Truth and Meaning
Title | Truth and Meaning PDF eBook |
Author | Gareth Evans |
Publisher | Oxford University Press on Demand |
Pages | 419 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780198250074 |
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 figuresin late twentieth-century philosophy, such as Donald Davidson, Saul Kripke, P. F. Strawson, and Michael Dummett. Most of the papers are not available elsewhere.
Donald Davidson on Truth, Meaning, and the Mental
Title | Donald Davidson on Truth, Meaning, and the Mental PDF eBook |
Author | Gerhard Preyer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2012-09-06 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199697515 |
This volume offers a reappraisal of Donald Davidson's influential philosophy of thought, meaning, and language, Twelve specially written essays by leading philosophers in the field illuminate a range of themes and problems relating to these subjects, and engage in particular with Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig's interpretation of Davidson's thought.
Truth and Predication
Title | Truth and Predication PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Davidson |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2009-07 |
Genre | Mathematics |
ISBN | 9780674030220 |
This brief book takes readers to the very heart of what it is that philosophy can do well. Completed shortly before Donald Davidson's death at 85, Truth and Predication brings full circle a journey moving from the insights of Plato and Aristotle to the problems of contemporary philosophy. In particular, Davidson, countering many of his contemporaries, argues that the concept of truth is not ambiguous, and that we need an effective theory of truth in order to live well. Davidson begins by harking back to an early interest in the classics, and an even earlier engagement with the workings of grammar; in the pleasures of diagramming sentences in grade school, he locates his first glimpse into the mechanics of how we conduct the most important activities in our life--such as declaring love, asking directions, issuing orders, and telling stories. Davidson connects these essential questions with the most basic and yet hard to understand mysteries of language use--how we connect noun to verb. This is a problem that Plato and Aristotle wrestled with, and Davidson draws on their thinking to show how an understanding of linguistic behavior is critical to the formulating of a workable concept of truth. Anchored in classical philosophy, Truth and Predication nonetheless makes telling use of the work of a great number of modern philosophers from Tarski and Dewey to Quine and Rorty. Representing the very best of Western thought, it reopens the most difficult and pressing of ancient philosophical problems, and reveals them to be very much of our day.
Truth, Meaning, Experience
Title | Truth, Meaning, Experience PDF eBook |
Author | Anil Gupta |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2011-12-09 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0190285729 |
This volume reprints eight of Anil Gupta's essays, some with additional material. The essays bring a refreshing new perspective to central issues in philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and epistemology. Gupta argues that logical interdependence is legitimate, and that it provides a key to understanding a variety of topics of interest to philosophers--including truth, rationality, and experience. The essays are highly accessible and provide a good introduction to ideas Gupta has been developing over the last three decades.
Truth in Virtue of Meaning
Title | Truth in Virtue of Meaning PDF eBook |
Author | Gillian Russell |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2008-02-28 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199232199 |
The distinction between analytic and synthetic sentences - the idea that some sentences are true or false just in virtue of what they mean - is a famous focus of philosophical controversy. Gillian Russell reinvigorates the debate with a challenging new defence of the distinction, showing that it is compatible with semantic externalism.
Truth and Meaning
Title | Truth and Meaning PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Taylor |
Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 1998-03-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9781577180494 |
This lucid and wide-ranging volume constitutes a self-contained introduction to the elements and key issues of the philosophy of language.
Donald Davidson
Title | Donald Davidson PDF eBook |
Author | Kirk Ludwig |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2003-07-28 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0521790433 |
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