A bidimensional account of slurs

RAMIRO CASO

Buenos Aires

Workshop; Workshop on Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics of Science; 2019

CLE (UNICAMP) - IIF (SADAF/CONICET)

I propose an account of slurs according to which they have both a truth-conditional semantic dimension and a non-truth-conditional one. I?ll work within the two-dimensional, use-conditional semantic framework developed by Gutzmann (2015), where the non-truth-conditional dimension is modeled in terms of restrictions placed on context by felicity conditions. I?ll take it that the semantic type of a slur?s non-truth-conditional dimension is a property, or more properly a particular kind of de se proposition. My account, however, will differ from Lo Guercio?s in both technical implementation and in substantial issues, and will receive an independent justification.