Philosophy of Language (eBook)

Scott Soames (Autor)

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2010
200 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3393-1 (ISBN)

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A masterful overview of the philosophy of language from one of its most important thinkersIn this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field-its principal achievements, its most pressing current questions, and its most promising future directions. In addition to explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical framework for the study of language, Scott Soames investigates foundational concepts-such as truth, reference, and meaning-that are central to the philosophy of language and important to philosophy as a whole. The first part of the book describes how philosophers from Frege, Russell, Tarski, and Carnap to Kripke, Kaplan, and Montague developed precise techniques for understanding the languages of logic and mathematics, and how these techniques have been refined and extended to the study of natural human languages. The book then builds on this account, exploring new thinking about propositions, possibility, and the relationship between meaning, assertion, and other aspects of language use.An invaluable overview of the philosophy of language by one of its most important practitioners, this book will be essential reading for all serious students of philosophy.

Autor

Scott Soames is professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California. His many books include What Is Meaning?, Philosophical Essays, Reference and Description, and Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century (all Princeton).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.7.2010
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy
• Zusatzinfo: 4 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Adjective • Alfred Tarski • Ambiguity • Analytic philosophy • Anaphora (Linguistics) • Antecedent (grammar) • Approximation • A priori and a posteriori • Ascription • assertion • Bertrand Russell • Classical Logic • clause • conjunct • consequent • Contradiction • Counterfactual conditional • counterfactual conditionals • David Kaplan • David Lewis • Definite description • Demonstrative • Denotation • Description • Donald Davidson • Empirical Evidence • epistemic possibility • Epistemology • essentialism • Existence • Explanation • Explanatory Model • Falsity • formal language • Frege's puzzle • Generalized quantifier • Gottlob Frege • Illustration • implicature • indexicality • inference • Instance (computer science) • Intension • intensional logic • Kripke • language • Language use • Liar paradox • linguistic description • Linguistic meaning • Linguistics • Logic • Logical connective • logical consequence • Logical truth • Mathematical Logic • Mathematics • Meaning • Meaning (linguistics) • Meaning postulate • Metaphysics • Modal Logic • Modal operator • Natural kind • natural language • Natural Languages • noun • Noun phrase • Ontological Commitment • Philosopher • philosophical analysis • Philosophical Logic • philosophical semantics • philosophical theory • Philosophy • Philosophy of Language • Phrase • Possibility • possible world • possible worlds semantics • Predicate (grammar) • Predicate (mathematical logic) • Preposition and postposition • Presupposition • pronoun • Proposition • propositional attitude • Propositional function • propositions • Quantification (science) • Quantifier (linguistics) • Quantifier (logic) • reason • Reference • referent • Requirement • rigid designator • Robert Montague • Robert Stalnaker • Rudolf Carnap • Saul Kripke • Semantics • semanticsаragmatics interface • Sense and reference • Sentence (linguistics) • Suggestion • Syntax • Terminology • Theorem • theory • Thought • transitive verb • Truth • Truth condition • Truth-conditional Semantics • Truth function • truth-theoretic semantics • Truth value • Understanding • utterance • Variable (mathematics) • Verb • verb phrase • vocabulary • world-states
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3393-0 / 1400833930
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3393-1 / 9781400833931