04401nam 22006135 450 991079167070332120210111225031.01-282-96496-897866129649611-4008-3784-710.1515/9781400837847(CKB)2560000000055336(EBL)664578(OCoLC)707067732(SSID)ssj0000472071(PQKBManifestationID)11323248(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000472071(PQKBWorkID)10434974(PQKB)10250851(DE-B1597)447008(OCoLC)979905235(DE-B1597)9781400837847(MiAaPQ)EBC664578(EXLCZ)99256000000005533620190708d2008 fg engur|||||||||||txtccrPhilosophical EssaysVolume 1Philosophical Essays, Volume 1 ; Natural Language: What It Means and How We Use It /Scott SoamesCourse BookPrinceton, NJ :Princeton University Press,[2008]©20091 online resource (441 p.)Philosophical Essays ;Volume 1Description based upon print version of record.0-691-13681-5 Front matter --Contents --The Origins of These Essays --Introduction --PART ONE. Presupposition --ESSAY ONE. A Projection Problem for Speaker Presuppositions --ESSAY TWO. Presupposition --PART TWO. Language and Linguistic Competence --ESSAY THREE. Linguistics and Psychology --ESSAY FOUR. Semantics and Psychology --ESSAY FIVE. Semantics and Semantic Competence --ESSAY SIX. The Necessity Argument --ESSAY SEVEN. Truth, Meaning, and Understanding --PART THREE. Semantics and Pragmatics --ESSAY NINE. Naming and Asserting --ESSAY TEN. The Gap between Meaning and Assertion: Why What We Literally Say Often Differs from What Our Words Literally Mean --ESSAY ELEVEN. Drawing the Line between Meaning and Implicature - and Relating Both to Assertion --Part Four. Descriptions --ESSAY TWELVE. Incomplete Definite Descriptions --ESSAY THIRTEEN. Donnellan's Referential/Attributive Distinction --ESSAY FOURTEEN. Why Incomplete Definite Descriptions Do Not Defeat Russell's Theory of Descriptions --PART FIVE. Meaning and Use: Lessons for Legal Interpretation --ESSAY FIFTEEN. Interpreting Legal Texts: What Is, and What Is Not, Special about the Law --IndexThe two volumes of Philosophical Essays bring together the most important essays written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of language. Scott Soames has selected thirty-one essays spanning nearly three decades of thinking about linguistic meaning and the philosophical significance of language. A judicious collection of old and new, these volumes include sixteen essays published in the 1980's and 1990's, nine published since 2000, and six new essays. The essays in Volume 1 investigate what linguistic meaning is; how the meaning of a sentence is related to the use we make of it; what we should expect from empirical theories of the meaning of the languages we speak; and how a sound theoretical grasp of the intricate relationship between meaning and use can improve the interpretation of legal texts. The essays in Volume 2 illustrate the significance of linguistic concerns for a broad range of philosophical topics--including the relationship between language and thought; the objects of belief, assertion, and other propositional attitudes; the distinction between metaphysical and epistemic possibility; the nature of necessity, actuality, and possible worlds; the necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori; truth, vagueness, and partial definition; and skepticism about meaning and mind. The two volumes of Philosophical Essays are essential for anyone working on the philosophy of language.Language and languages -- PhilosophyLinguisticsSemanticsLanguage and languages -- Philosophy.Linguistics.Semantics.410.9Soames Scott739508DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910791670703321Philosophical essays3728931UNINA