Linguistic Turns in Modern Philosophy

Forsideomslag
Cambridge University Press, 16. jan. 2006 - 275 sider
This book traces the linguistic turns in the history of modern philosophy and the development of the philosophy of language from Locke to Wittgenstein. It examines the contributions of canonical figures such as Leibniz, Mill, Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Austin, Quine, and Davidson, as well as those of Condillac, Humboldt, Chomsky, and Derrida. Michael Losonsky argues that the philosophy of language begins with Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding and demonstrates how the history of the philosophy of language in the modern period is marked by a split between formal and pragmatic perspectives on language, which modern philosophy has not been able to integrate.

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Indhold

Lockes Linguistic Turn
1
The Road to Locke
22
Of Angels and Human Beings
52
The Form of a Language
83
The Import of Propositions
116
The Value of a Function
148
From Silence to Assent
190
The Whimsy of Language
229
Bibliography
253
Index
269
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The Linguistic Review, Bind 23

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Michael Losonsky is Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University. He is author of Enlightenment and Action from Descartes to Kant and co-author and co-editor, with H. Geirsson, of Beginning Metaphysics and Readings in Mind and Lanugage.

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