and Methodologies for Testing Hypotheses of Causal Processes in Vicariance Biogeography

Cladistics ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
M VANVELLER ◽  
D KORNET ◽  
M ZANDEE
1989 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Strube ◽  
Philip Bobko
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2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris C. Martin ◽  
Todd M. Thrash ◽  
Laura Maruskin
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Author(s):  
Wayne A. Davis

I applaud the arguments in Lepore and Stone (2015) that Gricean, Neo-Gricean, and Relevance theories of conversational implicature and utterance interpretation are deeply flawed because the additional meanings speakers convey when using sentences are conventional rather than calculable. I then go on to rebut several conclusions Lepore and Stone endorse that do not follow: that there is no such thing as conversational implicature; that in figurative speech speakers do not mean anything beyond what the sentences they utter mean; that anything a speaker means is something the speaker directly intends and says; and that any meanings conveyed conventionally are given by the grammar or semantics of the language. Along the way, I argue that conventions are constituted by certain causal processes, not mutual expectations, and I distinguish two types of speaker meaning.


Metaphysica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrei A. Buckareff ◽  
Marc Andrews ◽  
Shane Brennan
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Abstract Work on dispositions focuses chiefly on dispositions that are manifested in dynamic causal processes. Williams, Neil. 2005. “Static and Dynamic Dispositions.” Synthese 146: 303–24 has argued that the focus on dynamic dispositions has been at the expense of a richer ontology of dispositions. He contends that we ought to distinguish between dynamic and static dispositions. The manifestation of a dynamic disposition involves some change in the world. The manifestation of a static disposition does not involve any change in the world. In this paper, we concede that making a conceptual distinction between dynamic and static dispositions is useful and we allow that we can truthfully represent objects as manifesting static dispositions. However, we argue that the distinction is not ontologically deep. Rather, the truthmakers for our representations of static dispositions are actually dynamic dispositions to whose manifestations we may fail to be sensitive.


2008 ◽  
Vol 250 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 180-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sébastien Garziglia ◽  
Sébastien Migeon ◽  
Emmanuelle Ducassou ◽  
Lies Loncke ◽  
Jean Mascle

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