The Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language, edited by Ernie Lepore and Luvell Anderson, is now available!
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My friend and colleague Angeles Eraña and yours truly have a very nice chapter on how can Philosophy of Language help develop the Zapatista’s emancipatory project. If you are interested in issues in the philosophy of Amerindian peoples, social construction or political philosophy of language, you ought to check it out!
A World Where Many Worlds Fit
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780192844118.013.2
Abstract
The Zapatista army’s radically pluralist proposal to build a world where many worlds fit requires transforming our understanding of many basic ontological dualities, like the relation between the world and our conception of it, as well as our social practices, including our linguistic practices. This emancipatory project requires that we also revise many of the theoretical assumptions of our philosophical conception of language, stressing its genuinely social and material nature. This chapter sketches both the Zapatistas’ pluralist constructivist ontology and the revisions required for developing a philosophy of language that contributes to this emancipatory project.
Keywords: epistemic pluralism, linguistic practices, constructivist ontology, Zapatista movement, ontological dualities
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