Linguistic Philosophy

"How much authority should language, the medium of communication, be accorded as a determinant of truth and therefore of what we say? [author] 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 diferent ways and to varying degrees, accorded language more authority. Implicit in this account is a challenge to philosophy as still widely practiced."--Back cover.

Year

2008

Language

English

Publisher

State University of New York Press

Editions

2

Pages

240

ISBN

9780791473627

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