Descriptive Semantic Externalism

In Nick Riemer (ed.), Routledge Handbook of Semantics. New York: Routledge. pp. 13-29 (2015)
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This chapter examines the “externalist” claim that semantics should include theorizing about representational relations among linguistic expressions and (purported) aspects of the world. After disentangling our main topic from other strands in the larger set of externalist-internalist debates, arguments both for and against this claim are discussed. It is argued, among other things, that the fortunes of this externalist claim are bound up with contentious issues concerning the semantics-pragmatics border.

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