Philosophical Essays. / Volume 1, : Philosophical Essays, Volume 1 ; Natural Language: What It Means and How We Use It / / 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2008] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Philosophical Essays ;
Volume 1 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- The Origins of These Essays
- Introduction
- PART ONE. Presupposition
- ESSAY ONE. A Projection Problem for Speaker Presuppositions
- ESSAY TWO. Presupposition
- PART TWO. Language and Linguistic Competence
- ESSAY THREE. Linguistics and Psychology
- ESSAY FOUR. Semantics and Psychology
- ESSAY FIVE. Semantics and Semantic Competence
- ESSAY SIX. The Necessity Argument
- ESSAY SEVEN. Truth, Meaning, and Understanding
- PART THREE. Semantics and Pragmatics
- ESSAY NINE. Naming and Asserting
- ESSAY TEN. The Gap between Meaning and Assertion: Why What We Literally Say Often Differs from What Our Words Literally Mean
- ESSAY ELEVEN. Drawing the Line between Meaning and Implicature - and Relating Both to Assertion
- Part Four. Descriptions
- ESSAY TWELVE. Incomplete Definite Descriptions
- ESSAY THIRTEEN. Donnellan's Referential/Attributive Distinction
- ESSAY FOURTEEN. Why Incomplete Definite Descriptions Do Not Defeat Russell's Theory of Descriptions
- PART FIVE. Meaning and Use: Lessons for Legal Interpretation
- ESSAY FIFTEEN. Interpreting Legal Texts: What Is, and What Is Not, Special about the Law
- Index