The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Language introduces readers to the main issues and theories in the philosophy of language as currently practised. Written by leading researchers and covering the central topics in the contemporary philosophical study of language, the twenty-seven chapters provide an overview of the state of the art, and a presentation of cutting-edge developments. Topics covered include: the nature of language; the nature and role of semantic and attitudinal content; the dynamics of communication and speech acts; meta-semantics and reference grounding; tense and modality; discourse dynamics and information structure; and the expressive, evaluative, subjective, and social aspects of language. Although some of the articles focus directly on technical issues following the recent approach of linguistically oriented philosophy of language, the majority of the contributions are primarily focused on foundational questions drawn from traditional philosophy of language. The volume offers a reconsideration of these foundational issues in a new light, while still bearing in mind the formal developments in recent literature, as well as a presentation of new foundational issues that have emerged as a result of these developments.
Edited by:
Una Stojnić (Princeton University),
Ernie Lepore (Rutgers University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 171mm,
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780192856852
ISBN 10: 0192856855
Series: Oxford Handbooks
Pages: 736
Publication Date: 03 October 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface Part I: Languages and Language 1: Robert J. Stainton and Christopher Viger: Do Languages Really Exist? 2: Zoltán Gendler Szabó: Possible Human Languages 3: Guillermo Del Pinal: The Logicality of Language, Meaning-Driven Unacceptability, and Modulated Logic forms Part II: Semantic Content and Propositional Attitudes 4: Samuel Cumming: Report and Content 5: David Sosa: A Plea for Innocence 6: Eleni Manolakaki: Contemporary Foundational Accounts of Propositions 7: Kathrin Glüer and Peter Pagin: Multiple Intensions Semantics Part III: Communication and Speech Acts 8: Seth Yalcin: States of Conversation 9: Peter Hanks: The Distinction Between Content and Force 10: Cameron Domenico Kirk-Giannini: Do Not Diagonalize Part IV: Meta-semantics and Foundations of Meaning Theory 11: Herman Cappelen and Max Deutsch: Reference without Deference 12: Paul M. Pietroski: One Word, Many Concepts: Endorsing Polysemous Meanings 13: Emma Borg: The Problem of Polysemy 14: Henry Jackman: Truth, Normativity, and Interpretational Theories of Meaning 15: Claudine Verheggen: Semantic Non-Reductionism 16: Wayne A. Davis: Foundations of Semantics 17: Jeffrey C. King: Quantifier Domain Restriction and the Problem of Incomplete Quantifiers Part V: Tense and Modality 18: Fabrizio Cariani: Future Displacement and Modality 19: Paolo Santorio: The Semantics and Logic of Counterfactuals 20: J. L. Dowell: Deontic Modal Expressions Part VI: Semantics and Linguistic Theory 21: John Collins: Indefinites: Scope and Context 22: Michael Glanzberg: Information Structure for Philosophers Part VII: Expressive, Evaluative, Subjective, and Social Aspects of Language 23: Isidora Stojanovic: Evaluativity 24: Robin Jeshion: How Vocatives Illuminate Slurs 25: Christopher Hom and Robert May: The Metatheoretic Foundation for Racial Epithets 26: Malte Willer: Subjectivity 27: Elisabeth Camp and Ethan Nowak: Linguistic Variation, Agency, and Style
Ernie Lepore is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He has authored numerous books and papers in the philosophy of language, philosophical logic, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind, including recently Imagination and Convention (with Matthew Stone, OUP, 2015), and Liberating Content (OUP, 2016) with Herman Cappelen. He is the co-editor (with David Sosa) of Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language. Una Stojnić is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Princeton University. Prior to joining Princeton, she was Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Columbia University, a Bersoff assistant professor and faculty fellow in Philosophy at NYU, and a research fellow in Philosophy at ANU. She earned her PhD in Philosophy and a Certificate in Cognitive Science from Rutgers University in 2016.
