The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language (Oxford Handbooks)

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Contents
List of Contributors xv PART I THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT 1. Frege and Semantics RICHARDHECK AND ROBERTMAY
2. Wittgenstein on Language: From Simples to Samples 40 MICHAEL BEANEY
3. Philosophy of Language in the Twentieth Century 60 THOMAS BALDWIN PART II THE NATURE OF LANGUAGE
4. Psychologism 103 CHARLES TRAVIS
5. Language as Internal 127 ANNE BEZUIDENHOUT
6. Languages and Idiolects: Their Language and Ours 140 JAMESHIGGINBOTHAM PART III THE NATURE OF MEANING
7. Rule-Following,Meaning, and Normativity 151 GEORGEWILSON
8. Naturalist Theories of Meaning 175 DAVID PAPINEAU
9. Truth and Meaning 189 GABRIEL SEGAL
10. MeaningHolism 213 PETER PAGIN
11. Indeterminacy of Translation 233 ALANWEIR
12. Intention-Based Semantics 250 EMMA BORG
13. Propositional Content 267 STEPHEN SCHIFFER
14. Conceptual Role Semantics 295 MARKGREENBERG ANDGILBERTHARMAN
15. Semantic Internalism and Externalism 323 KATALIN FARKAS
16. Relevance Theory 341 ROBYN CARSTON AND GEORGE POWELL
17. TheDistinction between Semantics and Pragmatics 361 ZOLTAN GENDLER SZABO PART IV THE NATURE OF REFERENCE
18. The Essence of Reference 393 R. M. SAINSBURY
19. Subject and Predicate 422 FRASERMACBRIDE
20. Rigidity 476 DAVID SOSA
21. Names and Natural Kind Terms 490 DAVID BRAUN
22. The Semantics and Pragmatics of Reference 516 KENT BACH
PART V SEMANTIC THEORY 23. Formal Semantics 557 JEFFREY C. KING
24. Two-Dimensional Semantics 574 DAVID J. CHALMERS
25. Deflationism 607 DORIT BAR-On ANDKEITH SIMMONS PART VI LINGUISTIC PHENOMENA
26. Compositionality 633 JOSHDEVER
27. Opacity 667 MARK RICHARD
28. Tense 689 PETER LUDLOW
29. Plurals 716 BARRY SCHEIN
30. The Pragmatics of the Logical Constants 768 DOROTHY EDGINGTON
31. Quantifiers 794 MICHAELGLANZBERG
32. Logical Form and LF 822 PAUL PIETROSKI PART VII VARIETIES OF SPEECH ACT
33. Metaphor 845 MARGA REIMER AND ELISABETH CAMP
34. Semantics for Non-Declaratives 864 DAN BOISVERT AND KIRK LUDWIG
35. Speech Acts and Performatives 893 JENNIFERHORNSBY
PART VIII THE EPISTEMOLOGY AND METAPHYSICS OF LANGUAGE 36. Meaning and Reference: Chomskian Themes 913 ROBERT J. STAINTON 37. What I KnowWhen I Know a Language 941 BARRY C. SMITH 38. Realism and Antirealism 983 ALEXANDERMILLER 39. Triangulation 1006 KATHRINGLUER-PAGIN 40. Shared Content 1020 HERMAN CAPPELEN AND ERNIE LEPORE 41. The Perils and Pleasures of Interpretation 1056 DONALDDAVIDSON Index 1069

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The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences.

Ernie Lepore and Barry Smith present the definitive reference work for this diverse and fertile field of philosophy. A superb international team contribute more than forty brand-new essays covering topics from the nature of language to meaning, truth, and reference, and the interfaces of philosophy of language with linguistics, psychology, logic, epistemology, and metaphysics. It will be an essential resource for anyone working in the central areas of philosophy, for linguists interested in syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and for psychologists and cognitive scientists working on language.

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"This mammoth book should be read by anyone with an interest not only in philosophy of language, but in semantics and pragmatics, and even, though less centrally, in syntax. Though not introductory in the sense that it could be read by a first year student, it is well worth the effort of reading and, given the overall clarity of the chapters, accessible. The quality of the papers is sustained throughout and is of the highest sandard."-- LinguistList

About the Author

Ernest Lepore is an Associate Director of the Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Barry C. SMith is a member of the School of Philosophy at Birkbeck College at the University of London.

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