"Is That English You're Speaking?" Why Intention Free Interpretation is an Impossibility.

In this article, authors consider an especially strong form of conceptual textualism, the position that texts can be interpreted without any references, express or implied, to the meaning intended by the author of the text. The defining feature of this form of textualism is the insistence that intentions play no role in the production of meaning, and so one can call this view intention free (IF) textualism. According to the author of this article, in any event, whether or not IF textualists actually exist, it is useful to drive a stake through the heart of IF interpretation.