dc.contributor.author
Mühlebach, Deborah
dc.date.accessioned
2023-11-06T06:51:56Z
dc.date.available
2023-11-06T06:51:56Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/41426
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-41148
dc.description.abstract
Philosophers of language are increasingly engaging with derogatory terms or slurs. Only few theorists take such language as a starting point for addressing puzzles in philosophy of language with little connection to our real-world problems. This paper aims to show that the political nature of derogatory language use calls for non-ideal theorising as we find it in the work of feminist and critical race scholars. Most contemporary theories of slurs, so I argue, fall short on some desiderata associated with a non-ideal approach. They neglect crucial linguistic or political aspects of morally and politically significant meaning. I argue that a two-stage project is necessary to understand the perniciousness of slurs: accounting for the derogatory content of derogatory terms in general and, additionally, explaining the communicative function of slurs more specifically. I end by showing how inferentialism is well-suited to account for the content of derogatory terms whilst allowing for further explanations of the communicative functions of slurs.
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dc.format.extent
25 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
Derogatory language use
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dc.subject
Derogatory terms
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dc.subject
Inferentialism
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dc.subject.ddc
100 Philosophie und Psychologie::100 Philosophie::102 Verschiedenes
dc.title
A non-ideal approach to slurs
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber
97
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1007/s11229-023-04315-y
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Synthese
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.number
3
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
202
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-023-04315-y
refubium.affiliation
Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften
refubium.affiliation.other
Institut für Philosophie
refubium.resourceType.isindependentpub
no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
1573-0964
refubium.resourceType.provider
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