Overview

Ernest Lepore and Kirk Ludwig examine the foundations and applications of Davidson's influential program of truth-theoretic semantics for natural languages. The program uses an axiomatic truth theory for a language, which meets certain constraints, to serve the goals of a compositional meaning theory. Lepore and Ludwig explain and clarify the motivations for the approach, and then consider how to apply the framework to a range of important natural language constructions, including quantifiers, proper names, indexicals, simple and complex demonstratives, quotation, adjectives and adverbs, the simple and perfect tenses, temporal adverbials and temporal quantifiers, tense in sentential complement clauses, attitude and indirect discourse reports, and the problem of interrogative and imperative sentences. They not only discuss Davidson's own contributions to these subjects but consider criticisms, developments, and alternatives as well. They conclude with a discussion of logical form in natural language in light of the approach, the role of the concept of truth in the program, and Davidson's view of it. Anyone working on meaning will find this book invaluable.

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Author:   Ernest Lepore (Rutgers University, New Jersey) ,  Kirk Ludwig (University of Florida, Gainesville)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.30cm
Weight:   0.557kg
ISBN:  

9780199561681

ISBN 10:   0199561680
Pages:   362
Publication Date:   08 January 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Truth-theoretic semantics: basic framework 2: Quantifiers 3: Implementation of the extension of the truth theory to quantifiers 4: Proper names, indexicals and simple demonstratives 5: Complex demonstratives 6: The semantics of quotation 7: Adjectives and adverbs 8: The simple tenses of state and event verbs 9: Temporal adverbials and quantifiers 10: Tense in sentential complements and the perfect tenses 11: Opaque contexts: indirect discourse and attitude sentences 12: Non-declarative sentences 13: Semantic structure and logical form 14: Truth and correspondence

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L&L display a lot of ingenuity and technical skill in order to accommodate the Davidson truth-theoretic framework. --Pascal Engel, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews<br>

L&L display a lot of ingenuity and technical skill in order to accommodate the Davidson truth-theoretic framework. --Pascal Engel, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Review from previous edition An outstanding book on Davidson's achievement in philosophical semantics...a model of excellent scholarship both for students and scholars. Journal of Pragmatics

Author Information

Ernest Lepore is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University and Associate Director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science. Kirk Ludwig is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Florida.

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