04644nam 2200673Ia 450 991079239710332120230721015458.01-4008-3318-31-282-53144-197866125314460-691-13682-310.1515/9781400833184(CKB)2560000000324434(EBL)485802(OCoLC)814522316(SSID)ssj0000364305(PQKBManifestationID)11267981(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000364305(PQKBWorkID)10398718(PQKB)11755123(MiAaPQ)EBC485802(DE-B1597)446756(OCoLC)979726737(DE-B1597)9781400833184(Au-PeEL)EBL485802(CaPaEBR)ebr10367288(CaONFJC)MIL253144(EXLCZ)99256000000032443420080429d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrPhilosophical essaysVolume 2The philosophical significance of language[electronic resource] /Scott SoamesCourse BookPrinceton, NJ Princeton University Press20091 online resource (474 p.)Philosophical Essays ;Volume 2Description based upon print version of record.0-691-13683-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --The Origins of These Essays --Introduction --PART ONE. Reference, Propositions, and Propositional Attitudes --ESSAY ONE. Direct Reference, Propositional Attitudes, and Semantic Content --ESSAY TWO. Why Propositions Can't Be Sets of Truth-Supporting Circumstances --ESSAY THREE. Belief and Mental Representation --ESSAY FOUR. Attitudes and Anaphora --PART TWO. Modality --ESSAY FIVE. The Modal Argument: Wide Scope and Rigidified Descriptions --ESSAY SIX. The Philosophical Significance of the Kripkean Necessary A Posteriori --ESSAY SEVEN. Knowledge of Manifest Natural Kinds --ESSAY EIGHT. Understanding Assertion --ESSAY NINE. Ambitious Two-Dimensionalism --ESSAY TEN. Actually --PART THREE. Truth and Vagueness --ESSAY ELEVEN. What Is a Theory of Truth? --ESSAY TWELVE. Understanding Deflationism --ESSAY THIRTEEN. Higher-Order Vagueness for Partially Defined Predicates --ESSAY FOURTEEN. The Possibility of Partial Definition --PART FOUR. Kripke, Wittgenstein, and Following a Rule --ESSAY FIFTEEN. Skepticism about Meaning: Indeterminacy, Normativity, and the Rule-Following Paradox --ESSAY SIXTEEN. Facts, Truth Conditions, and the Skeptical Solution to the Rule-Following Paradox --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 languagesPhilosophyLinguisticsSemanticsLanguage and languagesPhilosophy.Linguistics.Semantics.410.9Soames Scott739508MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910792397103321Philosophical essays3728931UNINA