{"product_id":"what-is-this-thing-called-philosophy-of-language-2","title":"What is this thing called Philosophy of Language?","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhilosophy of language explores some of the most abstract yet most fundamental questions in philosophy. The ideas of some of the subject's great founding figures, such as Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell, as well as of more recent figures such as Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam, are central to a great many philosophical debates to this day and are widely studied. In this clear and carefully structured introduction to the subject Gary Kemp explains the following key topics:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe basic nature of philosophy of language, its concepts and its historical development\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrege’s theory of sense and reference; Russell's theory of definite descriptions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWittgenstein's \u003ci\u003eTractatus\u003c\/i\u003e, Ayer, and the Logical Positivists\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003erecent perspectives including Kripke, Kaplan, Putnam, Chomsky, Quine and Davidson; arguments concerning translation, necessity, indexicals, rigid designation and natural kinds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe pragmatics of language, including speech-acts, presupposition and conversational implicature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003epuzzles surrounding the propositional attitudes (sentences which ascribe beliefs to people)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe challenges presented by the later Wittgenstein\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003econtemporary directions, including contextualism, fictional objects and the phenomenon of slurs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe third edition has been thoroughly revised throughout and includes a new chapter on Noam Chomsky's theory of Universal Grammar. In addition, the concluding chapter on modern directions in philosophy of language has been expanded to two chapters, and which now cover crucial emergent areas of study such as slurs, conceptual engineering and experimental philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter summaries, annotated further reading and a glossary make \u003ci\u003eWhat is this thing called Philosophy of Language?\u003c\/i\u003e an indispensable introduction to those teaching philosophy of language and will be particularly useful for students coming to the subject for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47837356130648,"sku":"9781032426549","price":50.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032426549_f009db1f-4c29-4601-88f4-14d723426e03.jpg?v=1770479119","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/what-is-this-thing-called-philosophy-of-language-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}