Language and scientific explanation
Language Science Press, 2020
Online
E-Book
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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.
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Language and scientific explanation
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Asoulin, Eran |
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Veröffentlichung: | Language Science Press, 2020 |
Medientyp: | E-Book |
ISBN: | 978-3-96110-263-1 (print) ; 3-96110-263-5 (print) |
DOI: | 10.5281/zenodo.3894134 |
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