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Language and scientific explanation

by Eran Asoulin
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9783961102648
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Language Science Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Language Science Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 96
  • Original Price: GBP 20.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 359 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Linguistics / General

This book discusses the two main construals of the explanatory goals of semantic theories. The first, externalist conception, understands semantic theories in terms of a hermeneutic and interpretive explanatory project. The second, internalist conception, understands semantic theories in terms of the psychological mechanisms in virtue of which meanings are generated. It is argued that a fruitful scientific explanation is one that aims to uncover the underlying mechanisms in virtue of which the observable phenomena are made possible, and that a scientific semantics should be doing just that. If this is the case, then a scientific semantics is unlikely to be externalist, for reasons having to do with the subject matter and form of externalist theories. It is argued that semantics construed hermeneutically is nevertheless a valuable explanatory project.

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