Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy?

Name: Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy?
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ISBN: 9780521099981

ISBN-10: 0521099986

ISBN-13: 9780521099981

Edition: 1975

Authors: Ian Hacking

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Many people find themselves dissatisfied with recent linguistic philosophy, and yet know that language has always mattered deeply to philosophy and must in some sense continue to do so. Ian Hacking considers here some dozen case studies in the history of philosophy to show the different ways in which language has been important, and the consequences for the development of the subject. There are chapters on, among others, Hobbes, Berkeley, Russell, Ayer, Wittgenstein, Chomsky, Feyerabend and Davidson. Dr Hacking ends by speculating about the directions in which philosophy and the study of language seem likely to go. The book will provide students with a stimulating, broad survey of problems…

Book details

List price: $32.99
Copyright year: 1975
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/26/1975
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 212
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.72" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Ian Hacking is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. He holds the chair of Philosophy and History of Concepts at the College de France. Among his many books, the most recent is Rewriting the Soul.



Preface



Strategy



The heyday of ideas



Thomas Hobbes' mental discourse



Port Royal's ideas



Bishop Berkeley's abstractions



Nobody's theory of meaning



The heyday of meanings



Noam Chomsky's innatism



Bertrand Russell's acquaintance



Ludwig Wittgenstein's articulation



A. J. Ayer's verification



Norman Malcolm's dreams



The heyday of sentences



Paul Feyerabend's theories



Donald Davidson's truth



Tarski's theory



Problems and extensions



The theory of meaning



The verification of T-sentences



Charity and humanity



The determinacy of translation



Why does language matter to philosophy?



The heyday of ideas



The heyday of meanings



The heyday of sentences


Bibliography


Index