Philosophical Essays, Volume 1 (eBook)

Natural Language: What It Means and How We Use It

Scott Soames (Autor)

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2008
440 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3784-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The two volumes of Philosophical Essays bring together the most important essays written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of language. Scott Soames has selected thirty-one essays spanning nearly three decades of thinking about linguistic meaning and the philosophical significance of language. A judicious collection of old and new, these volumes include sixteen essays published in the 1980s and 1990s, nine published since 2000, and six new essays. The essays in Volume 1 investigate what linguistic meaning is; how the meaning of a sentence is related to the use we make of it; what we should expect from empirical theories of the meaning of the languages we speak; and how a sound theoretical grasp of the intricate relationship between meaning and use can improve the interpretation of legal texts. The essays in Volume 2 illustrate the significance of linguistic concerns for a broad range of philosophical topics--including the relationship between language and thought; the objects of belief, assertion, and other propositional attitudes; the distinction between metaphysical and epistemic possibility; the nature of necessity, actuality, and possible worlds; the necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori; truth, vagueness, and partial definition; and skepticism about meaning and mind. The two volumes of Philosophical Essays are essential for anyone working on the philosophy of language.

Autor

Scott Soames is director of the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. His books include Reference and Description (Princeton), Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volumes 1 and 2 (Princeton), Beyond Rigidity, and Understanding Truth.

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Ambiguity • Analytic philosophy • Anaphora (Linguistics) • Ascription • Bob Hale (philosopher) • clause • Complement (linguistics) • conjunct • Demonstrative • Denotation • Description • Donald Davidson (philosopher) • Epistemology • Essay • essentialism • Eventuality (phrenology) • Explanation • explication • explicature • Falsity • Frege's puzzle • grammar • Grammaticality • implicature • indexicality • Indirect speech • inference • injunction • Intension • intensional logic • Intonation (linguistics) • Jerry Fodor • J. L. Austin • Language acquisition • Lexical Semantics • linguistic description • Linguistics • Linguistic System • logicism • Meaning (linguistics) • Mental operations • Metaphor • natural language • object language • Operationalization • Peter Ludlow • philosophical analysis • Philosophical investigations • Philosophical Logic • Philosophical Perspectives • philosophical studies • Philosophy of Language • philosophy of mathematics • Philosophy of mind • pragmatic maxim • Pragmatics • Predicate (grammar) • Predicate (mathematical logic) • presumption • Presupposition • pronoun • Proposition • propositional attitude • Propositional function • referent • Reinterpretation • relative clause • relevance theory • Requirement • Scalar implicature • S. (Dorst novel) • Semantic holism • Semantic property • Semantics • Sentence clause structure • Sentence (linguistics) • Singular term • situation semantics • Stephen Neale • stipulation • Subject (grammar) • Suggestion • Supplement (publishing) • Theorem • Theoretical Linguistics • theory • Theory of descriptions • Theory of Mind • The Philosopher • Thesis • thesis statement • Transformational Grammar • Truth • Truth condition • Truth function • Underlying representation • Universal Grammar • utterance • word and object • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3784-7 / 1400837847
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3784-7 / 9781400837847