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Format: 1 online resource (676 p.)

ISBN: 3-11-021688-4

Series Statement: Current Issues in Theoretical Philosophy ; Volume 3

Content: Original papers by leading international authors address the most important problem in the philosophy of language, the question of how to assess the prospects of developing a tenable theory of meaning, given the influential sceptical attacks mounted against the concept of meaning by Willard Van Quine and Saul Kripke and their adherents in particular. Thus the texts attempt to answer the fundamental questions - of whether there are meanings, and, if there are, of what they are and of the form a serious philosophical theory of meaning should take.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Front matter -- , Contents -- , Introduction -- , I Meaning and Reference -- , The Puzzle That Never Was-Referential Mechanics / , Reference and Meaning / , Still Against Direct Reference / , On Meaning, Meaning and Meaning / , On Referents and Reference Fixing / , II Truth-theoretic Semantics -- , On Some Examples of Chomsky's / , Truth, Meaning and Contextualism / , Expression, Truth, Predication, and Context: Two Perspectives / , Prospects for a Truth-conditional Account of Standing Meaning / , A Very Large Fly in the Ointment: Davidsonian Truth Theory Contextualized / , From Truth Conditions to Structured Propositions / , Five Flies in the Ointment: Some Challenges for Traditional Semantic Theory / , III Meaning Skepticism -- , Against Meaning-Skepticism / , Phenomenal Intentionality and Content Determinacy / , Semantic Realism and the Argument from Motivational Internalism / , IV The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Meaning and Content -- , Meaning and Content in Cognitive Science / , Knowledge of Meaning and Epistemic Interdependence / , Meaning and Ontology / , Matter and Meaning / , Meaning, Communication and Knowledge by Testimony / , Semantics Without Meanings? Sellarsian "Patterned Governed Behavior" and the Space of Meaningfulness / , Externalism and Inexistence in Early Content / , Propositions, What Are They Good For? / , Meaning as a Biological and Social Phenomenon / , Three Kinds of Meanings / , V Formal Semantics -- , Requirements on a Theory of Sentence and Word Meanings / , Quantification and Anaphora in Natural Language / , Equivalence of Semantic Theories / , Notes on Contributors -- , Index of Names -- , Index of Subjects , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 3-11-019623-9

Language: English

Subjects: Philosophy

DOI: 10.1515/9783110216882