Stephen Neale on Meaning and Interpretation
Philosophy Bites
Nigel Warburton
4.6 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2010
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
We interpret each others' words all the time. How do we do this? What part do intentions play? Does this have any implications for interpreting laws? Stephen Neale discusses these issues in conversation with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Philosophy Bites is made in assocation with the Institute of Philosophy - for further information about the Institute see www.philosophy.sas.ac.uk
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| 0:00.0 | This is made |
| 0:03.0 | philosophy bites with me David Edmonds and me Nigel Warberton. |
| 0:07.0 | Philosophy bites is available at |
| 0:09.0 | www |
| 0:10.0 | philosophy bites dot com. |
| 0:12.0 | Philosophy bites is made in association with the Institute of Philosophy. |
| 0:16.0 | How do you feel about women's rights, Groucho Marx? |
| 0:19.0 | I like either side of them, he replied. |
| 0:22.0 | A charter five could understand this said groucher so get me a child of five |
| 0:26.6 | sometimes it seems that a sentence can semantically mean one thing and so be |
| 0:31.6 | interpreted in one way but is intended to mean something else. |
| 0:36.0 | A central theme in the philosophy of language is working out what meaning means. |
| 0:41.1 | What is it for a speaker or write a sentence to mean something by a sentence? |
| 0:46.0 | Can I just read off the meaning of a sentence by the definition of the words I use and the |
| 0:50.0 | order in which these words are placed? |
| 0:52.3 | Or are the words just clues to what I mean? |
| 0:55.0 | Is the meaning of a sentence dependent upon its context? |
| 0:58.8 | Professor Stephen Neal is at the City University of New York. |
| 1:02.4 | Stephen Neal, welcome to Philosophy Bites. |
| 1:05.0 | Thank you, Nidal. Good to be here. |
| 1:07.0 | We're going to focus on the topic of meaning and interpretation. |
| 1:11.0 | It would be quite useful to separate out those two and what are they? |
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