Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness
Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy
| Author: | Ori Simchen | ISBN: | 9780192509994 |
| Publisher: | OUP Oxford | Publication: | February 9, 2017 |
| Imprint: | OUP Oxford | Language: | English |
| Author: | Ori Simchen |
| ISBN: | 9780192509994 |
| Publisher: | OUP Oxford |
| Publication: | February 9, 2017 |
| Imprint: | OUP Oxford |
| Language: | English |
Semantics aims to describe the significance (or meaning) of linguistic expressions in a systematic way. Metasemantics, or foundational semantics, asks how expressions gain their significance in the first place - what makes it the case that expressions mean what they do. Metasemantics has recently been discussed extensively by philosophers of language, philosophers of mind, and philosophically minded linguists and psychologists. A large concern is semantic indeterminacy, the worry that there is no fact of the matter as to the semantic significance of our words. Ori Simchen offers a distinctly metasemantic strategy to counter this threat. Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness is the first book-length treatment of metasemantics and its relation to the thriving research program of truth-conditional semantics.
Semantics aims to describe the significance (or meaning) of linguistic expressions in a systematic way. Metasemantics, or foundational semantics, asks how expressions gain their significance in the first place - what makes it the case that expressions mean what they do. Metasemantics has recently been discussed extensively by philosophers of language, philosophers of mind, and philosophically minded linguists and psychologists. A large concern is semantic indeterminacy, the worry that there is no fact of the matter as to the semantic significance of our words. Ori Simchen offers a distinctly metasemantic strategy to counter this threat. Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness is the first book-length treatment of metasemantics and its relation to the thriving research program of truth-conditional semantics.
