New waves in philosophy of language
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New waves in philosophy of language
(New waves in philosophy)
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
- : pbk
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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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