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In this textbook, Michael Morris offers a critical introduction to the central issues of the philosophy of language. Each chapter focusses on one or two texts which have had a seminal influence on work in the subject, and uses these as a way of approaching both the central topics and the various traditions of dealing with them. Texts include classic writings by Frege, Russell, Kripke, Quine, Davidson, Austin, Grice and Wittgenstein. Theoretical jargon is kept to a minimum and is fully explained whenever it is introduced. The range of topics covered includes sense and reference, definite descriptions, proper names, natural-kind terms, de re and de dicto necessity, propositional attitudes, truth-theoretical approaches to meaning, radical interpretation, indeterminacy of translation, speech acts, intentional theories of meaning, and scepticism about meaning. The book will be invaluable to students and to all readers who are interested in the nature of linguistic meaning.

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Book category Books in English Language linguistics Philosophy of language

• Full title: Introduction to the Philosophy of Language
• Author: Michael Morris
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 340
• EAN: 9780521842150
• ISBN: 0521842158
• ID: 02046498
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 814 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 21 mm
• Date of publishing: 14. December 2006

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