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Title Philosophy of language : the central topics / edited by Susana Nuccetelli and Gary Seay
Published Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2008]
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Description viii, 423 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Contents Philosophical investigations (excerpts) / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Rules and representations (excerpt) / Noam Chomsky -- The semantic conception of truth / Alfred Tarski -- Semantics for natural languages / Donald Davidson -- Indeterminacy of translation again / W. V. Quine -- Meaning / H.P. Grice -- Meaning, use and truth / Paul Horwich -- On sense and reference / Gottlob Frege -- Naming and necessity (lecture ii) / Saul Kripke -- Descriptions / Bertrand Russell -- Reference and definite descriptions / Keith Donnellan -- Descriptions (excerpt) / Stephen Neale -- Demonstratives (excerpt) / David Kaplan -- Understanding demonstratives / Gareth Evans -- Frege's puzzle (excerpt) / Nathan Salmon -- De re senses / John McDowell -- A puzzle about belief (excerpt) / Saul Kripke -- What puzzling Pierre does not believe / David Lewis -- Meaning and reference / Hilary Putnam -- Are meanings in the head? / John Searle -- The social character of meaning / Michael Dummett -- Anti-individualism and privileged access / Michael McKinsey -- What an anti-individualist knows a priori / Anthony Brueckner -- Performative--constative / J.L. Austin -- Intention and convention in speech acts / P.F. Strawson -- Meaning (excerpt) / Stephen Schiffer -- Pushmi-pullyu representations / Ruth Millikan -- Logic and conversation / H.P. Grice -- What metaphors mean / Donald Davidson
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Language and languages -- Philosophy.
Author Nuccetelli, Susana.
Seay, Gary.
LC no. 2007032792
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