Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 654 Seiten).
ISBN:
978-0-511-49876-3
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in philosophy
Content:
This philosophical treatise on the foundations of semantics is a systematic effort to clarify, deepen and defend the classical doctrine that words are conventional signs of mental states, principally thoughts and ideas, and that meaning consists in their expression. This expression theory of meaning is developed by carrying out the Gricean programme, explaining what it is for words to have meaning in terms of speaker meaning, and what it is for a speaker to mean something in terms of intention. But Grice's own formulations are rejected and alternatives developed. The foundations of the expression theory are explored at length, and the author develops the theory of thought as a fundamental cognitive phenomenon distinct from belief and desire, argues for the thesis that thoughts have parts, and identifies ideas or concepts with parts of thoughts. This book will appeal to students and professionals interested in the philosophy of language
Note:
Speaker meaning -- Expression -- Alternative analyses -- Communication -- Reference -- Languages -- Basic word meaning -- Conventions -- Compositional word meaning -- Living languages -- Thought -- Sentences, propositions, and thoughts -- The constituency thesis -- Ideas or concepts -- The possession of concepts -- The acquisition of concepts -- The association of ideas -- Objects, images, and conceptions -- The language of thought hypothesis -- Objections to ideational theories -- Priority objections -- Incompleteness objections
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe ISBN 978-0-521-03904-8
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-521-55513-5
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
,
Philosophy
Keywords:
Denken
;
Sprache
;
Philosophie
;
Sprachphilosophie
;
Semantik
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511498763
URL:
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