Philosophy of Language, Volume 16

by Sosa, Ernest; Villanueva, Enrique

• ISBN13: 9781405160315
• ISBN10: 1405160314
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-01-23
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Some of the most distinguished active contributors to the field join together for a collection of their most recent work. Brings together important new papers by many of the most distinguished philosophers of language Takes up some of the central issues in the field in recent years Includes some of the best cutting-edge work in philosophy of language

Author Biography

Ernest Sosa is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, distinguished philosopher, author of Knowledge in Perspective, co-author of Epistemic Justification, subject of Ernest Sosa and His Critics.

Table of Contents

Things and Their Aspects

Now You Know Who Hong Oak Yun Is

Quotation, Context Sensitivity, Signs and Expressions

Descriptions with Adverbs of Quantification

MacFarlane on Relative Truth

Sententialism

The Thesis that Complement Clauses Refer to Themselves

Soames on Descriptive Reference-Fixing

Singular Terms, Reference and Methodology in Semantics

From Sherlock and Buffy to Klingon and Norrathian Platinum Pieces

Pretense, Contextalism, and the Myth of Fiction

The Meaning of "Water"

An Unsolved Problem

"Knowledge of Language and Linguistic Competence"

Interpreting Concatenation and Concatenates

Understanding as Immersion

Terms in Bondage

Two Perspectives on Knowledge of Language

The Philosophical Significance of the Kripkean Necessary Aposteriori

Indicative versus Subjunctive Conditionals, Congruential versus Non-Hyperintensional Contexts

Symposium

Self-Reflexive Thoughts

On Self Referential Thoughts

Harman

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