Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. The Issue of Language’s Authority 1
5. The Question’s Centrality 13
6. Plato’s Recourse to Nonlinguistic Forms 19
7. Aquinas and the Primacy of Mental Truth 25
8. The Tractatus 33
9. Carnap’s Limited Linguistic Turn 43
10. Tarski, Truth, and Claims of Linguistic Incoherence 53
11. Wittgenstein’s Acceptance of the Authority of Language 61
12. Wittgenstein versusTheoretical “Intuitions” 73
13. Flew and Paradigm-Case Arguments 83
14. Russell’s Critique of “Common Sense” 91
15. Malcolm and the “Ordinary-Language” Debate 101
16. Austin, Statements, and Their Truth 107
17. A Lead Overlooked 115
18. Kripke, Putnam, and Rigid Designation 125
19. Quine, Linguistic Truths, and Holistic Theory 137
20. Quine, Indeterminacy, and the Opacity of Language 149
21. Rorty, Stich, and Pragmatic Assertability 157
22. Habermas, Communicative Speech, and Validity 165
23. Past, Present, and Future 171
24. Notes 185
25. Bibliography 213
26. Index 231