Epistemology of language
By: edited by Alex Barber.
Contributors: Barber, Alex.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Clarendon Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 541
Subjects: Language and languages -- Philosophy.; Knowledge, Theory of.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Many of the contributions to this collection developed out of papers presented to a conference hosted by the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sheffield, 10-13 July 2000"--P. [v].
Table of contents: title: Rabbit-pots and supernovas : on the relevance of psychological data to linguistic theory / Louise M. Antony; title: Is linguistics a branch of psychology? / Stephen Laurence; title: Linguistics is not psychology / Michael Devitt; title: Intentional content and a Chomskian linguistics / Georges Rey; title: Does linguistic competence require knowledge of language? / Robert J. Matthews; title: The character of natural language semantics / Paul M. Pietroski; title: Grasping objects and contents / Reinaldo Elugardo and Robert J. Stainton; title: Knowledge of meaning / Stephen Schiffer; title: Understanding and knowledge of what is said / Elizabeth Fricker; title: Truth conditions and their recognition / Alex Barber; title: Externalism, logical form and linguistic intentions / Peter Ludlow; title: Ignorance of meaning / Gabriel Segal; title: Externalism and the Fregean tradition / Jessica Brown; title: What is the acquisition argument? / Alexander Miller; title: Remembering, imagining, and the first person / James Higginbotham.