Descripción del proyecto
IN A SENSE, THIS PROPOSAL IS A CONTINUATION OF PREVIOUS PROJECTS FUNDED BY THE MINISTRY, WHICH DEVELOPED JOHN PERRY'S CRITICAL REFERENTIALISM IN THE CONTEXT OF THE MINIMALISM/CONTEXTUALIST DEBATE IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE, GIVING WAY TO THE ELABORATION OF OUR OWN THEORY, CALLED CRITICAL PRAGMATICS, BUT ALSO IDENTIFIED AS MULTI- OR PLURI-PROPOSITIONALISM AND CONTENT-PLURALISM, THE APPROACH HAS BEEN DEVELOPED BOTH THEORETICALLY AND IN THE APPLICATION TO VARIOUS ISSUES IN SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS DURING THE LAST FEW YEARS, SHOWING ITS PHILOSOPHICAL DEPTH, ITS ORIGINALITY AND HUGE POTENTIAL, IN THIS PROJECT, WE INTEND TO CONTINUE WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF ITS THEORETICAL ASPECTS AND WITH THE ELABORATION AND STUDY OF SOME NOVEL APPLICATIONS, THIS WORK CONSTITUTES ONE PART OF THE PROJECT, WITH IT, WE INTEND TO MAKE SIGNIFICANT ADVANCES TO THE CONTENT-PLURALIST VIEW OF LANGUAGE AND MIND,THE OTHER, AND PERHAPS MORE IMPORTANT, PART OF THE PROJECT CONSISTS IN THE CAREFUL REVISION OF THE ROOTS OF THIS PLURALIST APPROACH: THE WORK OF GOTTLOB FREGE AND THE CRITICISMS MADE BY JOHN PERRY, THE AIM IS TO REVISE THE FREGEAN FOUNDATIONS OF CRITICAL REFERENTIALISM AND CRITICAL PRAGMATICS, ASSUMING THAT THIS WILL HELP CLARIFYING (1) FREGES APPROACH TO A MULTI-LAYERED THEORY OF MEANING AND CONTENT IN LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT, (2) THE SCOPE AND IMPACT OF PERRYS CRITIQUE OF FREGES APPROACH, AND (3) THE SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THIS APPROACH AND OTHER PLURALISTIC APPROACHES, ESPECIALLY, THOSE SOMETIMES GROUPED UNDER THE LABEL OF TWO-DIMENSIONALISM, MEANING\CONTENT\PROPOSITION\SENTENCE\THOUGHT\CIRCUMSTANCE\SENSE\REFERENCE\TONE