Philosophical semantics : reintegrating theoretical philosophy / by Claudio Costa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Costa, Claudio F. (Claudio Ferreira), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Philosophy.

Language and languages.

Meaning (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 476 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

This book offers an innovative systematic approach to the problems of meaning, reference and related issues, unifying in promising ways some of the best insights, not only of exponential philosophers like Wittgenstein and Frege, but also of some influential later theorists like Michael Dummett, Ernst Tugendhat, John Searle and Donald Williams. Moreover, it exposes some main errors popularized by clever formalist-oriented philosophers, from Willard Van Orman Quine to Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam. In this way, it shows how some older major approaches could regain their central importance and how the cartography of philosophy of language could be once more redrawn. The book is clearly written, and will be of interest to anyone with basic training in analytic philosophy.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter I

Appendix to Chapter I

Chapter II

Appendix to Chapter II

Chapter III

Appendix to Chapter III

Chapter IV

Appendix to Chapter IV

Chapter V

Appendix to Chapter V

Chapter VI

Appendix to Chapter VI

References.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-5275-2742-5

OCLC:

1084474841