Volume 3 Prospects for Meaning

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Volume 3 Prospects for Meaning

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Current Issues in Theoretical Philosophy

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2012

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Original papers by leading international authors address the most important problem in the philosophy of language, the question of how to assess the prospects of developing a tenable theory of meaning, given the influential sceptical attacks mounted against the concept of meaning by Willard Van Quine and Saul Kripke and their adherents in particular. Thus the texts attempt to answer the fundamental questions – of whether there are meanings, and, if there are, of what they are and of the form a serious philosophical theory of meaning should take.

Third volume of Current Issues in Theoretical Philosophy
Leading international authors
Original papers

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Richard Schantz, University of Siegen, Germany.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I Meaning and Reference
The Puzzle That Never Was—Referential Mechanics Joseph Almog Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Reference and Meaning William P. Alston Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Still Against Direct Reference Michael Devitt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
On Meaning, Meaning and Meaning Ruth Garrett Millikan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
On Referents and Reference Fixing Howard Wettstein Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
II Truth-theoretic Semantics
On Some Examples of Chomsky’s Graeme Forbes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Truth, Meaning and Contextualism Samuel Guttenplan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Expression, Truth, Predication, and Context: Two Perspectives James Higginbotham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Prospects for a Truth-conditional Account of Standing Meaning Guy Longworth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
A Very Large Fly in the Ointment: Davidsonian Truth Theory Contextualized R. M. Sainsbury Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
From Truth Conditions to Structured Propositions Richard Schantz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	259
Five Flies in the Ointment: Some Challenges for Traditional Semantic Theory Gabriel M. A. Segal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
III Meaning Skepticism
Against Meaning-Skepticism Paul Horwich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
Phenomenal Intentionality and Content Determinacy Terry Horgan and George Graham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	321
Semantic Realism and the Argument from Motivational Internalism Alexander Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	345
IV The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Meaning and Content
Meaning and Content in Cognitive Science Robert Cummins and Martin Roth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	365
Knowledge of Meaning and Epistemic Interdependence Jennifer Hornsby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	383
Meaning and Ontology Ernest Lepore and Francis Jeffry Pelletier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
Matter and Meaning Colin McGinn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	435
Meaning, Communication and Knowledge by Testimony Douglas Patterson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	449
Semantics Without Meanings? Sellarsian “Patterned Governed Behavior” and the Space of Meaningfulness Jaroslav Peregrin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	479
Externalism and Inexistence in Early Content Georges Rey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	503
Propositions, What Are They Good For? Stephen Schiffer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	531
Meaning as a Biological and Social Phenomenon John R. Searle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	553
Three Kinds of Meanings Patrick Suppes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	567
V Formal Semantics
Requirements on a Theory of Sentence and Word Meanings Wilfrid Hodges Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	583
Quantification and Anaphora in Natural Language Gabriel Sandu and Justine Jacot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	609
Equivalence of Semantic Theories Thomas Ede Zimmermann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	629
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	651
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	657
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	663

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eBook published on:

July 30, 2012

eBook ISBN:

9783110216882

Hardcover published on:

July 16, 2012

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110196238

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

8

Main content:

666

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110216882

eBook ISBN: 9783110216882

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110196238

Keywords for this book

Meaning; Linguistics; Semantics; Philosophy of Language; van Quine; Willard

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Academics, Institutes, Libraries

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