Epistemology of Language

What must linguistic knowledge be like if it is to explain our capacity to use language? 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 In this collection of sixteen previously unpublished essays, a distinguished international line-up of philosophers and linguists address a variety of interconnected themes concerning our knowledge of language.

Contributors

ix

Introduction

1

(46)

Alex Barber

Part One: Knowledge in Linguistics

Rabbit-Pots and Supernovas: On the Relevance of Psychological Data to Linguistic Theory

47

(22)

Louise M. Antony

Is Linguistics a Branch of Psychology?

69

(38)

Stephen Laurence

Linguistics is Not Psychology

107

(33)

Michael Devitt

Intentional Content and a Chomskian Linguistics

140

(47)

Georges Rey

Does Linguistic Competence Require Knowledge of Language?

187

(30)

Robert J. Matthews

Part Two: Understanding

The Character of Natural Language Semantics

217

(40)

Paul M. Pietroski

Grasping Objects and Contents

257

(46)

Reinaldo Elugardo

Robert J. Stainton

Knowledge of Meaning

303

(22)

Stephen Schiffer

Understanding and Knowledge of What is Said

325

(42)

Elizabeth Fricker

Truth Conditions and their Recognition

367

(32)

Alex Barber

Part Three: Linguistic Externalism

Externalism, Logical Form, and Linguistic Intentions

399

(16)

Peter Ludlow

Ignorance of Meaning

415

(16)

Gabriel Segal

Externalism and the Fregean Tradition

431

(28)

Jessica Brown

Part Four: Epistemology through Language

What is the Acquisition Argument?

459

(37)

Alexander Miller

Remembering, Imagining, and the First Person

496

(39)

James Higginbotham

Index

535

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