ARE CONTEXTUALISM AND RELATIVISM A CHALLENGE OR AN IMPROVEMENT OF FREGEAN SEMANTICS? ABOUT MEANINGS IN CONTEXT AND RELATIVE TRUTH BY ELEONORA ORLANDO
Por:
Garcia-Ramirez, Eduardo
Publicada:
1 nov 2017
Categoría:
Philosophy
Resumen:
In her recent book (Orlando 2015), Eleonora Orlando presents us with a
provocative proposal intended to question the success of the Fregean
tradition in philosophy of language by following contextualist and
relativist arguments. This book is a valuable contribution to
contemporary philosophy of language. It is a must read for anyone who is
interested in understanding the state of the art in this discipline.
Furthermore, the great variety of texts and philosophical views it
presents constitute, in and of themselves, valuable, and sometimes
controversial, contributions to the actual debate. Thus explaining why
this book is also an extraordinary invitation to continue that century
old tradition about the Fregean view of language, and particularly the
possibility that contextualism (and relativism) constitute a convenient
improvement. In this paper I want to offer a critical study of this
book, more specifically, I want to focus on its challenge to Fregean
semantics. To do so I will discuss its anti-fregean arguments in detail
in order to cast doubt over the claim that the views defended are truly
incompatible with Frege's spirit or if, as I suspect, they are fully
compatible with it.
Filiaciones:
Garcia-Ramirez, Eduardo:
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Invest Filosof, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
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