Cappelen / Lepore Insensitive Semantics

A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-75491-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten, E-Book

Insensitive Semantics is an overview of and contribution tothe debates about how to accommodate context sensitivity within atheory of human communication, investigating the effects of contexton communicative interaction and, as a corollary, what a context ofutterance is and what it is to be in one.
* * Provides detailed and wide-ranging overviews of the centralpositions and arguments surrounding contextualism
* * Addresses broad and varied aspects of the distinction betweenthe semantic and non-semantic content of language
* * Defends a distinctive and explanatorily powerful combination ofsemantic minimalism and speech act pluralism
* * Confronts core problems which not only run to the heart ofphilosophy of language and linguistics, but which arise inepistemology, metaphysics, and moral philosophy as well

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cappelen, Herman

Lepore, Ernest

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1. Overview.
Part I: From Moderate to Radical Contextualism.
2. Exegesis: The Methodology of Contextualism.
3. The Instability of Context Shifting Arguments.
4. Diagnosis: Why Context Shifting Arguments are Misused.
5. The Instability of Incompleteness Arguments.
6. Digressions: Binding and Hidden Indexicals.
Part II: Refutation of Radical Contextualism.
7. Objections to Radical Contextualism (I): Fails ContextSensitivity Tests.
8. Objection to Radical Contextualism (II):Makes CommunicationImpossible.
9. Objections to Radical Contextualism (III): InternalInconsistencies.
Part III: Semantic Minimalism and Speech ActPluralism.
10. Semantic Minimalism.
11. Semantics and Metaphysics.
12. Semantics and Psychology.
13. Speech Act Pluralism.
References.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Herman Cappelen is Associate Professor of Philosophy atVassar College and the University of Oslo. He has publishedextensively in philosophy of language and mind, including articlesin Noûs, Mind, Mind & Language,Analysis, and Synthese.
Ernie Lepore is Professor of Philosophy at RutgersUniversity. He is author of Meaning and Argument (revisededition, Blackwell, 2003) and, with Jerry Fodor, of Holism(Blackwell, 1991). He is editor of Truth and Interpretation(Blackwell, 1989), and co-editor, with Zenon Pylyshyn, of Whatis Cognitive Science? (Blackwell, 1999), as well as generaleditor of the Blackwell series Philosophers and TheirCritics.