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This book criticizes the methodology of the recent semantics-pragmatics debate in the theory of language and proposes an alternative. It applies this methodology to argue for a traditional view against a group of “contextualists” and “pragmatists”, including Sperber and Wilson, Bach, Carston, Recanati, Neale, and many others.  The author disagrees with these theorists who hold that the meaning of the sentence in an utterance never, or hardly ever, yields its literal truth-conditional content, even after disambiguation and reference fixing; it needs to be pragmatically...

In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Michael Devitt argues for a thoroughgoing realism about the common-sense and scientific physical world, and for a correspondence notion of truth. Furthermore, he argues that, contrary to received opinion, the metaphysical question of realism is distinct from, and prior to, any semantic question about truth. The book makes incisive responses to Putnam, Dummett, van Fraassen, and other major anti-realists. The new afterword includes an extensive discussion of the metaphysics of nonfactualism, and new thoughts on the need for truth and on the...

• Surveys central issues in contemporary philosophy of language while examining foundational topics
  
• Provides pedagogical tools such as abstracts and suggestions for further readings
  
• Topics addressed include the nature of meaning, speech acts and pragmatics, figurative language, and naturalistic theories of reference

• Surveys central issues in contemporary philosophy of language while examining foundational topics
  
• Provides pedagogical tools such as abstracts and suggestions for further readings
  
• Topics addressed include the nature of meaning, speech acts and pragmatics, figurative language, and naturalistic theories of reference