Since John Perry presented the distinction between narrow and wide context, indexicality and context dependence have been treated as separate phenomena. The difficulties faced by the attempts of extending the indexical approach to other context depen- dent expressions that are not overtly indexical brought to extreme forms of contextu- alism, where lexical meaning disappears in favour of radical forms of context dependence (grab bag theory is but one of the many developments of this kind). The Graduate Conference addresses the challenge of radical contextualism and aims at exploring which notions of context are better suited to account for the underdetermination of meaning.
Contexts in Philosophy
PENCO, CARLO;VIGNOLO, MASSIMILIANO
2017-01-01
Abstract
Since John Perry presented the distinction between narrow and wide context, indexicality and context dependence have been treated as separate phenomena. The difficulties faced by the attempts of extending the indexical approach to other context depen- dent expressions that are not overtly indexical brought to extreme forms of contextu- alism, where lexical meaning disappears in favour of radical forms of context dependence (grab bag theory is but one of the many developments of this kind). The Graduate Conference addresses the challenge of radical contextualism and aims at exploring which notions of context are better suited to account for the underdetermination of meaning.
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