Insensitive Semantics - Cappelen, Herman; Lepore, Ernest
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Since the end of the nineteenth century, philosophy of language has been plagued by an extensive and notoriously confusing literature on how to draw the distinction between semantic and non-semantic content. This debate, at its deepest level, is about how to accommodate context sensitivity within a theory of human communication. Insensitive Semantics is a book about this debate, investigating the effects of context on communicative interaction and, as a corollary, what a context of utterance is and what it is to be in one. To this end, the authors defend a combination of two views: semantic…mehr

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Since the end of the nineteenth century, philosophy of language has been plagued by an extensive and notoriously confusing literature on how to draw the distinction between semantic and non-semantic content. This debate, at its deepest level, is about how to accommodate context sensitivity within a theory of human communication. Insensitive Semantics is a book about this debate, investigating the effects of context on communicative interaction and, as a corollary, what a context of utterance is and what it is to be in one. To this end, the authors defend a combination of two views: semantic minimalismandspeech act pluralism. If these views are right, then many philosophers and linguists are guilty of some profound mistakes, with wide-ranging implications for philosophy of language but also epistemology, metaphysics, moral philosophy, and other branches of pilosophy.
Autorenporträt
Herman Cappelen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College and the University of Oslo. He has published extensively in philosophy of language and mind, including articles in Noûs, Mind, Mind & Language, Analysis, and Synthese. Ernie Lepore is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is author of Meaning and Argument (revised edition, Blackwell, 2003) and, with Jerry Fodor, of Holism (Blackwell, 1991). He is editor of Truth and Interpretation (Blackwell, 1989), and co-editor, with Zenon Pylyshyn, of What is Cognitive Science? (Blackwell, 1999), as well as general editor of the Blackwell series Philosophers and Their Critics.
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"This book is an ingenious defense of two positions notwidely thought to be compatible: truth-conditional semantics andsemantic minimalism. Cappelen and Lepore's highlycontroversial views are already, and will continue to be, at thecenter of inquiry into the nature of linguisticcommunication." Jason Stanley, University ofMichigan

"Cappelen and Lepore have performed a singular service inbringing together the threads of the contextualist debate, and informulating a minimalist alternative to some current trends."James Higginbotham, University of Southern California

"This is a pleasingly spare yet instructivelysophisticated account of how Davidsonians can accommodate themassive context sensitivity of language use. Good stuff."Paul Pietroski, University of Maryland

"This is a book of considerable importance, which dealswith a topic currently at the center of research in the philosophyof language. As a result, Insensitive Semantics has been andwill continue to be widely discussed ...This book pushes thediscussion of context-sensitivity forward in new and usefuldirections. Read it and learn from it." Journal ofLinguistics