31.2768, Books: Language and scientific explanation: Asoulin

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Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 21:33:36
From: Sebastian Nordhoff [Sebastian.Nordhoff at langsci-press.org]
Subject: Language and scientific explanation: Asoulin

 


Title: Language and scientific explanation 
Subtitle: Where does semantics fit in? 
Series Title: Conceptual Foundations of Language Science  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Language Science Press
	   http://langsci-press.org
	

Book URL: https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/274 


Author: Eran Asoulin

Electronic: ISBN:  9783961102631 Pages: 96 Price: Europe EURO 0 Comment: Open Access


Abstract:

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)

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