Philosophy of Language, Volume 27 / Edition 1

by John Hawthorne, Jason Turner

Overview

Philosophical Perspectives: Philosophy of Language brings together state of the art essays to address the key issues at the heart of the philosophy of language, written by some of the top minds in the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781118899816
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	02/17/2014
Series:	Philosophical Perspectives Annual Volume , #27
Pages:	571
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

John Hawthorne is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He has published numerous articles on metaphysics, philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and early modern philosophy. His books include Knowledge and Lotteries, Substance and Individuation in Leibniz, and The Grammar of Meaning.

Jason Turner is a philosopher who received his PhD from Rutgers University. He has worked at the University of Leeds, St. Louis University, and the University of Arizona.

Table of Contents

Linguistic Solutions to Philosophical Problems: The Case of Knowing How Barbara Abbott 1

Nonsense and Illusions of Thought Herman Cappelen 22

The Syntax of Personal Taste John Collins 51

The Revenge of the Semantics-Pragmatics Distinction Josh Dever 104

Question-Directed Attitudes Jane Friedman 145

Logical Relations Lloyd Humberstone 175

Expressivism and the Offensiveness of Slurs Robin Jeshion 231

Conditionals, Indeterminacy, and Triviality Justin Khoo 260

Supplementives, the Coordination Account, and Conflicting Intentions Jeffrey C. King 288

The Erotetic Theory of Reasoning: Bridges Between Formal Semantics and the Psychology of Deductive Inference Philipp Koralus Salvador Mascarenhas 312

Generics, Generalism, and Reflective Equilibrium: Implications for Moral Theorizing from the Study of Language Adam Lerner Sarah-Jane Leslie 366

Speaker's Reference and Anaphoric Pronouns Karen S. Lewis 404

Game Theory and Scalar Implicatures Daniel Rothschild 438

Cognitive Propositions Scott Soames 479

Deixis (Even Without Pointing) Una Stojnic Matthew Stone Ernie Lepore 502

Propositions and Compositionality Juhani Yli-Vakkuri 526