Philosophical essays. Volume 2, The philosophical significance of language /

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Author / Creator:Soames, Scott.
Imprint:Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2009.
Description:1 online resource (x, 461 pages)
Language:English
Subject:Language and languages -- Philosophy.
Linguistics.
Semantics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Historical & Comparative.
PHILOSOPHY -- General.
Language and languages -- Philosophy.
Linguistics.
Semantics.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11212364
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Varying Form of Title:Philosophical significance of language
ISBN:9781400833184
1400833183
9780691136820
0691136823
0691136831
9780691136837
1282531441
9781282531444
9780691136837
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:The two volumes of Philosophical Essays bring together the most important essays written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of language. Scott Soames has selected thirty-one essays spanning nearly three decades of thinking about linguistic meaning and the philosophical significance of language. A judicious collection of old and new, these volumes include sixteen essays published in the 1980s and 1990s, nine published since 2000, and six new essays. The essays in Volume 1 investigate what linguistic meaning is; how the meaning of a sentence is related to the use we mak.
Other form:Print version: Soames, Scott. Philosophical essays. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2009- 9780691136837
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The two volumes of Philosophical Essays bring together the most important essays written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of language. Scott Soames has selected thirty-one essays spanning nearly three decades of thinking about linguistic meaning and the philosophical significance of language. A judicious collection of old and new, these volumes include sixteen essays published in the 1980s and 1990s, nine published since 2000, and six new essays.


The essays in Volume 1 investigate what linguistic meaning is; how the meaning of a sentence is related to the use we make of it; what we should expect from empirical theories of the meaning of the languages we speak; and how a sound theoretical grasp of the intricate relationship between meaning and use can improve the interpretation of legal texts.


The essays in Volume 2 illustrate the significance of linguistic concerns for a broad range of philosophical topics--including the relationship between language and thought; the objects of belief, assertion, and other propositional attitudes; the distinction between metaphysical and epistemic possibility; the nature of necessity, actuality, and possible worlds; the necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori; truth, vagueness, and partial definition; and skepticism about meaning and mind.


The two volumes of Philosophical Essays are essential for anyone working on the philosophy of language.

Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 461 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781400833184
1400833183
9780691136820
0691136823
0691136831
9780691136837
1282531441
9781282531444