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A Companion to the Philosophy of Language

By Bob Hale , Crispin Wright

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
1997
ISBN
9780631167570, 0631167579, 0631213260, 9780631213260, 9780631227588
LCC
P106 .C5945 1997
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
61 MB (63500133 bytes)
Series
Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
Pages
721\731
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Written by an international assembly of leading philosophers, this volume provides a survey of contemporary philosophy of language. As well as providing a synoptic view of the key issues, figures, concepts and debates, each essay makes new and original contributions to ongoing debate. Topics covered include: rule following, modality, realism, indeterminacy of translation, inscrutability of reference, names and rigid destination, Davidson's program, meaning and verification, intention and convention, radical interpretation, tacit knowledge, metaphor, causal theories of semantics, objects and criteria of identity, theories of truth, force and pragmatics, essentialism, demonstratives, reference and necessity, identity, meaning and privacy of language, vagueness and the sorites paradox, holisms, propositional attitudes, analyticity.

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