Language and scientific explanation
Hardcover 96 pages English Jun 19, 2020
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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.
- Author:
- Eran Asoulin
- Publisher:
- Language Science Press
- Publication Date:
- Jun 19, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 96 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 3961102643
- ISBN-13:
- 9783961102648