Indexical contextualism and the challenges from disagreement
Indexical contextualism and the challenges from disagreement
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索引语境主义和分歧带来的挑战
DOI：
10.1007/s11098-010-9621-1
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Carleigh Baker
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作者：
Carleigh Baker
在本文中，我反对一种关于审美谓词的语境论，如“美丽”。对这些和其他谓词的语境主义分析受到了围绕分歧的一些挑战。聚焦于一种语境主义个性化索引语境主义我解开这些不同的挑战，并考虑可用的语境的反应。我考虑的三种回应如下：对不一致的概念进行另一种分析;声称说话者患有语义盲症;声称美的属性带有共同性的预设。我认为，没有一个可用的策略给出了一个既（a）令人满意地解释了所有的不一致数据，（B）是可信的独立于支持语境主义的重要证据的反应。我的结论是，个性化的索引语境论的美学是站不住脚的，虽然这并不排除替代语境论的方法的美学。
In this paper I argue against one variety of contextualism about aesthetic predicates such as “beautiful.” Contextualist analyses of these and other predicates have been subject to several challenges surrounding disagreement. Focusing on one kind of contextualism—individualized indexical contextualism—I unpack these various challenges and consider the responses available to the contextualist. The three responses I consider are as follows: giving an alternative analysis of the concept of disagreement; claiming that speakers suffer from semantic blindness; and claiming that attributions of beauty carry presuppositions of commonality. I will argue that none of the available strategies gives a response which both (a) satisfactorily explains all of the disagreement-data and (b) is plausible independent of significant evidence in favor of contextualism. I conclude that individualized indexical contextualism about the aesthetic is untenable, although this does not rule out alternative contextualist approaches to the aesthetic.