Research Group for Experimental Philosophy of Language (EXLANG)
Research Group for Experimental Philosophy of Language (EXLANG)
The Research Group for Experimental Philosophy of Language is concerned with experimental work to shed light on issues traditionally thought of as falling under philosophy of language. The group’s main focus is on theories of reference. Our work is both theoretical and empirical. Our theoretical work concerns the theoretical foundations necessary for the empirical work in our area. Our empirical work concerns carrying out experimental studies to investigate semantic reference. In our empirical work, we use a range of different methods, such as ERP studies, elicited production, as well as more classic survey studies. Our work is carried out in collaboration with philosophers, linguists, and psychologists.
Toorman, Jeske & Jussi Haukioja (forthcoming): ”How to Tame a Catoblepas”. Philosophical Psychology.
Toorman, Jeske & Jussi Haukioja (forthcoming): "Semantics, Cross-Category Style". Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
Haukioja, Jussi, Jeske Toorman, Giosuè Baggio & Jussi Jylkkä (2023): "Are Natural Kind Terms Ambiguous?". Cognitive Science 47.
Toorman, Jeske (2023): "Against Arguments from Diagnostic Reasoning". Cognitive Science 47.
Haukioja, Jussi, Mons Nyquist & Jussi Jylkkä (2021): "Reports from Twin Earth: Both Deep Structure and Appearance Determine the Reference of Natural Kind Terms". Mind & Language 36, 377-403.
Cohnitz, Daniel & Jussi Haukioja (2021): "Reference and Intuitions", in Biggs & Geirsson (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference, 551-559. Routledge.
Islam, Farjana & Giosué Baggio (2020). “Kripkeans of the world, unite!” Journal of Semantics, 37, 297-309.
Haukioja, Jussi (2020): "Semantic Burden-Shifting and Temporal Externalism". Inquiry 63, 919-929.
Cohnitz, Daniel & Jussi Haukioja (2020): "Variation in Natural Kind Concepts", in Wikforss & Marques (eds.) Shifting Concepts: The Philosophy and Psychology of Conceptual Variability, 128-146. Oxford University Press.
Cohnitz, Daniel & Jussi Haukioja (2015): "Intuitions in Philosophical Semantics". Erkenntnis 80, 617-641.
Haukioja, Jussi, ed. (2015): Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Language. Bloomsbury Academic.
Cohnitz, Daniel & Jussi Haukioja (2013): "Meta-Externalism vs. Meta-Internalism in the Study of Reference", Australasian Journal of Philosophy 91, 475-500.
Jylkkä, Jussi, Henry Railo & Jussi Haukioja (2009): "Psychological Essentialism and Semantic Externalism: Evidence for Externalism in Lay Speakers' Language Use", Philosophical Psychology 22, 37-60.
