Meanings As Species

Mark Richard presents an original theory of meaning, as the collection of assumptions speakers make in using it and expect their hearers to recognize as being made. Meaning is spread across a population, inherited by each new generation of speakers from the last, and evolving through the interactions of speakers with their environment.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Quine and the Species Problem


• 2: Internalism to the Rescue?


• 3: What Are Meanings, that We Might Share Them?


• 4: Conceptual Evolution


• 5: Meaning, Thought, and its Ascription


• 6: Sex and Conversation


• Coda


• Bibliography

About the author

Mark Richard is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University. He is the author of Propositional Attitudes: An Essay on Thoughts and How We Ascribe Them (Cambridge 1990), When Truth Gives Out (Oxford 2008), and Context and the Attitudes: Meaning in Context, Volume 1 (Oxford 2013) and Truth and Truth Bearers: Meaning in Context, Volume 2 (Oxford 2015).

Summary

Mark Richard presents an original theory of meaning, as the collection of assumptions speakers make in using it and expect their hearers to recognize as being made. Meaning is spread across a population, inherited by each new generation of speakers from the last, and evolving through the interactions of speakers with their environment.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Richard, Mark (Harvard University) Richard, Richard Mark
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9780192848376
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284837-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy of Mind, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Pragmatics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics & pragmatics