Philosophy of language : a contemporary introduction / William G. Lycan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lycan, William G.

Series:

Routledge contemporary introductions to philosophy.

Routledge contemporary introductions to philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Philosophy of Language introduces the student to the main issues and theories in twentieth-century philosophy of language. Topics are structured in three parts in the book. Part I, Reference and Referring Expressions, includes topics such as Russell's Theory of Descriptions, Donnellan's distinction, problems of anaphora, the description theory of proper names, Searle's cluster theory, and the causal-historical theory. Part II, Theories of Meaning, surveys the competing theories of linguistic meaning and compares their various advantages and liabilities. Part III, Pragmatics and Speec

Contents:

Cover; Philosophy of Language; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: Introduction: Meaning and Reference; Overview; Meaning and Understanding; The Referential Theory; Summary; Questions; Notes; Further Reading; Part I: Reference and Referring; Chapter 2: Definite Descriptions; Overview; Singular Terms; Russell's Theory of Descriptions; Objections to Russell's Theory; Donnellan's Distinction; Anaphora; Summary; Questions; Notes; Further Reading; Chapter 3: Proper Names: The Description Theory; Overview; Russell's Name Claim; Opening Objections; Searle's "Cluster Theory"

Kripke's CritiqueSummary; Questions; Notes; Further Reading; Chapter 4: Proper Names: Direct Reference and the Causal-Historical Theory; Overview; Possible Worlds; Rigidity and Proper Names; Direct Reference; The Causal-Historical Theory; Problems for the Causal-Historical Theory; Natural-kind Terms and "Twin Earth"; Summary; Questions; Notes; Further Reading; Part II: Theories of Meaning; Chapter 5: Traditional Theories of Meaning; Overview; Ideational Theories; The Proposition Theory; Summary; Questions; Notes; Further Reading; Chapter 6: "Use" Theories; Overview

"Use" in a Roughly Wittgensteinian SenseObjections and Some Replies; Summary; Questions; Notes; Further Reading; Chapter 7: Psychological Theories: Grice's Program; Overview; Grice's Basic Idea; Speaker-Meaning; Sentence Meaning; Summary; Questions; Notes; Further Reading; Chapter 8: Verificationism; Overview; The Theory and Its Motivation; Some Objections; The Big One; Two Quinean Issues; Summary; Questions; Notes; Further Reading; Chapter 9: Truth-Condition Theories: Davidson's Program; Overview; Truth Conditions; Truth-Defining Natural Languages; Initial Objections; Summary; Questions

NotesFurther Reading; Chapter 10: Truth-Condition Theories: Possible Worlds and Intensional Semantics; Overview; Truth Conditions Reconceived; Advantages over Davidson's View; Remaining Objections; Summary; Questions; Notes; Further Reading; Part III: Pragmatics and Speech Acts; Chapter 11: Semantic Pragmatics; Overview; Semantic vs. Pragmatic Pragmatics; The Problem of Deixis; The Work of Semantic Pragmatics; Summary; Questions; Notes; Further Reading; Chapter 12: Speech Acts and Illocutionary Force; Overview; Performatives; Rules and Infelicities; Force, Content, and Perlocution

Cohen's ProblemSummary; Questions; Notes; Further Reading; Chapter 13: Implicative Relations; Overview; Conveyed Meanings and Invited Inferences; Conversational Implicature; "Presupposition" and Conventional Implicature; Indirect Force; Summary; Questions; Notes; Further Reading; Part IV: The Dark Side; Chapter 14: Metaphor; Overview; A Philosophical Bias; The Issues, and Two Simple Theories; The Figurative Simile Theory; The Pragmatic Theory; Metaphor as Analogical; Summary; Questions; Notes; Further Reading; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [229]-238) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-69604-3

1-134-69605-1

1-280-35447-X

0-203-13849-X

0-203-19073-4

9780203138496

OCLC:

560049932