Philosophy of language
Subtitle: the central topics
By: edited by Susana Nuccetelli and Gary Seay.
Contributors: Nuccetelli, Susana.; Seay, Gary.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 423
ISBN-13: 9780742559769; 9780742559776
Subjects: Language and languages -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Philosophical investigations (excerpts) / Ludwig Wittgenstein; title: Rules and representations (excerpt) / Noam Chomsky; title: The semantic conception of truth / Alfred Tarski; title: Semantics for natural languages / Donald Davidson; title: Indeterminacy of translation again / W. V. Quine; title: Meaning / H.P. Grice; title: Meaning, use and truth / Paul Horwich; title: On sense and reference / Gottlob Frege; title: Naming and necessity (lecture ii) / Saul Kripke; title: Descriptions / Bertrand Russell; title: Reference and definite descriptions / Keith Donnellan; title: Descriptions (excerpt) / Stephen Neale; title: Demonstratives (excerpt) / David Kaplan; title: Understanding demonstratives / Gareth Evans; title: Frege's puzzle (excerpt) / Nathan Salmon; title: De re senses / John McDowell; title: A puzzle about belief (excerpt) / Saul Kripke; title: What puzzling Pierre does not believe / David Lewis; title: Meaning and reference / Hilary Putnam; title: Are meanings in the head? / John Searle; title: The social character of meaning / Michael Dummett; title: Anti-individualism and privileged access / Michael McKinsey; title: What an anti-individualist knows a priori / Anthony Brueckner; title: Performative; title: constative / J.L. Austin; title: Intention and convention in speech acts / P.F. Strawson; title: Meaning (excerpt) / Stephen Schiffer; title: Pushmi-pullyu representations / Ruth Millikan; title: Logic and conversation / H.P. Grice; title: What metaphors mean / Donald Davidson.