A Companion to the Philosophy of Language
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Kathrin Glüer-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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781118972106 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 02/17/2017 |
Series: | Blackwell Companions to Philosophy |
Sold by: | JOHN WILEY & SONS |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 1176 |
File size: | 4 MB |
About the Author
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).
Table of Contents
Volume IList 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 3Michael Morris
2 Meaning and Truth‐Conditions: From Frege’s Grand Design to Davidson’s 27David Wiggins
3 Intention and Convention in the Theory of Meaning 49Stephen Schiffer
4 Meaning, Use, Verification 73John SkorupskiPostscript: Bernhard Weiss
5 Semantics and Pragmatics 107Guy Longworth
6 Pragmatics 127Charles TravisPostscript: Charles Travis
7 On the Linguistic Status of Context Sensitivity 151John Collins
8 A Guide to Naturalizing Semantics 174Barry LoewerPostscript: Peter Schulte
9 Inferentialism 197Julien Murzi and Florian Steinberger
10 Against Harmony 225Ian Rumfitt
11 Meaning and Privacy 250Edward CraigPostscript: Guy Longworth
12 Tacit Knowledge 272Alexander Miller
13 Radical Interpretation 299Jane HealPostscript: Alexander Miller
14 Propositional Attitudes 324Mark Richard
15 Holism 357Christopher Peacocke
16 Metaphor 375Richard MoranPostscript: Andrew McGonigal
17 Conditionals 401Anthony S. Gillies
18 Generics 437Bernhard Nickel
19 Deflationist Theories of Truth, Meaning, and Content 463Stephen Schiffer
Volume II
Part I L anguage, Truth, and Reality 491
20 Realism and its Oppositions 493Bob HalePostscript: Bernhard Weiss
21 Theories of Truth 532Ralph C. S. WalkerPostscript: Michael P. Lynch
22 Truthmaker Semantics 556Kit Fine
23 Analyticity 578Paul Artin BoghossianPostscript: Paul Artin Boghossian
24 Rule‐Following, Objectivity, and Meaning 619Bob HalePostscript: Daniel Wee
25 The Normativity of Meaning 649Anandi Hattiangadi
26 Indeterminacy of Translation 670Crispin WrightPostscript: Alexander Miller
27 Putnam’s Model‐Theoretic Argument against Metaphysical Realism 703Bob Hale and Crispin WrightPostscript: Jussi Haukioja
28 Sorites 734Mark Sainsbury and Timothy WilliamsonPostscript: Aidan McGlynn
29 Time and Tense 765Berit Brogaard
30 Relativism 787Patrick Shirreff and Brian Weatherson
Part II Reference, Identity, and Necessity 805
31 Modality 807Bob HalePostscript: Bob Hale
32 Relativism about Epistemic Modals 843Andy Egan
33 Internalism and Externalism 865Jussi Haukioja
34 Essentialism 881Graeme ForbesPostscript: Penelope Mackie
35 Reference and Necessity 902Robert Stalnaker
36 Names and Rigid Designation 920Jason Stanley
37 Two‐Dimensional Semantics 948Christian Nimtz
38 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Indexicals 970John Perry
39 Objects and Criteria of Identity 990E. J. LowePostscript: Harold Noonan
40 Relative Identity 1013Harold Noonan
41 De Jure Codesignation 1033James Pryor
Glossary 1080
Index 1117