Semantic Externalism

Name: Semantic Externalism
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ISBN: 9780415449977

ISBN-10: 0415449979

ISBN-13: 9780415449977

Edition: 2012

Authors: Jesper Kallestrup

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Semantic externalism is the view that the meaning of a term, and the understanding of a language in general, is relational; determined by factors external to the speaker and bound up with our environment.The debate about semantic externalism is one of the most important but difficult topics in philosophy of mind and language, and has consequences for philosophical and empirical theories about the mind, and the role of social institutions and the physical environment in constituting language. In this long-needed book, Jesper Kallestrup provides an invaluable map of the problem. Beginning with a thorough introduction to the theories of descriptivism and referentialism and the work of Frege…

Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 9/2/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Puzzles about belief


Referentialism


Rigidity and direct reference


Chapter summary


Putnam's Twin Earth argument


Burge's arthritis argument


Indexicality and e