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The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences. Ernie Lepore and Barry Smith present the definitive reference work for this diverse and fertile field of philosophy. A superb international team contribute more than forty brand-new essays covering topics from the nature of language to meaning, truth, and reference, and the interfaces of philosophy of language with linguistics, psychology, logic, epistemology, and metaphysics. It will be an essential resource for anyone working in the central areas of philosophy, for linguists interested in syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and for psychologists and cognitive scientists working on language.

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Author:   Ernest Lepore (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey) ,  Barry C. Smith (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.00cm , Height: 5.90cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.807kg
ISBN:  

9780199552238

ISBN 10:   0199552231
Pages:   1100
Publication Date:   25 September 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Ernest Lepore and Barry C. Smith: Introduction The Historical Context 1: Richard G. Heck and Robert May: Frege's Contribution to Philosophy of Language 2: Michael Beaney: Wittgenstein on Language 3: Thomas Baldwin: Philosophy of Language in the Twentieth Century The Nature of Language 4: Charles Travis: Psychologism 5: Anne Bezuidenhout: Language as Internal 6: James Higginbotham: Languages and Idiolects: Their Language and Ours The Nature of Meaning 7: George Wilson: Rule-Following, Meaning, and Normativity 8: David Papineau: Naturalist Theories of Meaning 9: Gabriel Segal: Truth and Meaning 10: Peter Pagin: Meaning Holism 11: Alan Weir: Indeterminacy of Translation 12: Emma Borg: Intention-Based Semantics 13: Stephen Schiffer: Propositional Content 14: Mark Greenberg and Gilbert Harman: Conceptual Role Semantics 15: Katalin Farkas: Semantic Internalism and Externalism 16: Robyn Carston and George Powell: Relevance Theory 17: Zoltan Gendler Szabo: The Distinction between Semantics and Pragmatics The Nature of Reference 18: R. M. Sainsbury: The Essence of Reference 19: Fraser MacBride: Predicate Reference 20: David Sosa: Rigidity The Nature of Reference 21: David Braun: Names and Natural Kind Terms 22: Kent Bach: What Does it Take to Refer? Semantic Theory 23: Jeffrey C. King: Formal Semantics 24: David Chalmers: Two-Dimensional Semantics 25: Dorit Bar-On and Keith Simmons: Deflationism Linguistic Phenomena 26: Josh Dever: Compositionality 27: Mark Richard: Opacity 28: Peter Ludlow: Tense 29: Barry Schein: Plurals 30: Dorothy Edgington: The Pragmatics of the Logical Constants 31: Michael Glanzberg: Quantifiers 32: Paul Pietroski: Logical Form and LF Varieties of Speech Act 33: Marga Reimer and Elisabeth Camp: Metaphor 34: Kirk Ludwig and Dan Boisvert: Semantics for Non-Declaratives 35: Jennifer Hornsby: Speech Acts and Performatives The Epistemology and Metaphysics of Language 36: Robert J. Stainton: Meaning and Reference 37: Barry C. Smith: What I Know When I Know a Language 38: Alexander Miller: Realism and Antirealism 39: Kathryn Gluer-Pagin: Triangulation 40: Herman Cappelen and Ernest Lepore: Shared Content 41: Donald Davidson: The Perils and Pleasures of Interpretation

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<br> This mammoth book should be read by anyone with an interest not only in philosophy of language, but in semantics and pragmatics, and even, though less centrally, in syntax. Though not introductory in the sense that it could be read by a first year student, it is well worth the effort of reading and, given the overall clarity of the chapters, accessible. The quality of the papers is sustained throughout and is of the highest sandard. --LinguistList<br>

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