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9780631206026

Philosophy of Language The Big Questions

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    9780631206026

  • ISBN10:

    0631206027

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-08-06
  • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Summary

This anthology brings together a diversity of readings in the philosophy of language from the ancient Greeks to contemporary analytic, feminist, and multicultural perspectives. The emphasis is on issues that have a direct bearing on concerns about knowledge, reality, meaning, and understanding. A general introduction and introductions to each group of readings identify both the continuities and differences in the way "big" questions in philosophy of language have been addressed by philosophers of different historical periods, institutional affiliations, races, and genders.

Author Biography

Andrea Nye is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She is the author of Feminist Theory and the Philosophies of Man (1988), Words of Power: a Feminist Reading of the History of Logic (1990), Philosophia: the Thought of Rosa Luxemburg, Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt (1994), Philosophy and Feminism: at the Border (1995).

Table of Contents

General Introduction
Language: What is it?
Language as the Weaving Together of Forms
The Origins of Language
On Words
On the Scientific Justification of a Conceptual Notation
The Existential Matrix of Inquiry
Picturing Reality
Subjectivity in Language
Private Language, Public Languages
The Mark of Gender
Meaning
On Sense and Reference
The Principle of Verifiability
Meaning as Use
Biosemantics
How can Language be Sexist?
Speaking
Meaning
Performative Utterances
Verbal Interaction
Telling as Letting Know
He I Sought but did not Find
Reference
On Denoting
Naming and Necessity (excerpts)
The Formation of Objects
Critically Queer
'Worlds' and World Travelling
Truth
The Semantic Theory of Truth
The Method of Truth in Metaphysics
Truth as Coherence
Truth Through Social Praxis
Are Truth Claims Dysfunctional?
Other Minds and Foreign Tongues
The Translation of Unstranslatable Words
Indeterminacy of Translation
On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme
An American Indian Model of the Universe
How to Tame a Wild Tongue
Language as Boundary
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