Shiver is a contemporary philosopher whose work engages with the philosophy of language, particularly questions surrounding the ontology of linguistic types and tokens. Their scholarship addresses how a single physical inscription can yield multiple word-token interpretations depending on the reading applied, raising questions about the individuation of linguistic entities.
Analyzed the problem of word-token multiplication arising from ambiguous or multiply-readable inscriptions
Contributed to debates on the type-token distinction in philosophy of language
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