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The Power of Language: Discussion of Charles Taylor's 'The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity'

The paper is a discussion of Charles Taylor's recent book 'The Language Animal'. The criticism of Taylor's view of language clusters around two main themes: first, that he seems to 'mysterianize' language somewhat, whereas the topics he addresses can be adequately dealt with within standard formal approaches in the philosophy of language and cognitive science ; second, that his focus on language is in many cases misplaced, and should indeed be replaced with a focus on human conceptual structure, which language only fragmentarily expresses.

Human linguistic capacity ; Human meanings ; Value

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