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ISBN 10: 1032023864

ISBN 13: 9781032023861

Author: Michael P. Wolf

This book offers readers a collection of 50 short chapter entries on topics in the philosophy of language. Each entry addresses a paradox, a longstanding puzzle, or a major theme that has emerged in the field from the last 150 years, tracing overlap with issues in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, ethics, political philosophy, and literature. Each of the 50 entries is written as a piece that can stand on its own, though useful connections to other entries are mentioned throughout the text. Readers can open the book and start with almost any of the entries, following themes of greatest interest to them. Each entry includes recommendations for further reading on the topic. Philosophy of Language: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments is useful as a standalone textbook, or can be supplemented by additional readings that instructors choose. The accessible style makes it suitable for introductory level through intermediate undergraduate courses, as well as for independent learners, or even as a reference for more advanced students and researchers. Key Features: Uses a problem-centered approach to philosophy of language (rather than author- or theory-centered) making the text more inviting to first-time students of the subject. Offers stand-alone chapters, allowing students to quickly understand an issue and giving instructors flexibility in assigning readings to match the themes of the course. Provides up-to-date recommended readings at the end of each chapter, or about 500 sources in total, amounting to an extensive review of the literature on each topic.

Philosophy of Language 50 Puzzles Paradoxes and Thought Experiments 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Big picture questions

Introduction

1 ‘I am no tree! I am an Ent!’

2 Ideal language or ordinary languages?

3 The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

4 Conventions

Part II: Early analytic philosophy and pragmatism

Introduction

5 Frege on sense and reference

6 Russell on ‘the present King of France’

7 Peirce on making ideas clear

8 ‘Pittsburgh is west of Philadelphia’ is true

9 ‘All bachelors are unmarried males’

10 ‘Gavagai!’

Part III: Wittgenstein on rule-following and private language

Background III

11 Wittgenstein on following a rule

12 The private language argument

13 Ayer on Robinson Crusoe

14 ‘That is green’

15 ‘Kripkenstein’

Part IV: Semantic paradoxes

Introduction

16 When what is isn’t, and what isn’t is (the liar paradox)

17 Russell’s paradox

18 Berry’s paradox

19 Yablo’s paradox

20 ‘True, false, and whatever else you’ve got!’

Part V: Context-sensitivity

Introduction

21 ‘I can’t get there from here’

22 ‘Micah is getting so big!’

23 Epistemic contextualism

24 ‘Every man who owns a donkey beats it’

25 ‘I’

26 ‘You’

27 ‘We’

Part VI: Speech acts and pragmatics

Introduction

28 ‘Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.’

29 ‘The present King of France …’ (yet again)

30 ‘Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?’

31 Silencing

32 Jokes

33 Slurs

34 If you have been scanning the titles, looking for the entry with all the dirty words, it’s this one

35 Propaganda

Part VII: Lingering issues about meaning

Introduction

36 Metaphor

37 The Frege-Geach problem

38 Something on vagueness

39 Meanings of fictional names

40 ‘Londres est jolie …’

Part VIII: Naturalism and externalism

Introduction

41 The poverty of the stimulus

42 ‘If I could talk to the animals …’

43 Broca’s area

44 ‘Hello world!’

45 Natural language and evolution

46 What if Shakespeare didn’t write Hamlet?

47 Reference and chains of communication

48 Adventures on Twin Earth

49 Empty kind terms

50 Could there ever be ‘unicorns?’

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