Insensitive Semantics: A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism

by Herman Cappelen

2021-01-05 02:05:33

Insensitive Semantics is an overview of and contribution to the debates about how to accommodate context sensitivity within a theory of human communication, investigating the effects of context on communicative interaction and, as a corollary, what a... Read more
Insensitive Semantics is an overview of and contribution to the debates about how to accommodate context sensitivity within a theory of human communication, 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.

  • Provides detailed and wide-ranging overviews of the central positions and arguments surrounding contextualism



  • Addresses broad and varied aspects of the distinction between the semantic and non-semantic content of language



  • Defends a distinctive and explanatorily powerful combination of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism



  • Confronts core problems which not only run to the heart of philosophy of language and linguistics, but which arise in epistemology, metaphysics, and moral philosophy as well
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Book Details

File size9.25 X 6.2 X 0.9 in
Print pages232
PublisherWiley
Publication date January 14, 2005
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781405126748
Herman Cappelen is a professor of philosophy at the universities of Oslo and St Andrews. He is a Research Director at CSMN (in Oslo), and the Editor-in-Chief of Inquiry. He is the author of six books ...

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