Philosophy of language / Alexander Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Alexander, 1965-

Series:

Fundamentals of philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

xviii, 348 p.

Edition:

Second edition

Place of Publication:

Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Starting with Frege's foundational theories of sense and reference, Miller provides an introduction to the formal logic used in all subsequent philosophy of language. He communicates a sense of active philosophical debate by confronting the views of the early theorists concerned with building systematic theories - Frege, Russell, and the logical positivists - with the attacks mounted by sceptics - such as Quine, Kripke, and Wittgenstein. This leads to excursions into related areas of metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science that present more recent attempts to save the notions of sense and meaning by philosophers such as Grice, Searle, Fodor, McGinn, and Wright. Miller then returns to the systematic program by examining the formal theories of Donald Davidson, concluding with a chapter surveying the relevance of philosophy of language to the broader metaphysical debates between realists and anti-realists.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface to the first edition

Preface to the second edition

Acknowledgements, first edition

Acknowledaements, second edition

General notes

Frege

Frege and Russell

Sense and verificationism

Scepticism about sense (I)

Scepticism a bout sense (II)

Saving sense

Sense, intention, and speech acts

Sense and truth

Sense, world, and metaphysics

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references: p. 335-343.

ISBN:

0-7735-3338-9

0-7735-6706-2