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Philosophy of language

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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.

כותר Philosophy of language : the central topics / edited by Susana Nuccetelli and Gary Seay.
מוציא לאור Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
שנה 2008
הערות Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
הערת תוכן ותקציר 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
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
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
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
היקף החומר 1 online resource (431 p.)
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