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• W2912234143 abstract "Hilary Putnam’s proposal of extending the scope of his famous externalist semantic theory to artifactual (e.g. ‘pencil’, ‘chair’, ‘television’, etc.) and social kind terms (e.g. ‘pediatrician’, ‘university’, ‘money’, etc.) has opened an ongoing debate, which is the main focus and basis of the present work. By contrast, the same semantic account limited to words for natural substances and species (e.g. ‘water’, ‘gold’, ‘tiger’, etc.) has become very popular and quite widely adopted, since it seems to give a convincing explanation of how the semantics of these terms works. The first part of the present work is dedicated to a twofold purpose: on the one hand, I aim to argue that Putnam’s argument about the semantics of artifactual (and social) kind terms fails in its goal; on the other hand, – on the strength of the considerations drawn out from this analysis – I point out that the main positions which characterize the aforementioned debate do not succeed in their intent either. In the second part, I focus on remarking that the criticisms of Externalism arise already even when accounting for some of usually believed steady cases. I aim to argue, in this respect, that all problems of Putnam’s Semantic Externalism – as applied not only to artifactual and social kind words, but across the board – are a consequence of the fact that Putnam implicitly relies on a hyperrealist view on modality. Such a modal approach notoriously encounters several problems. In order to bypass those problems, Amie Thomasson proposes an alternative approach to modality: Modal Normativism. I aim to highlight that adopting a normativist approach commits us to abandon Putnam’s Externalism and to embrace a hybrid theory of reference. Such view on reference combined with Modal Normativism – I intend to show – not only overcomes the semantic weaknesses of Putnam’s Externalism, but it also accounts for those controversial cases emerged within the debate, as much as by the opponents of Putnam’s semantic view in general. Such alternative approaches combined constitute – I therefore argue – a more tenable and attractive account of the semantics of our kind terms. Within the perspective I here advocate for the debates about artifactual and social kind terms, as much as in general about the controversial cases Externalism has difficulties to explain, can be seen – I suggest – as metalinguistic negotiations. With such a notion – advanced by Tim Sundell and David Plunkett and taken up by Thomasson – we gain the further advantage of accounting for the importance of the debate while still preserving the advantages of a deflationary approach." @default.
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• W2912234143 title "On the semantics of artifactual and social kind terms" @default.
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