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Minds with meanings (pace Fodor and Pylyshyn)
In: Rivista internazionale di Filosofia e Psicologia; V. 11, N. 1 (2020); 1-18 ; 2239-2629 ; 2039-4667 (2020)
Abstract: Abstract: Jerry Fodor and Zenon Pylyshyn have proposed a purely referential-causal semantics, a semantics without meanings. Adopting Pylyshyn’s previous treatment of the fact that we can perceive and track something before we have any idea of what that is, these authors claim that such causal relations to external entities allow us to word-label them and thereby build an entire lexicon with specific referents. I disagree and explain why I do so. The kind of semantics that I prefer is radically opposite: the one proposed by Noam Chomsky and Paul Pietroski. This is an internalist semantics that only has meanings, reference being indirect, often indefinite, sometimes problematic. Chomsky insists that the only posit that is tenable is the internal structure of the speaker-hearer, a complex, abstractly characterizable, computational-derivational apparatus, optimal if left alone, that interfaces with other cognitive apparatuses: the articulatory-perceptual one and the conceptual-intentional one, satisfying the constraints that they impose. I show that the semantics proposed by Fodor and Pylyshyn is especially problematic when inexistent entities, possible entities, fictional characters and objects in the remote past are examined. It is, however, problematic even when dealing with more ordinary concepts. On the contrary, an internalist semantics avoids all these problems.Keywords: Internalist Semantics; Theory of Meaning and Reference; Jerry A. Fodor; Noam Chomsky; Paul Pietroski Menti con significati (con buona pace di Fodor e Pylyshyn)Riassunto: Jerry Fodor e Zenon Pylyshyn hanno proposto una semantica interamente causale-referenziale, una semantica priva di qualsiasi nozione di significato. Adottando la precedente trattazione di Pylyshyn di come è possibile percepire e inseguire oggetti prima di avere alcuna idea di cosa essi siano, questi autori pretendono che queste interazioni causali con enti esterni bastano a etichettarli con dei termini lessicali, costruendo un intero lessico con referenti specifici, senza la componente del significato. Io dissento e spiego perché. Il tipo di semantica che adotto è diametralmente opposto, una semantica che ha solo significati, per la quale i referenti esterni sono indiretti, spesso non definiti, talvolta problematici. Noam Chomsky e Paul Pietroski hanno perfezionato questa semantica puramente internalista, insistendo che l’unico attributo sostenibile è la struttura mentale interna al locutore, una struttura complessa, caratterizzabile solo a un livello di astrazione adeguato, atta a soddisfare i vincoli imposti dai sistemi cognitivi con i quali interagisce: quello articolatorio-percettivo e quello concettuale-intenzionale. Mostro che la semantica proposta da Fodor e Pylyshyn si scontra con problemi insolubili quando tratta enti inesistenti, enti possibili, invenzioni letterarie e oggetti appartenenti a un passato remoto. In effetti, si scontra con problemi insolubili anche quando tratta oggetti e proprietà ordinari. Una semantica interamente internalista non incontra nessuno di questi problemi.Parole chiave: Semantica internalista; Teoria del significato e del riferimento; Jerry A. Fodor; Noam Chomsky; Paul Pietroski
Keyword: Internalist Semantics; Jerry A. Fodor; Noam Chomsky; Paul Pietroski; Theory of Meaning and Reference
URL: https://www.rifp.it/ojs/index.php/rifp/article/view/rifp.2020.0001
https://doi.org/10.4453/rifp.2020.0001
https://www.rifp.it/ojs/index.php/rifp/article/download/rifp.2020.0001/1006
https://www.rifp.it/ojs/index.php/rifp/article/download/rifp.2020.0001/1005
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Théories du langage, théories de l'apprentissage : le débat entre Jean Piaget et Noam Chomsky
Piaget, Jean; Noizet, Yvonne (Übersetzer); Chomsky, Noam. - Paris : Éditions Points, 2018
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From Zero to Fifty: Considerations on Eric Lenneberg’s Biological Foundations of Language and Updates
In: BIOLINGUISTICS; Vol. 11 (2017): Special Issue—50 Years Later: A Tribute to Eric Lenneberg’s Biological Foundations of Language; 423-444 ; 1450-3417 (2017)
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Linguistics and Some Aspects of Its Underlying Dynamics
In: BIOLINGUISTICS; Vol. 9 (2015); 096-115 ; 1450-3417 (2015)
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Linguistics and some aspects of its underlying dynamics ...
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Biolinguistics yesterday, today, and tomorrow
In: The Cambridge handbook of biolinguistics (Cambridge, 2013), p. 12-21
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Rich languages from poor inputs
Berwick, Robert C. (Hrsg.); Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo (Hrsg.). - Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press, 2013
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A geneticist's dream, a linguist's nightmare : the case of FOXP2
In: The biolinguistic enterprise (Oxford, 2011), p. 100-125
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What Darwin got wrong
Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo; Fodor, Jerry A.. - New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010
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What is language, that it may have evolved, and what is evolution, that it may apply to language
In: The evolution of human language (Cambridge, 2010), p. 148-162
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Of minds and language : a dialogue with Noam Chomsky in the Basque country
Chomsky, Noam; Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo; Salaburu Etxeberria, Pello. - Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford University Press, 2009
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Of minds and language : a dialogue with Noam Chomsky in the Basque Country
Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo; Chomsky, Noam. - Oxford [u.a.]. : Oxford Univ. Press, 2009
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Of minds and language : a dialogue with Noam Chomsky in the Basque country
Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo; Uriagereka, Juan; Salaburu, Pello. - Oxford [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Pr., 2009
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Of minds and language : a dialogue with Noam Chomsky in the Basque Country
Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo (Hrsg.); Chomsky, Noam. - 1. publ. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009
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Language as shaped by the brain : [including open peer commentary and authors' response]
Enfield, N. J. (Komm.); Smith, Andrew D. M. (Komm.); Ragir, Sonia (Komm.)...
In: Behavioral and brain sciences. - New York, NY [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press 31 (2008) 5, 489-558
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Language as ergonomic perfection
In: Behavioral and brain sciences. - New York, NY [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press 31 (2008) 5, 530
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Novel Tools at the Service of Old Ideas
In: BIOLINGUISTICS; Vol. 2 No. 2-3 (2008); 237-246 ; 1450-3417 (2008)
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Linguistics in cognitive science: the state of the art amended
In: The linguistic review. - Berlin ; New York, NY : Mouton de Gruyter 24 (2007) 4, 403-415
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Language as a natural object - linguistics as a natural science
In: The linguistic review. - Berlin ; New York, NY : Mouton de Gruyter 22 (2005) 2-4, 447-466
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The evolution of the narrow faculty of language : the skeptical view and a reasonable conjecture
In: Lingue e linguaggio. - Bologna : Il Mulino 4 (2005) 1, 27-79
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