Some remarks on publicity of linguistic meaning and understanding

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What does it take to communicate?

Some remarks on publicity of linguistic meaning and understanding

Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction

The problem of private language

The central arguments (on language acquisition and communication)

Chapter 2. A Brief History of the Problem and its Solutions

Classical empiricism

2.1 The semiotic tradition (short)

2.2 Locke

[2.3.Berkeley (very brief): idealism and anti skepticism, a use theory about meaning

2.4 Hume (even shorter): The elimination of the "I" and the anticipation of neutral monism.]

Frege:

2.4 The argument on privately owned ideas, in The Thought.

[The problem of grasping.]

Verificationism, behaviorism and neutral monism

Russell on private language

The Vienna Circle: Carnap, Schlick and Neurath on private languages.

Wittgenstein

[Tractatus and private language (very short)]

Wittgenstein's middle period: verificationism, behaviorism and neutral monism.

Later Wittgenstein: what did later Wittgenstein add?

Dummett: (Craig's interpretation of Dummett's arguments from communication and language acquisition)

Quine: observations sentences and the indeterminacy thesis

Davidson (very short)

Meaning and understanding as mental representations

Chomsky against Skinner

The cognitive revolution, CTM.

Fodor's LOTH

Some recent mental representation accounts on understanding.

Chapter 3: Knowing what other speakers mean

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Arguments against linguistic behaviorism

Why understanding is not justified true beliefs:

Pettit, Schiffer, Fricker

Process reliabilism?

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The translation process: Fodor vis-à-vis Horwich

Some implications on meaning

Meaning similarity: Fodor's arguments and Pagin's response.

Recanati...

(Meaning transparency: some problems for the externalist view]

Conclusions....

Chapter 4: Sensation words

Description theories

Reference to qulia.

Conclusions...

THE END!! Yeah.

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