Philosophy of Language Books

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1. The Philosophy of the Pittsburgh School: Sellars, McDowell, Brandom

   By Chauncey Maher

   In this volume, Maher contextualizes the work of a group of contemporary analytic philosophers--The Pittsburgh School--whose work is characterized by an interest in the history of philosophy and a commitment to normative functionalism, or the insight that to identify something as a manifestation of...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-80442-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Wittgenstein (Rp)

   By William Child

   May 2011 | 978-0-415-31206-6 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. The Tractatus Wars

   Edited by Rupert Read, Matthew Lavery

   Over fifteen years have passed since Cora Diamond and James Conant turned Wittgenstein scholarship upside down with the program of “resolute” reading, and ten years since this reading was crystallized in the major collection The New Wittgenstein. This approach remains at the center of the debate...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-87440-3 | Paperback (Routledge)

4. Semantic Externalism

   By Jesper Kallestrup

   Semantic externalism is the view that the meaning of a term, and the understanding of a language in general, is relational; determined by factors external to the speaker and bound up with our environment. The debate about semantic externalism is one of the most important but difficult topics...

   February 2011 | 978-0-415-44997-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

5. The Pragmatics Reader

   Edited by Peter Grundy, Dawn Archer

   The Pragmatics Reader is the indispensable set of readings for all students studying Pragmatics at advanced undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Combining key classic texts with newer extracts covering current developments in contemporary Pragmatics, each reading has been carefully selected to...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-54660-7 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   The Deconstructive Turn (Routledge Revivals): Essays in the Rhetoric of Philosophy

   By Christopher Norris

   What might be the outcome for philosophy if its texts were subjected to the powerful techniques of rhetorical close-reading developed by current deconstructionist literary critics? When first published in 1983, Christopher Norris’ book was the first to explore such questions in the context of...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-57313-9 | Paperback (Routledge)

7. The Routledge Guidebook to Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, 2nd Edition

   By Marie McGinn

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-45256-4 | Paperback (Routledge)

8. Challenging Moral Particularism

   Edited by Matjaž Potrc, Vojko Strahovnik, Mark Lance

   Particularism is a justly popular ‘cutting-edge’ topic in contemporary ethics across the world. Many moral philosophers do not, in fact, support particularism (instead defending "generalist" theories that rest on particular abstract moral principles), but nearly all would take it to be a position...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-88787-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Wittgenstein's Lasting Significance

   Edited by Max Kölbel, Bernhard Weiss

   Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) has exerted a more powerful influence on contemporary philosophy than any other twentieth-century thinker. But what is the nature of this influence and why has it proved so enduring?In Wittgenstein's Lasting Significance, twelve contemporary philosophers explore the...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-59152-2 | Paperback (Routledge)
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    Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Frege on Sense and Reference

    By Mark Textor

    Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is considered the father of modern logic and one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy. He was first and foremost a mathematician, but his major works also made important contributions to the philosophy of language. Frege’s writings are difficult and deal with...

    August 2010 | 978-0-415-41962-8 | Paperback (Routledge)