Different Kinds of Naturalistic Explanations of Linguistic Behaviour

Bremer, Manuel (2002) Different Kinds of Naturalistic Explanations of Linguistic Behaviour. In: UNSPECIFIED Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, pp. 35-37.

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Abstract

"Naturalization� nowadays is often recommended
to cure all kinds of philosophical worries and solve old
problems. There might be an "epistemology naturalized�
and a naturalized philosophy of language. But "naturalism�
is understood in quite different fashions. It might be meant
as a metaphysical thesis more or the less equivalent to
materialism, or it concerns the way of doing things
philosophically.
I will be concerned with partially explicating
methodological naturalism in the philosophy of language.
The essential question is
(Q1) What is meant by giving a naturalistic
explanation of some kind of linguistic behaviour?
And assuming some answer to this question, the
essential problem is
(Q2) Do these naturalistic explanations explain
anything at all?

Item Type: Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords: lingustics; naturalism; descriptivism
Subjects: Philosophie > Philosophische Disziplinen > Sprachphilosophie
Philosophie > Philosophische Journale, Kongresse, Vereinigungen > Wittgenstein Symposium Kirchberg, Pre-Proceedings > Kirchberg 2002
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Date Deposited: 06 Dec 2020 14:13
Last Modified: 06 Dec 2020 14:13
URI: http://sammelpunkt.philo.at/id/eprint/2855

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