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Herman Cappelen


Herman Cappelen

Professor Herman Cappelen

Chair Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hong Kong

Books
The Concept of Democracy: An Essay on Conceptual Amelioration and Abandonment

The Concept of Democracy: An Essay on Conceptual Amelioration and Abandonment

Oxford University Press, 2023

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Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations

Making AI Intelligible: Philosophical Foundations

Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever
Oxford University Press, 2021

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Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics

Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics

Edited by Alexis Burgess, Herman Cappelen and David Plunkett
Oxford University Press, 2019

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Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics is available as Open Access from OUP here.

Fixing Language: An Essay on Conceptual Engineering

Fixing Language: An Essay on Conceptual Engineering

Oxford University Press, 2018

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Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy of Language
Japanesse version of Bad Language (2023)

Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy of Language

- Bad Language (2019)
- Puzzles of Reference (2018)
- Context and Communication (2017)

Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever
Oxford University Press, 2016-2019

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Japanese translation of Bad Language is available at Keiso Shobo.

Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology

Edited by Herman Cappelen, Tamar Gendler and John Hawthorne
Oxford University Press, 2016

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Liberating Content

Liberating Content

Herman Cappelen and Ernest Lepore
Oxford University Press, 2015

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The Inessential Indexical

The Inessential Indexical:
On the Philosophical Insignificance of Perspective and the First Person

Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever
Oxford University Press, 2013

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Philosophy without Intuitions

Philosophy without Intuitions

Oxford University Press, 2012

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Assertion: New Philosophical Essays

Assertion: New Philosophical Essays

Edited by Jessica Brown and Herman Cappelen
Oxford University Press, 2010

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Relativism and Monadic Truth

Relativism and Monadic Truth

Herman Cappelen and John Hawthorne
Oxford University Press, 2009

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Language Turned on Itself: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Metalinguistic Discourse

Language Turned on Itself:
The Semantics and Pragmatics of Metalinguistic Discourse

Herman Cappelen and Ernest Lepore
Oxford University Press, 2007

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Insensitive Semantics: A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism
Insensitive Semantics: A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism

Insensitive Semantics:
A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism

Herman Cappelen and Ernest Lepore
Blackwell Publishers, 2004

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