Philosophy of Language The Central Topics

by Nuccetelli, Susana; Seay, Gary; Austin, J L.; Brueckner, Anthony; Chomsky, Noam; Davidson, Donald; Donnellan, Keith; Dummett, Michael; Evans, Gareth; Frege, Gottlob; Grice, H P.; Horwich, Paul; Kaplan, David; Kripke, Saul; Lewis, David; McDowell, John; Mc

• ISBN13: 9780742559776
• ISBN10: 0742559777
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-24
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Language, Meaning, and Truth	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 13
The Nature of Language	p. 19
Philosophical Investigations (excerpts)	p. 19
Rules and Representations (excerpt)	p. 22
Truth, Meaning, and the Indeterminacy of Translation	p. 29
The Semantic Conception of Truth	p. 29
Semantics for Natural Languages	p. 57
Indeterminacy of Translation Again	p. 64
Meaning as Intention	p. 69
Meaning	p. 69
Meaning as Use	p. 77
Meaning, Use and Truth	p. 77
Names, Descriptions, and Demonstratives	p. 89
Introduction	p. 89
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 107
Proper Names	p. 113
On Sense and Reference	p. 113
Naming and Necessity (Lecture II) (excerpt)	p. 128
Definite Descriptions	p. 147
Descriptions	p. 147
Reference and Definite Descriptions	p. 155
Descriptions (excerpt)	p. 170
Demonstratives and Indexicals	p. 181
Demonstratives (excerpt)	p. 181
Understanding Demonstratives	p. 199
Semantic Content	p. 219
Introduction	p. 219
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 232
Content: Direct-Reference Theory vs. Fregean Semantics	p. 237
Frege's Puzzle (excerpt)	p. 237
De Re Senses	p. 246
A Puzzle About Belief Ascriptions	p. 257
A Puzzle about Belief (excerpt)	p. 257
What Puzzling Pierre Does Not Believe	p. 264
The Internalism/Externalism Debate	p. 271
Meaning and Reference	p. 271
Are Meanings in the Head?	p. 280
The Social Character of Meaning	p. 288
Externalism and Knowledge	p. 297
Anti-individualism and Privileged Access	p. 297
What an Anti-individualist Knows A Priori	p. 304
Convention, Intention, and the Pragmatics of Language	p. 311
Introduction	p. 311
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 325
Speech Acts and Convention	p. 329
Performative-Constative	p. 329
Speech Acts and Speaker Meaning	p. 337
Intention and Convention in Speech Acts	p. 337
Meaning (excerpt)	p. 351
Speech Acts and Evolution	p. 363
Pushmi-Pullyu Representations	p. 363
Conversational Implicature and Metaphor	p. 377
Logic and Conversation	p. 377
What Metaphors Mean	p. 390
Who Can Say What?	p. 403
Summaries	p. 415
Index	p. 419
About the Editors	p. 423
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