Oswald Hanfling

Philosophy and Ordinary Language

The Bent and Genius of our Tongue

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Anyone wishing to gain a better understanding of the philosophy of language, and the nature of ordinary language in philosophy should read this book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781138173316
• ISBN-10: 1138173312
• Artikelnr.: 48095684

Autorenporträt

Oswald Hanfling is Visiting Research Professor of Philosophy at the Open University. He is the author of several books including Logical Positivism, The Quest for Meaning, Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy, and Wittgenstein and the Human Form of Life (Routledge 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1 The philosophy of 'what we say'
Chapter 1 Socrates and the quest for definitions
Chapter 2 Austin
Chapter 3 Wittgenstein
Chapter 4 'What we say'
Chapter 5 What is wrong with the paradigm case argument?
Chapter 6 Knowledge and the uses of 'knowledge'
Chapter 7 The paradox of scepticism
Part 2 The philosophy of 'what we say'
Chapter 8 Drawing the curtain of words
Chapter 9 Language remade
Chapter 10 Grice
Chapter 11 Quine and the unity of science
Chapter 12 Scientific realism
Chapter 13 'Folk psychology' and the language of science