Meaning Without Representation:
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Essays on Truth, Expression, Normativity, and Naturalism
Steven Gross / Nicholas Tebben …
résumé
Much contemporary thinking about language is animated by the idea that the core function of language is to represent how the world is and that therefore the notion of representation should play a fundamental explanatory role in any explanation of language and language use. Leading thinkers in the field explore various ways this idea may be challenged as well as obstacles to developing various forms of anti-representationalism. Particular attention is given to deflationary accounts of truth, the role of language in expressing mental states, and the normative and the natural as they relate to issues of representation. The chapters further various fundamental debates in metaphysics--for example, concerning the question of finding a place for moral properties in a naturalistic world-view--and illuminate the relation of the recent neo-pragmatist revival to the expressivist stream in analytic philosophy of language.
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INTRODUCTION
Anti-Representational Semantics: Four Themes, Nicholas Tebben
TRUTH AND REFERENCE
1. Deflationism, Pragmatism, and Metaphysics, Rebecca Kukla and Eric Winsberg
2. Does the Expressive Role of 'True' Preclude Deflationary Davidsonian Semantics?, Steven Gross
3. An Inferential Account of Referential Success, Alexis Burgess
4. Representation and the Modern Correspondence Theory of Truth, Michael Glanzberg
5. Deflationism, Truth, and Accuracy, Dean Pettit
EXPRESSION AND EXPRESSIVISM
6. What Would an Expressivist Semantics Be?, Mark Richard
7. Hard Cases for Combining Expressivism and Deflationist Truth: Conditionals and Epistemic Modals, Mark Schroeder
8. Expression: Acts, Products, and Meaning, Dorit Bar-On
9. Global Expressivism and the Truth in Representation, Allan Gibbard
10. The Limits of Expressivism, Anandi Hattiangadi
NORMATIVITY
11. Pragmatism and the Price of Truth, Michael Patrick Lynch
12. Pragmatism and the Function of Truth, Cheryl Misak
13. Life is not a Box-Score: Lived Normativity, Abstract Evaluation, and the Is/Ought Distinction, Mark Lance
NATURALISM
14. Idling and Sidling Towards Philosophical Peace, Huw Price
15. Is (Determinate) Meaning a Naturalistic Phenomenon?, Paul Boghossian
16. Kripke's Wittgenstein, Paul Horwich
Index