Philosophy of Language

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'Alex Miller has thought incisively about how to introduce contemporary philosophy to students. His book covers a lot of ground, but by well-judged selection and outstandingly well-organised and lucid exposition he has been able to go into a number of topics quite deeply... this book is excellent.' Philosophical Books

Preface to the first edition	p. xi
Preface to the second edition	p. xiv
Acknowledgements, first edition	p. xv
Acknowledgements, second edition	p. xvi
General notes	p. xvii
Frege: Semantic value and reference	p. 1
Frege's logical language	p. 2
Syntax	p. 7
Semantics and truth	p. 9
Sentences and proper names	p. 11
Function and object	p. 14
Predicates, connectives, and quantifiers	p. 15
A semantic theory for a simple language	p. 19
Further reading	p. 22
Frege and Russell: Sense and definite descriptions	p. 23
The introduction of sense	p. 23
The nature of sense	p. 28
The objectivity of sense: Frege's critique of Locke	p. 36
Four problems with Frege's notion of sense	p. 43
Kripke on naming and necessity	p. 53
A theory of sense?	p. 59
Force and tone	p. 60
Russell on names and descriptions	p. 64
Scope distinctions	p. 70
Russell's attack on sense	p. 72
Russell on communication	p. 78
Strawson and Donnellan on referring and definite descriptions	p. 80
Kripke's causal-historical theory of reference	p. 83
Appendix: Frege's theses on sense and semantic value	p. 86
Further reading	p. 87
Sense and verificationism: Logical positivism	p. 90
From the Tractatus to the verification principle	p. 90
The formulation of the verification principle	p. 95
Foster on the nature of the verification principle	p. 101
The a priori	p. 105
Carnap on internal and external questions	p. 115
Logical positivism and ethical language	p. 119
Moderate holism	p. 122
Further reading	p. 124
Scepticism about sense (I): Quine on analyticity and translation	p. 126
Quine's attack on the analytic/synthetic distinction: Introduction	p. 127
The argument of "Two Dogmas" (part I)	p. 127
Criticism of "Two Dogmas" (part I)	p. 133
The argument of "Two Dogmas" (part II)	p. 136
Criticism of "Two Dogmas" (part II)	p. 139
Quine on the indeterminacy of translation: Introduction	p. 141
The argument from below	p. 142
Evans and Hookway on the argument from below	p. 149
The argument from above	p. 156
Conclusion	p. 163
Further reading	p. 163
Scepticism about sense (II): Kripke's Wittgenstein and the sceptical paradox	p. 165
The sceptical paradox	p. 166
The sceptical solution and the argument against solitary language	p. 175
Boghossian's argument against the sceptical solution	p. 178
Wright's objections to the sceptical solution	p. 182
Zalabardo's objection to the sceptical solution	p. 184
The normativity of meaning?	p. 188
"Factualist" interpretations of Kripke's Wittgenstein	p. 191
Further reading	p. 201
Saving sense: Responses to the sceptical paradox	p. 203
Linguistic meaning and mental content	p. 204
Sophisticated dispositionalism	p. 207
Lewis-style reductionism and Ultra-Sophisticated Dispositionalism	p. 212
Fodor's "asymmetric dependency" account of meaning	p. 216
McGinn on normativity and the ability conception of understanding	p. 221
Wright's judgement-dependent conception of meaning	p. 226
Wittgenstein's dissolution of the sceptical paradox?	p. 234
Further reading	p. 243
Sense, intention, and speech acts: Grice's programme	p. 246
Homeric struggles: Two approaches to sense	p. 246
Grice on speaker's-meaning and sentence-meaning	p. 249
Searle's modifications: Illocutionary and perlocutionary intentions	p. 254
Objections to Gricean analyses	p. 259
Response to Blackburn	p. 265
Strawson on referring revisited	p. 268
Further reading	p. 270
Sense and truth: Tarski and Davidson	p. 271
Davidson and Frege	p. 272
Davidson's adequacy conditions for theories of meaning	p. 273
Intensional and extensional theories of meaning	p. 275
Extensional adequacy and Tarski's convention (T)	p. 278
Tarskian truth theories	p. 283
Truth and translation: Two problems for Davidson	p. 290
Radical interpretation and the principle of charity	p. 292
Holism and T-theorems	p. 300
Conclusion: Theories of meaning and natural languages	p. 303
Further reading	p. 304
Sense, world, and metaphysics	p. 306
Realism	p. 307
Non-cognitivism and the Frege-Geach problem	p. 307
Realism and verification-transcendent truth	p. 310
Acquisition, manifestation, and rule-following: The arguments against verification-transcendent truth	p. 313
Twin-earth, meaning, mind, and world	p. 323
Grades of objectivity: Wright on anti-realism	p. 330
Two threats of quietism	p. 335
Further reading	p. 337
Notes	p. 339
Bibliography	p. 376
Index	p. 389
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