A critical introduction to the philosophy of language : central themes from Locke to Wittgenstein /

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Author / Creator:Fennell, John (Associate Professor of Philosophy), author.
Imprint:New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
©2019
Description:x, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12731213
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ISBN:9781138339712
1138339717
9781138339729
1138339725
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:A Critical Introduction to Philosophy of Language is a historically oriented introduction to the central themes in philosophy of language. Its narrative arc covers Locke's 'idea' theory, Mill's empiricist account of math and logic, Frege and Russell's development of modern logic and its subsequent deployment in their pioneering program of 'logical analysis', Ayer and Carnap's logical positivism, Quine's critique of logical positivism and elaboration of a naturalist-behaviorist approach to meaning, and later-Wittgenstein's 'ordinary language philosophy'-inspired rejection of the project of logical analysis. Thus, it historically situates the two central programs in early twentieth-century English-speaking philosophy -- logical analysis and logical positivism -- and discusses the central critiques they face later in the century in the works of Quine and the later-Wittgenstein. Unlike other secondary studies in philosophy of language, A Critical Introduction to Philosophy of Language is not just a 'greatest hits album', i.e., a discontinuous compilation in which classics in the field are presented together with their standard criticisms one after the other. Instead, Fennell develops a particular, historical-thematic narrative in which the figures and ideas he treats are introduced in highly intentional ways. And by cross-referencing them throughout his discussions, he highlights the contributions they make to the narrative they comprise.

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505 0 |a Introduction : logico-semantics, logical positivism, and their discontents -- The classical empiricist account of meaning -- Classical empiricism and the problem of the a priori : Mill, Kant, and Frege -- Frege's Begriffsschrift -- Frege on sense and references -- Russell's theory of descriptions -- Kripke's causal theory of reference -- Logical positivism I : Ayer -- Logical positivism II : Carnap -- Quine's critique of positivism I : 'two dogmas of empiricism' -- Quine's critique of positivism II : anti-conventionalism -- Quine : radical translation and the indeterminacy of meaning -- Later-Wittgenstein I : ordinary language philosophy and the critique of Ostension -- Later-Wittgenstein II : the rule-following considerations -- Later-Wittgenstein III : the private language argument. 
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