Meaning and justification : an internalist theory of meaning / Gabriele Usberti.
Usberti, Gabriele, 1948- author.
2023
B105.M4
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Title Meaning and justification : an internalist theory of meaning / Gabriele Usberti.
Author Usberti, Gabriele, 1948- author.
ISBN 9783031246050 (electronic bk.)
3031246055 (electronic bk.)
9783031246043
3031246047
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24605-0
Published Cham : Springer, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (484 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-24605-0 doi
Call Number B105.M4
Dewey Decimal Classification 121/.68
Summary This volume develops a theory of meaning and a semantics for both mathematical and empirical sentences inspired to Chomskys internalism, namely to a view of semantics as the study of the relations of language not with external reality but with internal, or mental, reality. In the first part a theoretical notion of justification for a sentence A is defined, by induction on the complexity of A; intuitively, justifications are conceived as cognitive states of a particular kind. The main source of inspiration for this part is Heytings explanation of the intuitionistic meaning of logical constants. In the second part the theory is applied to the solution of several foundational problems in the theory of meaning and epistemology, such as Freges puzzle, Mates puzzle about synonymy, the paradox of analysis, Kripkes puzzle about belief, the de re/de dicto distinction, the specific/non-specific distinction, Gettiers problems, the paradox of knowability, and the characterization of truth. On a more general philosophical level, throughout the book the author develops a tight critique of the neo-verificationism of Dummett, Prawitz and Martin-Lf, and defends a mentalist interpretation of intuitionism.
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Series Logic, epistemology and the unity of science ; v. 59.
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Introduction
Chapter 1. Motivations for an internalist semantics
Chapter 2. Varieties of semantical anti-realism
Chapter 3. Epistemic justifications as cognitive states
Chapter 4. C-justifications for atomic sentences. Names and predicates, C-objects and C-concepts
Chapter 5. C-justifications for logically complex sentences
Chapter 6. C-truth-grounds
Chapter 7. Internal truth and truth-recognition
Chapter 8. Validity, assertion, inference, and transparency
Chapter 9. Belief, synonymy, and the de dicto/de re distinction
Chapter 10. Knowledge and Gettier problems
Chapter 11. The paradox of knowability
Chapter 12. Is there an anti-internalist argument in the Philosophical Investigations?

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