New Waves in Philosophy of Language [Hardcover]

Innovative young philosophers present new research articles on a variety of contemporary issues including relation between language and thought, normativity of language, prospects for a naturalistic account of language, nature of linguistic understanding, semantics of proper names and expressive terms, a contemporary construal of analytic truthSeries Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction; S.Sawyer Vagueness and Non-Indexical Contextualism; J.?kerman & P.Greenough Semantics and the Place of Psychological Evidence; E.Borg Naturalism in the Philosophy of Language; or Why There is No Such Thing as Language; J.Collins Referring When Push-Comes-to-Shove; K.Edwards Semantic Normativity in Context; A.Hattiangadi Literal Force: A Defence of Conventional Assertion; M.K?lbel A Plea for Understanding; G.Longworth From the Expressive to the Derogatory: On the Semantic Role for Non-Truth-Conditional Meaning; S.Predelli Analyticity in Externalist Languages; G.Russell The Modified Predicate Theory of Proper Names; S.Sawyer Introduction, Transmission, and the Foundations of Meaning; J.Speaks Linguistic Puzzles and Semantic Pretence;? J.A.Woodbridge& ? B.Armour-Garb Index

'This is a very useful collection of papers by a first rate group of young philosophers of language'. - Alex Miller, University of Birmingham, UK

JONAS ?KERMAN PhD student in Theoretical Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, SwedenBRAD ARMOUR-GARB Associate Professor of Philosophy, University at Albany-SUNY, USA, and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, UKEMMA BORG Professor of Philosophy at University of Reading, UKJOHN COLLINS Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of East Anglia,UKKEVAN EDWARDS Assistant Professor at Syracuse University, USAPATRICK GREENOUGH Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of St. Andrews, UK and an Associate Fellow of Arch?ANANDI HATTIANGADI Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford University and Fellow of St Hilda's Collegel“,