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Ebbs, Gary Ebbs, Gary Wagner, Steven J. McCarthy, Timothy G. Lasersohn, Peter N. Morasch, Nathalie 2011-05-25T14:38:52Z 2011-05-25T14:38:52Z 2013-05-26T10:00:24Z 2011-05-25T14:38:52Z 2011-05 Starting from the fact that people sometimes use the “same” words to talk about a given topic, I want to clarify what word-sameness comes to in those uses. I will adopt an epistemic framework, in which words are primarily instruments that render the inter-subjective transfer of knowledge possible. In the course of my dissertation I refine Kaplan’s notion of words to propose an account that occupies the middle ground between (social) anti-individualism and the kind of individualism that individuates a speaker’s words without input from the speaker’s linguistic community. I make the case that speakers keep track of the various performances of a given word w via a mental register. According to my proposal, the conceptions the speaker comes to associate with her mental register over time may play a role in whether we ought to identify her idiolectal word w with the public word w’. I will argue that in the end we must leave it up to the speaker’s own (informed) judgment whether she interprets her word w as repeating a particular public word w’. According to Kaplan the individual speaker’s word w is referentially bound to the public word w’ through her intentions to repeat w’. I stress that the intention to repeat her own words w trumps the intention to repeat the word w’ produced by some other speaker. I attempt to solve Kripke’s Paderewski puzzle and problems of self-knowledge by arguing that the speaker cannot be wrong about how she keeps track of her own words. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2011-04-21T13:34:19Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 2 Morasch_Nathalie.docx: 895948 bytes, checksum: 9cb6f88e63a0cbbc1f58300afac7b752 (MD5) Morasch_Nathalie.pdf: 1505343 bytes, checksum: d14478cae38265ea419d2cdc29c7b6bc (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-25T14:38:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 Morasch_Nathalie.pdf: 1509309 bytes, checksum: 57a0cf82f671a8312cb0c425513771e1 (MD5) Morasch_Nathalie.docx: 895571 bytes, checksum: d4784750e8ee7a1e9302dc45c5251ec6 (MD5) license.txt: 4062 bytes, checksum: 04a1930c6e5c4d83c228793d0660972a (MD5) Item marked as restricted to the 'UIUC Users [automated]' Group (id=2) by William Ingram (wingram2@illinois.edu) on 2011-05-25T14:41:52Z Item is restricted until 2013-05-25T14:41:28Z Item reinstated by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2013-05-26T10:00:24Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Dissertations and Theses (ID: 204) Dissertations and Theses - Philosophy (ID: 789) No. of bitstreams: 3 Morasch_Nathalie.pdf: 1509309 bytes, checksum: 57a0cf82f671a8312cb0c425513771e1 (MD5) Morasch_Nathalie.docx: 895571 bytes, checksum: d4784750e8ee7a1e9302dc45c5251ec6 (MD5) license.txt: 4062 bytes, checksum: 04a1930c6e5c4d83c228793d0660972a (MD5) Item released from any restrictions by Sarah Shreeves (sshreeve@illinois.edu) on 2013-05-26T10:00:24Z http://hdl.handle.net/2142/24398 en © Copyright 2011 Nathalie Morasch Kaplan words anti-individualism Kripke puzzle self-knowledge Under what conditions are two utterances peformances of the same word? Philosophy 1715 Philosophy 0332 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. PHD:Philosophy -UIUC 10KS0332PHD