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Epistemology of Language

Edited by Alex Barber

Price: £90.00 (Hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925057-8
Publication date: 9 October 2003
Clarendon Press
552 pages, 234x156 mm

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Description

Brand-new contributions from a distinguished international team
Includes a very useful terrain-mapping and agenda-setting introduction
Large interdisciplinary readership, across philosophy and linguistics

Readership: Philosophers of mind and language, epistemologists, and students in these fields.

Contents

1. Introduction , Alex Barber

Part One: Knowledge in Linguistics

2. Rabbit-Pots and Supernovas: On the Relevance of Psychological Data to Linguistic Theory , Louise M. Antony

3. Is Linguistics a Branch of Psychology? , Stephen Laurence

4. Linguistics is Not Psychology , Michael Devitt

5. Intentional Content and a Chomskian Linguistics , Georges Rey

6. Does Linguistic Competence Require Knowledge of Language? , Robert J. Matthews

Part Two: Understanding

7. The Character of Natural Language Semantics , Paul M. Pietroski

8. Grasping Objects and Contents , Reinaldo Elugardo and Robert J. Stainton

9. Knowledge of Meaning , Stephen Schiffer

10. Understanding and Knowledge of What is Said , Elizabeth Fricker

11. Truth Conditions and Their Recognition , Alex Barber

Part Three: Linguistic Externalism

12. Externalism, Logical Form, and Linguistic Intentions , Peter Ludlow

13. Ignorance of Meaning , Gabriel Segal

14. Externalism and the Fregean Tradition , Jessica Brown

Part Four: Epistemology through Language

15. What is the Acquistion Argument? , Alexander Miller

16. Remembering, Imagining, and the First Person , James Higginbotham

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Alex Barber, Department of Philosophy, Open University

Contributors:Alex Barber, Open University
Louise M. Antony, Ohio State University
Stephen Laurence, University of Sheffield
Michael Devitt, City University of New York
Georges Rey,University of Maryland at College Park
Robert J. Matthews, Rutgers University
Paul M. Pietroski, University of Maryland at College Park
Reinaldo Elugardo, University of Oklahoma
Robert J. Stainton, Carleton University, Ottawa
Stephen Schiffer, New York University
Elizabeth Fricker, University of Oxford
Peter Ludlow, State University of New York
Gabriel Segal, King's College London
Jessica Brown, University of Bristol
Alexander Miller, Macquarie University, Sydney
James Higginbotham, University of Southern California

Links to web resources and related information

More in the same subject area:
Philosophy
Epistemology, theory of knowledge
Philosophy of language
Philosophy of mind
Semantics (meaning
Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure

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