Ruyant, Quentin (2020) True Griceanism: Filling the Gaps in Callender and Cohen’s Account of Scientific Representation. Philosophy of Science. ISSN 1539-767X
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Callender and Cohen have proposed to apply a “Gricean strategy” to the constitution problem of scientific representation, taking inspiration from Grice’s reduction of linguistic meaning to mental states. They suggest that scientific representation can be reduced to stipulation by epistemic agents. This account has been criticised for not making a distinction between symbolic and epistemic representation and not taking into account the communal aspects of scientific representation. I argue that these criticisms would not apply if Grice’s actual strategy were properly employed. I present Grice’s account of linguistic meaning and transpose his actual strategy and method to epistemic representation. This results in a reduction of epistemic representation to mental states that does not fall prey to the same criticisms. The main novelty of the resulting account is a distinction between contextual representational use and general representational status, which I address using the notion of indexicality.
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| Keywords: | Scientific Representation Griceanism | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Structure of Theories |
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| Depositing User: | Mr. Quentin Ruyant | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 11 Mar 2020 03:02 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 11 Mar 2020 03:02 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 16990 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Philosophy of Science | ||||||
| Publisher: | University of Chicago Press | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Models and Idealization General Issues > Structure of Theories |
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| Date: | 2020 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1539-767X | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/16990 |
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