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Meaning and Justification. An Internalist Theory of Meaning

Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science 59
Springer Verlag GmbH
ISBN/EAN: 9783031246043
Umbreit-Nr.: 7571696

Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: xxiii, 390 S., 20 s/w Illustr., 390 p. 20 illus.
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Einband: gebundenes Buch

Erschienen am 29.07.2023
Auflage: 1/2023
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  • Zusatztext
    • This volume develops a theory of meaning and a semantics for both mathematical and empirical sentences inspired to Chomskys 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 Heytings 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 Freges puzzle, Mates puzzle about synonymy, the paradox of analysis, Kripkes puzzle about belief, the de re/de dicto distinction, the specific/non-specific distinction, Gettiers problems, the paradox of knowability, and the characterization of truth. 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.
  • Kurztext
    • Offers a change of paradigm in semantic analysisPresents new argument for intuitionistic logicProposes a revolutionary approach to propositional attitudes
  • Autorenportrait
    • 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.