Ernest Lepore is a Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at
Rutgers. Though Ernie is best known for his work in the
philosophy of language, he has also published on philosophical
logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of mind. Though Robinson
and Ernie largely discuss the former, their conversation begins
with a bevy of wonderful stories from the profession, as Ernie
worked and studied with many of the greatest thinkers—and
characters—of twentieth century philosophy, including Ed Gettier,
Jerry Fodor, Donald Davidson, Michael Dummett, and W.V.O. Quine.
They then turn to some quite general problems in the philosophy
language, discussion the relationship between language and
thought, meta-linguistic negotiation, and conventions before
going through the main arc of his book on slurs jointly authored
with Una Stojnic of Princeton University. Though Ernie is the
author of too many books and articles to list within the confines
of this description, a recent book mentioned many times in the
conversation is Imagination and Convention: Distinguishing
Grammar and Inference in Language (Oxford University Press,
2015), which Ernie cowrote with Mathew Stone, chair of the
Department of Computer Science at Rutgers.
OUTLINE
00:00 IN THIS EPISODE
00:38 Introduction
05:33 Ernie’s Interest in the Philosophy of Language
14:17 Working with Ed Gettier, Jerry Fodor, Donald Davidson, and
Michael Dummett
30:44 Language, Thought, and Convention
44:44 What is Meta-Linguistic Negotiation?
51:53 What is a Slur?
01:04:10 Philosophical Accounts of Slurs
01:13:50 Pejorative Content Accounts of Slurs
01:21:38 Non-Content Accounts of Slurs
01:30:52 A New Theory 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
with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and
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