How much authority should language, the medium of communication, be accorded as a determinant of truth and therefore of what we say? Garth L. Hallett argues that, although never explicitly debated, this is the most significant issue of linguistic philosophy. Here, for the first time, he traces the issue’s story. Starting with representative thinkers—Plato, Aquinas, Kant, Frege, and the early Wittgenstein—who contested language’s authority, the narrative then focuses on thinkers such as Carnap, Tarski, the later Wittgenstein, Flew, Russell, Malcolm, Austin, Kripke, Putnam, Strawson, Quine, and Habermas who, in different ways and to varying degrees, accorded language more authority. Implicit in this account is a challenge to philosophy as still widely practiced.
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Table des matières
Preface1. 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
A propos de l’auteur
Garth L. Hallett is Dean of the College of Philosophy and Letters at St. Louis University and the author of many books, includingEssentialism: A Wittgensteinian Critique, also published by SUNY Press.
Langue Anglais ● Format PDF ● Pages 243 ● ISBN 9780791478776 ● Taille du fichier 1.2 MB ● Maison d’édition State University of New York Press ● Publié 2008 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 7664549 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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