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Philosophical Essays, Volume 1: Natural Language: What It Means and How We Use It

2009 Princeton University Press ;ISBN: 0691136815 ;ISBN: 9780691136813 ;ISBN: 9781400837847 ;ISBN: 1400837847 ;EISBN: 9781400837847 ;EISBN: 1400837847 ;OCLC: 707067732 ;LCCallNum: P107.S67 2009

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  • Title:
    Philosophical Essays, Volume 1: Natural Language: What It Means and How We Use It
  • Author: Soames, Scott
  • Subjects: History & Surveys ; Language and languages ; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Linguistics ; PHILOSOPHY ; Semantics
  • Description: The two volumes ofPhilosophical Essaysbring together the most important essays written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of language. Scott Soames has selected thirty-one essays spanning nearly three decades of thinking about linguistic meaning and the philosophical significance of language. A judicious collection of old and new, these volumes include sixteen essays published in the 1980s and 1990s, nine published since 2000, and six new essays. The essays in Volume 1 investigate what linguistic meaning is; how the meaning of a sentence is related to the use we make of it; what we should expect from empirical theories of the meaning of the languages we speak; and how a sound theoretical grasp of the intricate relationship between meaning and use can improve the interpretation of legal texts. The essays in Volume 2 illustrate the significance of linguistic concerns for a broad range of philosophical topics--including the relationship between language and thought; the objects of belief, assertion, and other propositional attitudes; the distinction between metaphysical and epistemic possibility; the nature of necessity, actuality, and possible worlds; the necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori; truth, vagueness, and partial definition; and skepticism about meaning and mind. The two volumes ofPhilosophical Essaysare essential for anyone working on the philosophy of language.
  • Publisher: Princeton: Princeton University Press
  • Creation Date: 2008
  • Format: 440
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 0691136815
    ISBN: 9780691136813
    ISBN: 9781400837847
    ISBN: 1400837847
    EISBN: 9781400837847
    EISBN: 1400837847
    OCLC: 707067732
    LCCallNum: P107.S67 2009
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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