Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy?, Volume 121Many people find themselves dissatisfied with recent linguistic philosophy, and yet know that language has always mattered deeply to philosophy and must in some sense continue to do so. Ian Hacking considers here some dozen case studies in the history of philosophy to show the different ways in which language has been important, and the consequences for the development of the subject. There are chapters on, among others, Hobbes, Berkeley, Russell, Ayer, Wittgenstein, Chomsky, Feyerabend and Davidson. Dr Hacking ends by speculating about the directions in which philosophy and the study of language seem likely to go. The book will provide students with a stimulating, broad survey of problems in the theory of meaning and the development of philosophy, particularly in this century. The topics treated in the philosophy of language are among the central, current concerns of philosophers, and the historical framework makes it possible to introduce concretely and intelligibly all the main theoretical issues. |
Contents
Strategy | 1 |
The heyday of ideas | 13 |
Thomas Hobbes mental discourse | 15 |
Port Royals ideas | 26 |
Bishop Berkeleys abstractions | 34 |
Nobodys theory of meaning | 43 |
The heyday of meanings | 55 |
Noam Chomskys innatism | 57 |
Donald Davidsons truth | 129 |
1 Tarskis Theory | 130 |
2 Problems and extensions | 134 |
3 The theory of meaning | 140 |
4 The verification of TSentences | 144 |
5 Charity and humanity | 146 |
6 The determinacy of translation | 150 |
Why does language matter to philosophy? | 157 |
Bertrand Russells acquaintance | 70 |
Ludwig Wittgensteins articulation | 82 |
A J Ayers verification | 93 |
Norman Malcolms dreams | 103 |
The heyday of sentences | 113 |
Paul Feyerabends theories | 115 |
A The heyday of ideas | 163 |
B The heyday of meanings | 170 |
C The heyday of sentences | 177 |
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