Emma Borg

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+44 (0) 118 378 8324
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Professor
- Director of the Centre for Cognition Research
- 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.
- Professor Borg's Personal Webpage
Research centres and groups
- See my personal page for more information
Publications
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Lepoutre, M.
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Vilar-Lluch, S.
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Borg, E.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2725-9568 , Hansen, N. (2023) What is hate speech? The case for a corpus approach. Criminal Law and Philosophy ISSN: 1871-9805 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11572-023-09675-7
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Yessick, L.
ORCID: 0000-0002-9258-4511 , Tanguay, J. , Gandhi, W. , Harrison, R.
ORCID: 0000-0003-3674-9622 , Dinu, R. , Chakrabarti, B.
ORCID: 0000-0002-6649-7895 , Borg, E.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2725-9568 , Salomons, T.
ORCID: 0000-0002-1871-6969 (2023) Investigating the relationship between pain indicators and observers’ judgements of pain. European Journal of Pain , 27 (2). pp. 223-233. ISSN: 10903801 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ejp.2053
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Borg, E.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2725-9568 (2022) In defence of individual rationality. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society , 22 (3). pp. 195-217. ISSN: 1467-9264 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoac009
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Salomons, T.
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Harrison, R.
ORCID: 0000-0003-3674-9622 , Hansen, N. , Stazicker, J. , Sorensen, A. , Thomas, P. , Borg, E.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2725-9568 (2022) Is pain “all in your mind”? Examining the general public’s views of pain. Review of Philosophy and Psychology , 13 pp. 683-698. ISSN: 1878-5158 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13164-021-00553-6
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Borg, E.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2725-9568 , Scarafone, A. , Shardimgaliev, M. (2021) Meaning and communication. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy , Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. ISSN: 2161-0002
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Borg, E.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2725-9568 and Fisher, S.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1115-6134 (2021) Semantic content and utterance context: a spectrum of approaches. In: Stalmaszczyk, P. , (eds.) The Cambridge handbook of the philosophy of language. Cambridge handbooks in language and linguistics The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language ISBN: 9781108492386
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Borg, E.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2725-9568 and Unruh, C. (2021) Reshaping relations between the state and the private sector post-COVID-19? Exploring the social licence framework. Journal of the British Academy , 9 pp. 87-113. ISSN: 2052-7217 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.5871/jba/009.087
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Borg, E.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2725-9568 (2021) Language and context. In: Finn, S. , Edmonds, D. , Warburton, N. , (eds.) Women of Ideas. Oxford University Press , Oxford. ISBN: 9780198859925
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Borg, E.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2725-9568 , Fisher, S. , Hansen, N. , Harrison, R.
ORCID: 0000-0003-3674-9622 , Ravindran, D. , Salomons, T. , Wilkinson, H. (2021) Pain priors, polyeidism, and predictive power: a preliminary investigation into individual differences in our ordinary thought about pain. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics , 42 (3-4). pp. 113-135. ISSN: 1573-1200 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11017-021-09552-1
- Borg, E. (2021) The thesis of "doux commerce" and the social licence to operate framework. Business Ethics: A European Review , 30 (3). pp. 412-422. ISSN: 1467-8608 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/beer.12279
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Borg, E.
ORCID: 0000-0003-2725-9568 , Fisher, S.
ORCID: 0000-0003-1115-6134 , Hansen, N. , Scarafone, A. , Shardimgaliev, M. (2020) Applied philosophy of language. Ratio , 33. Ratio , 33 (4). ISSN: 1467-9329 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rati.12269
- Borg, E. , Harrison, R. , Stazicker, J. , Salomons, T. (2020) Is the folk concept of pain polyeidic?. Mind and Language , 35 (1). pp. 29-47. ISSN: 1468-0017 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mila.12227
- Borg, E. , Salomons, T. , Hansen, N. (2019) The meaning of pain expressions and pain communication. In: van Rysewyk, S. , (eds.) Meanings of Pain. , 2. Springer pp. 261-282. ISBN: 9783030241537 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24154-4_14
- 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://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pq/pqy058
- Borg, E. (2019) Explanatory roles for minimal content. Nous , 53 (3). pp. 513-539. ISSN: 1468-0068 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nous.12217
- 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://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-017-3547-x
- Borg, E. (2018) Millikan, meaning and minimalism. Theoria , 84 (3). pp. 242-258. ISSN: 1755-2567 | doi: https://dx.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://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13164-018-0386-3
- Borg, E. (2017) Mirroring, mindreading and smart behaviour-reading. Journal of Consciousness Studies , 24 (5-6). pp. 24-49. ISSN: 1355-8250
- Borg, E. (2017) Local vs. global pragmatics. Inquiry , 60 (5). pp. 509-516. ISSN: 1502-3923 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2016.1246862
- Borg, E. (2016) Finding meaning. The Linguist , 55 (3). pp. 22-24. (The Linguist)
- Borg, E. (2016) Applied philosophy of language. In: Coady, D. , Brownlee, K. , Lippert-Ramussen, K. , (eds.) A Companion to Applied Philosophy. Wiley pp. 180-195.
- Borg, E. (2015) Exploding explicatures. Mind and Language , 31 (3). pp. 335-355. ISSN: 1468-0017 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mila.12109
- Borg, E. (2014) From ape empathy to human morality?. Analysis , 74 (4). pp. 577-587. ISSN: 1467-8284 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/analys/anu080
- Borg, E. (2013) More questions for mirror neurons. Consciousness and Cognition , 22 (3). pp. 1122-1131. ISSN: 1053-8100 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2012.11.013
- 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
- Borg, E. (2012) Pursuing meaning. Oxford University Press , Oxford. pp 272. ISBN: 9780199588374
- 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. , (eds.) Meaning and analysis: new essays on Grice. Palgrave studies in pragmatics, language and cognition Palgrave Macmillan , Basingstoke. pp. 268-287. ISBN: 9780333990100
- Borg, E. (2009) Meaning and context: a survey of a contemporary debate. In: Whiting, D. , (eds.) The later Wittgenstein on language. Philosophers in Depth Palgrave , Basingstoke. pp 256. ISBN: 9780230219687
- 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://dx.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://dx.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
- Borg, E. (2009) Minimal semantics and the nature of psychological evidence. In: Sawyer, S. , (eds.) New waves in philosophy of language. New Waves in Philosophy Palgrave pp. 24-40. ISBN: 9780230224360
- 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
- Borg, E. (2005) Saying what you mean: unarticulated constituents and communication. In: Elugardo, . and Stainton, . , (eds.) Ellipsis and non-sentential speech. Studies in linguistics and philosophy Springer , Dordrecht, The Netherlands. pp. 237-262. ISBN: 9781402023002
- Borg, E. (2005) Pragmatic determinants of what is said. In: Brown, K. , (eds.) The encyclopedia of language and linguistics. 2nd edition. Elsevier , Oxford. pp. 737-40. ISBN: 9780080442990
- Borg, E. (2004) Minimal semantics. Oxford University Press , Oxford, UK. ISBN: 9780199270255
- Borg, E. (2004) Formal semantics and intentional states. Analysis , 64 (3). pp. 215-223. ISSN: 1467-8284 | doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0003-2638.2004.00488.x