New Waves in Philosophy of Language

S. Sawyer

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Palgrave
04 January 2010

linguistics; Philosophy of language; Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Philosophy of mind

Series: New Waves in Philosophy

Innovative young philosophers present new research articles on a variety of contemporary issues including relation between language and thought, normativity of language, prospects for a naturalistic account of language, nature of linguistic understanding, semantics of proper names and expressive terms, a contemporary construal of analytic truth

Edited by: S. Sawyer
Imprint: Palgrave
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 384g
ISBN: 9780230224377
ISBN 10: 0230224377
Series: New Waves in Philosophy
Publication Date: 04 January 2010
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Series Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction; S.Sawyer Vagueness and Non-Indexical Contextualism; J.Åkerman & P.Greenough Semantics and the Place of Psychological Evidence; E.Borg Naturalism in the Philosophy of Language; or Why There is No Such Thing as Language; J.Collins Referring When Push-Comes-to-Shove; K.Edwards Semantic Normativity in Context; A.Hattiangadi Literal Force: A Defence of Conventional Assertion; M.Kölbel A Plea for Understanding; G.Longworth From the Expressive to the Derogatory: On the Semantic Role for Non-Truth-Conditional Meaning; S.Predelli Analyticity in Externalist Languages; G.Russell The Modified Predicate Theory of Proper Names; S.Sawyer Introduction, Transmission, and the Foundations of Meaning; J.Speaks Linguistic Puzzles and Semantic Pretence; J.A.Woodbridge& B.Armour-Garb Index