Cross-linguistic disagreement and its philosophical problems

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 18K00010
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 01010:Philosophy and ethics-related
• Research Institution: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
• Principal Investigator: Mizumoto Masaharu 北陸先端科学技術大学院大学, 先端科学技術研究科, 准教授 (70451458)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: disagreement / linguistic diversity / epistemology / truth condition / philosophy of language

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The aim of this study was to make the existence of the problem of cross-linguistic disagreement recognized in philosophy and to establish it as a philosophical topic. In order to achieve this, 1. data on the basis of (or at least the possibility of) the cross-linguistic disagreement with regard to knowledge, know how, truth, etc., 2. a conceptual analysis and explication of cross-linguistic disagreement, 3. an argument against the possible denial of its possibility, were published in international journals and anthologies from an international publishing houses, and 4. an international conference on the topic, was held and a special issue in an international journal based on it is now planned.

Free Research Field

分析哲学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

上記の出版物および活動により、John MacFahlen, Jennifer Lackey, Annalisa Coliva といった有力な哲学者を巻き込み、哲学的トピックとしてのdisagreement (食い違い)において（特にAsian Journal of Philosophy 誌上の特集号の後は）哲学的に一定の注目を集めることができた。
新たな哲学的トピックを確立することは容易なことではなく、数年でできることでもないが、少なくともそのための将来の議論のための基礎を提供できたと言える。
この食い違いは、AIの翻訳に基づく会話においても現れるため、今後社会的に重要な問題となり得る。