Morgan, R. orcid.org/0000-0003-2399-9294 (2024) Hermeneutical Disarmament. The Philosophical Quarterly. pqae046. ISSN 0031-8094
Abstract
When words and phrases change their meaning, we might find ourselves less able to understand and communicate, and this can be harmful to us. I make sense of this by introducing the concept of hermeneutical disarmament. Hermeneutical disarmament is the process by which a person is rendered less able to understand or communicate experiences, ideas, and other phenomena as a result of semantic change to the linguistic resources that could previously have been deployed for these purposes. I defend this concept by showing that semantic change can inflict cognitive and communicative harms and detail some of the forms that it can take.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Scots Philosophical Association and the University of St Andrews. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | semantic change, epistemic injustice, language, hermeneutical injustice, emotional labour, libertarian, woke |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 01 May 2024 14:04 |
Last Modified: | 24 May 2024 15:08 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/pq/pqae046 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:212137 |