How to Understand Language
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Author_Bernhard Weiss
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Dummett's Thought
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Exhibiting Pain Behaviour
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Interchangeability Salva Veritate
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Semantic Externalism
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- ISBN 9781844651979
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2009
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Why are philosophers, as opposed to, say, linguists and psychologists, puzzled by language? How should we attempt to shed philosophical light on the phenomenon of language? "How to Understand Language" frames its discussion by these two questions. The book begins by thinking about the reasons that language is hard to understand from a philosophical point of view and, armed with the fruits of that discussion, begins searching for an approach to these questions. After finding fault with approaches based on philosophical analysis and on translation it undertakes an extended investigation of the programme of constructing a theory of meaning. Donald Davidson's advocacy of that approach becomes pivotal; though, the book endorses his broad approach, it argues strongly against the roles both of truth theory and of radical interpretation.
Bernhard Weiss is Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Cape Town, South Africa.
