Language and Reality
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978-0-631-19689-1 (ISBN)
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Completely revised and updated in its Second Edition, Language and Reality provides students, philosophers and cognitive scientists with a lucid and provocative introduction to the philosophy of language.In so doing, the authors address questions of central importance to the philosophy of language, such as: 'What is Language', 'How does it related to the mind?', 'How does it relate to the world?', and 'Should our view of language influence our view of the world?'. Unique in its approach, it brings together a range of topics and explains the relevance of these questions to broader issues in epistemology, metaphysics, and psychology. Its theoretical and naturalist perspectives encourage lively and engaging discussions.
Michael Devitt taught philosophy at the University of Sydney from 1971 until 1987 and is now Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland. His publications includes Designation (1981), Coming to Our Senses: A Naturalistic Program for Semantic Localism (1996), and Realism and Truth Second Edition (1997). Kim Sterelny is Reader in Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His research interests center on philosophy of biology, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of mind. His publications include The Representational Theory of Mind (Blackwell, 1990).
Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to the First Edition. Part I: Introduction: 1. Introduction: 1.1 The Philosophy of Language. 1.2 What is the Problem? 1.3 What is a Theory of Language? ** 1.4 The Menu. Suggested Reading. Part II: Meaning: 2. Truth and reference: 2.1 Meaning and Truth. 2.2 Explaining Truth Conditions. **2.3 Nonindicatives. 2.4 Explaining Structure. 2.5 Are Referential Roles Enough? 2.6 Enter Senses. Suggested Reading. 3. Description Theories of Reference: Names: 3.1 The Classical Description Theory. 3.2 The Modern Description Theory. 3.3 Ignorance and Error. 3.4 Reference Borrowing. 3.5 Rejecting Description Theories. Suggested Reading. 4. A Causal Theory of Reference: Names:4.1 A Causal Theory. 4.2 Virtues of the Causal Theory. 4.3 Developing the Theory. 4.4 Direct Reference. 4.5 The Qua-Problem. Suggested Reading. 5. Theories of Reference: Other Terms: 5.1 Description Theories of Natural Kind Terms. 5.2 A Causal Theory of Natural Kind Terms. **5.3 The Qua-Problem. **5.4 Other Kind Terms. **5.5 Hybrid Theories. 5.6 Analyticity, Apriority, and Necessity. **5.7 Donnellan's Distinction. **5.8 Designational Terms. Suggested Reading. 6. Syntactic Structure. 6.1 Introduction: 6.2 Some Reasons for Structure. 6.3 Linguistic Categories. **6.4 Anaphora. Suggested Reading. Part III: Language and Mind: 7. Thought and Meaning: 7.1 Thoughts as Inner Representations. 7.2 The Language-of -Thought Hypothesis. 7.3 A Public Language of Thought or "Mentalese"? 7.4 Grice's Theory of Meaning. 7.5 Avoiding the Explanatory Circle. 7.6 The Origins of Language. **7.7 Indicator and Teleological Semantics. Suggested Reading. 8. Linguistic Competence: 8.1 Introduction. 8.2 The Conflation of Symbols and Competence. 8.3 Two Proposals on the Psychological Reality of Syntactic Rules. 8.4 Knowledge-How Versus Knowledge-That. 8.5 Built-In Versus Represented Rules. 8.6 Cartesian Intuitions. 8.7 "The Only Theory in Town". 8.8 Are Syntactic Rules Built in Processing-Rules? 8.9 Linguistic Competence as a Translation Ability. 8.10 Chomskyan nativism. Suggested Reading. 9. Defending Representation: 9.1 Introduction. 9.2 Deflationism. 9.3 Functional-Role Semantics and "Narrow" Meanings. 9.4 The Two-Factor Theory. 9.5 Kripke's Skeptical Argument. Suggested Reading. 10. Linguistic Relativity: 10.1 Introduction. 10.2 The Tyranny of Vocabulary. 10.3 The Tyranny of Syntax. 10.4 The Scientific Whorfians. 10.5 The Rejection of Scientific Whorfianism. Suggested Reading. Part IV: Language and Realism: 11. Verification: 11.1 Realism. 11.2 Logical Positivism and the Elimination of the Realism Dispute. 11.3 Dummett and the Misidentification of the Realism Dispute. 11.4 Verificationism. Suggested Reading. 12. Worldmaking: 12.1 Kant. 12.2 Whorfian Constructivism. 12.3 Scientific Constructivism. 12.4 The Renegade Putnam. Suggested Reading. 13. Structuralism: 13.1 Introduction. 13.2 Saussure's Linguistics. 13.3 The Rejection of Reference. 13.4 The Rejection of Realism. Suggested Reading. Part V: Language and Philosophy: 14. First Philosophy: 14.1 Philosophy Naturalized. 14.2Traditional First Philosophy; the One-Over Many Problem. 14.3 The Linguistic Turn: Ordinary Language Philosophy. 14.4 The Linguistic Turn: Conceptual Analysis. Suggested Reading. ** 15. Rational Psychology: 15.1 Rational Psychology Versus Protoscience. 15.2 Dennett. 15.3 Davidson. 15.4 Principles of Charity. 15.5 Against Charity. Suggested Reading. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. ** indicates chapters and sections which are difficult and probably best ignored in an initial approach.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 17.1.1999 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 666 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie |
| ISBN-10 | 0-631-19689-7 / 0631196897 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-631-19689-1 / 9780631196891 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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