Michael Losonsky (Colorado State University)

Linguistic Turns in Modern Philosophy

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Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the linguistic turns in the history of modern philosophy and the development of the philosophy of language. Michael Losonsky shows how the history of the philosophy of language in the modern period is marked by an as yet unintegrated dichotomy between formal and pragmatic perspectives on language.

Produktdetails

• The Evolution of Modern Philosophy
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9780521652568
• ISBN-10: 0521652561
• Artikelnr.: 21701872

Autorenporträt

Michael Losonsky is Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University. He is author of Enlightenment and Action from Descartes to Kant and co-author and co-editor, with H. Geirsson, of Beginning Metaphysics and Readings in Mind and Lanugage.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Locke's linguistic turn
2. The road to Locke
3. Of Angels and human beings
4. The form of a lanugage
5. The importance of propositions
6. The value of a function
7. From silence to assent
8. The whimsy of language.