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1 online resource (315 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Logico-Semantics, Logical Positivism, and their Discontents; Notes; Chapter 1 The Classical Empiricist Account of Meaning; 1.1 The Inessentiality of Language; 1.2 The '"Idea" Idea'; 1.3 The Primacy of the Naming Relation; 1.4 The Linguistic Turn, Anti-Psychologism, and the Primacy of the Sentence; 1.5 Logical Analysis; Notes; References and Further Reading; Chapter 2 Classical Empiricism and the Problem of the A Priori: Mill, Kant, and Frege |
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2.1 Some Background Distinctions: A Priori/A Posteriori, Analytic/Synthetic, Necessary/Contingent2.2 Mill; 2.3 Kant; 2.4 Frege; 2.5 Appendix: Russell's Set-Theoretic Paradox; Notes; References and Further Reading; Chapter 3 Frege's Begriffsschrift; 3.1 Logic and Its Limitations; 3.2 Function and Argument; 3.3 Predicates, Quantifiers and the Solution to the Problem of Multiple Generality; 3.4 Sentence Connectives and the Solution to the Problem of a Unified Logical Notation; 3.5 Identity; 3.6 Appendix: Concordance between Frege's Begriffsschrift Notation and the Kalish/Montague/Mar Notation |
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NotesReferences and Further Reading; Chapter 4 Frege on Sense and Reference; 4.1 Three Semantic Puzzles for a Reference-Only (Extensionalist) Account of Meaning; 4.2 The Sense/Reference Distinction; 4.3 The Problems of Non-Referring Singular Terms and Identity Statements; 4.4 The Problem of Belief Contexts; 4.5 Problems with Frege's Solution; 4.6 Definite Descriptions and Some Further Consequences of Frege's Sense/Reference Distinction; Notes; References and Further Reading; Chapter 5 Russell's Theory of Descriptions; 5.1 The Scope and Basic Strategy of the Theory of Descriptions |
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5.2 The Theory Applied to Definite Descriptions, including Non-Referring Definite Descriptions5.3 Four Key Features of Russell's Analysis of Definite Descriptions; 5.4 Russell's Solutions to Some Semantic Puzzles; 5.5 Russell's Theory and Excluded Middle; 5.6 Critical Discussion (I): Strawson; 5.7 Critical Discussion (II): Donnellan; Notes; References and Further Reading; Chapter 6 Kripke's Causal Theory of Reference; 6.1 Core Features of Russell's Theory; 6.2 Three Key Problems for Russell's Description Theory; 6.3 The Cluster Theory and its Analogous Problems3 |
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6.4 Kripke: Correct Descriptions are neither Necessary nor Sufficient for Names to Refer6.5 The Causal Theory of Reference-Grounding and Reference-Borrowing; 6.6 The Causal Theory's Solution to the Three Problems; 6.7 Rigid Designation and Necessary A Posteriori Propositions; 6.8 The Distinction between Fixing the Reference and Giving the Meaning; 6.9 The Contingency of 'Hesperus Is the evening star' vs. The Necessity of 'Hesperus Is Phosphorus'; 6.10 Problems for Kripke's View; Notes; References and Further Reading; Chapter 7 Logical Positivism I: Ayer |
| Summary |
A Critical Introduction to Philosophy of Language is a historically oriented introduction to the central themes in philosophy of language. Its narrative arc covers Locke's 'idea' theory, Mill's empiricist account of math and logic, Frege and Russell's development of modern logic and its subsequent deployment in their pioneering program of 'logical analysis', Ayer and Carnap's logical positivism, Quine's critique of logical positivism and elaboration of a naturalist-behaviorist approach to meaning, and later-Wittgenstein's 'ordinary language philosophy'-inspired rejection of the project of logical analysis. Thus, it historically situates the two central programs in early twentieth-century English-speaking philosophy--logical analysis and logical positivism--and discusses the central critiques they face later in the century in the works of Quine and the later-Wittgenstein. Unlike other secondary studies in philosophy of language, A Critical Introduction to Philosophy of Language is not just a 'greatest hits album', i.e., a discontinuous compilation in which classics in the field are presented together with their standard criticisms one after the other. Instead, Fennell develops a particular, historical-thematic narrative in which the figures and ideas he treats are introduced in highly intentional ways. And by cross-referencing them throughout his discussions, he highlights the contributions they make to the narrative they comprise |
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7.1 Three Central Doctrines of Logical Positivism |
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Print version record |
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429651700 |
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0429651708 |
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