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Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language

Author : Peter A. French
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816608660
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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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.

Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language

Author : Robert J. Stainton
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 9781551112534
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (125 download)

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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.

Truth and its Deformities

Author : Peter A. French
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1444307282
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book Truth and its Deformities written by Peter A. French and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Truth and Its Deformities is the 32nd volume in the Midwest Studies in Philosophy series. It contains major new contributions on a range of topics related to the general theme of the volume by some of the most important philosophers writing on truth in recent years.

Philosophy of Language

Author : Scott Soames
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691155976
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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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.

Rerepresentation

Author : S. Silvers
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400926499
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Rerepresentation written by S. Silvers and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers on issues in the theory of mental representation expresses a diversity of recent reflections on the idea that C. D. Broad so aptly characterized in the title of his book Mind and the World Order. An important impetus in the project of organizing this work were the discussions I had with Keith Lehrer while I was a Visiting Scholar in the department of Philosophy at the University of Arizona. His encouragement and friendship were of great value to me and I wish to express my thanks to him here. A word of thanks too for Mike Harnish who casually suggested the title Rerepresentation. I wish to express my thanks to Hans Schuurmans of the Computer Center at Tilburg University for his patient and cheerful assistance in preparing the manuscript. Professor J. Verster of the University of Groningen kindly provided the plates for the Ames Room figures. Thieu Kuys helped not only with the texts but also relieved me of chores so that I could devote more time to meeting deadlines. Barry Mildner had a major role in the text preparation using his skills and initiative in solving what seemed like endless technical problems. My deepest thanks are reserved for Anti Sax whose contribution to the project amount to a co-editorship of this volume. She participated in every phase of its development with valuable suggestions, prepared the indexes, and worked tirelessly to its completion.

What's the Meaning of "This''?

Author : David F. Austin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501741071
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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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.

On Reference

Author : Andrea Bianchi
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191023485
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book On Reference written by Andrea Bianchi and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of the times we open our mouth to communicate, we talk about things. This can happen because (some of) the linguistic expressions we use have semantic properties that connect them to extra-linguistic entities. Thanks to these properties, they may be used by us to refer to things. Or, as we may also say, they themselves refer to things, though in certain cases they do so only relative to a context of use. But how can we characterize the semantic properties in question? What exactly is reference? Philosophers have been trying to answer these questions at least since Plato's Cratylus, but not until the last century, when language occupied center-stage in philosophy, did the problem come to be felt as really pressing. In the last decade of the nineteenth century, Gottlob Frege produced an account of reference that set the stage for the contemporary discussion. Nevertheless, around 1970 a number of powerful arguments against it were produced by Saul Kripke and others. As a result, many philosophers began to look at reference from a new perspective, which highlighted the crucial role played by wordly historical facts that may be unknown to the speakers. This semantic revolution, however, left us with a number of open problems. The eighteen original essays collected in this volume deal with many of these problems, thus contributing to our understanding of the nature of reference, its role in cognition, and the place it should be given in semantic theory.

Contemporary Perspectives in Philosophy and Methodology of Science

Author : Wenceslao J. González
Publisher : Netbiblo
ISBN 13 : 9780972989237
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Perspectives in Philosophy and Methodology of Science written by Wenceslao J. González and published by Netbiblo. This book was released on 2006 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowadays, philosophy and methodology of science appear as a combination of novelty and continuity. This blend is clear both in the general approaches to science (those thought of as any science) and in the specific perspectives on every science, either formal or empirical. There are new topics for philosophical reflection, such as key issues in philosophy of medicine and central problems raised by neuroscience. Thus, new contents have brought attention to aspects that previously went almost unnoticed. In addition, there are new angles for philosophical study, such as the repercussion of society on scientific activity (in aims, processes, and results). But the background of the main philosophical and methodological trends of the twentieth century is, in many ways, still in place.

The New Theory of Reference

Author : P. Humphreys
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401152500
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The New Theory of Reference written by P. Humphreys and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 20th, 22nd, and 29th, 1970 Saul Kripke delivered three lectures at Princeton University. They produced something of a sensation. In the lectures he argued, amongst other things, that many names in ordinary language referred to objects directly rather than by means of associated descriptions; that causal chains from language user to language user were an important mechanism for preserving reference; that there were necessary a posteriori and contingent a priori truths; that identity relations between rigid designators were necessary; and argued, more tentatively, that materialist identity theories in the philosophy of mind were suspect. Interspersed with this was a consider able amount of material on natural kind terms and essentialism. As a result of these lectures and a related 1971 paper, 'Identity and Necessity' (Kripke [1971]), talk of rigid designators, Hesperus and Phosphorus, meter bars, gold and H 0, and suchlike quickly became commonplace in philosophical circles 2 and when the lectures were published under the title Naming and Necessity in the collection The Semantics of Natural Language (Davidson and Harman l [1972]), that volume became the biggest seller in the Reidel (later Kluwer) list. The cluster of theses surrounding the idea that a relation of direct reference 2 exists between names and their referents is now frequently referred to as 'The 3 New Theory of Reference'.

The Contents of Experience

Author : Tim Crane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521417279
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Contents of Experience written by Tim Crane and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of perception has long been a central question in philosophy. It is of crucial importance not just in the philosophy of mind, but also in epistemology, metaphysics, aesthetics, and the philosophy of science. The essays in this 1992 volume not only offer fresh answers to some of the traditional problems of perception, but also examine the subject in light of contemporary research on mental content. A substantial introduction locates the essays within the recent history of the subject, and demonstrates the links between them. The Contents of Experience brings together some prominent philosophers in the field, and offers a major statement on a problem central to current philosophical thinking. Notable contributors include Christopher Peacocke, Brian O'Shaughnessy and Michael Tye.

The World-Time Parallel

Author : A. A. Rini
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139505513
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book The World-Time Parallel written by A. A. Rini and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is what could have happened but never did as real as what did happen? What did happen, but isn't happening now, happened at another time. Analogously, one can say that what could have happened happens in another possible world. Whatever their views about the reality of such things as possible worlds, philosophers need to take this analogy seriously. Adriane Rini and Max Cresswell exhibit, in an easy step-by-step manner, the logical structure of temporal and modal discourse, and show that every temporal construction has an exact parallel that requires a language that can refer to worlds, and vice versa. They make precise, in a way which can be articulated and tested, the claim that the parallel is at work behind even ordinary talk about time and modality. The book gives metaphysicians a sturdy framework for the investigation of time and modality - one that does not presuppose any particular metaphysical view.

Meaning and Method

Author : George Boolos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521360838
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Meaning and Method written by George Boolos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-26 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a report on the state of philosophy in a number of significant areas.

The Connectives

Author : Lloyd Humberstone
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262016540
Total Pages : 1511 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Connectives written by Lloyd Humberstone and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 1511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Connectives, Lloyd Humberstone examines the semantics and pragmatics of natural language sentence connectives (and, or, if, not), giving special attention to their formal behavior according to proposed logical systems and the degree to which such treatments capture their intuitive meanings. It will be an essential resource for philosophers, mathematicians, computer scientists, linguists, or any scholar who finds connectives, and the conceptual issues surrounding them, to be a source of interest.

The Structure of Thinking

Author : Laura E. Wood
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1845405862
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (454 download)

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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.

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language

Author : Michael Devitt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470756780
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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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

Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language II

Author : Peter A. French
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780268013752
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language II written by Peter A. French and published by . This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy: Part 2 Theories and Applications

Author : Alessandro Capone
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030009734
Total Pages : 590 pages
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Download or read book Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy: Part 2 Theories and Applications written by Alessandro Capone and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two sections of this volume present theoretical developments and practical applicative papers respectively. Theoretical papers cover topics such as intercultural pragmatics, evolutionism, argumentation theory, pragmatics and law, the semantics/pragmatics debate, slurs, and more. The applied papers focus on topics such as pragmatic disorders, mapping places of origin, stance-taking, societal pragmatics, and cultural linguistics. This is the second volume of invited papers that were presented at the inaugural Pragmasofia conference in Palermo in 2016, and like its predecessor presents papers by well-known philosophers, linguists, and a semiotician. The papers present a wide variety of perspectives independent from any one school of thought.