New Waves in Philosophy of Language

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction

   • Sarah Sawyer

   Pages 1-7

3. Vagueness and Non-Indexical Contextualism

   • Jonas Åkerman, Patrick Greenough

   Pages 8-23

4. Semantics and the Place of Psychological Evidence

   • Emma Borg

   Pages 24-40

5. Naturalism in the Philosophy of Language; or Why There Is No Such Thing as Language

   • John Collins

   Pages 41-59

6. Referring When Push-Comes-to-Shove

   • Kevan Edwards

   Pages 60-86

7. Semantic Normativity in Context

   • Anandi Hattiangadi

   Pages 87-107

8. Literal Force: A Defence of Conventional Assertion

   • Max Kölbel

   Pages 108-137

9. A Plea for Understanding

   • Guy Longworth

   Pages 138-163

10. From the Expressive to the Derogatory: On the Semantic Role for Non-Truth-Conditional Meaning

    • Stefano Predelli

    Pages 164-185

11. Analyticity in Externalist Languages

    • Gillian Russell

    Pages 186-205

12. The Modified Predicate Theory of Proper Names

    • Sarah Sawyer

    Pages 206-225

13. Introduction, Transmission, and the Foundations of Meaning

    • Jeff Speaks

    Pages 226-249

14. Linguistic Puzzles and Semantic Pretence

    • James A. Woodbridge

    Pages 250-284

15. Back Matter

    Pages 285-286

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Innovative young philosophers present new research articles on a variety of contemporary issues including relation between language and thought, normativity of language, prospects for a naturalistic account of language, nature of linguistic understanding, semantics of proper names and expressive terms, a contemporary construal of analytic truth

• Bertrand Russell
• language
• philosophy
• philosophy of language
• semantics

'This is a very useful collection of papers by a first rate group of young philosophers of language'. - Alex Miller, University of Birmingham, UK

• University of Sussex, UK

  Sarah Sawyer

JONAS ÅKERMAN PhD student in Theoretical Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, Sweden BRAD ARMOUR-GARB Associate Professor of Philosophy, University at Albany-SUNY, USA, and a Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford, UK EMMA BORG Professor of Philosophy at University of Reading, UK JOHN COLLINS Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of East Anglia,UK KEVAN EDWARDS Assistant Professor at Syracuse University, USA PATRICK GREENOUGH Senior Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of St. Andrews, UK and an Associate Fellow of Arché ANANDI HATTIANGADI Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford University and Fellow of St Hilda's College, UK MAX KÖLBEL ICREA Research Professor, Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Barcelona, Spain GUY LONGWORTH Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Warwick, UK STEFANO PREDELLI Professor of Philosophy, University of Nottingham, UK GILLIAN RUSSELL Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Washington University in St Louis, USA JEFF SPEAKS Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, USA JAMES A. WOODBRIDGE Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Nevada Las Vegas, USA

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