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 and languages -- Philosophy. Linguistics. Semantics. 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. Print version record.
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

Table of Contents:

The Origins of These Essays
Introduction
Part 1. Reference, Propositions, and Propositional Attitudes
Essay 1. Direct Reference, Propositional Attitudes, and Semantic Content
Essay 2. Why Propositions Can't Be Sets of Truth-Supporting Circumstances
Essay 3. Belief and Mental Representation
Essay 4. Attitudes and Anaphora
Part 2. Modality
Essay 5. The Modal Argument: Wide Scope and Rigidified Descriptions
Essay 6. The Philosophical Significance of the Kripkean Necessary A Posteriori
Essay 7. Knowledge of Manifest Natural Kinds
Essay 8. Understanding Assertion
Essay 9. Ambitious Two-Dimensionalism
Essay 10. Actually
Part 3. Truth and Vagueness
Essay 11. What Is a Theory of Truth?
Essay 12. Understanding Deflationism
Essay 13. Higher-Order Vagueness for Partially Defined Predicates
Essay 14. The Possibility of Partial Definition
Part 4. Kripke, Wittgenstein, and Following a Rule
Essay 15. Skepticism about Meaning: Indeterminacy, Normativity, and the Rule-Following Paradox
Essay 16. Facts, Truth Conditions, and the Skeptical Solution to the Rule-Following Paradox
Index

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