Grice’s notion of conversational implicature requires that speaker meaning be calculable on the basis of sentence meaning, and presumptions about the speaker’s adherence to cooperative principles of conversation and the ability of the hearer to work out the speaker’s meaning. However, the actual real-time consideration of cooperative principles by both the hearer and speaker runs up against sev...

A proper assessment of the relation between discourse structure and speaker's communicat ive intentions requires a better understanding of communicative intentions. This contribution proposes that there is a crucial difference between intending the hearer to entertain a certain belief (or desire, or intention), and intending to affect the strength with which the hearer entertains the belief (or...

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In the days immediately after the September 11 attacks on the U.S., we witnessed the ability of a country, its citizens, and its friends to pitch in during the most difficult of times. We all continue to be moved by acts of extraordinary heroism in New York City and Washington, D.C., and now in Afghanistan, where soldiers are risking their lives to defend our freedoms. There have been other con...

I wholeheartedly sympathize conceptually with Coeckelbergh's paper. The dialectical relationship between vulnerability and technology constitutes the core of Hegel's Master and Slave (the primal scene of contemporary philosophy). Yet, the empirical dimension is underdeveloped and Coeckelbergh's ideas could profit from exposure to case studies. Building on a movie/novel (Limitless) devoted to vu...

The Hunger Games plot features a dystopian future in which twelve outer districts are oppressed by a centralized capital. The story focuses on the heroism of a sixteen-year-old girl named Katniss and how she tries to rise above the oppression that she experiences. It also features a special lottery and other twists that are sources of mathematical interest. This essay focuses on some of the mat...

le hussard sur le toit (1951) de jean giono est l’histoire d’un jeune colonel de hussards qui se réfugie en france où il découvre les ravages du choléra. considérant le choléra comme un révélateur des traits les plus profonds de l’homme, l’auteur étudie le courage du héros et de l’héroïne et quelques personnages comparses face aux conséquences de l’épidémie, à l’opposé d’une masse peureuse et é...

It has been suggested that moral courage in the workplace supports more robust application of regulatory principles. A workforce with to act on imperative, it is argued, can bolster corporate governance and promote both stable business organisations greater economic stability at large. Research area investigates bases courage, a central implication being businesses should invest ethical trainin...

In my first presidential message, I introduced us all to theme and challenge for 2021—To Elevate. A improve ourselves, our profession, colleagues, communities around us. The March message discussed burnout moral injury the impact they can have on of profession. This May issue, am addressing a topic that help elevate many aspects lives as well mitigate injury. emergency department, learned put u...