Talking with Sellars about rules

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Language. Practice. Rules. Sellars. Prescriptive paradigm.

Abstract

Sellars poses the questions, "What is language?" and "How do we learn language?" and sets out to answer them. But these questions are very interesting, and we want to answer them too. This gives rise to our conversation, which resembles a meeting of two people talking to themselves — (like any other conversation). Thus, the two stories unfold in parallel, at times converging and at times diverging. But it never fully resolves. This is because Sellars has in mind the descriptive paradigm of language, while we want to discuss the prescriptive paradigm. Once this becomes clear, we set Sellars aside and begin outlining our notes for a prescriptive semantics of language.

Author Biographies

Ralph Leal Heck, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)

Doutor em Filosofia pela Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC). Professor da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC).

 

Carlos Eduardo Fisch de Brito, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)

Possui graduação em Informática pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1996), mestrado em Ciência da Informação pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1999) e doutorado em Computer Science pela University of California - Los Angeles (2003). Atualmente é Professor Adjunto da Universidade Federal do Ceará.

References

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HAUGELAND, John. Semantic engines: an introduction to mind design. In: HAUGELAND, John (Ed.). Mind design. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1981. p. 34-50.

SELLARS, Willfrid. Empiricism and the philosophy of mind. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997.

SELLARS, Wilfrid. Some reflections on Language Games. Philosophy of Science, v. 21, n. 3, jul./1954, p. 204-228.

WITTGENSTEIN, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations. Translation by G.E.M. Anscombe, P. M. S. Hacker and Joachim Schulte. West Sussex: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2009.

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2024-12-31

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Vol. 16 No. esp. (2024)

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