Epistemic modals have long been observed to be ambiguous between a speaker-oriented interpretation (Lyon’s 1977 ‘subjective’ interpretation) and an interpretation that reflects general knowledge (the ‘objective’ interpretation). In recent work, Papafragou (2006) argues that subjectively interpreted epistemics are non-truth conditional, and that this results from them being indexical to the spea...

What makes a predicate subjective? For example, why is it that (bare) predicates of personal taste like tasty, disgusting and fun are subjective according to certain tests (which we will examine in more detail below), but “phenomenological category” predicates like semantic(al), metaphysical and epistemological are not? To a certain extent at least, this question is independent of the question ...

Although research in other languages is increasing, much of the work in subjectivity analysis has been applied to English data, mainly due to the large body of electronic resources and tools that are available for this language. In this paper, we propose and evaluate methods that can be employed to transfer a repository of subjectivity resources across languages. Specifically, we attempt to lev...

Conflicts detection in online epistemic communities Conflicts in online epistemic communities can be a blocking factor when producing knowledge. We present a way to automatically detect conflict in Wikipedia discussions, based on subjectivity and connotation marks. Two rules are evaluated : a local rule that uses the structure of the discussion threads, connotation and subjectivity marks and a ...

Two general worries are raised for the dual content approach to consciousness as presented by Ismael in “Doublemindedness”. First, it is argued that something much like Ismael’s proposed explanations of subjectivity and the explanatory gap can be given in terms of phenomenal concepts rather than in terms of dual content. Furthermore, selfrepresentation alone does not explain the “determinacy” a...

E characteristically forthright terms. Robyn McCallum articulates her intention in writing Ideologiesofldentity 'nAdolescent Fiction: to 'examine the representation of dialogic conceptions of subjectivity in adolescent and children's fiction using a Bakhtinian approach to subjectivity • language and narrative' (p. 3). The measure of McCallum's success lies in the important insights which she pr...