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168 - Una Stojnić: Slurs, Linguistic Conventions, and the Philosophy of Language

168 - Una Stojnić: Slurs, Linguistic Conventions, and the Philosophy of Language

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Una Stojnić is an assistant professor in the Department of
Philosophy at Princeton University, where she works in the
philosophy of language, formal semantics and pragmatics of
natural language, and philosophical logic. In this episode,
Robinson and Una discuss three of her projects. First, they talk
about linguistic conventions, and how language consists of more
than just the words we might find in a dictionary. Second, they
talk abut slurs and pejoratives, and how philosophers have
attempted to determine just what it is that makes them offensive.
Finally they talk about a problem with word individuation—just
how much can our spelling or pronunciation of a word vary from
its canonical spelling or pronunciation and still be that same
word? Una’s latest book is Context and Coherence: The Logic and
Grammar of Prominence (Oxford, 2021).

Una’s Website: https://www.unastojnic.com

Context and Coherence: https://a.co/d/0wjOoaM

OUTLINE

00:00 In This Episode…

00:51 Introduction

03:04 An Interest in Language

07:31 A Problem with Word Individuation

11:52 Context Sensitivity and Linguistic Convention

30:07 Word Individuation and Speaker Intentions

45:30 Slurs and Pejoratives

01:01:55 An Articulation Account of Slurs

Robinson’s Website: http://robinsonerhardt.com

Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of
mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations
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