How to Do Philosophy with Words: Reflections on the Searle-Derrida debate
Jesús Navarro
[Controversies, 12] 2017. xviii, 225 pp.
Jesús Navarro
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jesús Navarro plays a role.
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Subjects Discourse studies | History of linguistics | Philosophy | Pragmatics
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2009 Can we say what we mean? Expressibility and background Pragmatics & Cognition 17:2, pp. 283–308 | Article
The aim of this paper is to discuss a basic assumption tacitly shared by many philosophers of mind and language: that whatever can be meant, can be said. It specifically targets John Searle’s account of this idea, focusing on his Principle of Expressibility (PE henceforth). In the first part of the… read more