Semantic Normativity and Semantic Causality
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AbstractSemantic normativism, which is the view that semantic properties/concepts are some kind of normative properties/concepts, has become increasingly influential in contemporary meta-semantics. In this paper, I aim to argue that semantic normativism has difficulty accommodating the causal efficacy of semantic properties. In specific, I raise an exclusion problem for semantic normativism, inspired by the exclusion problem in the philosophy of mind. Moreover, I attempt to show that the exclusion problem for semantic normativism is peculiarly troublesome: while we can solve (or dissolve) mental-physical exclusion by adopting the so-called ‘autonomy approach’, a similar autonomy solution to semantic exclusion is implausible if semantic properties are understood as normative properties.
All Author(s) ListZHONG Lei
Journal namePhilosophy and Phenomenological Research
Year2017
Month5
Volume Number94
Issue Number3
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
Pages626 - 645
ISSN0031-8205
LanguagesEnglish-United Kingdom

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