What is this thing called Philosophy of Language? av Gary (University of Glasgow UK) Kemp

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<P>Philosophy of language explores some of the most abstract yet most fundamental questions in philosophy. The ideas of some of the subject''s great founding figures, such as Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell, as well as of more recent figures such as Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam, are central to a great many philosophical debates to this day and are widely studied. In this clear and carefully structured introduction to the subject Gary Kemp explains the following key topics:</P><UL><LI>the basic nature of philosophy of language, its concepts and its historical development</LI><LI>Frege¿s theory of sense and reference; Russell''s theory of definite descriptions</LI><LI>Wittgenstein''s <I>Tractatus</I>, Ayer, and the Logical Positivists</LI><LI>recent perspectives including Kripke, Kaplan, Putnam, Chomsky, Quine and Davidson; arguments concerning translation, necessity, indexicals, rigid designation and natural kinds</LI><LI>the pragmatics of language, including sp