Zoltán Vecsey
Zoltán Vecsey
I am currently a research fellow at the MTA-SZTE-DE Research Group for Theoretical Linguistics and Informatics. My research interests include the foundational questions of nominal semantics, the theory of fictional discourse, and the role of data and evidence in linguistics.
Selected Publications
Books
Lanham/New York: Lexington Books, 2024.
Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.
■ Proper Names and Objects: A Study in Semantics
Debrecen: Kossuth University Press, 2007. (in Hungarian)
Papers
■ Perplexing Metamorphoses of the Demarcation Problem. Theoria, forthcoming. link
■ Must Scientific Realists Respond to the Challenge of the PMI? Teorie vedy/Theory of Science. pdf
■ Scientism and the Problem of Self-Referential Incoherence. Social Epistemology, 2025, 39: 262-275. link
■ Ordinary Referring Names in Fictional Contexts. Principia, 2022, 26: 413-428. pdf
■ Chomsky's London. Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 2021, 62, 285-299. link
■ Some Remaining Problems for Fictional File Theory: A Short Reply to Eleonora Orlando. ESPES, 2021. pdf
■ Talking about Nothing. Logic and Logical Philosophy, 2020, 311-321. pdf
■ Fictional Objects within the Theory of Mental Files: Problems and Prospects. ESPES, 2020, 9(2): 32-48.
■ Is There a Uniform Explanation for Strawsonian Contrast Cases? Filozofia Nauki/The Philosophy of Science, 2018, 26: 29-47.
■ Negative Existentials: A Problem still Unsolved. Pragmatics, 2018, 28: 599-616.
■ A Note on the Artefactualist Theory of Fictional Objects. Communication & Cognition, 2017, 50: 71-92.
■ Fiction and Representation. SATS, 2015, 16: 202-215.
■ Indexicals, Fiction, and Perspective. Semiotica, 2015, 203(1): 109–122.
■ Linguistic Data and Fictional Characters. Linguistic and Philosophical Investigations, 2014, 13: 140–151.
■ Epistemic Modals: A Cross-Theoretical Approach. Language and Dialogue, 2013, 3(3): 422–436.
■ Perspectival Indexicality in Fiction. Journal of Philosophical Research, 2013, 38: 367–376.
■ Talking about Borderline Cases. Communication & Cognition, 2012, 45: 3–12.
■ Borderline Cases and Definiteness. Prolegomena, 2012, 11(2): 197–206.
■ On the Epistemic Status of Borderline Cases. Principia, 2012, 16(1): 179–184.
■ Vagueness, Ignorance, and Epistemic Possibilities. Logos & Episteme, 2011, 2(2): 273–284.
■ On the Pluralistic Conception of Logic. Pragmatics and Cognition, 2010, 18(1): 1–16.
■ Epistemic Approaches to Vagueness. Dialogue, 2010, 49(2): 295–307.
■ Conceptual Knowledge as Emergence. Semiotica, 2008, 170(1): 25–36.
Book Reviews
■ Review of Cuts and Clouds: Vagueness, Its Nature, and Its Logic. Philosophy in Review, 2010, 30(5): 328–330.
■ Review of Jonathan Sutton’s book Without Justification. Philosophy in Review, 2008, 28(1): 87–89.
Editing
■ Linguistic and Literary Aspects of Perspectivity. Semiotica, 2015, 203(1).
■ I am a co-founder and editor (with Erzsébet Szabó) of the Studia Poetica Supplementum Series.
Work in Progress
■ Meaning Theory and the Language of Science (a book-length project).
■ Pseudoscience: An Elusive Target.
■ Representing the Nonexistent.
ORCID
Contact
vecseyz [at] freemail.hu
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