Category: X-Phi

The Viability of Diphthongs as Novel Strategies for Gender Fairness in Italian

On By AdminIn Philosophy of Language, X-Phi

This is a post by Martina Rosola, Mara Floris (Università Vita Salute San Raffaele), Daniela Ruzzante (University of Trento, Italy), Elena Sofia Safina, Igor Facchini, Giuseppe Di Dona (University of Trento, Italy), Giuliano Torrengo (University of Milan).

Gender-fair language strategies are not created equal. These ways to overcome linguistic sexism differ in realization and goals, and have different advantages and limitations. Gender-fair strategies typically arise in activist settings, but can’t scientific research help in this enterprise?

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Falsity and Retraction: New Experimental Data on Epistemic Modals

On By AdminIn Assertion, Contextualism, Epistemic Modals, Epistemology, Philosophy of Language, Relativism, Retraction, X-Phi

This is a post by Teresa Marques (University of Barcelona).

Imagine the following scenario: My husband and I go to the supermarket. When we get home, we bring the shopping bags from the car to the kitchen and as we start to put things away in the fridge, I notice that the eggs are missing. I wonder if we left them in the car. And so, I ask my husband for the car keys, to which he replies:
– The keys might be on the table.
He says ‘might’ because he is not completely certain if they are on the table, in his backpack, or in the pocket of his jacket.

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