularly lectures on philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and
epistemology. She has
also given courses on critical thinking and Descartes. From 2006-2009 she
was on leave, primarily as a recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize, which
enabled her to work on a second monograph, Pursuing Meaning, which
will appear with OUP early 2012.
PRIMARY INTERESTS
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AUTHORED BOOK:
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EDITED BOOK:
Meaning and Representation (2002). Oxford: Blackwell. pp.1-117. Editor's introduction, pp.1-4.
1. 'Semantics without pragmatics' (2012) in The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics, edited by K. Allen and K. Jaszczolt. Cambridge: CUP.
513-528.
2. 'Minimalism and the content of the lexicon' (2010). In Meaning and Context, ed. L. Baptista and E. Rach. Bern: Peter Lang. 51-78.
3. 'The place of referential intentions in linguistic content' (2009), Manuscrito 32: 85-122. Special edition on semantics/pragmatics.
4. ‘Must a semantic minimalist be a semantic internalist?’ (2009), This is an electronic version of a paper published in Proceedings of the
Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume LXXXIII: 31-51. Posting of the published paper on any other electronic public server may only be
done with prior written permission from The Aristotelain Society.
5. ‘Meaning and context: a survey of a contemporary debate’ (2009). In The Later Wittgenstein on Language, ed. D. Whiting. Palgrave. 96-113.
6. ‘Minimal semantics and the nature of psychological evidence’ (2009). In New Waves in Philosophy of Language, ed. S. Sawyer.
Palgrave. 24-40.
7. 'Semantic minimalism’ (2009). In The Pragmatics Encyclopedia, ed. L. Cummings. Routledge. 423-5.
8. ‘On three theories of implicature: Default Theory, Relevance and Minimalism’ (2009), International Review of Pragmatics 1: 1-21. This paper is to be reprinted in Meaning and Analysis: Themes from H. Paul Grice, ed. K. Petrus (Palgrave), and Pragmatics: Critical Concepts II, ed. A. Kasher (Routledge).
9. 'If mirror neurons are the answer, what was the question?' (2007), Journal of Consciousness Studies 14: 5-19.
10. 'Minimalism versus Contextualism in semantics' (2007), in G. Preyer and G. Peter (eds) Context Sensitivity and Semantic
Minimalism : Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics. 546-571. To be reprinted in M.
11. ‘Pragmatic determinants of what is said’ (2005), The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition. K. Brown (Editor in
Chief). Oxford: Elsevier. 737-40.
12. 'Formal Semantics and Intentional States' (2004), Analysis 64, 215-23.
13. 'Intention-based Semantics' (2005) in E. Lepore & B. Smith (eds) Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language. Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 250-267.
14. 'Saying What You Mean: unarticulated constituents and communication' (2005) in R. Elugardo & R. Stainton (eds) Ellipsis and
Non-sentential Speech. Dordrecht: Kluwer. 237-262.
15. 'The Semantic Relevance of What is Said' (2002), Protosociology 17: Semantic theory and reported speech, 6-24.
16. 'Pointing at Jack, Talking About Jill: Understanding Deferred Uses of Demonstratives and Pronouns' (2002), Mind and
Language 17, 489-512.
17. 'Natural Language and Symbolic Logic’, co-authored with Prof. E. Lepore (2002) in The Blackwell Companion to Symbolic Logic,
ed. D. Jacquette. Oxford: Blackwell. 86-102
18. 'An Expedition Abroad: Metaphor, Thought and Reporting' (2001) in P. French & H. Wettstein (eds) Midwest Studies in
Philosophy XXV. Oxford: Blackwell. 227-248.
19. 'Deferred Demonstratives' (2002) in Meaning and Truth: Investigations in Philosophical Semantics, eds Campbell, O’Rourke, Shier.
New York: Seven Bridges Press. 214-230.
20. 'The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Singular Terms' (2001), Philosophical Papers 30, 1-30.
21. 'Complex Demonstratives' (2000), Philosophical Studies 97, 229-249.
22. 'Semantic Category and Surface Form' (1998), Analysis 58, 232-238.
i. F. Recanati, Truth-Conditional Pragmatics, The Times Literary Supplement, February 2012.
ii. M. Devitt and Hanley, R (eds). The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Language, Philosophy in Review 27: 18-20 (2007).
iii. R.M. Sainsbury, Reference Without Referents, Ratio XIX (September 2006), 370-375.
iv. R. Millikan, Language: A Biological Model, The Times Literary Supplement, April 2006.
v. F. Recanati, Literal Meaning, Mind (2006), 461-465.
vi. A. Berger, Terms and Truth: Reference direct and anaphoric, Mind (2004), 737-740.
vii. J. King, Complex Demonstratives, Mind and Language (2003), 546-551.
viii. M. Huemer, Skepticism and the Veil of Perception, Philosophical Books (2002), 307-8.
ix. P. Horwich, Meaning, The Philosophical Review 110 (2001), 101-4.
x. M. Luntley, Contemporary Theories of Thought, Mind 109 (2000), 969-73.
xi. Greco & Sosa, ed. The Blackwell Guide to Epistemology, Philosophical Books 41:2 (2000), 126-7.
xii. G. Ostertag, ed. Definite Descriptions: a reader, in Philosophy in Review 19 (1999), 278-80.
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