Context, Truth and Objectivity

Name: Context, Truth and Objectivity
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

The claim according to which there is a categorial gap between meaning and saying \u2013 between what sentences mean and what we say by using them on particular occasions \u2013 has come to be widely regarded as being exclusively a claim in the philosophy of language. The present essay collection takes a different approach to these issues. It seeks to explore the ways in which that claim \u2013 as defended first by ordinary language philosophy and, more recently, by various contextualist projects \u2013 is grounded in considerations that transcend the philosophy of language. More specifically, the volume seeks to explore how that claim is inextricably linked to considerations about the nature of truth and representation. It is thus part of the objective of this volume to rethink the current way of framing the debates on these issues. By framing the debate in terms of an opposition between \""ideal language theorists\"" and their semanticist heirs on the one hand and \""communication thes