Meaning and Justification. an Internalist Theory of Meaning

Usberti, Gabriele

  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-07-29
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 390
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031246071
  • ISBN-13: 9783031246074
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This volume develops a theory of meaning and a semantics for both mathematical and empirical sentences inspired to Chomsky's internalism, namely to a view of semantics as the study of the relations of language not with external reality but with internal, or mental, reality. In the first part a theoretical notion of justification for a sentence A is defined, by induction on the complexity of A; intuitively, justifications are conceived as cognitive states of a particular kind. The main source of inspiration for this part is Heyting's explanation of the intuitionistic meaning of logical constants.

In the second part the theory is applied to the solution of several foundational problems in the theory of meaning and epistemology, such as Frege's puzzle, Mates' puzzle about synonymy, the paradox of analysis, Kripke's puzzle about belief, the de re/de dicto distinction, the specific/non-specific distinction, Gettier's problems, the paradox of knowability, and the characterization oftruth. On a more general philosophical level, throughout the book the author develops a tight critique of the neo-verificationism of Dummett, Prawitz and Martin-Löf, and defends a mentalist interpretation of intuitionism.

作者簡介

Gabriele Usberti has been professor of philosophy of language at the Universities of Milano and Siena (Italy). He has written on the foundations of linguistics, on the semantic paradoxes and on the neo-verificationist theories of meaning. Actually he works on internalist semantics and philosophical aspects of intuitionistic logic.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

加布里埃爾·烏斯貝爾提曾擔任米蘭大學和錫耶納大學的語言哲學教授。他撰寫了有關語言學基礎、語義悖論以及新驗證主義意義理論的文章。目前,他專注於內部語義學和直覺邏輯的哲學方面。