The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language

TRAMA

Ernie Lepore and Barry Smith present the definitive reference work for this diverse and fertile field of philosophy. A superb international team contribute forty brand-new essays covering topics from the nature of language to meaning, truth, and reference, and the interfaces of philosophy of language with linguistics, psychology, logic, epistemology, and metaphysics. It will be an essential resource for anyone working in the central areas of philosophy, for linguists interested in syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and for psychologists and cognitive scientists working on language.

NOTE EDITORE

The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences. Ernie Lepore and Barry Smith present the definitive reference work for this diverse and fertile field of philosophy. A superb international team contribute more than forty brand-new essays covering topics from the nature of language to meaning, truth, and reference, and the interfaces of philosophy of language with linguistics, psychology, logic, epistemology, and metaphysics. It will be an essential resource for anyone working in the central areas of philosophy, for linguists interested in syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and for psychologists and cognitive scientists working on language.

SOMMARIO

1 - Frege's Contribution to Philosophy of Language2 - Wittgenstein on Language3 - Philosophy of Language in the Twentieth Century4 - Psychologism5 - Language as Internal6 - Languages and Idiolects: Their Language and Ours7 - Rule-Following, Meaning, and Normativity8 - Naturalist Theories of Meaning9 - Truth and Meaning10 - Meaning Holism11 - Indeterminacy of Translation12 - Intention-Based Semantics13 - Propositional Content14 - Conceptual Role Semantics15 - Semantic Internalism and Externalism16 - Relevance Theory17 - The Distinction between Semantics and Pragmatics18 - The Essence of Reference19 - Predicate Reference20 - Rigidity21 - Names and Natural Kind Terms22 - What Does it Take to Refer?23 - Formal Semantics24 - Two-Dimensional Semantics25 - Deflationism26 - Compositionality27 - Opacity28 - Tense29 - Plurals30 - The Pragmatics of the Logical Constants31 - Quantifiers32 - Logical Form and LF33 - Metaphor34 - Semantics for Non-Declaratives35 - Speech Acts and Performatives36 - Meaning and Reference37 - What I Know When I Know a Language38 - Realism and Antirealism39 - Triangulation40 - Shared Content41 - The Perils and Pleasures of Interpretation

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199259410
• Collana: Oxford Handbooks
• Dimensioni: 254 x 61.4 x 180 mm Ø 2000 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pagine Arabe: 1100