Philosophy of language /

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Imprint:Boston, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2006.
Description:357 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Philosophical issues ; 16
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6121691
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Other authors / contributors:Sosa, Ernest.
Villanueva, Enrique.
ISBN:1405160314
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Standard no.:9781405160315
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Things and Their Aspects
  • 2. Now You Know Who Hong Oak Yun Is
  • 3. Quotation, Context Sensitivity, Signs and Expressions
  • 4. Descriptions with Adverbs of Quantification
  • 5. MacFarlane on Relative Truth
  • 6. Sententialism
  • The Thesis that Complement Clauses Refer to Themselves
  • 7. Soames on Descriptive Reference-Fixing
  • 8. Singular Terms, Reference and Methodology in Semantics
  • 9. From Sherlock and Buffy to Klingon and Norrathian Platinum Pieces
  • Pretense, Contextalism, and the Myth of Fiction
  • 10. The Meaning of "Water"
  • An Unsolved Problem
  • 11. "Knowledge of Language and Linguistic Competence"
  • 12. Interpreting Concatenation and Concatenates
  • 13. Understanding as Immersion
  • 14. Terms in Bondage
  • 15. Two Perspectives on Knowledge of Language
  • 16. The Philosophical Significance of the Kripkean Necessary Aposteriori
  • 17. Indicative versus Subjunctive Conditionals, Congruential versus Non-Hyperintensional Contexts
  • Symposium
  • 1. Self-Reflexive Thoughts
  • 2. On Self Referential Thoughts
  • Harman