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Epistemology of Language
Edited by Alex Barber
552 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-925058-5
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Paperback
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09 October 2003
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- Brand-new contributions from a distinguished international team
- Includes a very useful terrain-mapping and agenda-setting introduction
- Large interdisciplinary readership, across philosophy and linguistics
What must linguistic knowledge be like if it is to figure in the description and explanation of the various phenomena pre-theoretically classified as linguistic? All linguists and philosophers of language presuppose some answer to this critical question, but all too often the presupposition is tacit. In this collection of sixteen previously unpublished essays, a distinguished international line-up of philosophers and linguists address a variety of interconnected themes concerning our knowledge of language:
Knowledge in linguistics: Noam Chomsky's claim that ordinary speakers possess complex structures of linguistic knowledge
was a trigger for the cognitive revolution nearly fifty years ago. This and an associated claim, that linguistics is essentially in the business of rendering such knowledge explicit, have been the target of an evolving series of sceptical objections ever since.
Understanding: Is linguistic understanding a special kind of semantic knowledge? If so, what kind? Topics covered include the viability of recent attempts to fuse Chomsky's cognitivism with Davidson's truth-theoretic approach to interpretation; the merging of linguistic and non-linguistic meaning in non-sentential speech; linguistic understanding as a kind of perception; and the objectivity of semantic knowledge.
Linguistic externalism: Some regard externalist intuitions about reference
as a vital contribution to our understanding of language, mind, and metaphysics; others see them as a curious but relatively unimportant component of folk linguistics, where the folk are late-twentieth-century analytic philosophers. So just what is the relation between externalist intuitions and our grasp of language?
Epistemology through language: The linguistic turn in philosophy may have come full circle, but advances in epistemology and other areas of philosophy can still take the form of a better appreciation of language and our relation to it.
Readership: Philosophers of mind and language, epistemologists, and students in these fields.
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Edited by Alex Barber, Department of Philosophy, Open University Contributors:
Alex Barber, Open University
Louise M. Antony, Ohio State University
Stephen Laurence, University of Sheffield
Michael Devitt, City University of New York
Georges Rey,University of Maryland at College Park
Robert J. Matthews, Rutgers University
Paul M. Pietroski, University of Maryland at College Park
Reinaldo Elugardo, University of Oklahoma
Robert J. Stainton, Carleton University, Ottawa
Stephen Schiffer, New York University
Elizabeth Fricker, University of
Oxford
Peter Ludlow, State University of New York
Gabriel Segal, King's College London
Jessica Brown, University of Bristol
Alexander Miller, Macquarie University, Sydney
James Higginbotham, University of Southern California
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1: Alex Barber: Introduction
Part One: Knowledge in Linguistics
2: Louise M. Antony: Rabbit-Pots and Supernovas: On the Relevance of Psychological Data to Linguistic Theory
3: Stephen Laurence: Is Linguistics a Branch of Psychology?
4: Michael Devitt: Linguistics is Not Psychology
5: Georges Rey: Intentional Content and a Chomskian Linguistics
6: Robert J. Matthews: Does Linguistic Competence Require Knowledge of Language?
Part Two: Understanding
7: Paul M. Pietroski: The Character of Natural Language Semantics
8: Reinaldo Elugardo and Robert J. Stainton: Grasping Objects and Contents
9: Stephen Schiffer: Knowledge of Meaning
10: Elizabeth Fricker: Understanding and Knowledge of What is Said
11: Alex Barber: Truth Conditions and Their Recognition
Part Three: Linguistic Externalism
12: Peter Ludlow: Externalism, Logical Form, and Linguistic Intentions
13: Gabriel Segal: Ignorance of Meaning
14: Jessica Brown: Externalism and the Fregean Tradition
Part Four: Epistemology through Language
15: Alexander Miller: What is the Acquistion Argument?
16: James Higginbotham: Remembering, Imagining, and the First Person
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