Philosophy of Language: The Central TopicsSusana Nuccetelli, Gary Seay 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. |
Contents
The Nature of Language Philosophical Investigations experts | 19 |
From Rules and Representations | 22 |
Truth Meaning and the Indeterminacy of Translation The Semantic Conception of Truth | 29 |
Semantics for Natural Languages | 57 |
Indeterminacy of Translation Again | 64 |
Meaning as Intention Meaning | 69 |
Meaning as Use Meaning Use and Truth | 77 |
Names Descriptions and Demonstratives | 89 |
A Puzzle about Belief Ascriptions From A Puzzle about Belief | 257 |
What Puzzling Pierre Does Not Believe | 264 |
Meaning and Reference | 271 |
Are Meanings in the Head? | 280 |
The Social Character of Meaning | 288 |
EXTERNALISM AND KNOWLEDGE Antiindividualism and Privileged Access | 297 |
What an Antiindividualist Knows A Priori | 304 |
Convention Intention and the Pragmatics of Language | 311 |
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING | 107 |
Proper Names On Sense and Reference | 113 |
From Naming and Necessity Lecture II | 128 |
Definite Descriptions Descriptions | 147 |
Reference and Definite Descriptions | 155 |
From Descriptions | 170 |
Demonstratives and Indexicals From Demonstratives | 181 |
Understanding Demonstratives | 199 |
Semantic Content | 219 |
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING | 232 |
Content DirectReference Theory vs Fregean Semantics From Freges Puzzle | 237 |
De Re Senses | 246 |
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING | 325 |
Speech Acts and Convention PerformativeConstative | 329 |
Speech Acts and Speaker Meaning Intention and Convention in Speech Acts | 337 |
From Meaning | 351 |
Speech Acts and Evolution PushmiPullyu Representations | 363 |
Conversational Implicature and Metaphor Logic and Conversation | 377 |
What Metaphors Mean | 390 |
Who Can Say What? | 403 |
Summaries | 415 |
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