dc.contributor.author
Asoulin, Eran
dc.date.accessioned
2020-08-06T07:14:55Z
dc.date.available
2020-08-06T07:14:55Z
dc.identifier.isbn
978-3-96110-264-8
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/28014
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-27766
dc.description.abstract
Synopsis:
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.
en
dc.format.extent
viii, 82 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
scientific explanation
en
dc.subject.ddc
400 Sprache::410 Linguistik::410 Linguistik
dc.title
Language and scientific explanation
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.5281/zenodo.3894134
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublishername
Language Science Press
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/274
refubium.affiliation
Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften
refubium.resourceType.isindependentpub
yes
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dc.identifier.epub
978-3-96110-263-1
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
2363-877X
