Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7218-3948 : Marcin Lewinski
Location
Room 2
Document Type
Paper
Keywords
dialectic, fallacies, meaning underdetermination, metalinguistic disagreements, semantics of arguments, the straw man fallacy, verbal disputes
Start Date
6-6-2020 11:00 AM
End Date
6-6-2020 12:00 PM
Abstract
The goal of this paper is to critically analyze some of the dubious assumptions about language and meaning hidden in the dominant accounts of the straw man fallacy. I will argue that against the background of the resurgent conception of language as an underdetermined and in-principle negotiable entity (Dorr & Hawthorne 2014; Ludlow 2014; Plunkett & Sundell 2013, 2019), some alleged straw man attacks are better seen as reasonable moves in the metalinguistic disagreements permeating our ordinary argumentative practice.
Reader's Reactions
John P. Casey, Commentary on Marcin Lewińksi’s “Metalinguistic Disagreements, Underdetermination and the Straw Man Fallacy: Toward Meaning Argumentativism” (June 2020)
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Metalinguistic disagreements, underdetermination and the straw man fallacy: toward meaning argumentativism
Room 2
The goal of this paper is to critically analyze some of the dubious assumptions about language and meaning hidden in the dominant accounts of the straw man fallacy. I will argue that against the background of the resurgent conception of language as an underdetermined and in-principle negotiable entity (Dorr & Hawthorne 2014; Ludlow 2014; Plunkett & Sundell 2013, 2019), some alleged straw man attacks are better seen as reasonable moves in the metalinguistic disagreements permeating our ordinary argumentative practice.
