Abstract

LAFONT, Cristina. El giro lingüístico hoy (o dónde fueron a parar los significados). Diánoia [online]. 2006, vol.51, n.56, pp.19-31. ISSN 0185-2450.

In this article I analyze some milestones of the twentieth century philosophy of language such as the development of semantic externalism in the seventies and the revival of contextualism in recent decades. I seek to expose the internal logic of this evolution as a result of the difficulties for defending a Fregean notion of identity of “thought” or of propositional content. Seen from this perspective, the latest stages in the linguistic turn seem to indicate that the ultimate consequence of Frege’s “extrusion of thoughts from the mind” can only be their elimination.

Keywords : contextualism; identity of propositional content; literalism; semantic externalism.

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