Description
“Providing up-to-date, in-depth coverage of the central question, and written and edited by some of the foremost practitioners in the field, this timely new edition will no doubt be a go-to reference for anyone with a serious interest in the philosophy of language.”
Kathrin Glüer-Pagin, Stockholm University
Now published in two volumes, the second edition of the best-selling Companion to the Philosophy of Language provides a complete survey of contemporary philosophy of language. The Companion has been greatly extended and now includes a monumental 17 new essays – with topics chosen by the editors, who curated suggestions from current contributors – and almost all of the 25 original chapters have been updated to take account of recent developments in the field.
In addition to providing a synoptic view of the key issues, figures, concepts, and debates, each essay introduces new and original contributions to ongoing debates, as well as addressing a number of new areas of interest, including two-dimensional semantics, modality and epistemic modals, and semantic relationism. The extended “state-of-the-art” chapter format allows the authors, all of whom are internationally eminent scholars in the field, to incorporate original research to a far greater degree than competitor volumes. Unrivaled in scope, this volume represents the best contemporary critical thinking relating to the philosophy of language.
Table of Contents
Volume I
List of Contributors viii
Preface to the Second Edition xv
Preface to the First Edition xvi
Part I Meaning and Theories of Meaning 1
1 Metaphysics, Philosophy, and the Philosophy of Language 3
Michael Morris
2 Meaning and Truth‐Conditions: From Frege’s Grand Design to Davidson’s 27
David Wiggins
3 Intention and Convention in the Theory of Meaning 49
Stephen Schiffer
4 Meaning, Use, Verification 73
John Skorupski
Postscript: Bernhard Weiss
5 Semantics and Pragmatics 107
Guy Longworth
6 Pragmatics 127
Charles Travis
Postscript: Charles Travis
7 On the Linguistic Status of Context Sensitivity 151
John Collins
8 A Guide to Naturalizing Semantics 174
Barry Loewer
Postscript: Peter Schulte
9 Inferentialism 197
Julien Murzi and Florian Steinberger
10 Against Harmony 225
Ian Rumfitt
11 Meaning and Privacy 250
Edward Craig
Postscript: Guy Longworth
12 Tacit Knowledge 272
Alexander Miller
13 Radical Interpretation 299
Jane Heal
Postscript: Alexander Miller
14 Propositional Attitudes 324
Mark Richard
15 Holism 357
Christopher Peacocke
16 Metaphor 375
Richard Moran
Postscript: Andrew McGonigal
17 Conditionals 401
Anthony S. Gillies
18 Generics 437
Bernhard Nickel
19 Deflationist Theories of Truth, Meaning, and Content 463
Stephen Schiffer
Volume II
Part I L anguage, Truth, and Reality 491
20 Realism and its Oppositions 493
Bob Hale
Postscript: Bernhard Weiss
21 Theories of Truth 532
Ralph C. S. Walker
Postscript: Michael P. Lynch
22 Truthmaker Semantics 556
Kit Fine
23 Analyticity 578
Paul Artin Boghossian
Postscript: Paul Artin Boghossian
24 Rule‐Following, Objectivity, and Meaning 619
Bob Hale
Postscript: Daniel Wee
25 The Normativity of Meaning 649
Anandi Hattiangadi
26 Indeterminacy of Translation 670
Crispin Wright
Postscript: Alexander Miller
27 Putnam’s Model‐Theoretic Argument against Metaphysical Realism 703
Bob Hale and Crispin Wright
Postscript: Jussi Haukioja
28 Sorites 734
Mark Sainsbury and Timothy Williamson
Postscript: Aidan McGlynn
29 Time and Tense 765
Berit Brogaard
30 Relativism 787
Patrick Shirreff and Brian Weatherson
Part II Reference, Identity, and Necessity 805
31 Modality 807
Bob Hale
Postscript: Bob Hale
32 Relativism about Epistemic Modals 843
Andy Egan
33 Internalism and Externalism 865
Jussi Haukioja
34 Essentialism 881
Graeme Forbes
Postscript: Penelope Mackie
35 Reference and Necessity 902
Robert Stalnaker
36 Names and Rigid Designation 920
Jason Stanley
37 Two‐Dimensional Semantics 948
Christian Nimtz
38 The Semantics and Pragmatics of Indexicals 970
John Perry
39 Objects and Criteria of Identity 990
E. J. Lowe
Postscript: Harold Noonan
40 Relative Identity 1013
Harold Noonan
41 De Jure Codesignation 1033
James Pryor
Glossary 1080
Index 1117
