Philosophy of Language Books

New and Published Books

1. Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy

   By Heather Dyke

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   This book is an investigation into metaphysics: its aims, scope, methodology and practice. Dyke argues that metaphysics should take itself to be concerned with investigating the fundamental nature of reality, and suggests that the ontological significance of language has been grossly exaggerated in...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
2. Language and History

   Integrationist Perspectives

   Edited by Nigel Love

   Series: Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory

   When linguistics was first established as an academic discipline in the nineteenth century, it was envisaged as an essentially historical study. Languages were to be treated as historical objects, evolving through gradual but constant processes of change over long periods of time. In recent years,...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
3. What is this thing called Philosophy of Language?

   By Gary Kemp

   Series: What is this thing called?

   Philosophy of language explores some of the fundamental yet most technical problems in philosophy, such as meaning and reference, semantics, and propositional attitudes. Some of its greatest exponents, including Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell are amongst the major...

   Published February 27th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Routledge Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations

   By Marie McGinn

   Series: The Routledge Guides to the Great Books

   Wittgenstein is one of the most important and influential twentieth-century philosophers in the western tradition. In his Philosophical Investigations he undertakes a radical critique of analytical philosophy's approach to both the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind. The Routledge...

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
5. Wittgenstein and Scepticism

   Edited by Denis McManus

   Wittgenstein is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last hundred years and scepticism is one of the central problems that modern philosophy faces. This collection is the first to be devoted to an examination of how that great philosopher's work bears on this fundamental philosophical problem....

   Published January 20th 2013 by Routledge
6. Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Kripke and Naming and Necessity

   By Harold Noonan

   Series: Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks

   Saul Kripke is one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. His most celebrated work, Naming and Necessity, makes arguably the most important contribution to the philosophy of language and metaphysics in recent years. Asking fundamental questions – how do names refer to things...

   Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
7. Philosophy of Language and Webs of Information

   By Heimir Geirsson

   Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

   The nature of propositions and the cognitive value of names have been the focal point of philosophy of language for the last few decades. The advocates of the causal reference theory have favored the view that the semantic contents of proper names are their referents. However, Frege’s puzzle about...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
8. Donald Davidson: Life and Words

   Edited by Maria Baghramian

   Donald Davidson (1917-2003) was one of the most prominent philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. His thinking about language, mind, and epistemology has shaped the views of several generations of philosophers. This book brings together articles by a host of prominent philosophers...

   Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge
9. Symposium on J. L. Austin (Routledge Revivals)

   By K T Fann

   JL Austin (1911-1960) exercised in Post-war Oxford an intellectual authority similar to that of Wittgenstein in Cambridge. Although he completed no books of his own and published only seven papers, Austin became through lectures and talks one of the acknowledged leaders in what is called ‘Oxford...

   Published September 29th 2012 by Routledge
10. Reference and Structure in the Philosophy of Language

    A Defense of the Russellian Orthodoxy

    By Arthur Sullivan

    Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy

    This volume investigates the precise contours of the connections between two foundational concepts: reference (the means of semantically expressing singular or object-dependent information) and structure (the having or lacking of meaningful sub-parts). Sullivan shows that the notion of...

    Published August 23rd 2012 by Routledge