The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of LanguageErnest Lepore, Barry C. Smith The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences. Ernie Lepore and Barry Smith present the definitive reference work for this diverse and fertile field of philosophy. A superb international team contribute more than forty brand-new essays covering topics from the nature of language to meaning, truth, and reference, and the interfaces of philosophy of language with linguistics, psychology, logic, epistemology, and metaphysics. It will be an essential resource for anyone working in the central areas of philosophy, for linguists interested in syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and for psychologists and cognitive scientists working on language. |
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... grammatical fact already noted , that " is true of " requires names to be completed into a whole sentence ; a fact that makes it grammatically inevitable that the referents of predicates of which object - language names are true - are ...
... grammatical fact already noted , that " is true of " requires names to be completed into a whole sentence ; a fact that makes it grammatically inevitable that the referents of predicates of which object - language names are true - are ...
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... grammatical parts ( " a horse " , " run " , and so on ) belong to different semantic categories . It is because Wiggins conceives them to do so that he is able to deny that predicates have reference — thereby distancing Dummett's ...
... grammatical parts ( " a horse " , " run " , and so on ) belong to different semantic categories . It is because Wiggins conceives them to do so that he is able to deny that predicates have reference — thereby distancing Dummett's ...
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... grammatical form ; see especially Chomsky ( 1957 , 1965 , 1981 , 1986 , 1995 ) . A leading idea of modern linguistics is that at least some grammatical structures are transformations of others . Expressions often appear to be displaced ...
... grammatical form ; see especially Chomsky ( 1957 , 1965 , 1981 , 1986 , 1995 ) . A leading idea of modern linguistics is that at least some grammatical structures are transformations of others . Expressions often appear to be displaced ...
Contents
From Simples to Samples | 40 |
Philosophy of Language in the Twentieth Century | 60 |
Psychologism | 103 |
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