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Title: Laura Schroeter
Pre-talk at 2PM in the Philosophy Common Room. All honours and graduate
students are expected to attend the pre-talk; all others are welcome.
Bootstrapping our Way to Same-Saying
In this paper, I highlight two theoretical roles that are crucial to our
first person perspective on the meanings of our own terms. Sameness of
meaning must afford competent speakers immediate epistemic access to the
fact that there is just one subject matter in question. At the same time,
sameness of meaning must allow for speakers’ fallibility about the precise
nature of that subject matter and about the best ways to identify it.
Traditional accounts of meaning, I suggest, cannot vindicate these two
central theoretical roles of meaning. According to the tradition, sameness
of meaning is grounded in resemblance between individual speakers’
substantive understanding of token words: for words to express the same
meaning the speaker must independently associate each token with a specific
reference-fixing criterion. In contrast, my suggestion is that meanings
should be individuated relationally via speakers’ taking token uses of
words to be samesaying. On this account, speakers’ jointly treating their
words as strictly co-referential helps make it the case that they are in
fact co-referential. This connectedness account of meaning allows for
open-ended variation between speakers’ substantive understanding, without
jeopardizing their direct access to sameness of subject matter.
When: Wed Oct 6 3:30pm – 5:30pm Eastern Time - Melbourne, Sydney
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