Contemporary Philosophy of Thought - Truth, World, Content

Informationen zum Autor Michael Luntley is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of "Reason! Truth! and Self: the Postmodern Reconditioned" (1995)! "The Meaning of Socialism" (1989)! and "Language! Logic! and Experience: the Case for Anti-Realism" (1988). Klappentext This lucid and engaging volume provides an introduction to the essential issues and concepts of contemporary analytic philosophy. It introduces students to the pivotal arguments that motivate work in the field, while arguing a definite point of view in a style that encourages discussion and debate. It develops a broadly Fregean methodology in which semantics is concerned with the concept of content required in rationalizing explanations of behaviour. Key problems and positions covered include: truth, meaning, and inference; arguments against the possibility of meaning; the realism/anti-realism debate, and the theory of inference. This text gives voice to the idea that the study of the philosophy of thought and language is more than a specialism, but rather lies at the very heart of the discipline. Zusammenfassung This text introduces students to the central arguments that motivate contemporary work in the philosophy of thought and language! and offers a continuous engagement with the core epistemological! metaphysical and methodological issues that have shaped and been shaped by work in the field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. 1. Methodologies. 2. Russell's Theory of Descriptions. 3. The Semantic Theory of Truth. 4. Truth and Meaning. 5. Interpretation! Minimal Truth and the World. 6. Meaning! Metaphysics and Logic. 7. The Possibility of a Naturalistic Theory of Meaning. 8. What is a Theory of Reference? 9. Sense and Reference. 10. The Causal Theory of Reference and the Social Character of Meaning. 11. Content and Context. 12. Contextual Content. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ...

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• Authors: Brian Fay, Luntley, M Luntley, Michael Luntley, Michael (University of Warwick) Luntley, Mihcael Luntley
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.12.1998
• EAN: 9780631190776
• ISBN: 978-0-631-19077-6
• No. of pages: 412
• Series: Contemporary Philosophy; Contemporary Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc