Taylor Koles
About
Biography
I’m a legal scholar and philosopher who works on Moral and Political Philosophy, Private Law, and Philosophy of Language. My dissertation was on collective harm problems, and I work on issues throughout legal theory and practical philosophy.
Publications
Longstanding philosophical debate over the semantics of proper names has yet to examine the distinctive behavior of deadnames, names that have been rejected by their former bearers. The use of these names to deadname individuals is derogatory, but deadnaming derogates differently than other kinds of derogatory speech. This paper examines different accounts of this behavior, illustrates what going views of names will have to say to account for it, and articulates a novel version of predicativism that can give a semantic explanation for this derogation.