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Jose Zalabardo Pragmatist Cognitivism
Tue, 14 Nov
|Rom G37
Time & Location
14 Nov 2023, 17:00 – 15 Nov 2023, 18:30
Rom G37, Senate House, London WC1B, UK
Abstract
I’ll outline some of the main ideas of my recent monograph, Pragmatist Semantics. My main contention will be that a discourse can successfully discharge the task of representing the world even though the facts from which its sentences obtain their meanings (their meaning grounds) do not involve a relation to the region of reality they purport to represent. Discourses whose meaning grounds consist in how their sentences are used can also discharge representational duties. I consider some central challenges for this position.
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