We Are Reasons-Responsive Creatures: An Interview with Emma Borg

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  • Bruno Mölder University of Tartu

Keywords:

Borg, common-sense psychology, reasons-responsiveness

Abstract

Emma Borg has been a professor at the Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Studies, University of London since January 2024. Prior to that, she worked at the University of Reading starting in 1998. She completed her PhD at University College London. Borg's primary areas of research are philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and business ethics. She is the author of Minimal Semantics (Oxford University Press, 2004), Pursuing Meaning (Oxford University Press, 2012), and Acting for Reasons: In Defence of Common-Sense Psychology (Oxford University Press, 2024). Emma Borg gave the Gottlob Frege Lectures in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Tartu from November 4-6, 2024, under the title "Reasons for Action". The interview took place in Tartu on November 6, 2024.

References

Travis, Charles (1989). The Uses of Sense: Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language. Oxford: Clarendon Press

Fodor, Jerry A. (1987). Psychosemantics: The Problem of Meaning in The Philosophy of Mind. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press

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2025-03-05

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Mölder, B. (2025). We Are Reasons-Responsive Creatures: An Interview with Emma Borg. Studia Philosophica Estonica, 18, 1–13. Retrieved from https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/spe/article/view/24952

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