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Philosophy of Language

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ISBN-10: 0199795150

ISBN-13: 9780199795154

Edition: 6th 2012

Authors: A. P. Martinich, David Sosa

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What is meaning? How is linguistic communication possible? What is the nature of language? What is the relationship between language and the world? How do metaphors work?The Philosophy of Language,Sixth Edition, is an excellent introduction to such fundamental questions.Incorporating insights from new coeditor David Sosa, the sixth edition collects forty-eight of the most important articles in the field, making it the most up-to-date and comprehensive volume on the subject. Revised to address changing trends and contemporary developments, the sixth edition features eighteen new articles, including influential work by Kent Bach, Paul Boghossian, M. A. E. Dummett, Delia Graff Fara, Hartry…    
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List price: $129.99
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/14/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 704
Size: 9.20" wide x 6.50" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English

Note to the Sixth Edition
Introduction
Names
Of Names (1881)
On Sense and Reference (1892)
Proper Names (1958)
From Naming and Necessity (1972)
Meaning and Reference (1973)
The Causal Theory of Names (1973)
From Frege's Puzzle (1986)
Suggested Further Reading
Descriptions
On Denoting (1905)
Descriptions (1919)
On Referring (1950)
Mr. Strawson on Referring (1957)
Reference and Definite Descriptions (1966)
Speaker's Reference and Semantic Reference (1977)
Suggested Further Reading
Ascriptions
Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes (1956)
Quantifying In (1968)
On Saying That (1968)
Synonymity (1952)
A Puzzle about Belief (1979)
The Import of the Puzzle about Belief (1996)
Belief Ascription (1992)
Suggested Further Reading
Communication
Meaning (1957)
Performative Utterances (1961)
The Structure of Elocutionary Acts (1969)
Logic and Conversation (1975)
Conversational Impliciture (1994)
A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (1985)
Suggested Further Reading
Truth
The Thought: A Logical Inquiry (1918)
The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics (1944)
Tarski's Theory of Truth (1972)
Truth and Meaning (1967)
What Is a Theory of Meaning? (1975)
Suggested Further Reading
Analyticity
Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1951)
In Defense of a Dogma (1956)
"Two Dogmas" Revisited (1976)
Suggested Further Reading
Indeterminacies
Assertion (1978)
Demonstratives: An Essay on the Semantics, Logic, Metaphysics, and Epistemology of Demonstratives and Other Indexicals (1977)
The Problem of the Essential Indexical (1979)
Rule-Following
From On Rules and Private Language (1982)
The Rule-Following Considerations (1989)
Vagueness
From Blindspots (1988)
Vagueness without Paradox (1994)
Shifting Sands: An Interest-Relative Theory of Vagueness (2000)
Suggested Further Reading
Language
Of Words (1699)
From Philosophical Investigations (1953)
Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance: Problems and Changes (1950)
Languages and Language (1975)
Toward a Causal Theory of Linguistic Representation (1977)
Language and Problems of Knowledge (1988)
Suggested Further Reading