An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language Paperback (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy) - Softcover

Morris, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521603110 ISBN 13: 9780521603119

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

In this textbook, Michael Morris offers a critical introduction to the central issues of the philosophy of language. Each chapter focusses on one or two texts which have had a seminal influence on work in the subject, and uses these as a way of approaching both the central topics and the various traditions of dealing with them. Texts include classic writings by Frege, Russell, Kripke, Quine, Davidson, Austin, Grice and Wittgenstein. Theoretical jargon is kept to a minimum and is fully explained whenever it is introduced. The range of topics covered includes sense and reference, definite descriptions, proper names, natural-kind terms, de re and de dicto necessity, propositional attitudes, truth-theoretical approaches to meaning, radical interpretation, indeterminacy of translation, speech acts, intentional theories of meaning, and scepticism about meaning. The book will be invaluable to students and to all readers who are interested in the nature of linguistic meaning.

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Michael Morris is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He is author of The Good and the True (1992) and numerous articles.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521603110
• ISBN 13: 9780521603119
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 340
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