New Waves in Philosophy of Language

by Sawyer, Sarah

• ISBN13: 9780230224377
• ISBN10: 0230224377
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In this book, a group of innovative young philosophers working in philosophy of language present an invigorating examination of some of the seminal issues in the field.

Author Biography

SARAH SAWYER is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Head of Department at the University of Sussex, UK.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Preface	p. viii
Notes on the Contributors	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Vagueness and Non-Indexical Contextualism	p. 8
Semantics and the Place of Psychological Evidence	p. 24
Naturalism in the Philosophy of Language; or Why There Is No Such Thing as Language	p. 41
Referring When Push-Comes-to-Shove	p. 60
Semantic Normativity in Context	p. 87
Literal Force: A Defence of Conventional Assertion	p. 108
A Plea for Understanding	p. 138
From the Expressive to the Derogatory: On the Semantic Role for Non-Truth-Conditional Meaning	p. 164
Analyticity in Externalist Languages	p. 186
The Modified Predicate Theory of Proper Names	p. 206
Introduction, Transmission, and the Foundations of Meaning	p. 226
Linguistic Puzzles and Semantic Pretence	p. 250
Index	p. 285
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