Philosophy of language
This engaging and accessible introduction to the philosophy of language provides an important guide to one of the liveliest and most challenging areas of study in philosophy. Interweaving the historical development of the subject with a thematic overview of the different approaches to meaning, the b...
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| Language: | English |
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London, New York
Routledge
2007.
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| Edition: | Second edition |
| Series: | Fundamentals of philosophy
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Table of Contents:
- Frege: semantic value and reference
- Frege and Russell: Sense and definite descriptions
- Sense and verificationism: logical positivism
- Scepticism about sense: (I) Quine on analyticity and translation
- Scepticism about sense (II): Kripke's Wittgenstein and the sceptical paradox
- Saving sense: responses to the sceptical paradox
- Sense, intention, and speech acts: Grice's programme
- Sense and truth: Tarski and Davidson
- Sense, world, and metaphysics.