Philosophical Essays Volume 2 The Philosophical Significance of Language 1st Edition by Scott Soames 9781400833184 1400833183

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ISBN 10: 1400833183

ISBN 13: 9781400833184

Author: Scott Soames

The two volumes of Philosophical Essays bring together the most important essays written by one of the world’s foremost philosophers of language. Scott Soames has selected thirty-one essays spanning nearly three decades of thinking about linguistic meaning and the philosophical significance of language. A judicious collection of old and new, these volumes include sixteen essays published in the 1980s and 1990s, nine published since 2000, and six new essays. The essays in Volume 1 investigate what linguistic meaning is; how the meaning of a sentence is related to the use we make of it; what we should expect from empirical theories of the meaning of the languages we speak; and how a sound theoretical grasp of the intricate relationship between meaning and use can improve the interpretation of legal texts. The essays in Volume 2 illustrate the significance of linguistic concerns for a broad range of philosophical topics–including the relationship between language and thought; the objects of belief, assertion, and other propositional attitudes; the distinction between metaphysical and epistemic possibility; the nature of necessity, actuality, and possible worlds; the necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori; truth, vagueness, and partial definition; and skepticism about meaning and mind. The two volumes of Philosophical Essays are essential for anyone working on the philosophy of language.

Table of contents:

Part One: Reference, Propositions, and Propositional Attitudes

Essay One: Direct Reference, Propositional Attitudes, and Semantic Content

Essay Two: Why Propositions Can’t Be Sets of Truth-Supporting Circumstances

Essay Three: Belief and Mental Representation

Essay Four: Attitudes and Anaphora

Part Two: Modality

Essay Five: The Modal Argument: Wide Scope and Rigidified Descriptions

Essay Six: The Philosophical Significance of the Kripkean Necessary A Posteriori

Essay Seven: Knowledge of Manifest Natural Kinds

Essay Eight: Understanding Assertion

Essay Nine: Ambitious Two-Dimensionalism

Essay Ten: Actually

Part Three: Truth and Vagueness

Essay Eleven: What Is a Theory of Truth?

Essay Twelve: Understanding Deflationism

Essay Thirteen: Higher-Order Vagueness for Partially Defined Predicates

Essay Fourteen: The Possibility of Partial Definition

Part Four: Kripke, Wittgenstein, and Following a Rule

Essay Fifteen: Skepticism about Meaning: Indeterminacy, Normativity, and the Rule-Following Paradox

Essay Sixteen: Facts, Truth Conditions, and the Skeptical Solution to the Rule-Following Paradox

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