This paper focuses on Dugald Stewart’s essay On the Tendency of Some Late Philological Speculations (1810), in which the Scottish philosopher opposes the linguistic and philosophical theories expressed by the renowned English philologist John Horne Tooke in his Diversions of Purley (1786, 1805). In order to reject Tooke’s materialism and to restate the independence of metaphysics from any philological interference, Stewart outlines an unusually modern theory of language, which broadens the boundaries of semantics and enhances the role of the listener.

Dugald Stewart on Philological Speculations / Piattelli, Michela. - In: BLITYRI. - ISSN 2281-6682. - (2016), pp. 165-174.

Dugald Stewart on Philological Speculations

Piattelli, Michela
2016

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This paper focuses on Dugald Stewart’s essay On the Tendency of Some Late Philological Speculations (1810), in which the Scottish philosopher opposes the linguistic and philosophical theories expressed by the renowned English philologist John Horne Tooke in his Diversions of Purley (1786, 1805). In order to reject Tooke’s materialism and to restate the independence of metaphysics from any philological interference, Stewart outlines an unusually modern theory of language, which broadens the boundaries of semantics and enhances the role of the listener.
2016
Dugald Stewart; John Horne Tooke; philology; etymology; metaphysics
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Dugald Stewart on Philological Speculations / Piattelli, Michela. - In: BLITYRI. - ISSN 2281-6682. - (2016), pp. 165-174.
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