The Philosophy of Language
ISBN: 9780195188301 | 0195188306
Edition: 5thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 12/22/2006
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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 forty-six of the most important articles in the field, making it the most up-to-date and comprehensive volume on the subject. Revised to address changing trends and contemporary developments, the fifth edition feature... MORE
| Note to the Fifth Edition | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Truth and Meaning | p. 29 |
| The Thought: A Logical Inquiry (1918) | p. 36 |
| Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance: Problems and Changes (1950) | p. 50 |
| Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1951) | p. 63 |
| Intensional Semantics (1951) | p. 77 |
| The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics (1944) | p. 85 | ... MORE
| Meaning (1957) | p. 108 |
| Truth and Meaning (1967) | p. 114 |
| Suggested Further Reading | p. 125 |
| Speech Acts | p. 127 |
| Performative Utterances (1961) | p. 136 |
| The Structure of Illocutionary Acts (1969) | p. 146 |
| A Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts (1979) | p. 157 |
| Logic and Conversation (1975) | p. 171 |
| Indirect Speech Acts (1975) | p. 182 |
| Assertion (1978) | p. 196 |
| Suggested Further Reading | p. 207 |
| Reference and Descriptions | p. 209 |
| On Sense and Nominatum (1892) | p. 217 |
| On Denoting (1905) | p. 230 |
| Descriptions (1919) | p. 239 |
| On Referring (1950) | p. 246 |
| Mr. Strawson on Referring (1957) | p. 261 |
| Reference and Definite Descriptions (1966) | p. 265 |
| Suggested Further Reading | p. 277 |
| Names and Demonstratives | p. 279 |
| Of Names (1881) | p. 284 |
| Naming and Necessity (1972) | p. 290 |
| Meaning and Reference (1973) | p. 306 |
| The Causal Theory of Names (1973) | p. 314 |
| Proper Names and Intentionality (1983) | p. 326 |
| Dthat (1970) | p. 343 |
| On the Logic of Demonstratives (1978) | p. 357 |
| The Problem of the Essential Indexical (1979) | p. 366 |
| Suggested Further Reading | p. 376 |
| Propositional Attitudes | p. 379 |
| Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes (1956) | p. 383 |
| On Saying That (1968) | p. 389 |
| Quantifying In (1968) | p. 399 |
| Semantic Innocence and Uncompromising Situations (1981) | p. 420 |
| A Puzzle about Belief (1979) | p. 433 |
| Semantics for Belief (1987) | p. 460 |
| Suggested Further Reading | p. 468 |
| Metaphor and Pretense | p. 469 |
| What Metaphors Mean (1978) | p. 473 |
| A Theory for Metaphor (1984) | p. 485 |
| Hesperus and Phosphorus: Sense, Pretense, and Reference (1998) | p. 497 |
| Descriptivism, Pretense, and the Frege-Russell Problems (2004) | p. 522 |
| Suggested Further Reading | p. 538 |
| Interpretation and Translation | p. 541 |
| Translation and Meaning (1960) | p. 546 |
| Belief and the Basis of Meaning (1974) | p. 576 |
| A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (1985) | p. 585 |
| Indeterminacy, Empiricism, and the First Person (1987) | p. 596 |
| Suggested Further Reading | p. 610 |
| The Nature of Language | p. 613 |
| Of Words (1690) | p. 621 |
| On Rules and Private Language (1982) | p. 626 |
| Truth Rules, Hoverflies, and the Kripke-Wittgenstein Paradox (1990) | p. 639 |
| Languages and Language (1975) | p. 656 |
| Language and Problems of Knowledge (1988) | p. 675 |
| Suggested Further Reading | p. 693 |
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