Philosophy of language : the big questions

Philosophy of language : the big questions / edited by Andrea Nye.

"This anthology brings together a diversity of readings in the philosophy of language: from the ancient Greeks to contemporary analytic, feminist, and multicultural perspectives. The emphasis is on issues that have a direct bearing on concerns about knowledge, reality, meaning, and understandin...

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Other Authors: Nye, Andrea, 1939-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1998.
Series:Philosophy, the big questions.
Subjects:
Language and languages > Philosophy.
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Language : what is it? The weaving together of forms / Plato
  • The origin of languages / Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Of words / John Locke
  • On the scientific justification of a conceptual notation / Gottlob Frege
  • The existential matrix of inquiry : cultural / John Dewey
  • Picturing reality / Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Subjectivity in language / Emile Benveniste
  • Private language, public languages / Jerry Fodor
  • The mark of gender / Monique Wittig
  • pt. 2. Meaning : how do words get their sense? On sense and meaning / Gottlob Frege
  • The principle of verification / A.J. Ayer
  • Meaning as use / Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Biosemantics / Ruth Millikan
  • How can language be sexist? / Merrill B. Hintikka and Jaakko Hintikka
  • pt. 3. Speaking : what is it to say something? Meaning / H.P. Grice
  • Performative utterances / John Austin
  • Verbal interaction / V.N. Volosinov
  • Telling as letting know / Arindam Chakrabarti
  • He I sought but did not find / Luce Irigaray.
  • pt. 4. Reference : what do we talk about? On denoting / Bertrand Russell
  • Naming and necessity / Saul Kripke
  • The formation of objects / Michel Foucault
  • Critically queer / Judith Butler
  • "Worlds" and "world"-traveling / María Lugones
  • pt. 5. Truth : what is the relation between language and reality? The semantic theory of truth / Alfred Tarski
  • The method of truth in metaphysics / Donald Davidson
  • Truth as coherence / Linda Martín Alcoff
  • Truth, reference and the pragmatics of (racial) meaning / David Theo Goldberg
  • Are truth claims in science dysfunctional? / Sandra Harding
  • pt. 6. Other minds and foreign tongues : how is it possible to understand what someone else says? The translation of untranslatable words / Bronislaw Malinowski
  • Indeterminacy of translation / W.V.O. Quine
  • An American Indian model of the universe / Benjamin Lee Whorf
  • On the very idea of a conceptual scheme / Donald Davidson
  • How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa
  • Language as boundary / Wole Soyinka.

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