Philosophy of Language The Big Questions
by Nye, AndreaEdition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1998-08-06
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
This anthology brings together a diversity of readings in the philosophy of language from the ancient Greeks to contemporary analytic, feminist, and multicultural perspectives. The emphasis is on issues that have a direct bearing on concerns about knowledge, reality, meaning, and understanding. A general introduction and introductions to each group of readings identify both the continuities and differences in the way "big" questions in philosophy of language have been addressed by philosophers of different historical periods, institutional affiliations, races, and genders.
Author Biography
Andrea Nye is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She is the author of Feminist Theory and the Philosophies of Man (1988), Words of Power: a Feminist Reading of the History of Logic (1990), Philosophia: the Thought of Rosa Luxemburg, Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt (1994), Philosophy and Feminism: at the Border (1995).
Table of Contents
| General Introduction | |
| Language: What is it? | |
| Language as the Weaving Together of Forms | |
| The Origins of Language | |
| On Words | |
| On the Scientific Justification of a Conceptual Notation | |
| The Existential Matrix of Inquiry | |
| Picturing Reality | |
| Subjectivity in Language | |
| Private Language, Public Languages | |
| The Mark of Gender | |
| Meaning | |
| On Sense and Reference | |
| The Principle of Verifiability | |
| Meaning as Use | |
| Biosemantics | |
| How can Language be Sexist? | |
| Speaking | |
| Meaning | |
| Performative Utterances | |
| Verbal Interaction | |
| Telling as Letting Know | |
| He I Sought but did not Find | |
| Reference | |
| On Denoting | |
| Naming and Necessity (excerpts) | |
| The Formation of Objects | |
| Critically Queer | |
| 'Worlds' and World Travelling | |
| Truth | |
| The Semantic Theory of Truth | |
| The Method of Truth in Metaphysics | |
| Truth as Coherence | |
| Truth Through Social Praxis | |
| Are Truth Claims Dysfunctional? | |
| Other Minds and Foreign Tongues | |
| The Translation of Unstranslatable Words | |
| Indeterminacy of Translation | |
| On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme | |
| An American Indian Model of the Universe | |
| How to Tame a Wild Tongue | |
| Language as Boundary | |
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