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Subject(s)

• Language and languages—Philosophy [Browse]

Editor

• Nuccetelli, Susana [Browse]
• Seay, Gary [Browse]

Summary note

This collection of classic and contemporary essays in philosophy of language offers a concise introduction to the field for students in graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses. It includes some of the most important basic sources in philosophy of language, as well as new essays by scholars on the leading edge of innovation in this increasingly influential area of philosophy. Each chapter is preceded the editors' introduction.

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

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Language note

English

Contents

• Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Preface; PART I: LANGUAGE, MEANING, AND TRUTH; Introduction; Suggestions for Further Reading; 1 THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE; Philosophical Investigations (excerpts)* Ludwig Wittgenstein; Rules and Representations* (excerpt) Noam Chomsky; 2 TRUTH, MEANING, AND THE INDETERMINACY OF TRANSLATION; The Semantic Conception of Truth* Alfred Tarski; Semantics for Natural Languages* Donald Davidson; Indeterminacy of Translation Again* W v: Quine; 3 MEANING AS INTENTION; Meaning* H. P. Grice; 4 MEANING AS USE; Meaning, Use and Truth Paul Horwich
• PART II: NAMES, DESCRIPTIONS, AND DEMONSTRATIVESIntroduction; Suggestions for Further Reading; 5 PROPER NAMES; On Sense and Reference* , Gottlob Frege; ""Naming' and Necessity"" (Lecture II)* (excerpt) Saul Kripke; 6 DEFINITE DESCRIPTIONS; Descriptions* Bertrand Russell; Reference and Definite Descriptions* Keith Donnellan; Descriptions* (excerpt) , Stephen Neale; 7 DEMONSTRATIVES AND INDEXICALS; ""Demonstratives""* (excerpt) David Kaplan; Understanding Demonstratives* Gareth Evans; PART III: SEMANTIC CONTENT; Introduction; Suggestions for Further Reading
• 8 CONTENT: DIRECT-REFERENCE THEORYVS. FREGEAN SEMANTICS""Frege's Puzzle""* (excerpt) Nathan Salmon; De Re Senses* John McDowell; 9 A PUZZLE ABOUT BELIEFASCRIPTIONS; ""A Puzzle about Belief""* (excerpt) Saul Kripke; What Puzzling Pierre Does Not Believe* David Lewis; 10 THE INTERNALISM/EXTERNALISM DEBATE; Meaning and Reference* Hilary Putnam; Are Meanings in the Head?* John Searle; The Social Character of Meaning* Michael Dummett; 11 EXTERNALISM AND KNOWLEDGE; Anti-individualism and Privileged Access* Michael McKinsey; What an Anti-individualist Knows A Priori* Anthony Brueckner
• PART IV: CONVENTION, INTENTION, AND THE PRAGMATICS OF LANGUAGEIntroduction; Suggestions for Further Reading; 12 SPEECH ACTS AND CONVENTION; ""Performative-Constative""* J. L. Austin; 13 SPEECH ACTS AND SPEAKERMEANING; Intention and Convention in Speech Acts* P. F. Strawson; Meaning* (excerpt) Stephen Schiffer; 14 SPEECH ACTS AND EVOLUTION; ""Pushmi-Pullyu Representations""* Ruth Millikan; 15 CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE AND METAPHOR; Logic and Conversation* H. P. Grice; What Metaphors Mean* Donald Davidson; Appendix A:Who Can Say What?* D. Kaplan; Appendix B: Summaries; Index; About the Editors

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ISBN

• 0-7425-5977-7
• 1-4616-4087-3

OCLC

606043070

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