Philosophy of Language - Philosophical Perspectives

Informationen zum Autor John Hawthorne is the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford. Klappentext Philosophy of Language: Philosophical Perspectives contains state of the art essays in the philosophy of language from some of the top minds in the field. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays in the philosophy of language. It includes research in semantic relativism! presupposition! vagueness! quantification! the foundations of semantics! and other key issues at the heart of the philosophy of language and philosophical linguistics. Inhaltsverzeichnis ELISABETH CAMP & JOHN HAWTHORNE Sarcastic 'Like': A Case Study in the Interface of Syntax and Semantics. HERMAN CAPPELEN The Creative Interpreter: Content Relativism and Assertion. RICHARD DIETZ Betting on Borderline Cases. PAUL ELBOURNE The Argument from Binding. KIT FINE The Impossibility of Vagueness. KAI VON FINTEL What is Presupposition Accommodation, Again? CHRISTOPHER GAUKER Against Accommodation: Heim, van der Sandt, and the PresuppositionProjection Problem. MICHAEL GLANZBERG Quantification and Contributing Objects to Thoughts. PAUL HORWICH A New Framework for Semantics. LLOYD HUMBERSTONE Can Every Modifier be Treated as a Sentence Modifier? STEPHEN KEARNS & OFRA MAGIDOR. Epistemicism about Vagueness and Meta-Linguistic Safety. PETER LASERSOHN Quantification and Perspective in Relativist Semantics. GUY LONGWORTH Comprehending Speech. STEPHEN NEALE Term Limits Revisited. FRANCOIS RECANATI Open Quotation Revisited. DANIEL ROTHSCHILD Presupposition Projection and Logical Equivalence. ZOLT¿AN GENDLER SZAB¿O Things In Progress. BRIAN WEATHERSON Attitudes and Relativism. ELIA ZARDINI Truth and What Is Said.

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• Authors: J Hawthorne, John Hawthorne, John (University of Oxford Hawthorne
• Assisted by: John Hawthorne (Editor), John (University of Oxford Hawthorne (Editor), Hawthorne John (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.03.2009
• EAN: 9781405196352
• ISBN: 978-1-4051-9635-2
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Philosophical Perspectives Annual Volume; Philosophical Perspectives (Bl; Philosophical Perspectives Annual Volume; Philosophical Perspectives Ann
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Philosophy of Language, Philosophy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General