Michael Devitt & Richard Hanley 
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language 

The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Language is a
collection of twenty new essays in a cutting-edge and wide-ranging
field.

* Surveys central issues in contemporary philosophy of language
while examining foundational topics

* Provides pedagogical tools such as abstracts and suggestions
for further readings

* Topics addressed include the nature of meaning, speech acts and
pragmatics, figurative language, and naturalistic theories of
reference

قائمة المحتويات

Preface.

Notes on Contributors.

Introduction: Michael Devitt and Richard Hanley.

Part I: Foundational Issues.

Foundations issues in the philosophy of language: Martin Davies
(Australian National University).

Part II: Meaning.

The nature of meaning: Paul Horwich (City University of New York
Graduate Center).

Truth and reference as the basis for meaning: James Higginbotham
(University of Southern California).

Language, thought, and meaning: Brian Loar (Rutgers
University).

Meaning skepticism: Alex Miller (Macquarie University).

Analyticity again: Jerry Fodor and Ernie Lepore (Rutgers
University).

Formal semantics: Max Cresswell (University of Aukland &
Texas A&M University) Speech acts and pragmatics: Kent Bach
(San Francisco State University).

Figurative language: Josef Stern (University of Chicago &
Bar-Ilan University, Israel).

Propositional attitude ascription: Mark Richard (Tufts
University).

Conditionals: Frank Jackson (Australian National
University).

Vagueness: Stephen Schiffer (New York University).

The semantics of non-factualism, non-cognitivism, quasi-realism:
Simon Blackburn (University of Cambridge).

Part III: Reference.

Names: William Lycan (University of North Carolina).

General terms and mass terms: Stephen Schwartz (Ithaca
College).

Descriptions: Peter Ludlow and Stephen Neale (University of
Michigan & Rutgers University).

Using indexicals: John Perry (Stanford University).

Pronouns and anaphora: Stephen Neale (Rutgers University).

Naturalistic theories of reference: Karen Neander (University of
California, Davis) Truth: Vann Mc Gee (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology).

Bibliography.

Index.

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عن المؤلف

Michael Devitt is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at
the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the
author of Designation (1981), Coming to Our Senses: A
Naturalistic Program for Semantic Localism (1995), Realism
and Truth (1997), and Language and Reality: An Introduction
to the Philosophy of Language (with Kim Sterelny, 1999).

Richard Hanley is Associate Professor of Philosophy at
the University of Delaware. He is the author of The Metaphysics
of Star Trek (1997, reprinted in paperback as Is Data
Human?), as well as articles in metaphysics and philosophy of
language.