Hearing it rain - Millikan on language learning

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    Abstract

    In her ‘Spracherwerb’(2012) Ruth Millikan gives a compelling account of language acquisition based on our ability to track objects. I argue that, and how, it is undermined by her insistence on equating understanding language utterances and sense perception, point to idealist hazards, and plead against propositionality and for imagism in order to safeguard the account’s important potential for giving a comprehensive explication of meaning.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationGeist, Sprache und Handlung
    Subtitle of host publicationBeiträge des 36. Internationalen Wittgenstein-Symposiums, 11. - 17. August 2013, Kirchberg am Wechsel
    EditorsDanièle Moyal-Sharrock
    Place of PublicationKirchberg am Wechsel
    Pages297-300
    Number of pages4
    Publication statusPublished - 2013

    Publication series

    SeriesBeiträge der Österreichischen Ludwig-Wittgenstein-Gesellschaft
    Volume21
    ISSN1022-3398

    Austrian Fields of Science 2012

    • 603120 Philosophy of language
    • 603114 Philosophy of mind
    • 603110 Metaphysics

    Keywords

    • perception of language
    • language acquisition
    • Ruth Millikan
    • propositionality
    • form/object

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