James Connelly
The meaning of intention and meaning in Mark Bevir and Vivienne Brown
Connelly, James
Authors
Abstract
Bevir's weak intentionalism construes meanings consisting in the understanding of a specific individual and they are identifiable solely by reference to that individual, by contrast with strong intentionalism, whereby a text expresses prior purposes of the author and a text has meaning only by virtue of the determining will of its author, so that to understand what a text says, we must recover what its author meant. Bevir's approach is to focus on what is actually written, on the product of the act of expression, rather than on what an author might have antecedently said (or somehow otherwise stated) they would write. A third possibility is to reject intentions altogether, and the paper explores the debate between Bevir and Brown over whether any theory of intentionality can be coherent. ©2011 International Society for Intellectual History.
Citation
Connelly, J. (2011). The meaning of intention and meaning in Mark Bevir and Vivienne Brown. Intellectual History Review, 21(1), 95-104. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2011.546640
Journal Article Type | Review |
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Publication Date | Mar 1, 2011 |
Deposit Date | Nov 13, 2014 |
Journal | Intellectual History Review |
Print ISSN | 1749-6977 |
Electronic ISSN | 1749-6985 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 21 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 95-104 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2011.546640 |
Keywords | History and Philosophy of Science; History |
Public URL | https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/462980 |
Publisher URL | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17496977.2011.546640 |
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