Language and scientific explanation

Eran Asoulin

ISBN 10: 3961102643 / ISBN 13: 9783961102648

Verlag: Language Science Press, 2020

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Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 96 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 36592715/2

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Language and scientific explanation
• Verlag: Language Science Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3961102643
• ISBN-13: 9783961102648
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Sehr gut

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Inhaltsangabe

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.