Alethic Functionalism and Meaning

Michael B. Horton

University of South Alabama

To be presented at the Alabama Philosophical Society Fall 2007 Meeting

ABSTRACT

In this paper I motivate Lynch’s “alethic functionalism” by considering the “scope problem” and its relevance to truth-theoretic semantics.   Doing so reveals we must supplement Lynch’s theory in an important way, namely, by investigating and including platitudes involving reference.