Professor Emma Borg
Responsibilities
I work part-time, but in the past I have taught mainly Reason and Argument at part 1, Philosophy of Mind at part 2, and Philosophy of Language at part 3.
Areas of Interest
My interests lie mainly in Philosophy of Language (particularly the semantics/pragmatics divide) and Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science (particularly issues of concepts and social cognition). I am happy to supervise PhD students in any of these areas.
Research groups / Centres
Please see my personal page for more information.
Publications
2020
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Borg, E.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2725-9568, Fisher, S. A.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1115-6134, Hansen, N., Scarafone, A. and Shardimgaliev, M. (2020) Applied philosophy of language. Ratio, 33 (4). Wiley. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/rati.12269
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Borg, E.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2725-9568 (2020) Language and context. In: Finn, S., Edmonds, D. and Warburton, N. (eds.) Women of Ideas. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780198859925 (In Press)
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Borg, E.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2725-9568, Fisher, S., Hansen, N., Harrison, R.
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3674-9622, Salomons, T., Ravindran, D. and Wilkinson, H. (2020) Pain priors, polyeidism, and predictive power: a preliminary investigation into individual differences in our ordinary thought about pain. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. ISSN 1573-1200 (In Press)
- Borg, E. (2020) The thesis of "doux commerce" and the social licence to operate framework. Business Ethics: A European Review. ISSN 1467-8608 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/beer.12279
- Borg, E., Harrison, R., Stazicker, J. and Salomons, T. (2020) Is the folk concept of pain polyeidic? Mind and Language, 35 (1). pp. 29-47. ISSN 1468-0017 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12227
2019
- Borg, E. and Hooker, B. (2019) Epistemic virtues vs. ethical values in the financial services sector. Journal of Business Ethics, 155 (1). pp. 17-27. ISSN 1573-0697 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-017-3547-x
- Borg, E. (2019) Explanatory roles for minimal content. Nous, 53 (3). pp. 513-539. ISSN 1468-0068 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/nous.12217
- Grindrod, J. and Borg, E. (2019) Questions under discussion and the semantics/pragmatics divide. Philosophical Quarterly, 69 (275). pp. 418-426. ISSN 1467-9213 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqy058
- Borg, E., Salomons, T. and Hansen, N. (2019) The meaning of pain expressions and pain communication. In: van Rysewyk, S. (ed.) Meanings of Pain. Springer, pp. 261-282. ISBN 9783030241537 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24154-4_14
2018
- Borg, E. (2018) Millikan, meaning and minimalism. Theoria, 84 (3). pp. 242-258. ISSN 1755-2567 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12164
- Borg, E. (2018) On deflationary accounts of human action understanding. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 9 (3). pp. 503-522. ISSN 1878-5158 doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-018-0386-3
2017
- Borg, E. (2017) Local vs. global pragmatics. Inquiry, 60 (5). pp. 509-516. ISSN 1502-3923 doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2016.1246862
- Borg, E. (2017) Mirroring, mindreading and smart behaviour-reading. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 24 (5-6). pp. 24-49. ISSN 1355-8250
2016
- Borg, E. (2016) Applied philosophy of language. In: Coady, D., Brownlee, K. and Lippert-Ramussen, K. (eds.) A Companion to Applied Philosophy. Wiley, pp. 180-195.
- Borg, E. (2016) Finding meaning. The Linguist, 55 (3). pp. 22-24. (The Linguist)
2015
- Borg, E. (2015) Exploding explicatures. Mind and Language, 31 (3). pp. 335-355. ISSN 1468-0017 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12109
2014
- Borg, E. (2014) From ape empathy to human morality? Analysis, 74 (4). pp. 577-587. ISSN 1467-8284 doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anu080
2013
- Borg, E. (2013) More questions for mirror neurons. Consciousness and Cognition, 22 (3). pp. 1122-1131. ISSN 1053-8100 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2012.11.013
2012
- Borg, E. (2012) Pursuing meaning. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp272. ISBN 9780199588374
- Borg, E. (2012) Semantics without pragmatics. In: Allen, K. and Jaszczolt, K. (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics. Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics. Cambridge University Press, pp. 513-528. ISBN 9780521192071
2010
- Borg, E. (2010) Minimalism and the content of the lexicon. In: Baptista, L. and Rast, E. (eds.) Meaning and Context. Lisbon Philosophical Studies - Uses of Languages in Interdisciplinary Fields - Volume 2. Peter Lang, Bern, pp. 51-78. ISBN 9783035101584
- Borg, E. (2010) On three theories of implicature: default theory, relevance and minimalism. In: Petrus, K. (ed.) Meaning and analysis: new essays on Grice. Palgrave studies in pragmatics, language and cognition. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 268-287. ISBN 9780333990100
2009
- Borg, E. (2009) Meaning and context: a survey of a contemporary debate. In: Whiting, D. (ed.) The later Wittgenstein on language. Philosophers in Depth . Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp256. ISBN 9780230219687
- Borg, E. (2009) Minimal semantics and the nature of psychological evidence. In: Sawyer, S. (ed.) New waves in philosophy of language. New Waves in Philosophy. Palgrave, pp. 24-40. ISBN 9780230224360
- Borg, E. (2009) Must a semantic minimalist be a semantic internalist? Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 83 (1). pp. 31-51. ISSN 1467-8349 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8349.2009.00171.x
- Borg, E. (2009) On three theories of implicature: default theory, relevance and minimalism. The International Review of Pragmatics, 1 (1). pp. 63-83. ISSN 1877-3109 doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/187731009X455848
- Borg, E. (2009) The place of referential intentions in linguistic content. Manuscrito, 32 (1). pp. 85-122. ISSN 0100-6045
2007
- Borg, E. (2007) Minimalism versus contextualism in semantics. In: Preyer, G. and Peters, G. (eds.) Context- sensitivity and semantic mimimalism: new essays on semantics and pragmatics. Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 546-571. ISBN 9780199213320
- Borg, E. (2007) If mirror neurons are the answer, what was the question? Journal of Consciousness Studies, 14 (8). pp. 5-19. ISSN 1355-8250
2005
- Borg, E. (2005) Pragmatic determinants of what is said. In: Brown, K. (ed.) The encyclopedia of language and linguistics. 2nd edition. Elsevier, Oxford, pp. 737-40. ISBN 9780080442990
- Borg, E. G. N. (2005) Saying what you mean: unarticulated constituents and communication. In: Elugardo, R. and Stainton, R.J. (eds.) Ellipsis and non-sentential speech. Studies in linguistics and philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 237-262. ISBN 9781402023002
2004
- Borg, E. G. N. (2004) Formal semantics and intentional states. Analysis, 64 (3). pp. 215-223. ISSN 1467-8284 doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0003-2638.2004.00488.x
- Borg, E. G. N. (2004) Minimal semantics. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780199270255