1st Edition
Philosophy and Ordinary Language The Bent and Genius of our Tongue
By Oswald Hanfling
Copyright 2000
278 Pages
by
Routledge
What is philosophy about and what are its methods? Philosophy and Ordinary Language is a defence of the view that philosophy is largely about questions of language, which to a large extent means ordinary language. Some people argue that if philosophy is about ordinary language, then it is necessarily less deep and difficult than it is usually taken to be but Oswald Hanfling shows us that this... Read more
INTRODUCTION 1.THE PHILOSOPHY OF WHAT WE SAY: ITS PRACTICE AND JUSTIFICATION 1. Socrates and the quest for definitions. 2. Austin: 'at least one philosophical method'. 3. Wittgenstein: bringing words back to their everyday use. 4. 'What we say': who says? 5. What is wrong with the Paradigm Case Argument? 6. Knowledge and the use of 'knowledge'. 7. Philosophical sceptism and 'what we say'. 2.THE PHILOSOPHY OF 'WHAT WE SAY': CHALLENGE AND REJECTION 8. Drawing the curtain of words. 9. Language remade: ancient cities and orderly towns. 10. Grice: 'true even if misleading' 11. Quine and the unity of science. 12. Scientific realism: discovering what we really mean. 13. 'Folk psychology' and the language of science.
Biography
Oswald Hanfling
