Jesús Navarro

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jesús Navarro is involved.

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How to Do Philosophy with Words: Reflections on the Searle-Derrida debate

Jesús Navarro

Nowadays philosophy is characterized by such heterogeneous intellectual practices that its very unity and coherence seem endangered. What is especially disconcerting is that most authors manage to largely ignore the very existence of methodological positions radically different from their own.… read more

[Controversies, 12] 2017. xviii, 225 pp.

Article

Navarro, Jesús 2009 Can we say what we mean? Expressibility and background Pragmatics & Cognition 17:2, pp. 283–308 | Article

The aim of this paper is to discuss a basic assumption tacitly shared by many philosophers of mind and language: that whatever can be meant, can be said. It specifically targets John Searle’s account of this idea, focusing on his Principle of Expressibility (PE henceforth). In the first part of the… read more