John Searle's Philosophy of Language Force, Meaning, and Mind

Name: John Searle's Philosophy of Language Force, Meaning, and Mind
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ISBN: 9780521685344

ISBN-10: 0521685346

ISBN-13: 9780521685344

Edition: 2007

Authors: Savas L. Tsohatzidis

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This is a volume of original essays on key aspects of John Searle's philosophy of language. It examines Searle's work in relation to current issues of central significance, including internalism versus externalism about mental and linguistic content, truth-conditional versus non-truth-conditional conceptions of content, the relative priorities of thought and language in the explanation of intentionality, the status of the distinction between force and sense in the theory of meaning, the issue of meaning scepticism in relation to rule-following, and the proper characterization of 'what is said' in relation the semantics/pragmatics distinction. Written by a distinguished team of contemporary…

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List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/18/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 308
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



List of contributors


Acknowledgments


Introduction




What is language: some preliminary remarks




From Mind to Meaning



Content, mode, and self-reference




Searle against the world: how can experiences find their objects?




Seeing what is there




Intentionalism, descriptivism, and proper names




On the alleged priority of thought over language




Rule skepticism: Searle's criticism of Kripke's Wittgenstein




From Meaning to Force



How to say things with words




Semantics without the distinction between sense and force




Dynamic discourse semantics for embedded speech acts




Yes-no questions and the myth of content invariance




How do speech acts express psychological states?



References


Index