Organon F

Volume 28, August 2021, Issue 3, Pages 531–556

ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)

The debates over the problem of faultless disagreement have played a major role in shaping the landscape of today’s semantic theories. In my paper, I argue that even though the existent contextualism-friendly proposals explain a lot of disagreement data by specifying various ways in which speakers may use subjective predicates, neither provides a satisfactory account which would explain what all the subjective disagreements have in common. In particular, what is lacking is an explanation of the persistent autocentric cases (Lasersohn 2004), i.e., disagreements in which each speaker utters a subjective sentence while openly and knowingly occupying his or her own perspective. In my paper, I offer a solution which consists in supplementing the standard contextualist semantics with an explanation of this most problematic class of cases, which is possible due to redescribing the phenomena in speech act nomenclature.

Contextualism; commitment; faultless disagreement; speech act theory; value terms.

Author

Natalia Karczewska

Affiliation

University of Warsaw

Address

Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28, University of Warsaw, 00-927 Warszawa, Poland.

E-mail

natalia.karczewska@uw.edu.pl

Received

3 December 2020

Accepted

8 August 2021

Published online

30 August 2021

Publishers

Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences

Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences

APA

Karczewska, N. (2021). Illocutionary Disagreement in Faultless Disagreement. Organon F, 28(3), 531–556. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28303

Chicago

Karczewska, Natalia. 2021. "Illocutionary Disagreement in Faultless Disagreement." Organon F 28 (3): 531–556. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28303

Harvard

Karczewska, N. (2021). Illocutionary Disagreement in Faultless Disagreement. Organon F, 28(3), pp. 531–556. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28303

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