Philosophy of Language, Volume 16 / Edition 1

by Ernest Sosa, Enrique Villanueva

Overview

Some of the most distinguished active contributors to the field join together for a collection of their most recent work.

• Brings together important new papers by many of the most distinguished philosophers of language
• Takes up some of the central issues in the field in recent years
• Includes some of the best cutting-edge work in philosophy of language

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781405160315
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/23/2007
Series:	Philosophical Issues: A Supplement to Nous , #1
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.02(w) x 9.17(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

Ernest Sosa is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, distinguished philosopher, author of Knowledge in Perspective, co-author of Epistemic Justification, subject of Ernest Sosa and His Critics.

Table of Contents

1. Things and Their Aspects: NICHOLAS ASHER.

2. Now You Know Who Hong Oak Yun Is: DAVID BRAUN.

3. Quotation, Context Sensitivity, Signs and Expressions: HERMAN CAPPELEN AND ERNIE LEPORE.

4. Descriptions with Adverbs of Quantification: DELIA GRAFF FARA.

5. MacFarlane on Relative Truth: RICHARD G. HECK, JR.

6. Sententialism: The Thesis that Complement Clauses Refer to Themselves: JAMES HIGGINBOTHAM.

7. Soames on Descriptive Reference-Fixing: ROBIN JESHION.

8. Singular Terms, Reference and Methodology in Semantics: JEFFREY C. KING.

9. From Sherlock and Buffy to Klingon and Norrathian Platinum Pieces: Pretense, Contextalism, and the Myth of Fiction: PETER LUDLOW.

10. The Meaning of “Water”: An Unsolved Problem: WILLIAM G. LYCAN.

11. “Knowledge of Language and Linguistic Competence”: ROBERT J. MATTHEWS.

12. Interpreting Concatenation and Concatenates: PAUL M. PIETROSKI.

13. Understanding as Immersion: R. M. SAINSBURY.

14. Terms in Bondage: NATHAN SALMON.

15. Two Perspectives on Knowledge of Language: STEPHEN SCHIFFER.

16. The Philosophical Significance of the Kripkean Necessary Aposteriori: SCOTT SOAMES.

17. Indicative versus Subjunctive Conditionals, Congruential versus Non-Hyperintensional Contexts: TIMOTHY WILLIAMSON.

Symposium.

1. Self-Reflexive Thoughts: GILBERT HARMAN.

2. on Self Referential Thoughts: CHRISTOPHER S. HILL Harman