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- From: Rick.Horowitz@launchpad.unc.edu (Rick Horowitz)
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- Subject: RFD: sci.philosophy.language
- Summary: Philosophy of language group needed; call for discussion
- Keywords: RFD, philosophy of language, sci.philosophy.language
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.192341.6220@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: 8 Nov 92 19:23:41 GMT
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- The following is an OFFICIAL request for discussion to create a
- newsgroup called sci.philosophy.language. (At least in my mind) It
- supersedes a previous post I made requesting the creation of
- talk.philosophy.language. It has been pointed out to me that a
- designation of sci might be more appropriate.
-
- The proposal is to create a group with the following parameters:
-
- Name of group: sci.philosophy.language
- Mode: unmoderated
-
- Charter:
-
- Inasmuch as there exist groups like sci.philosophy.tech,
- talk.philosophy.misc, and comp.ai.philosophy which discuss various
- issues not directly relating to philosophy of language, and inasmuch
- as philosophy of language is an important and viable specialization
- within philosophy, I propose the creation of a group for facilitating
- discussion in this area. Topics for discussion will include
- (minimally) discussions of interest for philosophy of language,
- philosophy of linguistics, theories of meaning and truth, reference,
- pragmatics, speech act theory, intensional semantics, (to some extent)
- language of thought, theories of names, demonstratives, works (past
- and current) in such topics, etc.---all the issues that could be part
- of a serious study of philosophy of language.
-
- It is thought that the existence of such a group would stimulate more
- discussion in the area of philosophy of language than (sporadically)
- occurs in the other groups.
-
- I understand that the normal procedure calls for a discussion period
- of some 30 days, after which a voting period would be initiated. So
- let's start the discussion.
-
- Thanks.
-
-
- Rick Horowitz CSUF, Philosophy rhorowit@mondrian.csufresno.edu
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