Philosophy of Language in Uruguay: Language, Meaning, and Philosophy

by Carlos Enrique Caorsi (Editor), Ricardo J. Navia (Editor), Robert Calabria Díaz (Contribution by), Carlos Enrique Caorsi (Contribution by), Ignacio Cervieri (Contribution by)

Overview

In Europe, and later in the United States, the revitalization of the philosophy of language emerged from the need to address certain perplexities concerning formal disciplines and to work out certain complexities found within philosophy. In Uruguay, however, philosophy of language became limited to a meta-theory about the basic concepts of language. Edited by Carlos Enrique Caorsi and Ricardo J. Navia, Philosophy of Language in Uruguay: Language, Meaning, and Philosophy demonstrates the different directions in which philosophy of language has developed in Uruguay in the last twenty years, giving a representative picture of how philosophical approaches from a linguistic perspective have developed in this Latin American country. Uruguayan philosophy has a very small international presence, but it has long included works within the philosophical explorations of language worthy of being better known. The contributors dissect these explorations through epistemology, linguistics, argumentation, and cognitive sciences to discover how philosophers of language such as Carlos Vaz Ferreira have grown to understand the complexities of language and how it has affected us today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781666960358
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	05/15/2024
Series:	Philosophy of Language: Connections and Perspectives
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	248
File size:	492 KB

About the Author

Carlos Enrique Caorsi is professor of contemporary philosophy in the School of Humanities and Education Sciences at the University of the Republic of Uruguay.

Ricardo J. Navia is professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of the Republic of Uruguay.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Philosophy of Language in Uruguay by Carlos E. Caorsi and Ricardo Navia

Part I: Truth, Meaning, and Interpretation

Chapter 1: Language and Reality in Vaz Ferreira by Carlos E. Caorsi

Chapter 2: Russell and Strawson on Definite Descriptions by Daniel Malvasio

Chapter 3: Meaning, Normativity, and the Effect of Triangulation by Ronald Teliz

Chapter 4: The Donald Davidson–Meredith Williams Debate on the Sociality and Normativity of Language by Ricardo Navia

Part II: Actual Debates

Chapter 5: Between Truth Relativism and Nonindexical Contextualism about Predicates of Personal Taste by Matías Gariazzo

Chapter 6: On Being Imperfectly Obliged to Maximal Charity in Argumentation by Ignacio Vilaró

Chapter 7: I Know What I Mean: First-person Authority in Speech and Thought by Ignacio Cervieri

Part III: Logical and Linguistic Analyses of Some Central Philosophical Problems

Chapter 8: Perceptual Verbs, Conceivability, and Quantifiers: George Berkeley’s Master Argument and Its Hidden Premise by Robert Calabria Díaz

Chapter 9: Language, Concepts, and the Nature of Inference by Matías Osta-Vélez

Chapter 10: On Temporal Representations: A Study from the Lexicon by Sylvia Costa, Federico de León, Ernesto Macazaga García, and Yamila Montenegro

Chapter 11: Linguistics in Philosophy: Following Vendler’s Footsteps by Ana Clara Polakof

Editorial Reviews

This collection edited by Carlos Enrique Caorsi and Ricardo J. Navia gives an excellent overview of analytic philosophy of language in Uruguay.

'swaldo Chateaubriand

Philosophy of Language in Uruguay: Language, Meaning, and Philosophy is a rich and representative sample of work in the philosophy of language carried out by Uruguayan thinkers in the last two decades or so.

Carlos Moya