Readings in the Philosophy of Language

by Peter Ludlow (Ed.)

• ISBN13: 9780262621144
• ISBN10: 0262621142
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-20
• Publisher: Bradford Books

Summary

Throughout the history of ideas, various branches of philosophy have spun off into the natural sciences, including physics, biology, and perhaps most recently, cognitive psychology. A central theme of this collection is that the philosophy of language, at least a core portion of it, has matured to the point where it is now being spun off into linguistic theory. Each section of the book contains historical (twentieth-century) readings and, where available, recent attempts to apply the resources of contemporary linguistic theory to the problems under discussion. This approach helps to root the naturalization project in the leading questions of analytic philosophy. Although the older readings predate the current naturalization project, they help to lay its conceptual foundations. The main sections of the book, each of which is preceded by an introduction, are Language and Meaning, Logical Form and Grammatical Form, Descriptions, Names, Demonstratives, and Attitude Reports. The collection is not intended as a final report on a mature line of philosophical inquiry. Rather, its purpose is to show students what doing real philosophy is all about and to let them share in the excitement as philosophers enter a period in which how philosophy of language is conducted could change in fundamental ways.

Table of Contents

Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xvii
PART I LANGUAGE AND MEANING	1	(200)
Introduction	3	(6)
The Thought: A Logical Inquiry	9	(22)
Gottlob Frege
Excerpt from The Blue and Brown Books	31	(18)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Translation and Meaning	49	(10)
Willard Van Orman Quine
Utterer's Meaning and Intentions	59	(30)
Paul Grice
Truth and Meaning	89	(20)
Donald Davidson
What Model-Theorectic Semantics Cannot Do	109	(20)
Ernest Lepore
What Is a Theory of Meaning?	129	(28)
Michael Dummett
Elucidations of Meaning	157	(22)
James Higginbotham
Knowledge of Meaning and Theories of Truth	179	(22)
Richard K. Larson
Gabriel Segal
PART II LOGICAL FORM AND GRAMMATICAL FORM	201	(116)
Introduction	203	(6)
Some Remarks on Logical Form	209	(8)
Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Logical Form of Action Sentences	217	(16)
Donald Davidson
Semantic Structure and Logical Form	233	(24)
Gareth Evans
Deep Structure as Logical Form	257	(24)
Gilbert Harman
Logical Form as a Level of Linguistic Representation	281	(36)
Robert May
PART III DEFINITE AND INDEFINITE DESCRIPTIONS	317	(240)
Introduction	319	(4)
Descriptions	323	(12)
Bertrand Russell
On Referring	335	(26)
Peter F. Strawson
Reference and Definite Descriptions	361	(22)
Keith S. Donnellan
Speaker's Reference and Semantic Reference	383	(32)
Saul A. Kripke
Context and Communication	415	(60)
Stephen Neale
Referential and Quantificational Indefinites	475	(48)
Janet Dean Fodor
Ivan A. Sag
Indefinite Descriptions: In Defense of Russell	523	(34)
Peter Ludlow
Stephen Neale
PART IV NAMES	557	(100)
Introduction	559	(4)
On Sense and Reference	563	(22)
Gottlob Frege
Proper Names	585	(8)
John R. Searle
Reference and Proper Names	593	(16)
Tyler Burge
Lecture II of Naming and Necessity	609	(26)
Saul A. Kripke
The Causal Theory of Names	635	(22)
Gareth Evans
PART V DEMONSTRATIVES	657	(112)
Introduction	659	(4)
Truth and Demonstratives	663	(6)
Scott Weinstein
Dthat	669	(24)
David Kaplan
Frege on Demonstratives	693	(24)
John Perry
Understanding Demonstratives	717	(28)
Gareth Evans
Individuation and the Semantics of Demonstratives	745	(24)
Martin Davies
PART VI ATTITUDE REPORTS	769	(286)
Introduction	771	(8)
The Method of Intension	779	(14)
Rudolph Carnap
On Synonymy and Indirect Discourse	793	(8)
Israel Scheffler
Vagaries of Reference	801	(16)
Willard Van Orman Quine
On Saying That	817	(16)
Donald Davidson
Opacity and Scope	833	(42)
Barbara Partee
Sententialist Theories of Belief	875	(1)
Stephen Schiffer
A Puzzle about Belief	875	(46)
Saul A. Kripke
Direct Reference, Propositional Attitudes, and Semantic Content	921	(42)
Scott Soames
The Prince and the Phone Booth: Reporting Puzzling Beliefs	963	(30)
Mark Crimmins
John Perry
Interpreted Logical Forms	993	(48)
Richard K. Larson
Peter Ludlow
Intensional ``Transitive'' Verbs and Concealed Complement Clauses	1041	(14)
Marcel den Dikken
Richard K. Larson
Peter Ludlow
Index	1055