Linguistic philosophy : the central story /

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Author / Creator:	Hallett, Garth L., 1927-
Imprint:	Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2008.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 233 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	SUNY series in philosophy SUNY series in philosophy.
Subject:	Language and languages -- Philosophy. Language and languages -- Philosophy. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11171307

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ISBN:	9781435648449 1435648447
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-229) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	"How much authority should language, the medium of communication, be accorded as a determinant of truth and therefore of what we say? Garth L. Hallett argues that, although never explicitly debated, this is the most significant issue of linguistic philosophy. Here, for the first time, he traces the issue's story. Starting with representative thinkers - Plato, Aquinas, Kant, Frege, and the early Willgenstein - who contested language's authority, the narrative then focuses on thinkers such as Carnap, Tarski, the later Wittgenstein, Flew, Russell, Malcolm, Austin, Kripke, Putnam, Strawson, Quine, and Habermas who, in different ways and to varying degrees, accorded language more authority, implicit in this account is a challenge to philosophy as still widely practiced." --Book Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Hallett, Garth. Linguistic philosophy. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2008 9780791473610 0791473619

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