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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Naturalizing Picardi

Diego Marconi

pp. 319-335

Abstract

Eva Picardi was a critic of both Chomskyan naturalism and Davidsonian semantic individualism. Though basically agreeing with her on both counts, I reject her identification of Chomsky's notion of "tacit knowledge" of language with Dummett's notion of implicit knowledge, and I argue that Eva's (and Dummett's) criticism of the latter notion does not apply to the former. In the second part of the paper, I take Eva's side in criticizing individualism, providing further reasons for the existence of a (normative) semantic standard and trying to explain what it is and why we are committed to it.

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Coliva Annalisa, Leonardi Paolo, Moruzzi Sebastiano (2018) Eva Picardi on language, analysis and history. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 319-335

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-95777-7_15

Full citation:

Marconi Diego (2018) „Naturalizing Picardi“, In: A. Coliva, P. Leonardi & S. Moruzzi (eds.), Eva Picardi on language, analysis and history, Dordrecht, Springer, 319–335.