Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language Volume 4

Philosophy of language has been at the centre of philosophical research at least since the start of the 20th century. Since that 'linguistic turn', much of the most important work in philosophy has related to language. But until now there has been no regular forum for outstanding original work in this area. That is what Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language offers. Anyone wanting to know what's happening in philosophy of language could start with these volumes.

Ernest Lepore, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University,David Sosa, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin

Ernie Lepore is a Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is the author of numerous books and papers in the philosophy of language, philosophical logic, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind, including Imagination and Convention (OUP, 2015) and, with Herman Cappelen, Liberating Content (OUP, 2016).

David Sosa is a Temple Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. His publications include Bad Words: Philosophical Perspectives on Slurs (OUP, 2018) and Philosophy of Language (6th ed., OUP, 2012), and he is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Analytic Philosophy.

1. Composing Menus, Justin Bledin2. The Indexicality of 'I': Recalibrating Frege's Lauben Passage, Susanne Bobzien3. Can One Rationally Respond to a Borderline Case?, Kit Fine4. Slurs, Articulations, and Inflammatory Language, Robin Jeshion5. Discourse Referents as Mental Files, Karen S. Lewis6. Medieval Theories of Truth, Calvin Normore7. Simple Negation without Variables, Paul Pietroski and Thomas Icard8. Language and Thought: The View from LLMs, Daniel Rothschild9. Interpreting Donnellan on the Attributive Use, Robert Stainton