| Description |
1 online resource (335 p.) |
| Series |
What Is This Thing Called? Series |
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What Is This Thing Called? Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsements Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Preface to the Third Edition -- Introduction -- What's Ahead -- Eight Preparatory Notes -- Cognitive Meaning and Expressive Meaning -- Meaning and Force -- Context-Dependence -- The Roles of Propositions -- Compositionality, Structure and Understanding -- 1 Naïve Semantics and the Language of Logic -- Naïve Theory: Singular Terms, Predicates and Reference -- Truth and Meaning for Atomic Sentences |
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Logical Syntax and Logical Operators -- Generalising at the Level of Singular Terms and Predicates -- Historical Notes -- Chapter Summary -- Study Questions -- Primary Reading -- Notes -- 2 Fregean Semantics -- Two Problems for Naïve Semantics -- The Sense-Reference Distinction -- The Distinction Extended -- Compositionality Again -- The Reference of a Sentence -- Applying the Theory -- Substitutivity and Extensionality -- The Analysis of Propositional Attitudes -- The Objectivity of Sense -- Predicate Reference and the Concept Horse Problem |
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Further Discussion: The Context Principle -- Historical Notes -- Chapter Summary -- Study Questions -- Primary Reading -- Secondary Reading -- Notes -- 3 Russellian Semantics -- The Task for Russell -- The Theory of Definite Descriptions -- Applying the Theory of Descriptions -- Names as Disguised Definite Descriptions -- Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description -- Historical Notes -- Chapter Summary -- Study Questions -- Primary Reading -- Secondary Reading -- Notes -- 4 Russell's Theory of Judgement, the Early Wittgenstein and Logical Positivism |
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Propositions, Facts and Russell's Theory of Judgement -- The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus -- Verificationism I: Ayer -- Verificationism II: Carnap's Logical Empiricism -- The Vienna Circle and the Protocol Debate -- Historical Notes -- Chapter Summary -- Study Questions -- Primary Reading -- Secondary Reading -- Notes -- 5 The Late Wittgenstein -- Language Games -- Family Resemblance, Tools and Cities -- To Follow a Rule I -- To Follow a Rule II -- Private Language -- Historical Notes -- Chapter Summary -- Study Questions -- Primary Reading -- Secondary Reading |
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6 Quine's Philosophy of Language -- Quine's Naturalism -- The Field Linguist -- Indeterminacy -- Meaning and Analytic Truth -- The Argument of 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism' -- Regimentation -- Analysis Versus Replacement -- Further Discussion: Ontological Relativity, and Inscrutability and Indeterminacy Distinguished -- The Place of Naturalism -- Historical Notes -- Chapter Summary -- Study Questions -- Primary Reading -- Secondary Reading -- Note -- 7 Kripke on Naming and Necessity -- Necessity, Possibility and Possible Worlds: A Primer -- The Descriptivist Paradigm |
| Summary |
Thoroughly revised throughout and includes a new chapter on Chomsky's theory of grammar. The concluding chapter on modern directions in philosophy of language has been expanded to two chapters and now cover crucial emergent areas of study such as slurs, conceptual engineering, and experimental philosophy |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Kripke's Objections to the Description Theory of Proper Names |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781003837329 |
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1003837328 |
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