Reflections on Meaning

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-925124-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 355 g

One of the world's most distinguished philosophers
- Classic papers on language collected in one volume
- The essays make up a continuous, integrated argument

Paul Horwich's main aim in Reflections on Meaning is to explain how mere noises, marks, gestures, and mental symbols are able to capture the world - that is, how words and sentences (in whatever medium) come to mean what they do, to stand for certain things, to be true or false of reality. His answer is a groundbreaking development of Wittgenstein's idea that the meaning of a term is nothing more than its use. While the chapters here have appeared as individual essays, Horwich has edited them to make a continuous argument, focused on articulating and developing an important new conception of language.

Contents
- Preface
- 1 The Space of Issues and Options
- 2 A Use Theory of Meaning
- 3 The Pseudo-Problem of Error
- 4 The Sharpness of Vague Terms
- 5 Norms of Truth and Meaning
- 6 Meaning Constitution and Epistemic Rationality
- 7 Meaning and its Place in the Faculty of Language
- 8 Deflating Compositionality

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of philosophy

Autoren/Hrsg.

Horwich, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Wissenschaften: Theorie, Epistemologie, Methodik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Wissenschaftstheorie, Wissenschaftsphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie

Über Autor(innen)

Paul Horwich, Graduate Center, City University of New York