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New Waves in Philosophy of Language

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Sarah Sawyer

    1. University of Sussex, UK

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Part of the book series: New Waves in Philosophy (NWIP)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Sarah Sawyer
    Pages 1-7

  3. Vagueness and Non-Indexical Contextualism

    • Jonas Åkerman, Patrick Greenough
    Pages 8-23

  4. Semantics and the Place of Psychological Evidence

    • Emma Borg
    Pages 24-40

  5. Naturalism in the Philosophy of Language; or Why There Is No Such Thing as Language

    • John Collins
    Pages 41-59

  6. Referring When Push-Comes-to-Shove

    • Kevan Edwards
    Pages 60-86

  7. Semantic Normativity in Context

    • Anandi Hattiangadi
    Pages 87-107

  8. Literal Force: A Defence of Conventional Assertion

    • Max Kölbel
    Pages 108-137

  9. A Plea for Understanding

    • Guy Longworth
    Pages 138-163

  10. From the Expressive to the Derogatory: On the Semantic Role for Non-Truth-Conditional Meaning

    • Stefano Predelli
    Pages 164-185

  11. Analyticity in Externalist Languages

    • Gillian Russell
    Pages 186-205

  12. The Modified Predicate Theory of Proper Names

    • Sarah Sawyer
    Pages 206-225

  13. Introduction, Transmission, and the Foundations of Meaning

    • Jeff Speaks
    Pages 226-249

  14. Linguistic Puzzles and Semantic Pretence

    • James A. Woodbridge
    Pages 250-284

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 285-286
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Innovative young philosophers present new research articles on a variety of contemporary issues including relation between language and thought, normativity of language, prospects for a naturalistic account of language, nature of linguistic understanding, semantics of proper names and expressive terms, a contemporary construal of analytic truth

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'This is a very useful collection of papers by a first rate group of young philosophers of language'. - Alex Miller, University of Birmingham, UK

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Sussex, UK

    Sarah Sawyer

About the editor

JONAS ÅKERMAN PhD student in Theoretical Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, Sweden BRAD ARMOUR-GARB Associate Professor of Philosophy, University at Albany-SUNY, USA, and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, UK EMMA BORG Professor of Philosophy at University of Reading, UK JOHN COLLINS Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of East Anglia,UK KEVAN EDWARDS Assistant Professor at Syracuse University, USA PATRICK GREENOUGH Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of St. Andrews, UK and an Associate Fellow of Arché ANANDI HATTIANGADI Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford University and Fellow of St Hilda's College, UK MAX KÖLBEL ICREA Research Professor, Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Barcelona, Spain GUY LONGWORTH Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Warwick, UK STEFANO PREDELLI Professor of Philosophy, University of Nottingham, UK GILLIAN RUSSELL Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Washington University in St Louis, USA JEFF SPEAKS Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, USA JAMES A. WOODBRIDGE Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA

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