| Convention and Language |
| Henry Jackman |
| Synthese, 117 (3) 1998:295-312. |
| Area 1 Philosophy of Language |
| Area 2 Philosophy of Mind |
| Keywords Convention Lewis Externalism |
| http://www.yorku.ca/hjackman/papers/conv-and-lang.pdf |
| This paper has three objectives. The first is to show how David Lewis' influential account of how a population is related to its language requires that speakers be 'conceptually autonomous' in a way that is incompatible with content ascriptions following from the assumption that its speakers share a language. The second objective is to sketch an alternate account of the psychological and sociological facts that relate a population to its language. The third is to suggest a modification of Lewis' account of convention that will allow one to preserve the claim that there are conventions of language. |
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