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Experimental Philosophy and the Theory of Reference
Author(s) -
DEUTSCH MAX
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
mind and language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.905
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1468-0017
pISSN - 0268-1064
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0017.2009.01370.x
Subject(s) - epistemology , variety (cybernetics) , philosophy of language , philosophy of mind , experimental philosophy , philosophy , complaint , psychology , computer science , western philosophy , artificial intelligence , law , metaphysics , political science
It is argued on a variety of grounds that recent results in ‘experimental philosophy of language’, which appear to show that there are significant cross‐cultural differences in intuitions about the reference of proper names, do not pose a threat to a more traditional mode of philosophizing about reference. Some of these same grounds justify a complaint about experimental philosophy as a whole.