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Concerns About the Truth-Conditions of Episodes
Seminar on Language and Communication
In my talk, I will argue that some philosophers (e.g. Stephen Neale and François Recanati) have made two misattributions to John Perry's work in “Thought without Representation”. Specifically, that his distinction between an episode being about something vs concerning something is exclusive, and that he used relativized propositions to capture the truth-conditions of episodes with unarticulated constituents. However, I argue that Perry's distinction is not exclusive and that he argues that unarticulated constituents are part of an episode's truth-conditions and that episodes are about both articulated and unarticulated constituents. I also argue that accepting relativized propositions would directly contradict the thesis Perry was defending in his work.
Beñat Esnaola
ILCLI
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The research group on Language, Action, and Thought ---at the Institute of Logic, Cognition, Language and Information (ILCLI)--- mostly focuses on the Philosophy of Language and Mind as well as on the Philosophy of Action. Most of its members are philosophers but it also includes linguists, psychologists and logicians.
An important part of our research has evolved around Critical Pragmatics, a theory created and developed by some of us, with applications to the study of linguistic communication, and important assumptions and implications about thought and action.
During the last decade, we have received several grants from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), the Basque Government and the Government of Spain.
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