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Author Marchesan, Eduardo

Title Context, Truth and Objectivity : Essays on Radical Contextualism
Published Milton : Routledge, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (261 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy Ser
Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy Ser
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 What Is a Statement?; 3 Ordinary Language Philosophy needs Situation Semantics (or Why Grice needs Austin); 4 Beyond Unnatural Doubts: Lessons from Wittgenstein; 5 Meaning and Ostension: From Putnam's Semantics to Contextualism; 6 The Role of Intention in Truth; 7 Is Seeing Judging? Radical Contextualism and the Problem of Perception; 8 Externalism and Context-Sensitivity; 9 Contextualism and the Twilight of Representationalism; 10 Their Work and Why They Do It; List of Contributors; Index
Summary The claim according to which there is a categorial gap between meaning and saying - between what sentences mean and what we say by using them on particular occasions - has come to be widely regarded as being exclusively a claim in the philosophy of language. The present essay collection takes a different approach to these issues. It seeks to explore the ways in which that claim - as defended first by ordinary language philosophy and, more recently, by various contextualist projects - is grounded in considerations that transcend the philosophy of language. More specifically, the volume seeks to explore how that claim is inextricably linked to considerations about the nature of truth and representation. It is thus part of the objective of this volume to rethink the current way of framing the debates on these issues. By framing the debate in terms of an opposition between "ideal language theorists" and their semanticist heirs on the one hand and "communication theorists" and their contextualist heirs on the other, one brackets important controversies and risks obscuring the undoubtedly very real oppositions that exist between different currents of thought
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Contextualism (Philosophy)
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY -- Language.
Avner Baz.
Charles Travis.
circumstances.
contextualism.
Davidsonian semantics.
David Zapero.
Eduardo Marchesan.
François Recanti.
Frege.
formal language.
Guy Longworth.
identity theory of truth.
intentions.
Jocelyn Benoist.
John Austin.
John McDowell.
J.L. Austin.
Krista Lawlor.
natural language.
objectivity.
ordinary language philosophy.
philosophy of language.
philosophy of mind.
pragmatics.
propositions.
radical contextualism.
representationalism.
Sofia Miguens.
Strawson.
semantics.
Tractarian Wittgenstein.
truth.
truth-conditional content.
Contextualism (Philosophy)
Language and languages -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
Author Zapero, David
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