Truth and Meaning - Essays in Semantics

Zusatztext Already a classic ... We can therefore only welcome the fact that the collection is now available in an affordable format for students of philosophy and language Informationen zum Autor Gareth Evans was Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy and Fellow of University College, Oxford; he died at the age of 34, in 1980. John McDowell is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, having previously been a Fellow of University College, Oxford; he is a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Klappentext Truth and Meaning is a classic collection of original essays on fundamental questions in the philosophy of language. It was first published in 1976! and has remained essential reading in this area ever since. The contributors include leading figures in late twentieth-century philosophy! such as Donald Davidson! Saul Kripke! P. F. Strawson! and Michael Dummett. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays on fundamental questions in the philosophy of language. First published in 1976, it is now made available in paperback. The contributors include leading figures in late 20th-century philosophy, such as Donald Davidson, Saul Kripke, P.F. Strawson, and Michael Dummett. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction I: Meaning and Truth Theory II: Reply to Foster III: Truth Conditions, Bivalence and Verificationism IV: What is a Theory of Meaning? II V. Two Theories of Meaning VI: Truth Definitions and Actual Languages VII: On Understanding the Structure of One's Language VIII: Semantic Structure and Logical Form IX: Language-Mastery and the Sorites Paradox X. Existence and Tense XI: States of Affairs XII: The De Re Must: A Note on the Logical Form of Essentialist Claims An Appendix to David Wiggins's Note XIII: Is There a Problem about Substitutional Quantification?

Product details

• Authors: Gareth Mcdowell Evans
• Assisted by: Gareth Evans (Editor), John Mcdowell (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1999
• EAN: 9780198250074
• ISBN: 978-0-19-825007-4
• No. of pages: 444
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Western philosophy from c 1800, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc