Fakta

Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Language	English
Book type	Paperback
Utgiven	2017-12-12
ISBN	9781138225824
Kategori(er)	Language

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Philosophy of language explores some of the most abstract yet most fundamental questions in philosophy. The ideas of some of the subject's great founding figures, such as Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell, as well as of more recent figures such as Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam, are central to a great many philosophical debates to this day.ãIn this clear and carefully structured introduction to the subject Gary Kemp explains the following key topics:the basic nature of philosophy of language, its concepts, and its historical developmentFrege's theory of sense and reference; Russell's theory of definite descriptionsãWittgenstein's Tractatus, Ayer, and the Logical Positivistsrecent perspectives including Kripke, Kaplan and Putnam; arguments concerning necessity, indexicals, rigid designation and natural kindsThe pragmatics of language, including speech-acts, presupposition and conversational implicatureDavidson's theory of language, the `principle of charity', and the indeterminacy of interpretationpuzzles surrounding the propositional attitudes (sentences which ascribe beliefs to people)Quine's naturalism and its consequences for philosophy of language.The challenges presented by the later WittgensteinContemporary directions, including contextualism, fictional objects and the phenomenon of slursThis second edition has been thoroughly revised to include new key topics and updated material. Chapter summaries, annotated further reading and a glossary make this an indispensable introduction to those teaching philosophy of language and will be particularly useful for students coming to the subject for the first time.

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