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Download or read book Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language II written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter A. French
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Total Pages : 417 pages
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Download or read book Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language written by Peter A. French and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter A. French
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816608660
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language written by Peter A. French and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language was first published in 1983. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This volume, an expanded edition of the philosophy of language issue of the journal Midwest Studies in Philosophy (1977), includes essays by some of the foremost exponents of the most influential current approaches to the philosophy of language. There are new contributions to this edition by Keith S. Donnellan, Jerrold J. Katz, Barbara Partee, John Searle, Richmond Thomason and Zeno Vendler. Essays drawn from the original edition are by W. V. Quine, Keith S Donnellan, Stephen Schiffer, Donnis W. Stampe, Baruch A Brody, Panayot Butchvarov, Fred I. Dretske, Jaegwon Kim, David Shwayder, J. O. Urmson, Michael Levin, David E. Cooper, John Wallace, Hector-Neri Castaneda, Howard K Wettstein, Herbert Hochberg, Nelson Goodman, Wilfrid Sellars, Michael Root, Bruce Aune, Donald Davidson, and Saul Kripke. Of special interest in the original edition was Kripke's paper "Speaker's Reference and Semantic Reference, Descriptions, and Anaphora," Presents a rebuttal to Kripke's essay and attempts to establish referential attributive distinction as semantically significant.
Author : Robert J. Stainton
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 9781551112534
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (125 download)
Download or read book Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language written by Robert J. Stainton and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2000-06-09 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise and affordable anthology is designed for use as a textbook in both undergraduate and graduate courses in philosophy of language. It aims to provide a core of essential primary sources and may be used either on its own, or in conjunction with a secondary source.
Author : Andrea Bianchi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030476413
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Language and Reality from a Naturalistic Perspective written by Andrea Bianchi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book celebrates the many important contributions to philosophy by one of the leading philosophers in the analytic field, Michael Devitt. It collects seventeen original essays by renowned philosophers from all over the world. They all develop themes from Devitt’s work, thus discussing many fundamental issues in philosophy of linguistics, theory of reference, theory of meaning, methodology, and metaphysics. In a long final chapter, Devitt himself replies to the contributors. In so doing, he further elaborates his views on various of these issues, for example defending his claim (in opposition to Chomskyan orthodoxy) that languages are external rather than internal; his well-known causal theory of reference; his “shocking” idea that meanings can be causal, non-descriptive, modes of presentation; his methodological naturalism; his commitment to scientific realism; and his version of biological essentialism. The volume will appeal to all scholars and students interested in contemporary theoretical analytic philosophy, and will be a must-read for any serious researcher in philosophy of language. It provides a deep insight into the work of one of the most important living philosophers, and will help readers to better understand language and reality from a naturalistic perspective.
Author : Scott Soames
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691155976
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Philosophy of Language written by Scott Soames and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A masterful overview of the philosophy of language from one of its most important thinkers In this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field—its principal achievements, its most pressing current questions, and its most promising future directions. In addition to explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical framework for the study of language, Scott Soames investigates foundational concepts—such as truth, reference, and meaning—that are central to the philosophy of language and important to philosophy as a whole. The first part of the book describes how philosophers from Frege, Russell, Tarski, and Carnap to Kripke, Kaplan, and Montague developed precise techniques for understanding the languages of logic and mathematics, and how these techniques have been refined and extended to the study of natural human languages. The book then builds on this account, exploring new thinking about propositions, possibility, and the relationship between meaning, assertion, and other aspects of language use. An invaluable overview of the philosophy of language by one of its most important practitioners, this book will be essential reading for all serious students of philosophy.
Author : Michael Devitt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470756780
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)
Download or read book The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language written by Michael Devitt and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Language is a collection of twenty new essays in a cutting-edge and wide-ranging field. Surveys central issues in contemporary philosophy of language while examining foundational topics Provides pedagogical tools such as abstracts and suggestions for further readings Topics addressed include the nature of meaning, speech acts and pragmatics, figurative language, and naturalistic theories of reference
Author : Laura E. Wood
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1845405862
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)
Download or read book The Structure of Thinking written by Laura E. Wood and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analytic philosophers and cognitive scientists have long argued that the mind is a computer-like syntactical engine, and that all human mental capacities can be described as digital computational processes. This book presents an alternative, naturalistic view of human thinking, arguing that computers are merely sophisticated machines. Computers are only simulating thought when they crunch symbols, not thinking. Human cognition - semantics, de re reference, indexicals, meaning and causation - are all rooted in human experience and life. Without life and experience, these elements of discourse and knowledge refer to nothing. And without these elements of discourse and knowledge, syntax is vacant structure, not thinking.
Author : David F. Austin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501741071
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book What's the Meaning of "This''? written by David F. Austin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A variety of examples in recent literature on philosophy of mind and language raise serious problems for the traditional analysis of belief (and the other so-called propositional attitudes) as a two-term relation between a believer and a proposition. Because of the attractiveness of the traditional analysis and the absence of a clear alternative, such examples raise genuine puzzles about belief. In this lucid and rigorous book, David F. Austin provides a new test case for any theory of the propositional attitudes. Focusing on a puzzle about beliefs that we express using the demonstratives "this" and "that," Austin shows that a key doctrine in the analytic tradition, the doctrine of propositions, is threatened by inconsistency. The author first explains why the traditional doctrine requires individual propositions to accommodate Kripkean intuitions for direct reference. Austin then formulates a deep puzzle about demonstrative belief, using the book's central example, the Two Tubes case, which involves simultaneous, consistent, occurrent, demonstrative beliefs resulting from direct visual perception. Austin argues that none of the leading propositional theories solves this puzzle, nor do the self-attributive views of Chisholm and Lewis, or Kaplan's three-term view. Austin concludes that although his puzzle remains a puzzle, it gives us reason to supplement, rather than abandon, the use of propositions in analyzing thought, and he sketches a three-term, Russian alternative.
Author : Andrea Bianchi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198714084
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book On Reference written by Andrea Bianchi and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What exactly is reference? And how can we characterize the semantic properties involved? Eighteen leading experts address the problems and debates that have arisen from these questions over the last century. They contribute to our understanding of the nature of reference, its role in cognition, and the place it should be given in semantic theory.
Author : J. Heil
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401197342
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Cause, Mind, and Reality written by J. Heil and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: T is said that there is no progress in philosophy. The illusion of standing I still, however, arises only when we lose sight of our history and so fail to notice the distance we have travelled. Philosophers nowadays find obvious ideas and themes that, as it happens, emerged slowly and painfully and largely in reaction to prevailing sensibilities. The essays here honour a man to whom present-day philosophy owes much: Charles Burton Martin. In reflecting on my own on-going and somewhat chaotic philosophical education, I find considerable evidence of Charlie Martin's influence. After departing graduate school, one of the first papers I succeeded in publishing consisted of an attack on Martin and Deutscher's 'Remembering'. ' After that, Charlie more or less vanished from my conscious awareness until the winter of 1985, when we appeared together in a colloquium at the Eastern Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association. Although Charlie was nominally a commentator on a paper I was delivering, his 'comments' contained more philosophy and went considerably beyond the tentative and highly circumscribed thesis I had elected to defend. Whereas my focus had been on a tiny feature of Hilary Putnam's argument against realism, Charlie went straight for the jugular, addressing matters that immediately took us into deep water.
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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080547842
Total Pages : 26924 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics written by and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2005-11-24 with total page 26924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of ELL (1993, Ron Asher, Editor) was hailed as "the field's standard reference work for a generation". Now the all-new second edition matches ELL's comprehensiveness and high quality, expanded for a new generation, while being the first encyclopedia to really exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics. * The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field * An entirely new work, with new editors, new authors, new topics and newly commissioned articles with a handful of classic articles * The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics through the online edition * Ground-breaking and International in scope and approach * Alphabetically arranged with extensive cross-referencing * Available in print and online, priced separately. The online version will include updates as subjects develop ELL2 includes: * c. 7,500,000 words * c. 11,000 pages * c. 3,000 articles * c. 1,500 figures: 130 halftones and 150 colour * Supplementary audio, video and text files online * c. 3,500 glossary definitions * c. 39,000 references * Extensive list of commonly used abbreviations * List of languages of the world (including information on no. of speakers, language family, etc.) * Approximately 700 biographical entries (now includes contemporary linguists) * 200 language maps in print and online Also available online via ScienceDirect – featuring extensive browsing, searching, and internal cross-referencing between articles in the work, plus dynamic linking to journal articles and abstract databases, making navigation flexible and easy. For more information, pricing options and availability visit www.info.sciencedirect.com. The first Encyclopedia to exploit the multimedia potential of linguistics Ground-breaking in scope - wider than any predecessor An invaluable resource for researchers, academics, students and professionals in the fields of: linguistics, anthropology, education, psychology, language acquisition, language pathology, cognitive science, sociology, the law, the media, medicine & computer science. The most authoritative, up-to-date, comprehensive, and international reference source in its field
Author : Quentin Smith
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300062120
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)
Download or read book Ethical and Religious Thought in Analytic Philosophy of Language written by Quentin Smith and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a critical history of analytic philosophy from its inception in the late-19th century to the present day. The book focuses on the connections between the four leading movements in the field - logical realism, logical positivism, ordinary language analysis and linguistic essentialism.
Author : Maria Baghramian
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 158243042X
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (824 download)
Download or read book Modern Philosophy of Language written by Maria Baghramian and published by Catapult. This book was released on 1999-09-17 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of seminal writings on the philosophy of language. In our century, philosophers have become increasingly concerned with the relationship between language, the mind, and the world. Language has come to be viewed both as a source of puzzlement and as a repository for untapped knowledge. The philosophy of language is an attempt to understand the nature of language and to explore the link between what we say and what we intend. Modern Philosophy of Language brings together the most significant writings on language in twentieth-century philosophy–from the work of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and the logical positivists to the contemporary contributions of W. V. O. Quine, Noam Chomsky, and Michael Dummett. The articles collected here are benchmarks in the development of various strands in the modern analytic philosophy of language.
Author : Michael Devitt
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030706532
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Overlooking Conventions written by Michael Devitt and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-08 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book criticizes the methodology of the recent semantics-pragmatics debate in the theory of language and proposes an alternative. It applies this methodology to argue for a traditional view against a group of “contextualists” and “pragmatists”, including Sperber and Wilson, Bach, Carston, Recanati, Neale, and many others. The author disagrees with these theorists who hold that the meaning of the sentence in an utterance never, or hardly ever, yields its literal truth-conditional content, even after disambiguation and reference fixing; it needs to be pragmatically supplemented in context. The standard methodology of this debate is to consult intuitions. The book argues that theories should be tested against linguistic usage. Theoretical distinctions, however intuitive, need to be scientifically motivated. Also we should not be guided by Grice’s “Modified Occam’s Razor”, Ruhl’s “Monosemantic Bias”, or other such strategies for “meaning denialism”. From this novel perspective, the striking examples of context relativity that motivate contextualists and pragmatists typically exemplify semantic rather than pragmatic properties. In particular, polysemous phenomena should typically be treated as semantic ambiguity. The author argues that conventions have been overlooked, that there’s no extensive “semantic underdetermination” and that the new theoretical framework of “truth-conditional pragmatics” is a mistake.
Author : Susana Nuccetelli
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742559776
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Philosophy of Language written by Susana Nuccetelli and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 contains some of the most important basic sources in philosophy of language, including a number of classic essays by philosophers such as Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Kripke, Grice, Davidson, Strawson, Austin, and Putnam, as well as more recent contributions by scholars including John McDowell, Stephen Neale, Ruth Millikan, Stephen Schiffer, Paul Horwich, and Anthony Brueckner, among others, who are on the leading edge of innovation in this increasingly influential area of philosophy. The result is a lively mix of readings, together with the editors' discussions of the material, which provides a rigorous introduction to the subject.
Author : Alexander Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192582097
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Logic, Language, and Mathematics written by Alexander Miller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crispin Wright is widely recognised as one of the most important and influential analytic philosophers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This volume is a collective exploration of the major themes of his work in philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and philosophy of mathematics. It comprises specially written chapters by a group of internationally renowned thinkers, as well as four substantial responses from Wright. In these thematically organized replies, Wright summarizes his life's work and responds to the contributory essays collected in this book. In bringing together such scholarship, the present volume testifies to both the enormous interest in Wright's thought and the continued relevance of Wright's seminal contributions in analytic philosophy for present-day debates;
