Making Sense. On the Cluster significatio-intentio in Medieval and “Austrian” Philosophies
“Austrian” (or “Austro-German”) philosophy of language is characterized, among other things, by the following two features: (1) Problems of language are considered within the broader framework of an intentionality-based philosophy of mind—or, to put it more precisely, questions of meaning are consid...
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langage signification esprit philosophie médiévale intention action intentionnalité (voir aussi intentionalité) philosophie austro-allemande language meaning intentionality mind intention action medieval philosophy Austro-German philosophy Cesalli, Laurent Majolino, Claudio Making Sense. On the Cluster significatio-intentio in Medieval and “Austrian” Philosophies |
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“Austrian” (or “Austro-German”) philosophy of language is characterized, among other things, by the following two features: (1) Problems of language are considered within the broader framework of an intentionality-based philosophy of mind—or, to put it more precisely, questions of meaning are considered as involving a quite articulated theory of intentions; (2) several aspects of such an account are explicitly presented as inspired by or somehow already at work in the Medieval Scholastic tradition. In this study we follow the track indicated by these two features and use some “Austrian” reflections on the articulation between meanings and intentions as a “heuristic filter”, as it were, to shed a new and different light on some Medieval debates in philosophy of language on the relationship between significare and intendere. It will be roughly divided into three parts. We begin by singling out some distinctive tenets of the “Austrian” strategy aimed at describing the relationship between meaning and intentions (section I), and then turn to various Medieval texts from the 13th and 14th century dealing with the two related notions of significatio and intentio (section II). The upshot of our investigation is to show how, for both “Austrian” and Medieval philosophers of language (and beyond their differences), a proper understanding of linguistic meaning—in the twofold sense of words or sentences having a lexical content and utterances having a determinate pragmatic function—presupposes an account of what one could call the “agentive intentionality”, i.e. the complex intentionality proper to practical goal-directed human behaviours. Some final remarks about outcomes, meaning, scope and perspectives opened by the method applied will conclude the study (section III). |
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openedition-oai:revues.org:methodos_4068 https://doi.org/10.4000/methodos.4068 urn:doi:10.4000/methodos.4068 en https://journals.openedition.org/methodos/4068 2014-05-05T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/i9nr https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Making Sense. On the Cluster significatio-intentio in Medieval and “Austrian” Philosophies Methodos Savoirs textes langage - UMR 8163 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1769-7379 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1626-0600 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/methodos Cesalli, Laurent Majolino, Claudio langage signification esprit philosophie médiévale intention action intentionnalité (voir aussi intentionalité) philosophie austro-allemande language meaning intentionality mind intention action medieval philosophy Austro-German philosophy “Austrian” (or “Austro-German”) philosophy of language is characterized, among other things, by the following two features: (1) Problems of language are considered within the broader framework of an intentionality-based philosophy of mind—or, to put it more precisely, questions of meaning are considered as involving a quite articulated theory of intentions; (2) several aspects of such an account are explicitly presented as inspired by or somehow already at work in the Medieval Scholastic tradition. In this study we follow the track indicated by these two features and use some “Austrian” reflections on the articulation between meanings and intentions as a “heuristic filter”, as it were, to shed a new and different light on some Medieval debates in philosophy of language on the relationship between significare and intendere. It will be roughly divided into three parts. We begin by singling out some distinctive tenets of the “Austrian” strategy aimed at describing the relationship between meaning and intentions (section I), and then turn to various Medieval texts from the 13th and 14th century dealing with the two related notions of significatio and intentio (section II). The upshot of our investigation is to show how, for both “Austrian” and Medieval philosophers of language (and beyond their differences), a proper understanding of linguistic meaning—in the twofold sense of words or sentences having a lexical content and utterances having a determinate pragmatic function—presupposes an account of what one could call the “agentive intentionality”, i.e. the complex intentionality proper to practical goal-directed human behaviours. Some final remarks about outcomes, meaning, scope and perspectives opened by the method applied will conclude the study (section III). La philosophie du langage “autrichienne” (ou “austro-allemande”) est caractérisée, entre autres choses, par les deux traits suivants : (1) les questions touchant au langage sont abordées dans le cadre plus général d’une philosophie de l’esprit basée sur l’intentionnalité — ou, pour le dire de manière plus précise : l’élucidation de signification est considérée comme impliquant une théorie des intentions finement articulée ; (2) plusieurs aspects de cette approche sont explicitement présentés comme inspirés ou déjà à l’œuvre, d’une manière ou d’une autre, dans la tradition de la scolastique médiévale. Dans cet étude, nous suivrons la piste tracée par ces deux traits, et nous nous servirons de certaines réflexions « autrichiennes » sur l’articulation entre signification et intention comme d’un « filtre heuristique » afin de jeter un regard inédit sur certains débats médiévaux en philosophie du langage, portant sur la relation entre significare et intendere. Cette étude est divisée en trois parties générales. Nous commençons par identifier certains acquis distinctifs de la stratégie « autrichienne » destinée à décrire la relation entre signification et intention (section I) ; nous nous arrêtons ensuite sur différents textes des xiiie et xive siècles traitant des notions apparentées de significatio et d’intentio (section II). Le résultat de cette enquête est de montrer comment, tant pour les « autrichiens » que pour les médiévaux (et au-delà de ce qui les distingue), une compréhension appropriée de la signification des expressions linguistiques — dans les deux sens où les mots et les phrases ont un contenu lexical, et le parler (utterance) a une fonction pragmatique déterminée —présuppose une analyse de ce que l’on pourrait appeler « l’intentionnalité agentielle », i.e. l’intentionnalité complexe propre aux comportements humains pratiques et dirigés vers une fin. Nous concluons cette étude par quelques remarques à propos des conséquences, de la signification, de la portée ainsi que des perspectives ouvertes par la méthode appliquée (section III). |