Mark Platts

Reference, Truth and Reality (eBook, PDF)

Essays on the Philosophy of Language

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The papers in this collection discuss the connections between language, reality and human understanding. The complex relations between accounts of meaning and facts about ordinary speakers' understanding of their language are examined so as to illuminate the philosophical character of the connections between language and reality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315533889
• Artikelnr.: 45681039

Autorenporträt

Mark Platts

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Mark Platts 2. Truth and Use Colin McGinn 3. Causal
Modalities and Realism Christopher Peacocke 4. Moral Reality and the End of
Desire Mark Platts 5. Tarski's Theory of Truth Hartry Field 6. Physicalism
and Prmitive Denotation: Field on Tarski John McDowell 8. On the Sense and
Reference of a Proper Name John McDowell 9. Truth and Singular Terms Tyler
Burge 10. Truth-Theory for Indexical Languages Barry Taylor 11. Operators,
Predicates and Truth-Theory Colin McGinn 12. Quotation and Saying That
John McDowell 13. What Metaphors Mean Donald Davidson 14. Pronouns,
Quantifiers and Relative Clauses (1) Gareth Evans 15. 'Most' and 'All':
Some Comments on a Familiar Programme, and on the Logical Form of
Quantified Sentences David Wiggins