Philosophy and Ordinary Language - The Bent and Genius of Our Tongue

Anyone wishing to gain a better understanding of the philosophy of language, and the nature of ordinary language in philosophy should read this book.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Part 1 The philosophy of ‘what we say’; Chapter 1 Socrates and the quest for definitions; Chapter 2 Austin; Chapter 3 Wittgenstein; Chapter 4 ‘What we say’; Chapter 5 What is wrong with the paradigm case argument?; Chapter 6 Knowledge and the uses of ‘knowledge’; Chapter 7 The paradox of scepticism; Part 2 The philosophy of ‘what we say’; Chapter 8 Drawing the curtain of words; Chapter 9 Language remade; Chapter 10 Grice; Chapter 11 Quine and the unity of science; Chapter 12 Scientific realism; Chapter 13 ‘Folk psychology’ and the language of science;

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Oswald Hanfling is Visiting Research Professor of Philosophy at the Open University. He is the author of several books including Logical Positivism, The Quest for Meaning, Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy, and Wittgenstein and the Human Form of Life (Routledge 2002).

Zusammenfassung

Anyone wishing to gain a better understanding of the philosophy of language, and the nature of ordinary language in philosophy should read this book.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Oswald Hanfling, Hanfling Oswald
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 22.06.2016
• EAN: 9781138173316
• ISBN: 978-1-138-17331-6
• Seiten: 278
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Philosophie: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Analytic, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Analytical philosophy & Logical Positivism, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism