{"product_id":"language-and-scientific-explanation-eran-asoulin-9783961102648","title":"Language and scientific explanation","description":"This book discusses the two main construals of the explanatory goals of semantic theories. The first, externalist conception, understands semantic theories in terms of a hermeneutic and interpretive explanatory project. The second, internalist conception, understands semantic theories in terms of the psychological mechanisms in virtue of which meanings are generated. It is argued that a fruitful scientific explanation is one that aims to uncover the underlying mechanisms in virtue of which the observable phenomena are made possible, and that a scientific semantics should be doing just that. If this is the case, then a scientific semantics is unlikely to be externalist, for reasons having to do with the subject matter and form of externalist theories. It is argued that semantics construed hermeneutically is nevertheless a valuable explanatory project.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eran Asoulin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3961102643\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783961102648\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Language Science Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/19\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.25d","brand":"Eran Asoulin","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43943057228031,"sku":"9783961102648","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_177dfbc2-57e6-4097-949d-ecd4e4fe551c.jpg?v=1681495971","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/language-and-scientific-explanation-eran-asoulin-9783961102648","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}