Meaning, Truth, and the Limits of Analysis

Ten Studies

David Wiggins (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2022
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-872617-3 (ISBN)

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This volume draws together four decades of work by David Wiggins on topics to do with language, meaning, truth, and the limit of semantic analysis. Topics include the historical background of contemporary philosophical accounts of meaning, sentence structure, definitions, and the nature of truth.

This volume draws together work by David Wiggins on topics to do with language, meaning, truth, and the limit of semantic analysis, from 1980 to 2020. Each chapter draws upon previously published material, but that material has been revised, sometimes significantly, for republication here.

Opening with a selective account of a century's work in the philosophy of meaning, from Frege and Wittgenstein to the late twentieth century, the book engages first with the nuts and bolts of sentence-construction: predicates and the copula, quantifiers, names, existence treated as a second-level predicate, and adverbial modification. The following five chapters then treat of definition and (as dreamt of by Leibniz and others) the terminus of semantic analysis; the idea of natural languages as real things with a history; the idea of truth conceived as correlative with inquiry (C. S. Peirce) and, finally, the properties we look for in truth itself--the marks, as Frege or Leibniz might have said, of the concept true.

David Wiggins was Wykeham Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford from 1993 until his retirement in 2000. Before that, he was Professor at Bedford College, London; Fellow of University College, Oxford; and Professor at Birkbeck College, London. He is the author of Identity and Spatio-Temporal Continuity (Blackwell, 1967), Sameness and Substance (Blackwell, 1980), Needs, Values, Truth (amended 3rd edition Oxford, 2002), Sameness and Substance Renewed (Cambridge, 2001), Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality (Penguin, 2006), and Continuants: Their Activity, their Being, and their Identity (Oxford, 2018).

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Introduction
1: Meaning and Truth-Conditions: From Frege's Grand Design to Davidson's
2: Concept and Copula
3: Donald Davidson's Account of Semantic Interpretation. How Comprehensive Is It? 'All', 'Some', and 'Most'
4: Names, Existence, and Contingency
5: Modes of Grammatical Combination, Adverbs, and the Case of Action Sentences
6: Three Moments in the Theory of Definition or Analysis: Its Possibility, Its Aim or Aims, and Its Limit or Terminus
7: Locke: 'The Great Conduit'
8: Languages as Things in their Own Right
9: Peirce: Reflections on Inquiry and Truth Arising from his Method for the Fixation of Belief
10: A Substantivist-cum-Indefinibilist Account of Truth and the Marks of Truth

Erscheinungsdatum	29.03.2022
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 241 mm
Gewicht	442 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10	0-19-872617-1 / 0198726171
ISBN-13	978-0-19-872617-3 / 9780198726173
Zustand	Neuware