Towards a Pragmatist Philosophy of Language and Meaning

Dissertation, Vanderbilt University (1995)
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In this essay I present a pragmatist philosophy of language and meaning based mainly on the thought of Dewey and discuss its contemporary relevance for a "pragmatist turn" in linguistics and philosophy of language. The main purpose of the dissertation is to recover and present Dewey's systematic philosophy of language and meaning. There has been a perception that there is not a systematic view of language and meaning in Dewey, and so, there is very little secondary literature on this aspect of Dewey' s thought. This essay fills this gap. I proceed first by presenting Dewey' s philosophy of language and meaning, and then, I conclude by indicating its contemporary importance and relevance to current developments in Chomskyan linguistics

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