Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Mark Richard

Editorial

Oxford University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

224

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.6x15.8x1.2 cm

Peso

0.36 kg.

ISBN13

9780192848376

Categorías

Filosofía del lenguaje
Semántica, análisis del discurso, etc.
Filosofía de la mente

Meanings as Species (en Inglés)

Mark Richard (Autor) · Oxford University Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Meanings as Species (en Inglés)"

Mark Richard presents an original picture of meaning according to which a word's meaning is analogous to the biological lineages we call species. His primary thesis is that a word's meaning - in the sense of what one needs to track in order to be a competent speaker - is the collection ofassumptions its users make in using it and expect their hearers to recognize as being made. Meaning is something that is spread across a population, inherited by each new generation of speakers from the last, and typically evolving in so far as what constitutes a meaning changes in virtue of theinteractions of speakers with their (linguistic and social) environment. Meanings as Species develops and defends the analogy between the biological and the linguistic, and includes a discussion of the senses in which the processes of meaning change are and are not like evolution via naturalselection. Richard argues that thinking of meanings as species supports Quine's insights about analyticity without rendering talk about meaning theoretically useless. He also discusses the relations between meaning as what the competent speaker knows about her language, meaning as the determinant ofreference and truth conditions, and meaning qua what determines what sentence uses say. This book contains insightful discussions of a wide range of topics in the philosophy of language, including: relations between meaning and philosophical analysis, the project of 'conceptual engineering', thesenses in which meaning is and is not compositional, the degree to which to which referential meaning is indeterminate, and what such indeterminacy might tells us about propositional attitudes like belief and assertion.