This new edition features an additional essay, previously uncollected. The central question which these essays address is what it is for words to mean what they do.
... 0199246297 . $ 21.95 . Since its first appearance in 1984 , Davidson's ex- ceptional Inquiries into truth and interpretation has been the focus of controversy . This second edition features a new essay in addition to the original eigh ...
The handbook moves on to offer seminal contributions from philosophers ranging from the pre-Socratics up to John Stuart Mill, preceding each major historical section with its own introductory assessment.
Philosophy of Language introduces the student to the main issues and theories in twentieth-century philosophy of language. Topics are structured in three parts in the book.
If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it. Ever since the publication of its original version, Naming and Necessity has had great and increasing influence.
In addition to Churchland's foreword, this edition offers a new preface by Quine's student and colleague Dagfinn Follesdal that describes the never-realized plans for a second edition of Word and Object, in which Quine would offer a more ...