Philosophy of Language 2nd Edition by Alex Miller ISBN 0415349818 9780415349819

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ISBN 10: 0415349818

ISBN 13: 9780415349819 

Author: Alex Miller 

This engaging and accessible introduction to the philosophy of language provides an important guide to one of the liveliest and most challenging areas of study in philosophy.

Interweaving the historical development of the subject with a thematic overview of the different approaches to meaning, the book provides students with the tools necessary to understand contemporary analytical philosophy. The second edition includes new material on: Chomsky, Wittgenstein and Davidson as well as new chapters on the causal theory of reference, possible worlds semantics and semantic externalism.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Frege: Semantic Value and Reference
1.1 Frege’s logical language
1.2 Syntax
1.3 Semantics and truth
1.4 Sentences and proper names
1.5 Function and object
1.6 Predicates, connectives, and quantifiers
1.7 A semantic theory for a simple language
Further reading

Chapter 2: Frege and Russell: Sense and Definite Descriptions
2.1 The introduction of sense
2.2 The nature of sense
2.3 The objectivity of sense: Frege’s critique of Locke
2.4 Four problems with Frege’s notion of sense
2.5 Kripke on naming and necessity
2.6 A theory of sense?
2.7 Force and tone
2.8 Russell on names and descriptions
2.9 Scope distinctions
2.10 Russell’s attack on sense
2.11 Russell on communication
2.12 Strawson and Donnellan on referring and definite
2.13 Kripke’s causal-historical theory of reference
2.14 Appendix: Frege’s theses on sense and semantic
Further reading

Chapter 3: Sense and Verificationism: Logical Positivism
3.1 From the Tractatus to the verification principle
3.2 The formulation of the verification principle
3.3 Foster on the nature of the verification principle
3.4 The a priori
3.5 Carnap on internal and external questions
3.6 Logical positivism and ethical language
3.7 Moderate holism
Further reading

Chapter 4: Scepticism about Sense (I): Quine on Analyticity and Translation
4.1 Quine’s attack on the analytic/synthetic distinction: Introduction
4.2 The argument of “Two Dogmas” (part I)
4.3 Criticism of “Two Dogmas” (part I)
4.4 The argument of “Two Dogmas” (part II)
4.5 Criticism of “Two Dogmas” (part II)
4.6 Quine on the indeterminacy of translation: Introduction
4.7 The argument from below
4.8 Evans and Hookway on the argument from below
4.9 The argument from above
4.10 Conclusion
Further reading

Chapter 5: Scepticism about Sense (II): Kripke’s Wittgenstein and the Sceptical Paradox
5.1 The sceptical paradox
5.2 The sceptical solution and the argument against solitary language
5.3 Boghossian’s argument against the skeptical solution
5.4 Wright’s objections to the sceptical solution
5.5 Zalabardo’s objection to the sceptical solution
5.6 The normativity of meaning?
5.7 “Factualist” interpretations of Kripke’s Wittgenstein
Further reading

Chapter 6: Saving Sense: Responses to the Sceptical Paradox
6.1 Linguistic meaning and mental content
6.2 Sophisticated dispositionalism
6.3 Lewis-style reductionism and Ultra-Sophisticated Dispositionalism
6.4 Fodor’s “asymmetric dependency” account of meaning
6.5 McGinn on normativity and the ability conception of understanding
6.6 Wright’s judgement-dependent conception of meaning
6.7 Wittgenstein’s dissolution of the sceptical paradox?
Further reading

Chapter 7: Sense, Intention, and Speech Acts: Grice’s Programme
7.1 Homeric struggles: Two approaches to sense
7.2 Grice on speaker’s-meaning and sentence-meaning
7.3 Searle’s modifications: Illocutionary and perlocutionary intentions
7.4 Objections to Gricean analyses
7.5 Response to Blackburn
7.6 Strawson on referring revisited
Further reading

Chapter 8: Sense and Truth: Tarski and Davidson
8.1 Davidson and Frege
8.2 Davidson’s adequacy conditions for theories of meaning
8.3 Intensional and extensional theories of meaning
8.4 Extensional adequacy and Tarski’s convention (T)
8.5 Tarskian truth theories
8.6 Truth and translation: Two problems for Davidson
8.7 Radical interpretation and the principle of charity
8.8 Holism and T -theorems
8.9 Conclusion: Theories of meaning and natural languages
Further reading

Chapter 9: Sense, World, and Metaphysics
9.1 Realism
9.2 Non-cognitivism and the Frege-Geach problem
9.3 Realism and verification-transcendent truth
9.4 Acquisition, manifestation, and rule-following: The arguments against verification-transcendent truth
9.5 Twin-earth, meaning, mind, and world
9.6 Grades of objectivity: Wright on anti-realism
9.7 Two threats of quietism
Further reading

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