Arguing about language
By: edited by Darragh Byrne and Max Kölbel.
Contributors: Byrne, Darragh.; Kölbel, Max.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415462433; 9780415462440
Subjects: Language and languages -- Philosophy; Language and culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: A homeric struggle : communication and truth; title: Meaning / H. Paul Grice; title: Meaning and truth / Peter F. Strawson; title: Language and communication / Michael A. E. Dummett; title: Sense and reference; title: On sense and reference / Gpttlob Frege; title: Frege's puzzle / Nathan Sslmon; title: Definite descriptions : quantifiers or singular terms?; title: Descriptions / Bertrand Russell; title: On referring / Peter F. Strawson; title: Mr. Strawson on referring / Bertrand Russell; title: Rigidity vs. descriptivism; title: Naming and necessity / Saul Kripke; title: Reference and descriptions revisited / Frank Jackson; title: Analyticity; title: Two dogmas of empiricism / Willard V. Quine; title: In defense of a dogma / H. Paul Grice and Peter F. Strawson; title: Truth and meaning; title: Truth and meaning / Donald Davidson; title: Meaning and truth theory / John Foster; title: Meaning, intention, and convention; title: Languages and language / David K. Lewis; title: A note on languages and language / John Hawthorne; title: A Chomskian alternative to convention-based semantics / Stephen Laurence; title: Knowledge of language; title: Knowledge of language / Noam Chomsky; title: Semantic theory and tacit knowledge / Gareth Evans; title: Theories of meaning and speakers knowledge / Crispin Wright; title: Meaning, holism, and inferential role; title: Why meaning (probably) isn't conceptual role / Ernest Lepore and Jerry Fodor; title: Is compositionality compatible with holism? / Peter Pagin; title: Implicature; title: Logic and conversation / H. Paul Grice; title: Linguistic meaning, communicated meaning, and cognitive pragmatics / Robyn Carston; title: Compositionality and context; title: Against compositionality : the case of adjectives / Ran Lahav; title: Adjectives in context / Zoltan Szab; title: Rule-following and normativity; title: Kripke's account of the argument against private language / Crispin Wright; title: Semantic normativity / Åsa Wikforss; title: Metaphor; title: What metaphors mean / Donald Davidson; title: How metaphors work : a reply to Donald Davidson / Max Black; title: Vagueness in language; title: Vagueness, logic, and ontology / Achille Varzi; title: Vagueness and ignorance / Timothy Williamson; title: Shifting sands : an interest-relative theory of vagueness / Delia Graff Fara; title: Fictional discourse; title: Truth in fiction / David K. Lewis; title: Talk about fiction / Stefano Predelli; title: Speaking of fictional characters / Amie L. Thomasson.