What Is This Thing Called Philosophy of Language?Philosophy of language explores some of the fundamental yet most technical problems in philosophy, such as meaning and reference, semantics, and propositional attitudes. Some of its greatest exponents, including Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell are amongst the major figures in the history of philosophy. In this clear and carefully structured introduction to the subject Gary Kemp explains the following key topics:
Chapter summaries, annotated further reading and a glossary make this an indispensable introduction to those teaching philosophy of language and will be particularly useful for students coming to the subject for the first time. |
Contents
1 Naïve semantics and the language of logic | 1 |
2 Fregean semantics | 17 |
3 Russellian semantics | 39 |
4 Kripke and Putnam on naming necessity and essence | 54 |
semantics context and indexicality | 72 |
6 Pragmatics | 87 |
7 The propositional attitudes | 106 |
8 Davidsons philosophy of language | 124 |
9 Quines philosophy of language | 139 |
10 Wittgensteins alternative | 153 |
Glossary | 164 |
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