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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language
Lepore, Ernest Professor of Philosophy and Associate Director of the Rutgers Centre for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University in New Jersey
Smith, Barry C. Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute of Philosophy in the School of Advanced Study, University of London
Print publication date: 2008 (this edition) Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-955223-8
Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: September 2009




9 Truth and Meaning
doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199552238.003.0009

Gabriel Segal
Abstract: Semantics 1879–1965 – Donald Davidson – Cognitivism Versus Instrumentalism – Context and the Limits of Formality

Keywords: context, instrumentalism, philosophy of language, meaning, nature, philosophy, semantics, cognitivism, language, truth,

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Preface
I The Historical Context
1 Frege's Contribution to Philosophy of Language
2 Wittgenstein on Language: From Simples to Samples
3 Philosophy of Language in the Twentieth Century
II The Nature of Language
4 Psychologism*
5 Language as Internal*
6 Languages and Idiolects: Their Language and Ours
III The Nature of Meaning
7 Rule-Following, Meaning, and Normativity
8 Naturalist Theories of Meaning
9 Truth and Meaning
10 Meaning Holism
11 Indeterminacy of Translation
12 Intention-Based Semantics
13 Propositional Content
14 Conceptual Role Semantics
15 Semantic Internalism and Externalism*
16 Relevance Theory—New Directions and Developments*
17 The Distinction between Semantics and Pragmatics*
IV The Nature of Reference
18 The Essence of Reference
19 Predicate Reference*
20 Rigidity*
21 Names and Natural Kind Terms*
22 What Does it Take to Refer?
V Semantic Theory
23 Formal Semantics*
24 Two-Dimensional Semantics
25 Deflationism
VI Linguistic Phenomena
26 Compositionality
27 Opacity
28 Tense
29 Plurals*
30 The Pragmatics of the Logical Constants
31 Quantifiers*
32 Logical Form and LF
VII Varieties of Speech Act
33 Metaphor
34 Semantics for Nondeclaratives
35 Speech Acts and Performatives
VIII The Epistemology And Metaphysics Of Language
36 Meaning and Reference: Some Chomskian Themes*
37 What I Know When I Know a Language*
38 Realism and Antirealism*
39 Triangulation
40 Shared Content
41 The Perils and Pleasures of Interpretation
Index
 
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