“Providing up-to-date, in-depth coverage of the central question, and written and edited by some of the foremost practitioners in the field, this timely new edition will no doubt be a go-to reference for anyone with a serious interest in the philosophy of language.” Kathrin Glüer-Pagin, Stockholm University Now published in two volumes, the second edition of the best-selling Companion to the Philosophy of Language provides a complete survey of contemporary philosophy of language. The Companion has been greatly extended and now includes a monumental 17 new essays – with topics chosen by the editors, who curated suggestions from current contributors – and almost all of the 25 original chapters have been updated to take account of recent developments in the field. In addition to providing a synoptic view of the key issues, figures, concepts, and debates, each essay introduces new and original contributions to ongoing debates, as well as addressing a number of new areas of interest, including two-dimensional semantics, modality and epistemic modals, and semantic relationism. The extended “state-of-the-art” chapter format allows the authors, all of whom are internationally eminent scholars in the field, to incorporate original research to a far greater degree than competitor volumes. Unrivaled in scope, this volume represents the best contemporary critical thinking relating to the philosophy of language.
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Providing up-to-date, in-depth coverage of the central question, and written and edited by some of the foremost practitioners in the field, this timely new edition will no doubt be a go-to reference for anyone with a serious interest in the philosophy of language.
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Volume I List of Contributors viii Preface to the Second Edition xv Preface to the First Edition xvi Part I Meaning and Theories of Meaning 1 1 Metaphysics, Philosophy, and the Philosophy of Language 3Michael Morris 2 Meaning and Truth‐Conditions: From Frege’s Grand Design to Davidson’s 27David Wiggins 3 Intention and Convention in the Theory of Meaning 49Stephen Schiffer 4 Meaning, Use, Verification 73John SkorupskiPostscript: Bernhard Weiss 5 Semantics and Pragmatics 107Guy Longworth 6 Pragmatics 127Charles TravisPostscript: Charles Travis 7 On the Linguistic Status of Context Sensitivity 151John Collins 8 A Guide to Naturalizing Semantics 174Barry LoewerPostscript: Peter Schulte 9 Inferentialism 197Julien Murzi and Florian Steinberger 10 Against Harmony 225Ian Rumfitt 11 Meaning and Privacy 250Edward CraigPostscript: Guy Longworth 12 Tacit Knowledge 272Alexander Miller 13 Radical Interpretation 299Jane HealPostscript: Alexander Miller 14 Propositional Attitudes 324Mark Richard 15 Holism 357Christopher Peacocke 16 Metaphor 375Richard MoranPostscript: Andrew McGonigal 17 Conditionals 401Anthony S. Gillies 18 Generics 437Bernhard Nickel 19 Deflationist Theories of Truth, Meaning, and Content 463Stephen Schiffer Volume II Part I L anguage, Truth, and Reality 491 20 Realism and its Oppositions 493Bob HalePostscript: Bernhard Weiss 21 Theories of Truth 532Ralph C. S. WalkerPostscript: Michael P. Lynch 22 Truthmaker Semantics 556Kit Fine 23 Analyticity 578Paul Artin BoghossianPostscript: Paul Artin Boghossian 24 Rule‐Following, Objectivity, and Meaning 619Bob HalePostscript: Daniel Wee 25 The Normativity of Meaning 649Anandi Hattiangadi 26 Indeterminacy of Translation 670Crispin WrightPostscript: Alexander Miller 27 Putnam’s Model‐Theoretic Argument against Metaphysical Realism 703Bob Hale and Crispin WrightPostscript: Jussi Haukioja 28 Sorites 734Mark Sainsbury and Timothy WilliamsonPostscript: Aidan McGlynn 29 Time and Tense 765Berit Brogaard 30 Relativism 787Patrick Shirreff and Brian Weatherson Part II Reference, Identity, and Necessity 805 31 Modality 807Bob HalePostscript: Bob Hale 32 Relativism about Epistemic Modals 843Andy Egan 33 Internalism and Externalism 865Jussi Haukioja 34 Essentialism 881Graeme ForbesPostscript: Penelope Mackie 35 Reference and Necessity 902Robert Stalnaker 36 Names and Rigid Designation 920Jason Stanley 37 Two‐Dimensional Semantics 948Christian Nimtz 38 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Indexicals 970John Perry 39 Objects and Criteria of Identity 990E. J. LowePostscript: Harold Noonan 40 Relative Identity 1013Harold Noonan 41 De Jure Codesignation 1033James Pryor Glossary 1080 Index 1117
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"Providing up-to-date, in-depth coverage of the central questions, and written and edited by some of the foremost practitioners in the field, this timely new edition will no doubt be a go-to reference for anyone with a serious interest in the philosophy of language." Kathrin GlĂźer-Pagin, Stockholm University Now published in two volumes, the second edition of the best-selling Companion to the Philosophy of Language provides a complete survey of contemporary philosophy of language. The Companion has been greatly expanded and now includes 17 new essays, and almost all of the 25 original chapters have been updated to take account of recent developments in the field. In addition to providing a synoptic view of the key issues, figures, and concepts, each essay introduces new and original contributions to ongoing debates in the field. Others address a number of new areas of interest, including two-dimensional semantics, modality and epistemic modals, and semantic relationism. The extended "state of the art" chapter format allows the authors, all of whom are internationally eminent scholars in the field, to incorporate original research to a far greater degree than competing volumes. Unrivaled in scope, A Companion to the Philosophy of Language, Second Edition represents the best contemporary thought in the philosophy of language.
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9781118974711
Publisert
2017-04-21
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2. utgave
Utgiver
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2064 gr
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252 mm
Bredde
178 mm
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61 mm
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P, 06
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Engelsk
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1184

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Bob Hale is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sheffield. He is a member of the editorial board of Philosophia Mathematica, and is author of Abstract Objects (Blackwell, 1987) and Necessary Beings (2013; revised 2nd edn, 2015); co-editor of Reading Putnam (with Peter Clark; Blackwell, 1994), The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Language (with Crispin Wright; Blackwell, 1997), and Modality: Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology (with Aviv Hoffmann, 2010); and co-author of The Reason's Proper Study (with Crispin Wright, 2001).

Crispin Wright is Professor of Philosophy at New York University and Professor of Philosophical Research at the University of Stirling. His books include Wittgenstein on the Foundations of Mathematics (1980), Frege's Conception of Numbers as Objects (1983), Truth and Objectivity (1992), Realism, Meaning and Truth (2nd edn, 1993), The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Language (with Bob Hale, Blackwell, 1997), The Reason's Proper Study (with Bob Hale, 2001), Rails to Infinity (2001), and Saving the Differences (2003).

Alexander Miller is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His publications include Contemporary Metaethics: An Introduction Revised and Expanded (2nd edn, 2013), Philosophy of Language Revised and Expanded (2nd edn, 2007), and Rule-Following and Meaning (with Crispin Wright, 2002).