Oswald Hanfling

Philosophy and Ordinary Language (eBook, ePUB)

The Bent and Genius of our Tongue

• Format: ePub

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
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134352135
• Artikelnr.: 42636403

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 1.THE PHILOSOPHY OF WHAT WE SAY: ITS PRACTICE AND
JUSTIFICATION 1. Socrates and the quest for definitions. 2. Austin: 'at
least one philosophical method'. 3. Wittgenstein: bringing words back to
their everyday use. 4. 'What we say': who says? 5. What is wrong with the
Paradigm Case Argument? 6. Knowledge and the use of 'knowledge'. 7.
Philosophical sceptism and 'what we say'. 2.THE PHILOSOPHY OF 'WHAT WE
SAY': CHALLENGE AND REJECTION 8. Drawing the curtain of words. 9. Language
remade: ancient cities and orderly towns. 10. Grice: 'true even if
misleading' 11. Quine and the unity of science. 12. Scientific realism:
discovering what we really mean. 13. 'Folk psychology' and the language of
science.