Truth and Meaning -

Truth and Meaning

Essays in Semantics

Gareth Evans, John McDowell (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
444 Seiten
1999
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-825007-4 (ISBN)
79,95 inkl. MwSt
A collection of essays on fundamental questions in the philosophy of language. First published in 1976, it is now made available in paperback. The contributors include leading figures in late 20th-century philosophy, such as Donald Davidson, Saul Kripke, P.F. Strawson, and Michael Dummett.
Truth and Meaning is a classic collection of original essays on fundamental questions in the philosophy of language. It was first published in 1976, and has remained essential reading in this area ever since; this is its first appearance in paperback. The contributors include leading figures in late twentieth-century philosophy, such as Donald Davidson, Saul Kripke, P. F. Strawson, and Michael Dummett. Most of the papers are not available elsewhere.

Gareth Evans was Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy and Fellow of University College, Oxford; he died at the age of 34, in 1980. John McDowell is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, having previously been a Fellow of University College, Oxford; he is a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Introduction ; I: Meaning and Truth Theory ; II: Reply to Foster ; III: Truth Conditions, Bivalence and Verificationism ; IV: What is a Theory of Meaning? II ; V. Two Theories of Meaning ; VI: Truth Definitions and Actual Languages ; VII: On Understanding the Structure of One's Language ; VIII: Semantic Structure and Logical Form ; IX: Language-Mastery and the Sorites Paradox ; X. Existence and Tense ; XI: States of Affairs ; XII: The De Re Must: A Note on the Logical Form of Essentialist Claims ; An Appendix to David Wiggins's Note ; XIII: Is There a Problem about Substitutional Quantification?

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.10.1999
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 138 x 215 mm
Gewicht 526 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-19-825007-X / 019825007X
ISBN-13 978-0-19-825007-4 / 9780198250074
Zustand Neuware
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