Innovative young philosophers present new research articles on a variety of contemporary issues including relation between language and thought, normativity of language, prospects for a naturalistic account of language, nature of linguistic understanding, semantics of proper names and expressive terms, a contemporary construal of analytic truth INDICE: Series Preface - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; S.Sawyer - Vagueness and Non-Indexical Contextualism; J.Åkerman ; P.Greenough - Semantics and the Place of Psychological Evidence; E.Borg - Naturalism in the Philosophy of Language; or Why There is No Such Thing as Language; J.Collins - Referring When Push-Comes-to-Shove; K.Edwards - Semantic Normativity in Context; A.Hattiangadi - Literal Force: A Defence of Conventional Assertion; M.Kölbel - A Plea for Understanding; G.Longworth - From the Expressive to the Derogatory:On the Semantic Role for Non-Truth-Conditional Meaning; S.Predelli - Analyticity in Externalist Languages; G.Russell - The Modified Predicate Theory of Proper Names; S.Sawyer - Introduction, Transmission, and the Foundations of Meaning; J.Speaks - Linguistic Puzzles and Semantic Pretence; J.A.Woodbridge ; B.Armour-Garb - Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-22436-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 304
- Fecha Publicación: 27/11/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés