Относно (не)възможността да се сведе семантическото до психологическо – проектът на Стивън Шифър
On the (Im)possibility to Reduce the Semantic to the Psychological – Stephen Schiffer’s Project

Summary/Abstract: Stephen Schiffer is a professor of philosophy at New York University. His field of study includes Philosophy of language, Epistemology and Philosophy of consciousness. He wrote several important works: Meaning (1972), Intention-Based Semantics (1982), Remnants of Meaning (1987), and The Things We Mean (2003). Schiffer established himself in philosophical circles as a direct follower of Paul Grice, who developed and largely radicalized his philosophical work. In this paper, I focus on the starting premises of Schiffer's theory, on the so-called "intention-based semantics", whose main motive is to reduce the semantic to the psychological. Since the main motive of Schiffer's theory is implicit in Grice's works, I first undertake to make it apparent through an analysis of Grice's primary texts. Then, quite generally, I derive some important consequences for analytic philosophy from Grice's assumptions. Finally, I discuss the possibility of reducing the semantic to the psychological, by revising Schiffer's theory.

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