ABSTRACT

This engaging and accessible introduction to the philosophy of language provides an important guide to one of the liveliest and most challenging areas of study in philosophy. Interweaving the historical development of the subject with a thematic overview of the different approaches to meaning, the book provides students with the tools necessary to understand contemporary analytical philosophy.

chapter |21 pages

Frege

Semantic Value and Reference 1

chapter |56 pages

Frege and Russell

Sense and Definite Descriptions

chapter |33 pages

Sense and Verificationism

Logical Positivism

chapter |39 pages

Scepticism About Sense (I)

Quine on Analyticity and Translation

chapter |24 pages

Scepticism About Sense (II)

Kripke's Wittgenstein's Sceptical Paradox

chapter |43 pages

Saving Sense

Responses to the Sceptical Paradox

chapter |23 pages

Sense, Intention and Speech Acts

Grice's Programme

chapter |34 pages

Sense and Truth

Tarski and Davidson