Philosophy of Language

Name: Philosophy of Language
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ISBN: 9780195135435

ISBN-10: 0195135431

ISBN-13: 9780195135435

Edition: 4th 2001 (Revised)

Authors: A. P. Martinich

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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, considered the essential text in its field, is an excellent introduction to such fundamental questions. This revised edition collects 39 of the most important articles in the field, making it the most comprehensive volume on the subject. Several new articles are featured, including recent influential work by W.V. Quine, Donald Davidson, and John Searle, along with an entirely new section on interpretation and translation. Other selections include classic articles by such distinguished…

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List price: $56.95
Edition: 4th
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/30/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 9.02" wide x 6.18" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English




Truth And Meaning



Empiricist Criteria of Cognitive Significance: Problems and Changes (1950)




Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1951)




Intensional Semantics (1951)




The Semantic Conception of Truth and the Foundations of Semantics (1944)




Meaning (1957)




Truth and Meaning (1967)




Meaning and Truth (1969)




Speech Acts



Performative Utterances (1961)




What Is a Speech Act (1965)




A Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts (1979)



Logic and Conversation (1975)




Indirect Speech Acts (1975)




Reference And Descriptions



On Sense and Nominatum (1892)




On Denoting (1905)




Descriptions (1919)




On Referring (1950)




Reference and Definite Descriptions (1966)




Names And Demonstratives



Proper Names (1958)



Naming and Necessity (1972)




The Causal Theory of Names (1973)




Meaning and Reference (1973)




Dthat (1975)




Proper Names and Intentionality (1983)




Propositional Attitudes



Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes (1956)




On Saying That (1968)




Quantifying In (1968)




Semantic Innocence and Uncompromising Situations (1975)




A Puzzle About Belief (1979)




Metaphor



What Metaphors Mean (1978)




A Theory for Metaphor (1981)




Interpretation And Translation



Meaning (1992)




Belief and the Basis of Meaning (1974)




A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (1985)




Indeterminacy, Empiricism, and the First Person (1987)




The Nature of Language



Of Words (1690)




Wittgenstein on Privacy (1965)




On Rules and Private Language (1982)




Languages and Language (1975)




Language and Problems of Knowledge (1988)