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- Publications
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On Communication-Based De Re Thought, Commitments De Dicto and Word Individuation
- A. Mercier
- Psychology, Philosophy
- 1998
Preliminaries In the old days of descriptivism, reference was thought to be a function of ones epistemic connection to a referent, a connection fully established by ones beliefs about the referent,… Expand
Do I Need A Robot Or A Nonrobot Automated System?
- J. Dessimoz, P. Schüpbach, A. Mercier, T. Pun
- Computer Science
- Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International…
- 7 July 1992
TLDR
Meaning and Necessity: Can Semantics Stop Same-Sex Marriage?
- A. Mercier
- Sociology
- 2007
Think of this paper as an exercise in applied philosophy of language. It has both semantic and deontic concerns. More than about the meaning of ‘marriage,’ it is about how one goes about determining… Expand
MARRIAGE, PROCREATION, AND SAME-SEX UNIONS Should the political community declare that (some) same-sex unions
- M. Somerville, A. Mercier
- 2008
Should the political community declare that (some) same-sex unions are marriages? Margaret A. Somerville has ably argued that it should not, that doing so harms children and families. Adèle Mercier… Expand
PHENOMENAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN CHALMERS
- A. Mercier
- 2007
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L'homme et la factrice : sur la logique du genre en français
- A. Mercier
- Psychology
- 1 June 2002
I present several arguments which provide what I consider to be a definitive argument against certain forms of masculine language in their so-called sexually neutral usage. In the first part, I… Expand