Metasemantics
New Essays on the Foundations of Meaning
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 October 2014
- ISBN 9780199669592
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages378 pages
- Size 243x163x27 mm
- Weight 730 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Metasemantics presents new work on the philosophical foundations of linguistic semantics. Experts in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the theory of content provide new perspectives on old problems about linguistic meaning, pose questions that suggest novel research projects, and sharpen our understanding of linguistic representation.
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Metasemantics comprises new work on the philosophical foundations of linguistic semantics, by a diverse group of established and emerging experts in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, and the theory of content. The science of semantics aspires to systematically specify the meanings of linguistic expressions in context. The paradigmatic metasemantic question is accordingly: what more basic or fundamental features of the world metaphysically determine these semantic facts? Efforts to answer this question inevitably raise others. Where are the boundaries of semantics? What is the essence of the meaning relation? Which framework should we use for semantic theorizing? What are the intrinsic natures of semantic values? Are the semantic facts metaphysically determinate? What is semantic competence? Metasemantic inquiry has long been recognized as a central part of the philosophy of language, but recent developments in metaphysics and semantics itself now allow us to approach these classic questions with an unprecedented degree of precision. The essays collected here provide promising new perspectives on old problems, pose questions that suggest novel research projects, and taken together, greatly sharpen our understanding of linguistic representation.
Metasemantics is a valuable addition to the literature in philosophy of language and linguistics ... It should be clear from these summaries that this is a wide ranging and extremely interesting collection that reflects many current trends in philosophical theorising about language, notably attention to developments in formal semantics ... It clearly shows the continued relevance of semantic and metasemantic issues to metaphysics, metaethics, and other areas of philosophy, as well as the intrinsic interest of various metasemantic questions. I look forward to seeing the new wave of metasemantic theorising that is likely to follow.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction: A Plea for the Metaphysics of Meaning
Semantics and Metasemantics in the Context of Generative Grammar
Metasemantics and Metaphysical Indeterminacy
The Metasemantics of Contextual-Sensitivity
Semantic Hermeneutics
Troubles for Content I
Troubles for Content II: Explaining Grounding
Deflationism in Semantics and Metaphysics
Discourse Content
Do We Need Dynamic Semantics?
Explanation and Partiality in Semantic Theory
Replacing Truth?
Prepragmatics: Widening the Semantics/Pragmatics Boundary
Semantics and Context-Dependence: Towards a Strawsonian Account
