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Stina Björkholm
My research interests broadly concern evaluative and normative aspects of linguistic communication. I defended my PhD thesis The Duality of Moral Language: On Hybrid Theories in Metaethicsat Stockholm U
Implicit bias, epistemic injustice, and pragmatic stereotypes
The Philosophical Quarterly Abstract Members of stigmatized social groups are often treated unjustly in conversation. Fricker’s influential work on epistemic injustice addresses this topic, according to
Moral Disagreement and the Question Under Discussion
Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy Abstract If the extension of a moral expression varies depending on the context of utterance, as contextualism maintains, then two speakers who embrace differen
The Pragmatics of Obscuring in Political Philosophy
Journal of Applied Philosophy Abstract According to the obscuring objection against mainstream political philosophy, there has been a long-standing dominant research paradigm focusing on distributive ju
The conversational context and conceptual engineering
Conceptual engineering concerns what it is for a concept to be defective and therefor ameliorated or abolished. The goal of this project, however, is to shift the focus to the role of the context, which might help us understand conflicts about the meaning of our words.
Deep moral disagreements and defective contexts
Synthese Abstract The key characteristic of deep disagreements is that any attempt to resolve them just reveals new points of disagreement that stem from underlying commitments. Many moral disagreementsInformal LogicSemantics and Pragmatics
