Mircea Dumitru – A Finean Semantic-Relationist Approach to Opacity

de lavi | ian. 5, 2011 | Anunturi, Conferinte, Facultate

Miercuri, 2 martie, la ora 18:00 va avea loc seminarul departamentului de filosofie teoretica. Invitat, prof. Mircea Dumitru va tine o conferinta cu titlul: A Finean Semantic-Relationist Approach to Opacity.

Rezumatul conferintei:

A FINEAN SEMANTIC-RELATIONIST APPROACH TO OPACITY
Mircea Dumitru
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Bucharest
mirdumitru@yahoo.com
mircea.dumitru@unibuc.eu

In his book, Semantic Relationism, Kit Fine argues in favor of a fundamentally new view of meaning, which he calls “Semantic Relationism”. What is the main idea behind this approach? Fine’s view is that there may be irreducible semantical or representational relationships between expressions or elements of thought, ones that are not reducible to the intrinsic semantic features of the expressions or elements of thought themselves between which they hold. This semantic approach leads naturally to a novel view on representation in both language and thought. The explanatory job Fine does is twofold. He shows how this view can be articulated to offer solutions to persistent and intriguing puzzles in philosophical logic and philosophy of language, such as Frege’s identity puzzle, Russell’s antinomy of the variable, Moore’s paradox of analysis, Kripke’s puzzle about belief. And he also uses his new doctrine to ground a more defensible form of direct reference theory, one which can successfully meet the criticism that Fregeans have recently mounted against it.

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