Millikan, meaning and minimalism

Borg, E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2725-9568 (2018) Millikan, meaning and minimalism. Theoria, 84 (3). pp. 242-258. ISSN 1755-2567 doi: 10.1111/theo.12164

Abstract/Summary

Across a series of seminal works, Ruth Millikan has produced a compelling and comprehensive naturalised account of content. With respect to linguistic meaning, her ground breaking approach has been to analyse the meaning of a linguistic term via the function it performs which has been responsible for securing the term’s survival. This way of looking at things has significant repercussions for a number of recent debates in philosophy of language. This paper explores these repercussions through the lens of what is known as semantic minimalism, using the tenets of minimalism to draw out some questions for Millikan’s approach to the semantics/pragmatics divide.

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Divisions	Interdisciplinary Research Centres (IDRCs) > Centre for Cognition Research (CCR) Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Humanities > Philosophy
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
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