A Companion to the Philosophy of Language (eBook)

Bob Hale, Crispin Wright, Alexander Miller (Herausgeber)

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2017 | 2. Auflage
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-97210-6 (ISBN)

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'Providing up-to-date, in-depth coverage of the central question, and written and edited by some of the foremost practitioners in the field, this timely new edition will no doubt be a go-to reference for anyone with a serious interest in the philosophy of language.'

Kathrin Glüer-Pagin, Stockholm University

Now published in two volumes, the second edition of the best-selling Companion to the Philosophy of Language provides a complete survey of contemporary philosophy of language. The Companion has been greatly extended and now includes a monumental 17 new essays - with topics chosen by the editors, who curated suggestions from current contributors - and almost all of the 25 original chapters have been updated to take account of recent developments in the field.

In addition to providing a synoptic view of the key issues, figures, concepts, and debates, each essay introduces new and original contributions to ongoing debates, as well as addressing a number of new areas of interest, including two-dimensional semantics, modality and epistemic modals, and semantic relationism. The extended 'state-of-the-art' chapter format allows the authors, all of whom are internationally eminent scholars in the field, to incorporate original research to a far greater degree than competitor volumes. Unrivaled in scope, this volume represents the best contemporary critical thinking relating to the philosophy of language.

Bob Hale is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sheffield. He is a member of the editorial board of Philosophia Mathematica, and is author of Abstract Objects (Blackwell, 1987) and Necessary Beings (2013; revised 2nd edn, 2015); co-editor of Reading Putnam (with Peter Clark; Blackwell, 1994), The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Language (with Crispin Wright; Blackwell, 1997), and Modality: Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology (with Aviv Hoffmann, 2010); and co-author of The Reason's Proper Study (with Crispin Wright, 2001).

Crispin Wright is Professor of Philosophy at New York University and Professor of Philosophical Research at the University of Stirling. His books include Wittgenstein on the Foundations of Mathematics (1980), Frege's Conception of Numbers as Objects (1983), Truth and Objectivity (1992), Realism, Meaning and Truth (2nd edn, 1993), The Blackwell Companion to Philosophy of Language (with Bob Hale, Blackwell, 1997), The Reason's Proper Study (with Bob Hale, 2001), Rails to Infinity (2001), and Saving the Differences (2003).

Alexander Miller is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His publications include Contemporary Metaethics: An Introduction Revised and Expanded (2nd edn, 2013), Philosophy of Language Revised and Expanded (2nd edn, 2007), and Rule-Following and Meaning (with Crispin Wright, 2002).

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Providing up-to-date, in-depth coverage of the central question, and written and edited by some of the foremost practitioners in the field, this timely new edition will no doubt be a go-to reference for anyone with a serious interest in the philosophy of language. Kathrin Gl er-Pagin, Stockholm University Now published in two volumes, the second edition of the best-selling Companion to the Philosophy of Language provides a complete survey of contemporary philosophy of language. The Companion has been greatly extended and now includes a monumental 17 new essays with topics chosen by the editors, who curated suggestions from current contributors and almost all of the 25 original chapters have been updated to take account of recent developments in the field. In addition to providing a synoptic view of the key issues, figures, concepts, and debates, each essay introduces new and original contributions to ongoing debates, as well as addressing a number of new areas of interest, including two-dimensional semantics, modality and epistemic modals, and semantic relationism. The extended state-of-the-art chapter format allows the authors, all of whom are internationally eminent scholars in the field, to incorporate original research to a far greater degree than competitor volumes. Unrivaled in scope, this volume represents the best contemporary critical thinking relating to the philosophy of language.

Inhalt

Volume I

List of Contributors viii

Preface to the Second Edition xv

Preface to the First Edition xvi

Part I Meaning and Theories of Meaning 1

1 Metaphysics, Philosophy, and the Philosophy of Language 3
Michael Morris

2 Meaning and Truth-Conditions: From Frege's Grand Design to Davidson's 27
David Wiggins

3 Intention and Convention in the Theory of Meaning 49
Stephen Schiffer

4 Meaning, Use, Verification 73
John Skorupski
Postscript: Bernhard Weiss

5 Semantics and Pragmatics 107
Guy Longworth

6 Pragmatics 127
Charles Travis
Postscript: Charles Travis

7 On the Linguistic Status of Context Sensitivity 151
John Collins

8 A Guide to Naturalizing Semantics 174
Barry Loewer
Postscript: Peter Schulte

9 Inferentialism 197
Julien Murzi and Florian Steinberger

10 Against Harmony 225
Ian Rumfitt

11 Meaning and Privacy 250
Edward Craig
Postscript: Guy Longworth

12 Tacit Knowledge 272
Alexander Miller

13 Radical Interpretation 299
Jane Heal
Postscript: Alexander Miller

14 Propositional Attitudes 324
Mark Richard

15 Holism 357
Christopher Peacocke

16 Metaphor 375
Richard Moran
Postscript: Andrew McGonigal

17 Conditionals 401
Anthony S. Gillies

18 Generics 437
Bernhard Nickel

19 Deflationist Theories of Truth, Meaning, and Content 463
Stephen Schiffer

Volume II

Part I L anguage, Truth, and Reality 491

20 Realism and its Oppositions 493
Bob Hale
Postscript: Bernhard Weiss

21 Theories of Truth 532
Ralph C. S. Walker
Postscript: Michael P. Lynch

22 Truthmaker Semantics 556
Kit Fine

23 Analyticity 578
Paul Artin Boghossian
Postscript: Paul Artin Boghossian

24 Rule-Following, Objectivity, and Meaning 619
Bob Hale
Postscript: Daniel Wee

25 The Normativity of Meaning 649
Anandi Hattiangadi

26 Indeterminacy of Translation 670
Crispin Wright
Postscript: Alexander Miller

27 Putnam's Model-Theoretic Argument against Metaphysical Realism 703
Bob Hale and Crispin Wright
Postscript: Jussi Haukioja

28 Sorites 734
Mark Sainsbury and Timothy Williamson
Postscript: Aidan McGlynn

29 Time and Tense 765
Berit Brogaard

30 Relativism 787
Patrick Shirreff and Brian Weatherson

Part II Reference, Identity, and Necessity 805

31 Modality 807
Bob Hale
Postscript: Bob Hale

32 Relativism about Epistemic Modals 843
Andy Egan

33 Internalism and Externalism 865
Jussi Haukioja

34 Essentialism 881
Graeme Forbes
Postscript: Penelope Mackie

35 Reference and Necessity 902
Robert Stalnaker

36 Names and Rigid Designation 920
Jason Stanley

37 Two-Dimensional Semantics 948
Christian Nimtz

38 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Indexicals 970
John Perry

39 Objects and Criteria of Identity 990
E. J. Lowe
Postscript: Harold Noonan

40 Relative Identity 1013
Harold Noonan

41 De Jure Codesignation 1033
James Pryor

Glossary 1080

Index 1117

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List of Contributors

Paul Artin Boghossian is Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University and Director of its New York Institute of Philosophy. He has published many papers on the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of language, on such topics as color, rule‐following, eliminativism, naturalism, self‐knowledge, a priori knowledge, analytic truth, realism, and relativism. He is the author of Fear of Knowledge (Oxford University Press, 2006) and co‐editor of New Essays on the A Priori (with Christopher Peacocke; Oxford University Press, 2000). A collection of his essays – Content and Justification – was published by Oxford University Press in 2008. A series of exchanges with Timothy Williamson, some previously published some new, on the analytic and the a priori, will appear from Oxford University Press in 2018.

Berit Brogaard is Director of the Brogaard Lab for Multisensory Research and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami. Her areas of research include perception, consciousness, emotions, philosophical psychology, semantics, and philosophical logic. She has written three books: Transient Truths (Oxford University Press, 2012), On Romantic Love (Oxford University Press, 2015), and The Superhuman Mind (Penguin, 2015), as well as over one hundred peer‐reviewed articles.

John Collins is Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. He has published widely in the philosophy of language and mind, with especial reference to generative linguistics, and on the concept of truth. He is the author of Chomsky: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum, 2008) and The Unity of Linguistic Meaning (Oxford University Press, 2011), and co‐editor of Experimental Philosophy, Rationalism, and Naturalism (with Eugen Fischer; Routledge, 2015).

Edward Craig is former Knightbridge Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, and has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 1993. He is the author of The Mind of God and the Works of Man (Oxford University Press, 1987) and Knowledge and the State of Nature (Oxford University Press, 1990), as well as articles on various topics in the theory of knowledge and philosophy of language. He is chief editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Andy Egan is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He has held positions at the University of Michigan and the Australian National University. He attended graduate school at the University of Colorado and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He works primarily in philosophy of language and philosophy of mind.

Kit Fine is University Professor and Silver Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at New York University. His areas of interest include philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and metaphysics and his more recent books include Modality and Tense (Oxford University Press, 2005) and Semantic Relationism (Blackwell, 2007). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.

Graeme Forbes is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of Attitude Problems (Oxford University Press, 2006) and the textbook Modern Logic (Oxford University Press, 1994). He works mainly in semantics, metaphysics, and logic, and has interests in compositionality, intensionality, modal metaphysics, and modal logic.

Anthony S. Gillies is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, and previously taught at the University of Michigan, Harvard, and the University of Texas at Austin, and was White Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago. His research interests are in philosophy of language: formal semantics and pragmatics; epistemology: belief revision, defeasible reasoning; philosophical logic; and decision/game theory.

Bob Hale is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sheffield, and his main research interests are in the foundations of mathematics, and philosophy of logic and language. He is a member of the editorial board of Philosophia Mathematica, and is author of Abstract Objects (Blackwell, 1987) and Necessary Beings (Oxford University Press, 2013; revised 2nd edn, 2015); co‐editor of Reading Putnam (with Peter Clark; Blackwell, 1994); co‐editor of Modality: Metaphysics, Logic, and Epistemology (with Aviv Hoffmann; Oxford University Press, 2010); and co‐author of The Reason’s Proper Study (with Crispin Wright; Oxford University Press, 2001).

Anandi Hattiangadi has been Professor of Philosophy at Stockholm University and Pro Futura Scientia Fellow at the Swedish Collegium of Advanced Studies since 2013, before which she was a tutorial fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford. She has research interests in the philosophy of mind and language, epistemology, metaphysics, and metaethics. Her publications include Oughts and Thoughts: Rule‐Following and the Normativity of Content (Oxford University Press, 2007), as well as numerous articles on the normativity of meaning, content, and belief.

Jussi Haukioja is Professor of Philosophy at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and editor of the volume Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Language (Bloomsbury, 2015). His research interests are in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and realism and anti‐realism.

Jane Heal is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John’s College. Her interests are mainly in philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. Her previous publications include her book Fact and Meaning (Blackwell, 1989) and several journal articles in these areas. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1997.

Barry Loewer is Professor and Director of the Rutgers Center for Philosophy and the Sciences. His published work lies mainly in the philosophy of mind and psychology, the philosophy of quantum mechanics, and metaphysics, including the book Why There is Anything Except Physics (Oxford University Press, 2008).

Guy Longworth is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Warwick. He works mainly in the philosophy of language and mind, including intersections with epistemology.

E. J. Lowe was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Durham, where he taught from 1980 until his death in 2014. He authored 11 books, including Kinds of Being (Blackwell, 1989) and The Possibility of Metaphysics (Oxford University Press, 1998), and also co‐edited four volumes and wrote over two hundred articles for journals and edited collections.

Michael P. Lynch is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Humanities Institute at the University of Connecticut. He is the author or editor of seven books including In Praise of Reason (MIT Press, 2012), Truth as One and Many (Oxford University Press, 2009), and True to Life (MIT Press, 2004). His research interests lie in pursuing problems within the intersection of epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language.

Penelope Mackie is Associate Professor and Reader in Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of How Things Might Have Been: Individuals, Kinds, and Essential Properties (Oxford University Press, 2006) and of a number of articles on topics in metaphysics, including causation, modality, material constitution, free will, and the fixity of the past.

Aidan McGlynn is a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He recently completed a series of papers and a monograph on knowledge first approaches to epistemology and the philosophies of language and mind. Since then, he has been working on evidence, first‐person thought and self‐knowledge, pornography, epistemic injustice, silencing, and objectification.

Andrew McGonigal holds a visiting professorship in philosophy at Washington and Lee University. Before taking up the position, he taught for 12 years at the University of Leeds. He is a co‐editor of the Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, and in 2014–2015 was awarded a Society Fellowship at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell.

Alexander Miller is Professor of Philosophy and chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Otago. He works mainly on the philosophy of language and mind, metaphysics, and metaethics. His books include Contemporary Metaethics: An Introduction Revised and Expanded (2nd edn, Polity Press, 2013) and Philosophy of Language Revised and Expanded (2nd edn, Routledge, 2007). He is co‐editor of Rule‐Following and Meaning (with Crispin Wright; Acumen, 2002).

Richard Moran is Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University, having previously taught at Princeton University. He works primarily in the areas of moral psychology, the philosophy of mind and language, aesthetics and the philosophy of literature, and the later Wittgenstein. He has published papers on metaphor, on imagination and emotional engagement with art, and on the nature of self‐knowledge. His book, Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self‐Knowledge, was published by Princeton University Press in 2001.

Michael Morris is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He is the author of The Good and the True (Oxford University Press, 1992), An Introduction to the...

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.2.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: analyticity • causal theories of semantics • central question • Companion to the Philosophy of Language • contemporary philosophy of language • Davidson's programme • Demonstratives • epistemic modals • essentialism • force and pragmatics • holisms • Identity • identity criteria • Indeterminacy of Translation • Inscrutability of Reference • intention and convention • leading philosophers • meaning and privacy of language • meaning and verification • Metaphor • modality • modality modals • names and rigid destination • object identity • philosophical research • Philosophie • Philosophy • Philosophy of Language • Propositional attitudes • Radical interpretation • Realism • reference and necessity • Rule Following • Semantic Relationism • sorites paradox • Sprachphilosophie • Tacit Knowledge • Theories of truth • Two-dimensional semantics • vagueness
• ISBN-10: 1-118-97210-4 / 1118972104
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-97210-6 / 9781118972106