?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=LANGUAGE%2C+PERCEPTION+AND+ACTION%3A+PHILOSOPHICAL+ISSUES&rft.creator=Allott%2C+Robin&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Language&rft.description=The+earlier+part+of+this+book+has+been+concerned+with+very+specific+questions+arising+in+the+field+of+linguistics+(phonetics%2C+semantics+and+syntax)%2C+with+the+results+of+research+into+visual+perception+(physiological+and+neurological)+and+with+rather+wider+speculation+about+the+organisation+of+bodily+action+and+the+relation+between+the+bodily+processes+underlying+action%2C+vision+and+speech.+The+hypotheses%2C+arguments%2C+evidence+and+conclusions+reached+have+not+depended+to+any+significant+extent+on+philosophical+doctrine+or+concepts+and+the+question+may+be+asked+why+should+a+book+essentially+concerned+with+linguistics+conclude+with+a+chapter+devoted+to+philosophy.+To+this+question+there+is+a+broad+answer+and+a+more+specific+one%3B+the+broad+answer+is+that+there+has+been+prolonged+and+difficult+discussion+between+philosophers+over+many+centuries+of+the+subjects+dealt+with+earlier+in+this+book%2C+the+origin+and+nature+of+language%2C+the+relation+of+language+to+reality%2C+perception+as+based+on+sense-experience+and+providing+the+main+basis+for+veridical+knowledge%2C+and+voluntary+human+action+(the+notions+of+free+will+and+determinism%2C+of+reasons+and+causes+of+action).+The+narrower+answer%2C+as+an+occasion+and+justification+for+having+a+philosophical+chapter%2C+is+that+in+some+respects+totally+new+broad+and+specific+hypotheses+are+presented+about+the+functioning+of+language%2C+perception+and+action%2C+and+particularly+about+their+interrelation+in+human+behaviour%2C+and+it+is+worth+considering+what+implications+these+hypotheses%2C+if+true%2C+may+have+for+traditional+or+current+philosophical+views.+It+may+be+that+they+ought+to+involve+some+radical+review+of+current+theory+but%2C+in+any+case%2C+it+would+be+unsatisfactory+simply+to+present+a+whole+range+of+ideas+bearing+on+language%2C+perception+and+action+without+having+regard+to+what+relevant+to+these+subjects+has+been+said+by+philosophers+(as+in+the+same+way+it+would+be+unsatisfactory+not+to+have+regard+to+work+that+has+been+done+on+these+subjects+by+experts+in+the+field+of+Artificial+Intelligence).+&rft.publisher=Able+Publishers&rft.date=2001&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3540%2F1%2Fmeaning.htm&rft.identifier=++Allott%2C+Robin++(2001)+LANGUAGE%2C+PERCEPTION+AND+ACTION%3A+PHILOSOPHICAL+ISSUES.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F3540%2F