{"product_id":"language-and-scientific-explanation-9783961102648","title":"Language and scientific explanation","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Eran Asoulin\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Language Science Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Language Science Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Linguistics - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Language Science Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45570625765527,"sku":"9783961102648","price":2265.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783961102648.webp?v=1767937695","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/language-and-scientific-explanation-9783961102648","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}