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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2022 19:00:46
From: Dejan Makovec [dem161 at pitt.edu]
Subject: General Linguistics / Linguistics and Philosophy (Jrnl)

 
Full Title: Linguistics and Philosophy 


Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Aug-2023 

Call for Papers: 

Open Texture and Semantics

Special Issue of Linguistics and Philosophy
Guest Editors: Michael Glanzberg, Chris Kennedy, Daniel Lassiter, Dejan
Makovec, Stewart Shapiro

Submission deadline: August 1st, 2023
Please announce intentions to submit to the special issue via email with the
subject line “Open Texture and Semantics” to Dejan Makovec: dem161 at pitt.edu

Submission: https://www.springer.com/journal/10988
Please use the general “submit manuscript” link. During the submission process
you will be asked if the paper is submitted for a special issue. Once you say
yes, you can select the relevant special issue. Submissions to the special
issue will go through the standard review procedure of Linguistics and
Philosophy.
For inquiries about the special issue please contact Dejan Makovec:
dem161 at pitt.edu

Content Description:
A predicate is said to exhibit “open texture” if neither its history of
application, nor any attempt at defining it, can determine its applicability
to all new cases we may encounter in the future. According to the notion’s
originator, Friedrich Waismann, most empirical concepts display open texture:
their meanings may be clearly delimited in familiar contexts, but do not
determine their application in novel and surprising cases.

The notion of open texture is found in debates on the semantics of vague
predicates (Williamson 1994, Shapiro 2006), but more broadly in the literature
on the philosophy of science, language and mathematics, as well as in
epistemology, metaphysics, and meta-philosophy (Will 1974, Wilson 2006, Yablo
2008, Chalmers 2012, Machery 2017, Shapiro & Roberts 2021). In addition, it
has a bearing on deep issues in lexical semantics and pragmatics, and on
questions about language change.

Possibly due to its wide applicability, this notion itself displays some open
texture. Among the questions we envisage for this special issue are the extent
to which open texture is a phenomenon of natural languages, how the notion is
best described, and to what extent semantics (and logic) can and should
accommodate it. This special issue also welcomes submissions that draw on
Waismann’s related papers on analyticity, meaning and conceptual change in
science, such as “Verifiability” (1945), “Are There Alternative Logics”
(1945-1946) “Language Strata” (1946/1953), “The Decline and Fall of Causality”
(1959) or his series “Analytic - Synthetic” (1949-1953).

Chalmers, David. 2012. Constructing the World. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Machery, Edouard. 2017. Philosophy Within Its Proper Bounds. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Makovec, Dejan & Shapiro, Stewart. (eds.) 2019. Friedrich Waismann: The Open
Texture of Analytic Philosophy, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
McGuinness, Brian. 2011. Friedrich Waismann—Causality and Logical Positivism.
Dordrecht: Springer.
Shapiro, Stewart. 2006. Vagueness in Context. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Shapiro, Stewart & Craige Roberts. 2021. “Open texture and mathematics”. Notre
Dame Journal of Formal Logic 62.1:173-191. DOI: 10.1215/00294527-2021-0007
Waismann, Friedrich. 1977. Philosophical Papers, ed. Brian McGuinness.
Dordrecht: D. Reidel.
Waismann, Friedrich. 1968. How I See Philosophy, ed. Rom Harré. London:
Macmillan.
Will, Frederick L. 1974. Induction and Justification: An Investigation of
Cartesian Procedure In the Philosophy of Knowledge. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell
University Press.
Williamson, Timothy. 1994. Vagueness. London: Routledge
Wilson, Mark. 2006. Wandering Significance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Yablo, Stephen. 2008. Thoughts: Papers on Mind, Meaning, and Modality. Oxford:
Oxford University Press.




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