Language, Mind, and Knowledge

✍ Scribed by Keith Gunderson (ed.)

• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Year: 1975
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 425
• Series: Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science VII
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Some of the papers in this volume were presented at or grew out of a conference on the philosophy of language which was held at the Center under the direction of Professor Gunderson. Others were written independently. The aim of the book, like that of the conference, is to assemble a wide variety of approaches to issues in the philosophy of language with emphasis on the ways in which the issues involved have bearing on other matters such as linguistic theory, cognitive psychology, the philosophy of mind, and epistemology.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Preface
Contents
Languages and Language (David Lewis)
Thesis
Antithesis
Synthesis
Objections and Replies
Logic and Language: An Examination of Recent Criticisms of Intensionalism (Jerrold J. Katz)
1. On the Intensionalist-Extensionalist Controversy
2. The Roots of Quinian Philosophy of Language in Bloomfieldian Linguistics
3. On Trying to Work Within the System: Davidson’s Approach
4. Logical Form: Two Dogmas of Quinian Empiricism
5. If Cats Were Martian Robots, Would They Like Blue Lemons? — Some Aspects of the Work of Putnam and Kripke
6. Another Stab at Reducing the Theory of Meaning: Lewis
7. You Can’t Have Your Cake and Eat It
8. Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
The Meaning of “Meaning” (Hilary Putnam)
Reference and Context (Charles Chastain)
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
Language, Thought, and Communication (Gilbert Harman)
Knowledge of Language (Noam Chomsky)
Language, Rules, and Complex Behavior (Michael D. Root)
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II
III
IV
V
A Taxonomy of Illocutionary Acts (John R. Searle)
I. Introduction
II. Different Types of Differences between Different Types of Illocutionary Acts
III. Weaknesses in Austin’s Taxonomy
IV. Alternative Taxonomy
V. Some Syntactical Aspects of the Classification
VI. Conclusions
On What We Know (Zeno Vendler)
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2
3
4
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7
Vendler on Knowledge and Belief (Bruce Aune)
Reply to Professor Aune (Zeno Vendler)
Brain Writing and Mind Reading (D. C. Dennett)