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Author:   Garth L. Hallett
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780791473610

ISBN 10:   0791473619
Pages:   243
Publication Date:   06 March 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Preface 1. The Issue of Language's Authority 2. The Question's Centrality 3. Plato's Recourse to Nonlinguistic Forms 4. Aquinas and the Primacy of Mental Truth 5. The Tractatus: Precise Thought versus Imprecise Language 6. Carnap's Limited Linguistic Turn 7. Tarski, Truth, and Claims of Linguistic Incoherence 8. Wittgenstein's Acceptance of the Authority of Language 9. Wittgenstein versus Theoretical ""Intuitions"" 10. Flew and Paradigm-Case Arguments 11. Russell's Critique of ""Common Sense"" 12. Malcolm and the ""Ordinary-Language"" Debate 13. Austin, Statements, and Their Truth 14. A Lead Overlooked: From Meaning to Truth 15. Kripke, Putnam, and Rigid Designation 16. Quine, Linguistic Truths, and Holistic Theory 17. Quine, Indeterminacy, and the Opacity of Language 18. Rorty, Stich, and Pragmatic Assertability 19. Habermas, Communicative Speech, and Validity 20. Past, Present, and Future: An Overview Notes Bibliography Index"

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Hallett's treatment combines impressive philosophical erudition with penetrating and insightful analysis. - William H. Brenner, author of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations This book is a highly enlightening introduction to and survey of linguistic philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The work is accessible to readers without a strong background in philosophy, and leads them through a wide range of philosophers and philosophies. This is not a mere survey, for the author develops his own position in the course of working through the views of other philosophers, and engages the reader in his project of understanding and defending the authority of language. - John T. Kearns, author of Reconceiving Experience: A Solution to a Problem Inherited from Descartes

"""Hallett's treatment combines impressive philosophical erudition with penetrating and insightful analysis."" - William H. Brenner, author of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations ""This book is a highly enlightening introduction to and survey of linguistic philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The work is accessible to readers without a strong background in philosophy, and leads them through a wide range of philosophers and philosophies. This is not a mere survey, for the author develops his own position in the course of working through the views of other philosophers, and engages the reader in his project of understanding and defending the authority of language."" - John T. Kearns, author of Reconceiving Experience: A Solution to a Problem Inherited from Descartes"

Author Information

Garth L. Hallett is Dean of the College of Philosophy and Letters at St. Louis University and the author of many books, including Essentialism: A Wittgensteinian Critique, also published by SUNY Press.

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