Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language Volume 2

Philosophy of language has been at the center of philosophical research at least since the start of the 20th century. But till now there has been no regular forum for outstanding original work in this area. That is what Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language offers.

List of contents

• 1: Emma Borg and Patrick Connolly: Exploring Linguistic Liability


• 2: Peter Hanks: Singular Propositions


• 3: Jeffrey C. King: 'Descriptive Readings' of Noun Phrases


• 4: Stephen Neale: Determinations of Meaning


• 5: Diana Raffman: What Borderline Cases Cannot Be


• 6: Mark Richard: Superman and Clark Walk into a Phone Booth


• 7: Una Stojni¿: The Anatomy of Arguments in Natural Language Discourse


• 8: Malte Willer: Negating Conditionals


• 9: Seth Yalcin: Context-Sensitivity By Way of Parameters

About the author

Ernie Lepore is a Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is the author of numerous books and papers in the philosophy of language, philosophical logic, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind, including Imagination and Convention (OUP, 2015) and, with Herman Cappelen, Liberating Content (OUP, 2016).

David Sosa is a Temple Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. His publications include Bad Words: Philosophical Perspectives on Slurs (OUP, 2018) and Philosophy of Language (6th ed., OUP, 2012), and he is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Analytic Philosophy.

Summary

Philosophy of language has been at the center of philosophical research at least since the start of the 20th century. But till now there has been no regular forum for outstanding original work in this area. That is what Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language offers.

Product details

• Authors: Ernest (Professor of Philosophy Lepore
• Assisted by: Ernest Lepore (Editor), David Sosa (Editor), Sosa David (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.02.2022
• EAN: 9780192844613
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284461-3
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, PHILOSOPHY / Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Philosophy: logic, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc