Linguistic Philosophy
Subtitle: The Central Story (S U N Y Series in Philosophy)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: March 6, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780791473627
Subjects: Analytical & linguistic philosophy; Philosophy of language; Epistemology; General; History & Surveys - General; Philosophy; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy
Description: "How much authority should language, the medium of communication, be accorded as a determinant of truth and therefore of what we say? [author] argues that, although never explicitly debated, this is the most significant issue of linguistic philosophy. Here, for the first time, he traces the issue's story. Starting with representative thinkers--Plato, Aquinas, Kant, Frege, and the early Wittgenstein--who contested language's authority, the narrative then focuses on thinkers such as Carnap, Tarski, the later Wittgenstein, Flew, Russell, Malcolm, Austin, Kripke, Putnam, Strawson, Quine, and Habermas who, in diferent ways and to varying degrees, accorded language more authority. Implicit in this account is a challenge to philosophy as still widely practiced."--Back cover.