A non-ideal approach to slurs.
Philosophers of language are increasingly engaging with derogatory terms or slurs. Only few theorists take such language as a starting point for addressing puzzles in philosophy of language with little connection to our real-world problems. This paper aims to show that the political nature of deroga...
| Publicado en: | Synthese Vol. 202; no. 3; pp. 1 - 26 |
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Springer Nature
Sep2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=171868530&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 171868530 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00397857 4LI jtl: Synthese issn: 00397857 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Sep2023 vid: 202 iid: 3 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 171868530 10.1007/s11229-023-04315-y ppf: 1 ppct: 25 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 343KB tig: atl: A non-ideal approach to slurs. aug: au: Mühlebach, Deborah affil: Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Philosophie, Habelschwerdter Allee 30, 14195, Berlin, Germany sug: keyword: Derogatory language use Derogatory terms Inferentialism Pejoratives Semantics Swearwords ab: Philosophers of language are increasingly engaging with derogatory terms or slurs. Only few theorists take such language as a starting point for addressing puzzles in philosophy of language with little connection to our real-world problems. This paper aims to show that the political nature of derogatory language use calls for non-ideal theorising as we find it in the work of feminist and critical race scholars. Most contemporary theories of slurs, so I argue, fall short on some desiderata associated with a non-ideal approach. They neglect crucial linguistic or political aspects of morally and politically significant meaning. I argue that a two-stage project is necessary to understand the perniciousness of slurs: accounting for the derogatory content of derogatory terms in general and, additionally, explaining the communicative function of slurs more specifically. I end by showing how inferentialism is well-suited to account for the content of derogatory terms whilst allowing for further explanations of the communicative functions of slurs. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Synthese is a copyright of Springer, 2023. All Rights Reserved. item: Synthese holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2023 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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