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What is this thing called Philosophy of Language? - Gary Kemp

What is this thing called Philosophy of Language?

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Buch | Softcover
242 Seiten
2017 | 2nd edition
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-22582-4 (ISBN)
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The ideas of some of the subject's great founding figures, such as Frege, Wittgenstein and Russell, as well as Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam, are central to many philosophical debates. Chapter summaries, annotated further reading and a glossary make this an indispensable introduction to students coming to the subject for the first time.
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.

In 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 development



Frege’s theory of sense and reference; Russell's theory of definite descriptions



Wittgenstein's Tractatus, Ayer, and the Logical Positivists



recent perspectives including Kripke, Kaplan and Putnam; arguments concerning necessity, indexicals, rigid designation and natural kinds



The pragmatics of language, including speech-acts, presupposition and conversational implicature



Davidson’s theory of language, the ‘principle of charity’, and the indeterminacy of interpretation



puzzles 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 Wittgenstein



Contemporary directions, including contextualism, fictional objects and the phenomenon of slurs

This 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.

Gary Kemp is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, UK. He has authored or edited various books and articles in the Philosophy of language, including Quine versus Davidson: Truth, Reference and Meaning.

List of figures and tables. Preface. Introduction. 1 Naïve semantics and the language of logic. 2 Fregean semantics. 3 Russellian semantics. 4 Russell’s Theory of Judgement, The Early Wittgenstein, and Logical Positivism. 5 Kripke on naming and necessity. 6 Context dependence, indexicality and natural kinds. 7 Pragmatics. 8 The propositional attitudes. 9 Davidson’s philosophy of language. 10 Quine’s philosophy of language. 11 The Late Wittgenstein. 12 Modern directions. Glossary. Bibliography. Index

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Reihe/Serie What is this thing called?
Zusatzinfo 7 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 174 x 246 mm
Gewicht 430 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10 1-138-22582-7 / 1138225827
ISBN-13 978-1-138-22582-4 / 9781138225824
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