Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behavior: Saying You Like, Saying You Believe, and Doing

On Saying What You Mean without Meaning What You Say1

I see what you are saying

The motor cortex in the brain tracks lip movements to help with speech perception.

The power of saying thank you.

One of the things I like best about living in America, or at least North Carolina, is that almost everyone is up for a conversation, almost all of the time. I’m walking down to the parking deck, or around downtown Durham, or off East Campus, and the stranger I walk past says “Hi, how are ya?” I’ve learned that the correct answer is, “I’m good, how are you?” After that the conversation can go of...

Emma Borg Saying What You Mean: Unarticulated Constituents and Communication

In this paper I want to explore the arguments for so-called ‘unarticulated constituents’ (UCs). Unarticulated constituents are supposed to be propositional elements, not presented in the surface form of a sentence, nor explicitly represented at the level of its logical form, yet which must be interpreted in order to grasp the (proper) meaning of that sentence or expression. Thus, for example, w...

What You Should Believe: Obligations and Beliefs

This paper presents and discusses a novel approach to indeterministic belief revision. An indeterministic belief revision operator assumes that, when an agent is confronted with a new piece of information, it can revise its belief base in more than one way. We define a rational agent not only in terms of what it believes, as often assumed in belief revision, but also of what it ought or is obli...