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Philosophy of language : the big questions
- Title
- Philosophy of language : the big questions / edited by Andrea Nye.
- Publication
- Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1998.
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- Additional Authors
- Nye, Andrea, 1939-
- Description
- xii, 305 pages; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "This anthology brings together a diversity of readings in the philosophy of language: from the ancient Greeks to contemporary analytic, feminist, and multicultural perspectives. The emphasis is on issues that have a direct bearing on concerns about knowledge, reality, meaning, and understanding. A general introduction and introductions to each group of readings identify both the continuities and differences in the way "big" questions in philosophy of language have been addressed by philosophers of different historical periods, institutional affiliations, races, and genders."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Philosophy, the big questions
- Uniform Title
- Philosophy, the big questions
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- pt. 1. Language : what is it? The weaving together of forms / Plato -- The origin of languages / Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Of words / John Locke -- On the scientific justification of a conceptual notation / Gottlob Frege -- The existential matrix of inquiry : cultural / John Dewey -- Picturing reality / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Subjectivity in language / Emile Benveniste -- Private language, public languages / Jerry Fodor -- The mark of gender / Monique Wittig -- pt. 2. Meaning : how do words get their sense? On sense and meaning / Gottlob Frege -- The principle of verification / A.J. Ayer --Meaning as use / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Biosemantics / Ruth Millikan -- How can language be sexist? / Merrill B. Hintikka and Jaakko Hintikka -- pt. 3. Speaking : what is it to say something? Meaning / H.P. Grice -- Performative utterances / John Austin -- Verbal interaction / V.N. Volosinov -- Telling as letting know / Arindam Chakrabarti -- He I sought but did not find / Luce Irigaray.
- pt. 4. Reference : what do we talk about? On denoting / Bertrand Russell -- Naming and necessity / Saul Kripke -- The formation of objects / Michel Foucault -- Critically queer / Judith Butler -- "Worlds" and "world"-traveling / María Lugones -- pt. 5. Truth : what is the relation between language and reality? The semantic theory of truth / Alfred Tarski -- The method of truth in metaphysics / Donald Davidson -- Truth as coherence / Linda Martín Alcoff -- Truth, reference and the pragmatics of (racial) meaning / David Theo Goldberg -- Are truth claims in science dysfunctional? / Sandra Harding -- pt. 6. Other minds and foreign tongues : how is it possible to understand what someone else says? The translation of untranslatable words / Bronislaw Malinowski -- Indeterminacy of translation / W.V.O. Quine -- An American Indian model of the universe / Benjamin Lee Whorf -- On the very idea of a conceptual scheme / Donald Davidson -- How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa -- Language as boundary / Wole Soyinka.
- ISBN
- 0631206019
- 9780631206019
- 0631206027
- 9780631206026
- LCCN
- 97045209
- OCLC
- ocm37917393
- 37917393
- SCSB-416092
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library