| Description |
xviii, 1073 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Note |
"A Bradford book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Part 1. Language and meaning. Introduction -- The thought: a logical inquiry / Gottlob Frege -- Excerpt from The Blue and Brown Books / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- Translation and meaning / Willard Van Orman Quine -- Utterer's meaning and intentions / Paul Grice -- Truth and meaning / Donald Davidson -- What model-theoretic semantics cannot do / Ernest Lepore -- What is a theory of meaning? / Michael Dummett -- Elucidations of meaning / James Higginbotham -- Knowledge of meaning and theories of truth / Richard K. Larson and Gabriel Segal -- Part 2. Logical form and grammatical form. Introduction -- Some remarks on logical form / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- The logical form of action sentences / Donald Davidson -- Semantic structure and logical form / Gareth Evans -- Deep structure as logical form / Gilbert Harman -- Logical form as a level of linguistic representation / Robert May -- Part 3. Definite and indefinite descriptions. Introduction -- Descriptions / Bertrand Russell -- On referring / Peter F. Strawson -- Reference and definite descriptions / Keith S. Donnellan -- Speaker's reference and semantic reference / Saul A. Kripke -- Context and communication / Stephen Neale -- Referential and quantificational indefinites / Janet Dean Fodor and Ivan A. Sag -- Indefinite descriptions: in defense of Russell / Peter Ludlow and Stephen Neale -- Part 4. Names. Introduction. -- On sense and reference / Gottlob Frege -- Proper names / John R. Searle -- Reference and proper names / Tyler Burge -- Lecture II on Naming and Necessity / Saul A. Kripke -- The causal theory of names / Gareth Evans -- Part 5. Demonstratives. Introduction -- Truth and demonstratives / Scott Weinstein -- Dthat / David Kaplan -- Frege on demonstratives / John Perry -- Understanding demonstratives / Gareth Evans -- Individualism and the semantics of demonstratives / Martin Davies -- Part 6. Attitude reports. Introduction -- The method of intension / Rudolph Carnap -- On synonymy and indirect discourse / Israel Scheffler -- Vagaries of reference / Willard van Orman Quine -- On saying that / Donald Davidson -- Opacity and scope / Barbara Partee -- Sententialist theories of belief / Stephen Schiffer -- A puzzle about belief / Saul A. Kripke -- Direct reference, propositional attitudes and semantic content / Scott Soames -- The prince and the phone booth: reporting puzzling beliefs / Mark Crimmins and John Perry -- Interpreted logical forms / Richard K. Larson and Peter Ludlow -- Intensional "transitive" verbs and concealed complement clauses / Marcel den Dikken, Richard K. Larson and Peter Ludlow. |
| Subject |
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst00992193
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| Added Author |
Ludlow, Peter, 1957- editor.
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| ISBN |
0262122057 (alk. paper) |
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9780262122054 (alk. paper) |
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0262621142 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780262621144 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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