ABSTRACT
In the 1960s and 1970s questions about the semantics of natural languages were of central concern to the vast majority of analytic philosophers. The work of Chomsky, Davidson, Grice, Donnellan, Kaplan, Kripke and Putnam was widely read by non-specialists. The three main branches of linguistics that are of special philosophical significance-syntax,
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|74 pages
Philosophy, Syntax, and Semantics
part Two|83 pages
Philosophy, Semantics, and Pragmatics
part Three|39 pages
Linguistics and Philosophy of Science
part Four|79 pages
A Case Study in Philosophy and Linguistics: Mixed Quotation