Truth and Meaning

Essays in Semantics
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-19-825007-4
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 444 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 628 g

Truth and Meaning is a classic collection of original essays on fundamental questions in the philosophy of language. It was first published in 1976, and has remained essential reading in this area ever since; this is its first appearance in paperback. The contributors include leading figures in late twentieth-century philosophy, such as Donald Davidson, Saul Kripke, P. F. Strawson, and Michael Dummett. Most of the papers are not available elsewhere.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Evans, Gareth

McDowell, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- I: Meaning and Truth Theory

- II: Reply to Foster

- III: Truth Conditions, Bivalence and Verificationism

- IV: What is a Theory of Meaning? II

- V. Two Theories of Meaning

- VI: Truth Definitions and Actual Languages

- VII: On Understanding the Structure of One's Language

- VIII: Semantic Structure and Logical Form

- IX: Language-Mastery and the Sorites Paradox

- X. Existence and Tense

- XI: States of Affairs

- XII: The De Re Must: A Note on the Logical Form of Essentialist Claims

- An Appendix to David Wiggins's Note

- XIII: Is There a Problem about Substitutional Quantification?

Über Autor(innen)

Gareth Evans was Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy and Fellow of University College, Oxford; he died at the age of 34, in 1980. John McDowell is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, having previously been a Fellow of University College, Oxford; he is a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.