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NOVA SHVATANJA RACIONALNOSTI I SEMANTIKA
A NEW ACCOUNT OF RATIONALITY AND SEMANTICS

Author(s): Miljana Milojević
Subject(s): Logic, Semantics, Philosophy of Mind
Published by: Filozofsko društvo Srbije
Keywords: rationality; semantics; anti-individualism; situated cognition; Gottlob Frege; Ruth G. Millikan;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to show how a new outlook on human cognitive abilities, and in accordance with this a different view of rationality, can influence semantics and one of the most prominent debates in this field, namely, conflict between Fregeans and non-Fregean anti-indiviidualists. This new account of rationality will help us difuse some of the main motivators for Fregean view of semantics and it will help us in justifying non-Fregean anti-individualism but also in eliminating some of the apparent contradictions in Fregean anti-individualism of, e.g. Campbell and Evans. In this attempt of bringing together some of the latest insights into human cognition and semantics I will be dealing mainly with Jessica Brown's outlook on motivation for Fregean sense and Ruth Millikan's embedded view on rationality.

  • Issue Year: 54/2011
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 93-109
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Serbian
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