Philosophy of Language, Volume 16

ISBN-13: 9781405160315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 368 str.

Ernest Sosa; Enrique Villanueva

Opis

Some of the most distinguished active contributors to the field join together for a collection of their most recent work.

• Brings together important new papers by many of the most distinguished philosophers of language
  
• Takes up some of the central issues in the field in recent years
  
• Includes some of the best cutting-edge work in philosophy of language

Spis treści

1. Things and Their Aspects: NICHOLAS ASHER.

2. Now You Know Who Hong Oak Yun Is: DAVID BRAUN.

3. Quotation, Context Sensitivity, Signs and Expressions: HERMAN CAPPELEN AND ERNIE LEPORE.

4. Descriptions with Adverbs of Quantification: DELIA GRAFF FARA.

5. MacFarlane on Relative Truth: RICHARD G. HECK, JR.

6. Sententialism: The Thesis that Complement Clauses Refer to Themselves: JAMES HIGGINBOTHAM.

7. Soames on Descriptive Reference–Fixing: ROBIN JESHION.

8. Singular Terms, Reference and Methodology in Semantics: JEFFREY C. KING.

9. From Sherlock and Buffy to Klingon and Norrathian Platinum Pieces: Pretense, Contextalism, and the Myth of Fiction: PETER LUDLOW.

10. The Meaning of Water : An Unsolved Problem: WILLIAM G. LYCAN.

11. Knowledge of Language and Linguistic Competence : ROBERT J. MATTHEWS.

12. Interpreting Concatenation and Concatenates: PAUL M. PIETROSKI.

13. Understanding as Immersion: R. M. SAINSBURY.

14. Terms in Bondage: NATHAN SALMON.

15. Two Perspectives on Knowledge of Language: STEPHEN SCHIFFER.

16. The Philosophical Significance of the Kripkean Necessary Aposteriori: SCOTT SOAMES.

17. Indicative versus Subjunctive Conditionals, Congruential versus Non–Hyperintensional Contexts: TIMOTHY WILLIAMSON.

Symposium.

1. Self–Reflexive Thoughts: GILBERT HARMAN.

2. on Self Referential Thoughts: CHRISTOPHER S. HILL Harman

O autorze

Ernest Sosa is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, distinguished philosopher, author of Knowledge in Perspective, co–author of Epistemic Justification, subject of Ernest Sosa and His Critics.

Blurb

Some of the most distinguished active contributors to the field join together for a collection of their most recent work.