Contemporary Philosophy of Thought

Truth, World, Content

Michael Luntley (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

412 Seiten

1998
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-631-19077-6 (ISBN)

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This text introduces students to the central arguments that motivate contemporary work in the philosophy of thought and language, and offers a continuous engagement with the core epistemological, metaphysical and methodological issues that have shaped and been shaped by work in the field.

Michael Luntley is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Reason, Truth, and Self: the Postmodern Reconditioned (1995), The Meaning of Socialism (1989), and Language, Logic, and Experience: the Case for Anti-Realism (1988).

Preface. 1. Methodologies.

2. Russell's Theory of Descriptions.

3. The Semantic Theory of Truth.

4. Truth and Meaning.

5. Interpretation, Minimal Truth and the World.

6. Meaning, Metaphysics and Logic.

7. The Possibility of a Naturalistic Theory of Meaning.

8. What is a Theory of Reference?.

9. Sense and Reference.

10. The Causal Theory of Reference and the Social Character of Meaning.

11. Content and Context.

12. Contextual Content.

Notes.

Bibliography.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.12.1998
Reihe/Serie	Contemporary Philosophy
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	173 x 247 mm
Gewicht	730 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-631-19077-5 / 0631190775
ISBN-13	978-0-631-19077-6 / 9780631190776
Zustand	Neuware