Linguistics and Philosophy (eBook)

The Controversial Interface

R. Harre, R. Harris (Herausgeber)

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2017 | 1. Auflage
266 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-1-4832-9922-8 (ISBN)

Infos

As hopes that generative linguistics might solve philosophical problems about the mind give way to disillusionment, old problems concerning the relationship between linguistics and philosophy survive unresolved. This collection surveys the historical engagement between the two, and opens up avenues for further reflection. In Part 1 two contrasting views are presented of the interface nowadays called 'philosophy of linguistics'. Part 2 gives a detailed historical survey of the engagement of analytic philosophy with linguistic problems during the present century, and sees the imposition by philosophers of an 'exploratory' model of thinking as a major challenge to the discipline of linguistics. Part 3 poses the problem of whether linguistics is dedicated to describing independently existing linguistic structures or to imposing its own structures on linguistic phenomena. In Part 4 Harris points out some similarities in the way an eminent linguist and an eminent philosopher invoke the analogy between languages and games; while Taylor analyses the rationale of our metalinguistic claims and their relationship to linguistic theorizing. Providing a wide range of views and ideas this book will be of interest to all those interested and involved in the interface of philosophy and linguistics.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Linguistics and Philosophy: The Controversial Interface 4
Copyright Page 5
Table of Contents 6
List of Contributors 8
Preface 10
Part 1: Demarcation Disputes 14
Chapter 1. What is philosophy of linguistics 16
References 32
Chapter 2. Why is there no 'true' philosophy of linguistics? 34
Notes 52
References 52
Part 2: Philosophical Approaches 56
Chapter 3. Analytic philosophy and language 58
The Agenda of Analytic Philosophy 58
Why the Philosophy of Language 62
Alternative Philosophical Views of Language 67
Philosophy of Language as Elimination (Quine) 71
Philosophy of Language as Explication (Wittgenstein) 75
Philosophy of Language as Exploration (Neo-Carnapians) 81
Quine's Elimination vs. Kripke's Exploration 89
Summary of the Analytic Philosophy of Language 93
Wittgensteinian Explication vs. Analytic Philosophy of Language 94
Ordinary Language Philosophy50 103
Summary 110
The Relevance of Analytic Philosophy to Linguistics 111
Notes 112
References 118
Chapter 4. Solving and dissolving: patrolling the boundaries of language 122
Introduction 122
Solving the Problem of 'the Self ' 124
The Rationality of Scientific Discourse 127
Halting the Regresses of Consciousness 131
The Boundaries of Linguistics 134
References 135
Chapter 5. Linguistic Creativity 138
I. THE PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF LINGUISTIC CREATIVITY 141
II. LINGUISTICS AFTER MECHANISM 156
Notes 170
References 173
Part 3: Linguistic Approaches 176
Chapter 6. Analysis and notation: the case for a non-realist linguistics 178
References 191
Chapter 7. Negativism as an effective methodology in linguistic description 192
References 209
Chapter 8. Processualism in linguistic theory and method 212
Six or Seven Fallacies of Structural Linguistics 214
A Kiss and a Promise 223
Idealism versus Objectivism in Structuralist Theory: A Processualist Critique 223
The Aristotelian Precedent for a Critique of Structuralism: A Footnote 227
Material cause 227
Formal cause 228
Final cause 228
Efficient cause 228
Acknowledgements 228
References 229
Part 4: Convergences? 230
Chapter 9. Saussure, Wittgenstein and la règle du jeu 232
References 244
Chapter 10. Why we need a theory of language 246
References 259
Author Index 262
Subject Index 266

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.1.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-4832-9922-8 / 1483299228
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4832-9922-8 / 9781483299228