Meaning And Truth: Investigations In Philosophical Semantics (topics In Contemporary Philosophy)

The first volume in the TOPICS IN CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY series contains 15 essays on a range of topics in the philosophy of language by leading authors in the field. Each essay investigates some aspect of philosophical semantics; among the themes addressed are the nature of truth, the relation between truth and meaning, the semantic nature of quantifiers, and the distinction between semantics and pragmatics. Seemingly Semantic Intuitions / Kent Bach -- The Semantic Basis Of Externalism / Michael Mckinsey -- Acquaintanceless De Re Belief / Robin Jeshion -- Meanings / Stephen Schiffer -- Mythical Objects / Nathan Salmon -- Truth And Identity / Marian David -- What Is The Role Of A Truth Theory In A Meaning Theory? / Kirk Ludwig -- A New Argument Against Modesty / Jonathan Sutton -- Truth And Meaning / Robert Cummins -- Insensitive Quantifiers / Herman Cappelen And Ernie Lepore -- Deferred Demonstratives / Emma Borg -- What Unarticulated Constituents Could Not Be / Lenny Clapp -- Generalized Conversational Implicatures And Default Pragmatic Inferences / Anne Bezuidenhout -- Distinguishing Semantics And Pragmatics / Kent Bach And Anne Bezuidenhout. Edited By Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'rourke, David Shier. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.