Relativism 2

Semantic Content

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4079082
AutoresMax Kölbel (0000-0003-0130-5976, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume10
Fascículo1
Páginas52-67
Data de publicação2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPhilosophy Compass (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/phc3.12191
OpenAlexW1562422216
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas59

In the pair of articles of which this is the second, I present a set of problems and philosophical proposals that have in recent years been associated with the term 'relativism'. These problems are related to the question of how we should represent thought and speech about certain topics. The main issue is whether we should model such mental states or linguistic acts as involving representational contents that are absolutely correct or incorrect, or whether, alternatively, their correctness should be thought of as varying with some (more or less surprising) factor.In the first article, 'Relativism 1: Representational Content', I discussed the general issue of relativism about representational content. I argued for the conciliatory view that both relativist and absolutist conceptions of representational content can be legitimate.In the present continuation, I look in more detail at a special case of the general issue, namely the question of whethersemantic contents, i.e. the contents assigned to linguistic utterances in the semantics of natural language, should be construed in an absolutist or in a relativist way

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