New waves in philosophy of language

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    • Sawyer, Sarah

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New waves in philosophy of language

edited by Sarah Sawyer

(New waves in philosophy)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Innovative young philosophers present new research articles on a variety of contemporary issues including relation between language and thought, normativity of language, prospects for a naturalistic account of language, nature of linguistic understanding, semantics of proper names and expressive terms, a contemporary construal of analytic truth

Table of Contents

  • Series Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction
  • S.Sawyer Vagueness and Non-Indexical Contextualism
  • J.Akerman & P.Greenough Semantics and the Place of Psychological Evidence
  • E.Borg Naturalism in the Philosophy of Language
  • or Why There is No Such Thing as Language
  • J.Collins Referring When Push-Comes-to-Shove
  • K.Edwards Semantic Normativity in Context
  • A.Hattiangadi Literal Force: A Defence of Conventional Assertion
  • M.Koelbel A Plea for Understanding
  • G.Longworth From the Expressive to the Derogatory: On the Semantic Role for Non-Truth-Conditional Meaning
  • S.Predelli Analyticity in Externalist Languages
  • G.Russell The Modified Predicate Theory of Proper Names
  • S.Sawyer Introduction, Transmission, and the Foundations of Meaning
  • J.Speaks Linguistic Puzzles and Semantic Pretence
  • J.A.Woodbridge& B.Armour-Garb Index

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