Philosophy of Language

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DiscussionBoard

SomeConventionsandDefinitions

Reference

ReferentialTheory

PutativelyReferringExpressions

NaturalKindsandPredicates

Theories of Meaning

TheData

EntityTheories

WittgensteinSellarsBrandomUseTheories

GriceSpeakerMeaningIsPrimary

VerificationistTheoryofMeaning

TarskisTheoryofTruth

TheoryofTruthasSemantics

TruthConditionsReified

Pragmatics

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SemanticPragmatics

DoingThingsWithWords

RulesofConversation

Metaphor

MetaphorandPolysemy

Quine and Davidson

LogicalPragmatism

QuinesMetaontology

QuinesAntiintensionalism

UsesandMeaningofTruth

TruthasMeaning

RadicalUnderstanding

IndeterminacyofMeaningandReference

TranslationandBelief

HowDavidsonMakesPetLoversMad

RadicalStructuralStimulusSynonymy

Ambiguous hot dog

"Gödel's Theorem? Schmidt's Theorem?"

• Cultural differences extend even to basic matters such as the meaning of language. Imagine that Gödel didn't invent Gödel's Theorem. Some guy named Schmidt did. Then to whom do we refer when we continue to use the word "Gödel"? In one experiment, researchers found that Americans tend to say, "the guy who got credit for the theorem," while Hong Kongers say, "the guy who actually came up with it."

http://www.slate.com/id/2137223/

Gödel with Schmidt?

Gödel with Schmidt?

Schmidt?

And Now Let's Play the "Signs" Game

Does This Sign Have a Reference?

Coming Soon! The New Broadway Production of...

Philosophers Beware!

Philosophers Beware!

On the many uses of "sees"...

Ten Dollars in the bank...

Hmm...

The Greatest Argument: Game, Set, & Match

"The "Problem" of Induction" - By Daniel S.

A Tribute to Our Vice-President

A Collection of Lycan Sayings:

• Suppose I have formed the insane belief that Keith Donnellan is the illegitimate son of Santa Claus and Margaret Thatcher. Using the description referentially, I say "Mrs Thatcher's Christmas bastard wrote a classic article on descriptions."

• "Wilfred Sellars" is used as equivalent to..."The visiting philosopher with whom I had a fairly violent argument in George Pappas' living room in 1979."

• I know I could have finished this book sooner if I had had a private secretary and a retinue of servants including a personal chef and a couple of hired killers.

• I myself (Lycan 1994) have offered a much subtler, more beautiful and more effective weakened version of DR, but it would be immodest of me to tout it here.

• • Footnote to Previous Quote: Even the paperback edition of Lycan (1994) is expensive, I am afraid, but well worth every penny.

• Note from the Collector of Lycan Sayings: Check out the background of this photo. I note three things. First, there appears to be a book on Porcupines on the shelf. Second, he has the great "Define Good" cartoon on his wall. But last, and not least, is that a picture of a Klansman in the photograph!

The Philosophy of Language: A Gallery

Gottlob Frege:

Bertrand Russell

P.F. Strawson

Wittgenstein

Paul Grice

Saul Kripke

Hilary Putnam

Willard "The Moving Van" Quine

Donald Davidson