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Michael Liston
Externalist Determinants of Reference
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According to externalism, reference is a relation between uses of an expression and features of the environment. Moreover, the reference relation is normative (constitutive of correct semantic use), and the referential relata of our expressions are explanatory of successful language use. This paper largely agrees with the broad conception underlying externalism: it is what people do with words that makes them have the references they have, and the world constrains what people can successfully do with words. However, the paper strongly disagrees with the details (at least as usually presented). A centrally important feature of what people do with words is how they use them in inferential contexts. When due attention is given to the reference-determining role played by inferential properties of expressions, I argue, we arrive at a more satisfactory account of semantic norms and explanations. Much of the argument is based on a detailed look at the language of chemical classification used in the late 19th century.
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Gerhard Preyer
Interpretation and Rationality:
Steps from Radical Interpretation to the Externalism of Triangulation
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In recent years Donald Davidson has outlined main features of a “unified theory” of language and action. The article tries to lay open the central theoretical steps one has to take from his “radical interpretation” to his theory of rationality and his triangulation model of externalism. It is argued that Davidson's reinterpretation of Tarski's T - sentences can be used to show a fundamental symmetry between representation and expression of propositional contents. Yet, his theoretical framework has to be enriched to deal with the problem of contextualism that arises from his redescription of utterance meanings. The paper shows in order to elaborate Davidson's claim that rationality is a normative concept one has to address the question of an internal relationship between radical interpretation, rationality and externalism.
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Gerhard Preyer, Dieter Mans
Introduction:
On Contemporary Developments in the Theory of Argumentation
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Robert C. Pinto
Argument Schemes and the Evaluation of Presumptive Reasoning:
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Ralph H. Johnson
Reasoning, Argumentation and The Network Problem
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Leo Groarke
The Fox and the Hedgehog:
On Logic, Argument, and Argumentation Theory
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J. Anthony Blair
Presumptive Reasoning/Argument:
An Overlooked Class
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Douglas Walton
The New Dialectic:
A Method of Evaluating an Argument Used for Some Purpose in a Given Case
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Manfred Kienpointner
Comments on Douglas Walton’s Paper: The New Dialectic: A Method of Evaluating an Argument Used for Some Purpose in a Given Case
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Christopher W. Tindale
The Authority of Testimony
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Hans Lenk
Interdisziplinarität und Interpretation
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Peirce’s Abductive Enthusiasms
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Henry W. Johnstone, Jr.
“‘Any,’ ‘Every,’ and the Philosophical Argumentum ad Hominem”
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