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The Philosophy of Language

ISBN: 9780195135435 | 0195135431
Edition: 4th
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 11/30/2000

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SummaryTable of Contents
What is meaning? How is linguistic communication possible? What is the nature of language? What is the relationship between language and the world? How do metaphors work? The Philosophy of Language, considered the essential text in its field, is an excellent introduction to such fundamental questions. This revised edition collects 39 of the most important articles in the field, making it the most comprehensive volume on the subject. Several new articles are featured, including recent influential work by W.V. Quine, Donald Davidson, and John Sea... MORE
Introduction1(28)
I TRUTH AND MEANING29(94)
Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance: Problems and Changes (1950)
34(13)
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Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1953)
47(14)
W. V. Quine
Intensional Semantics (1951)
61(8)
Alonzo Church
The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics (1944)
69(23)
Alfred Tarski
Meaning (1957)
92(6)
H. P. Grice
Truth and Meaning (1967)
98(12)
Donald Davidson
Meaning and Truth (1970)
110(13)
P. F. Strawson
Suggested Further Reading
120(3)
II SPEECH ACTS123(68)
Performative Utterances (1961)
130(10)
J. L. Austin
The Structure of Illocutionary Acts (1969)
140(11)
John R. Searle
A Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts (1979)
151(14)
John R. Searle
Logic and Conversation (1975)
165(11)
H. P. Grice
Indirect Speech Acts (1975)
176(15)
John R. Searle
Suggested Further Reading
189(2)
III REFERENCE AND DESCRIPTIONS191(70)
On Sense and Nominatum (1892)
199(13)
Gottlob Frege
On Denoting (1905)
212(9)
Bertrand Russell
Descriptions (1919)
221(7)
Bertrand Russell
On Referring (1950)
228(15)
P. F. Strawson
Mr. Strawson on Referring (1957)
243(4)
Bertrand Russell
Reference and Definite Descriptions (1966)
247(14)
Keith Donnellan
Suggested Further Reading
259(2)
IV NAMES AND DEMONSTRATIVES261(90)
Of Names (1881)
266(6)
John Stuart Mill
Naming and Necessity (1972)
272(16)
Saul Kripke
Meaning and Reference (1973)
288(8)
Hilary Putnam
The Causal Theory of Names (1973)
296(12)
Gareth Evans
Proper Names and Intentionality (1983)
308(17)
John R. Searle
Dthat (1978)
325(14)
David Kaplan
The Problem of the Essential Indexical (1979)
339(12)
John Perry
Suggested Further Reading
349(2)
V PROPOSITIONAL ATTITUDES351(82)
Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes (1956)
355(6)
W. V. Quine
On Saying That (1968)
361(10)
Donald Davidson
Quantifying In (1968)
371(21)
David Kaplan
Semantic Innocence and Uncompromising Situations (1981)
392(13)
Jon Barwise
John Perry
A Puzzle about Belief (1979)
405(28)
Saul Kripke
Suggested Further Reading
432(1)
VI METAPHOR433(26)
What Metaphors Mean (1978)
435(12)
Donald Davidson
A Theory for Metaphor (1984)
447(12)
A. P. Martinich
Suggested Further Reading
458(1)
VII INTERPRETATION AND TRANSLATION459(42)
Belief and the Basis of Meaning (1974)
464(9)
Donald Davidson
A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (1985)
473(11)
Donald Davidson
Indeterminacy, Empiricism, and the First Person (1987)
484(17)
John R. Searle
Suggested Further Reading
498(3)
VIII THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE501(98)
Of Words (1690)
509(5)
John Locke
Wittgenstein on Privacy (1965)
514(17)
John Cook
On Rules and Private Language (1982)
531(14)
Saul Kripke
Truth Rules, Hoverflies, and the Kripke-Wittgenstein Paradox (1990)
545(17)
Ruth Garrett Millikan
Languages and Language (1975)
562(19)
David Lewis
Language and Problems of Knowledge (1990)
581(18)
Noam Chomsky
Suggested Further Reading
599

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