Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction

ISBN-13: 9781138504585 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 238 str.

William G. Lycan

Opis

Now in its Third Edition, Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction　introduces students to the main issues and theories in twentieth-century philosophy of language, focusing specifically on linguistic phenomena.

Recenzje

"An authoritative, pedagogically sensitive and superbly clear introduction to the central issues of the philosophy of language."

Paul Boghossian, New York University, USA

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Meaning and Reference Part 1: Reference and Referring  2. Definite Descriptions  3. Proper Names: The Description Theory  4. Proper Names: Direct Reference and the Causal–Historical Theory  Part II: Theories of Meaning  5. Traditional Theories of Meaning  6. "Use" Theories  7. Psychological Theories: Grice's Program  8. Verificationism  9. Truth-Condition Theories: Davidson's Program  10. Truth-Condition Theories: Possible Worlds and Intensional Semantics  Part III: Pragmatics and Speech Acts  11. Semantic Pragmatics  12. Speech Acts and Illocutionary Force  13. Implicative Relations  Part IV: The Expressive and the Figurative  14. Expressive Language  15. Metaphor  Glossary  Bibliography  Index

O autorze

William G. Lycan is William Rand Kenan, Jr. Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and currently Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. His eight books include Consciousness and Experience (1996), Real Conditionals (2001), and Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction (Third Edition, 2018).