The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language

Edited by Ernest Lepore and Barry C. Smith

Oxford Handbooks

The ultimate reference work for philosophy of language
Brilliant new essays from an eminent, international team of contributors
Comprehensive survey of all major branches of the discipline
Essential for anyone working in the central areas of philosophy
Will be valuable also for linguists, psychologists, and cognitive scientists

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language

Edited by Ernest Lepore and Barry C. Smith

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The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences.

Ernie Lepore and Barry Smith present the definitive reference work for this diverse and fertile field of philosophy. A superb international team contribute more than forty brand-new essays covering topics from the nature of language to meaning, truth, and reference, and the interfaces of philosophy of language with linguistics, psychology, logic, epistemology, and metaphysics. It will be an essential resource for anyone working in the central areas of philosophy, for linguists interested in syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and for psychologists and cognitive scientists working on language.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language

Edited by Ernest Lepore and Barry C. Smith

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Introduction, Ernest Lepore and Barry C. Smith
The Historical Context
1:Frege and Semantics, Richard Heck and Robert May
2:Wittgenstein on Language, Michael Beaney
3:Philosophy of Language in the Twentieth Century, Thomas Baldwin
The Nature of Language
4:Psychologism, Charles Travis
5:Language as Internal, Anne Bezuidenhout
6:Language and Idiolects, James Higginbotham
The Nature of Meaning
7:Rule-Following, Meaning, and Normativity, George Wilson
8:Naturalist Theories of Meaning, David Papineau
9:Truth and Meaning, Gabriel Segal
10:Meaning Holism, Peter Pagin
11:Indeterminacy of Translation, Alan Weir
12:Intention-Based Semantics, Emma Borg
13:Propositional Content, Stephen Schiffer
14:Conceptual Role Semantics, Mark Greenberg and Gilbert Harman
15 15:Semantic Internalism and Externalism, Katalin Farkas
16:Relevance Theory, Robyn Carston and George Powell
17:The Distinction between Semantics and Pragmatics, Zoltan Gendler Szabo
The Nature of Reference
18:The Essence of Reference, R. M. Sainsbury
19:Subject and Predicate, Fraser MacBride
20:Rigidity, David Sosa
The Nature of Reference
21:Names and Natural Kind Terms, David Braun
22:The Semantics and Pragmatics of Reference, Kent Bach
Semantic Theory
23:Formal Semantics, Jeffrey C. King
24:Two-Dimensional Semantics, David Chalmers
25:Deflationism, Dorit Bar-On and Keith Simmons
Linguistic Phenomena
26:Compositionality, Josh Dever
27:Opacity, Mark Richard
28:Tense, Peter Ludlow
29:Plurals, Barry Schein
30:The Pragmatics of the Logical Constants, Dorothy Edgington
31:Quantifiers, Michael Glanzberg
32:Logical Form and LF, Paul Pietroski
Varieties of Speech Act
33:Metaphor, Marga Reimer and Elisabeth Camp
34:Semantics for Non-Declaratives, Kirk Ludwig and Dan Boisvert
35:Speech Acts and Performatives, Jennifer Hornsby
The Epistemology and Metaphysics of Language
36:Meaning and Reference, Robert J. Stainton
37:What I Know When I Know a Language, Barry C. Smith
38:Realism and Antirealism, Alexander Miller
39:Triangulation, Kathryn Gluer-Pagin
40:Shared Content, Herman Cappelen and Ernest Lepore
41:The Perils and Pleasures of Interpretation, Donald Davidson

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language

Edited by Ernest Lepore and Barry C. Smith

Oxford Handbooks

Author Information

Edited by Ernest Lepore, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and Barry C. Smith, Birkbeck College, University of London

Contributors:

Ernest Lepore and Barry C. Smith
Richard Heck and Robert May
Michael Beaney
Thomas Baldwin
Charles Travis
Anne Bezuidenhout
James Higginbotham
George Wilson
David Papineau
Gabriel Segal
Peter Pagin
Alan Weir
Emma Borg
Stephen Schiffer
Mark Greenberg and Gilbert Harman
Katalin Farkas
Robyn Carston and George Powell
Zoltan Gendler Szabo
R. M. Sainsbury
Fraser MacBride
David Sosa
David Braun
Kent Bach
Jeffrey C. King
David Chalmers
Dorit Bar-On and Keith Simmons
Josh Dever
Mark Richard
Peter Ludlow
Barry Schein
Dorothy Edgington
Michael Glanzberg
Paul Pietroski
Marga Reimer and Elisabeth Camp
Kirk Ludwig and Dan Boisvert
Jennifer Hornsby
Robert J. Stainton
Barry C. Smith
Alexander Miller
Kathryn Gluer-Pagin
Herman Cappelen and Ernest Lepore
Donald Davidson

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language

Edited by Ernest Lepore and Barry C. Smith

Oxford Handbooks

Reviews and Awards

"This mammoth book should be read by anyone with an interest not only in philosophy of language, but in semantics and pragmatics, and even, though less centrally, in syntax. Though not introductory in the sense that it could be read by a first year student, it is well worth the effort of reading and, given the overall clarity of the chapters, accessible. The quality of the papers is sustained throughout and is of the highest sandard." - LinguistList