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Title: ARGUING ABOUT LANGUAGE
By: Darragh Byrne (Editor), Max Kolbel (Editor)
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0415462436
ISBN 13: 9780415462433
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Publisher: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
Pub. date: 28 October, 2009
Series: Arguing About Philosophy v. 6
Pages: 616
Description: Collects together both canonical work and some of the issues in the philosophy of language. This title looks at the field, addressing both fundamental problems and topics with the classic views of Frege, Russell and Kripke and Quine, as well as the influential pieces by philosophers including Jason Stanley, David Chalmers and Crispin Wright.
Synopsis: Arguing About Language presents a comprehensive selection of key readings on fundamental issues in the philosophy of language. It offers a fresh and exciting introduction to the subject, addressing both perennial problems and emerging topics. Classic readings from Frege, Russell, Kripke, Chomsky, Quine, Grice, Lewis and Davidson appear alongside more recent pieces by philosophers or linguists such as Robyn Carston, Delia Graff Fara, Frank Jackson, Ernie Lepore & Jerry Fodor, Nathan Salmon, Zoltan Szabo, Timothy Williamson and Crispin Wright. Organised into clear sections, readings have been chosen that engage with one another and often take opposing views on the same question, helping students to get to grips with the key areas of debate in the philosophy of language, including: * sense and reference * definite descriptions * linguistic conventions * language and behaviour * descriptivism and rigidity * contextualism * vagueness * rule-following and normativity * fictional discourse. Each article selected is clear, thought-provoking and free from unnecessary jargon.The editors provide lucid introductions to each section in which they give an overview of the debate and outline the arguments of the papers. Arguing About Language is an ideal reader for students looking for a balanced yet up-to-date introduction to the philosophy of language. Darragh Byrne is lecturer in philosophy at the University of Birmingham, UK. Max Kolbel is ICREA Research Professor at the University of Barcelona, Spain. He is the author of Truth without Objectivity (Routledge, 2002) and co-editor of Wittgenstein's Lasting Significance (Routledge, 2004) with Bernhard Weiss, as well as Relative Truth (Oxford, 2008) with Manuel Garcia-Carpintero.
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Publication: UK
Imprint: Routledge
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