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9780521039048

Meaning, Expression and Thought

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521039048

  • ISBN10:

    0521039045

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2007-08-20
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

This philosophical treatise on the foundations of semantics is a systematic effort to clarify, deepen and defend the classical doctrine that words are conventional signs of mental states, principally thoughts and ideas, and that meaning consists in their expression. This expression theory of meaning is developed by carrying out the Gricean programme, explaining what it is for words to have meaning in terms of speaker meaning, and what it is for a speaker to mean something in terms of intention. But Grice's own formulations are rejected and alternatives developed. The foundations of the expression theory are explored at length, and the author develops the theory of thought as a fundamental cognitive phenomenon distinct from belief and desire, argues for the thesis that thoughts have parts, and identifies ideas or concepts with parts of thoughts. This book will appeal to students and professionals interested in the philosophy of language.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Semantic Acts and Intentions
Speaker meaning
Expression
Alternative analyses
Communication
Reference
Languages and Semantic Acts
Languages
Basic word meaning
Conventions
Compositional word meaning
Living languages
Thoughts and Ideas
Thought
Sentences, propositions and thoughts
The constituency thesis
Ideas or concepts
The possession of concepts
The acquisition of concepts
The association of ideas
Objects, images and conceptions
The language of thought hypothesis
Ideational Theories of Meaning
Objections to ideational theories
Priority objections
Incompleteness objections
References
Index
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