Truth and Meaning: Essays in Semantics

ISBN-13: 9780198250074 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 448 str.

Gareth Evans; John McDowell

Opis

Truth and Meaning is a classic collection of original essays on fundamental questions in the philosophy of language. It was first published in 1976, and has remained essential reading in this area ever since. The contributors include leading figures in late twentieth-century philosophy, such as Donald Davidson, Saul Kripke, P. F. Strawson, and Michael Dummett.

Recenzje

Already a classic ... We can therefore only welcome the fact that the collection is now available in an affordable format for students of philosophy and language

O autorze

Gareth Evans was Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy and Fellow of University College, Oxford; he died at the age of 34, in 1980. John McDowell is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, having previously been a Fellow of University College, Oxford; he is a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.