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Date: 03-Jun-2024
From: Dejan Makovec [dem161 at pitt.edu]
Subject: Linguistics and Philosophy / (Jrnl)

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, 2024
Please announce intentions to submit to the special issue as well as
interest to participate in a workshop for contributors in spring 2024
via email with the subject line “Open Texture and Semantics” to Dejan
Makovec: dem161 at pitt.edu
Details on the workshop follow and will be separately announced.
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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