Content and sense. Issue 1 (1st November 2009)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Snchez, Lydia; Campos, Manuel
• Is Part Of: Empedocles. Volume 1:Issue 1(2009)
• Page Start: 75
• Page End: 90
• Publication Date: 2009-11-01
• Subjects: Communication -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; 302.201
• DOI: 10.1386/ejpc.1.1.75/1
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1757-1952

Abstract

In this paper we position ourselves against idealist presuppositions so frequent in the humanities and social sciences, and, particularly, in communication theory. We argue that a realist approach to the study of communication avoiding such implausible assumptions is not only possible, but has already been exemplified in proposals that take communication to be a phenomenon with a biological origin. We argue that this sort of perspective can account for the variety of communicative functions we encounter in human experience, including the ones involving senses.