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SUMMARY:Facing the Evidence: what can empirical facts tell us about semantics?
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DESCRIPTION:<p>INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY<br><br>Tuesday 11 November 2014\, 17:00-19:00<br>LEM &amp\;#9472\; Logic\, Epistemology &amp\; Metaphysics Forum<br>Room 243\, Senate House\, WC1<br>Facing the Evidence: what can empirical facts tell us about semantics? Emma<br>Borg (Reading)<br><br>On the one hand\, it seems almost a truism that we want a semantic theory&nbsp\;which is informed by empirical evidence. On the other hand\, however\, it&nbsp\;proves notoriously difficult in practice to map between empirical claims and&nbsp\;theoretical ones. This paper aims to clarify the potential problems in&nbsp\;moving between theory and evidence in this area\, in the hope of coming to&nbsp\;relate experimental evidence and semantic theories more closely in the&nbsp\;future. The first part of the paper surveys semantic theories in general\,&nbsp\;asking what a semantic theory is supposed to be a theory of and what kind of&nbsp\;evidence might be relevant to what kind of semantic theory. The second part&nbsp\;of the paper focuses on the psychological dimension of language and I&nbsp\;suggest that three distinct types of evidence are relevant:&nbsp\;neurophysiological evidence\, behaviour in experimental tasks\, and behaviour&nbsp\;in non-experimental situations. However I argue that there are significant&nbsp\;problems in mapping from each kind of evidenceto semantic claims. I conclude&nbsp\;that\, alongside theory construction\, philosophy of language needs to reflect&nbsp\;more fully on how semantic theories face up to evidence.<br><br>Autumn 2014 Series:&nbsp\;http://philosophy.sas.ac.uk/LEMSeries<br><br>Convenor: Dr Corine Besson (Sussex)</p>
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