This paper examines the importance of language in international migration from multiple angles by studying the role of linguistic proximity, widely spoken languages, linguistic enclaves and language-based immigration policy requirements. To this aim we collect a unique dataset on immigration flows and stocks in 30 OECD destinations from all world countries over the period 1980-2010, and constru...

I argue that Quine’s naturalization of Lewis’s Kantian pragmatism should be understood in terms attempt to de-psychologize pragmatist epistemology. Lewis wants epistemology a priori order distinct from psychology. criticisms result picture weakens the distinction between and Nevertheless, naturalized remains far more than is widely recognized, due what Quine retains Lewis.