A Companion to the Philosophy of Language (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Hale, Bob; Miller, Alexander; Wright, Crispin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Providing up-to-date, in-depth coverage of the central question, and written and edited by some of the foremost practitioners in the field, this timely new edition will no doubt be a go-to reference for anyone with a serious interest in the philosophy of language. Kathrin Gl er-Pagin, Stockholm University Now published in two volumes, the second edition of the best-selling Companion to the Philosophy of Language provides a complete survey of contemporary philosophy of language. The Companion has been greatly extended and now includes a monumental 17 new essays with topics chosen by the editors, who curated suggestions from current contributors and almost all of the 25 original chapters have been updated to take account of recent developments in the field. In addition to providing a synoptic view of the key issues, figures, concepts, and debates, each essay introduces new and original contributions to ongoing debates, as well as addressing a number of new areas of interest, including two-dimensional semantics, modality and epistemic modals, and semantic relationism. The extended state-of-the-art chapter format allows the authors, all of whom are internationally eminent scholars in the field, to incorporate original research to a far greater degree than competitor volumes. Unrivaled in scope, this volume represents the best contemporary critical thinking relating to the philosophy of language.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 1176
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118972106
• Artikelnr.: 52579012

Autorenporträt

Bob Hale is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sheffield. He is a member of the editorial board of Philosophia Mathematica, and is author of Abstract Objects (Blackwell, 1987) and Necessary Beings (2013; revised 2nd edn, 2015); co-editor of Reading Putnam (with Peter Clark; Blackwell, 1994), The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Language (with Crispin Wright; Blackwell, 1997), and Modality: Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology (with Aviv Hoffmann, 2010); and co-author of The Reason's Proper Study (with Crispin Wright, 2001). Crispin Wright is Professor of Philosophy at New York University and Professor of Philosophical Research at the University of Stirling. His books include Wittgenstein on the Foundations of Mathematics (1980), Frege's Conception of Numbers as Objects (1983), Truth and Objectivity (1992), Realism, Meaning and Truth (2nd edn, 1993), The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Language (with Bob Hale, Blackwell, 1997), The Reason's Proper Study (with Bob Hale, 2001), Rails to Infinity (2001), and Saving the Differences (2003). Alexander Miller is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His publications include Contemporary Metaethics: An Introduction Revised and Expanded (2nd edn, 2013), Philosophy of Language Revised and Expanded (2nd edn, 2007), and Rule-Following and Meaning (with Crispin Wright, 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Volume I List of Contributors viii Preface to the Second Edition xv Preface to the First Edition xvi Part I Meaning and Theories of Meaning 1 1 Metaphysics, Philosophy, and the Philosophy of Language 3 Michael Morris 2 Meaning and Truth
Conditions: From Frege's Grand Design to Davidson's 27 David Wiggins 3 Intention and Convention in the Theory of Meaning 49 Stephen Schiffer 4 Meaning, Use, Verification 73 John Skorupski Postscript: Bernhard Weiss 5 Semantics and Pragmatics 107 Guy Longworth 6 Pragmatics 127 Charles Travis Postscript: Charles Travis 7 On the Linguistic Status of Context Sensitivity 151 John Collins 8 A Guide to Naturalizing Semantics 174 Barry Loewer Postscript: Peter Schulte 9 Inferentialism 197 Julien Murzi and Florian Steinberger 10 Against Harmony 225 Ian Rumfitt 11 Meaning and Privacy 250 Edward Craig Postscript: Guy Longworth 12 Tacit Knowledge 272 Alexander Miller 13 Radical Interpretation 299 Jane Heal Postscript: Alexander Miller 14 Propositional Attitudes 324 Mark Richard 15 Holism 357 Christopher Peacocke 16 Metaphor 375 Richard Moran Postscript: Andrew McGonigal 17 Conditionals 401 Anthony S. Gillies 18 Generics 437 Bernhard Nickel 19 Deflationist Theories of Truth, Meaning, and Content 463 Stephen Schiffer Volume II Part I L anguage, Truth, and Reality 491 20 Realism and its Oppositions 493 Bob Hale Postscript: Bernhard Weiss 21 Theories of Truth 532 Ralph C. S. Walker Postscript: Michael P. Lynch 22 Truthmaker Semantics 556 Kit Fine 23 Analyticity 578 Paul Artin Boghossian Postscript: Paul Artin Boghossian 24 Rule
Following, Objectivity, and Meaning 619 Bob Hale Postscript: Daniel Wee 25 The Normativity of Meaning 649 Anandi Hattiangadi 26 Indeterminacy of Translation 670 Crispin Wright Postscript: Alexander Miller 27 Putnam's Model
Theoretic Argument against Metaphysical Realism 703 Bob Hale and Crispin Wright Postscript: Jussi Haukioja 28 Sorites 734 Mark Sainsbury and Timothy Williamson Postscript: Aidan McGlynn 29 Time and Tense 765 Berit Brogaard 30 Relativism 787 Patrick Shirreff and Brian Weatherson Part II Reference, Identity, and Necessity 805 31 Modality 807 Bob Hale Postscript: Bob Hale 32 Relativism about Epistemic Modals 843 Andy Egan 33 Internalism and Externalism 865 Jussi Haukioja 34 Essentialism 881 Graeme Forbes Postscript: Penelope Mackie 35 Reference and Necessity 902 Robert Stalnaker 36 Names and Rigid Designation 920 Jason Stanley 37 TwöDimensional Semantics 948 Christian Nimtz 38 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Indexicals 970 John Perry 39 Objects and Criteria of Identity 990 E. J. Lowe Postscript: Harold Noonan 40 Relative Identity 1013 Harold Noonan 41 De Jure Codesignation 1033 James Pryor Glossary 1080 Index 1117