NATURALISM AND SEMANTIC FACTS. ON PAUL HORWICH'S SEMANTIC DEFLATIONISM (Nataralizm a fakty semantyczne. Rozwazania nad semantycznym deflacjonizmem Paula Horwicha)

• Authors: Derra A.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article consist of three parts, in which the authoress analyses Paul Horwich's semantic deflationism as an example of naturalistic theory of language. In the first introductory part, she introduces the basic theses of the theory of truth and theory of meaning given by Horwich. In the second, she proposes terminological solutions concerning naturalism and reductionism. In the third substantial part, she presents some objections to the postulated reductionist consequences of Horwich's theory that can be found in the literature. She claims that his theory is in fact naturalistic, but not reductionist in a way described by Horwich's opponents. In the last part, she discusses the problem of normativity in the context of the presented theory, pointing out that some of Horwich's proposals are insufficient and need to be supplemented.

Keywords

EN

DEFLATIONARY THEORY OF TRUTH; HORWICH PAUL; NATURALISTIC THEORY OF LANGUAGE; REDUCTIONISM; SEMANTIC DEFLATIONIZM

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
• Journal: Analiza i Egzystencja. Czasopismo Filozoficzne
• Year: 2008
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 89-108
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Derra A.

• A. Derra, Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika w Toruniu, Instytut Filozofii, Zaklad Teorii Poznania i Metodologii Nauk, ul. Fosa Staromiejska 1A, 87-100 Torun, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA064122