TY  - GEN
AU  - Asoulin,Eran
TI  - Language and scientific explanation : Where does semantics fit in?
SN  - /doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3894134
PY  - 2020///
PB  - Language Science Press
KW  - linguistics
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Biography: general
KW  - Language Arts & Disciplines
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Biography & Autobiography
N1  - Open Access
N2  - This book discusses the two main construals of the explanatory goals of semantic theories. The first, externalist conception, understands semantic theories in terms of a hermeneutic and interpretive explanatory project. The second, internalist conception, understands semantic theories in terms of the psychological mechanisms in virtue of which meanings are generated. It is argued that a fruitful scientific explanation is one that aims to uncover the underlying mechanisms in virtue of which the observable phenomena are made possible, and that a scientific semantics should be doing just that. If this is the case, then a scientific semantics is unlikely to be externalist, for reasons having to do with the subject matter and form of externalist theories. It is argued that semantics construed hermeneutically is nevertheless a valuable explanatory project
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/46933/1/external_content.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/63823
ER  -