Truth and Meaning: Essays in Semantics [Paperback]

Gareth Evans (Editor), John McDowell (Editor)

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ISBN-10: 019825007X | ISBN-13: 978-0198250074 | Publication Date: December 23, 1999

Truth and Meaning is a classic collection of original essays on fundamental questions in the philosophy of language. It was first published in 1976, and has remained essential reading in this area ever since. The contributors include leading figures in late twentieth-century philosophy, such as Donald Davidson, Saul Kripke, P. F. Strawson, and Michael Dummett.

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Already a classic ... We can therefore only welcome the fact that the collection is now available in an affordable format for students of philosophy and language Years Work in English Studies

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Gareth Evans was Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy and Fellow of University College, Oxford; he died at the age of 34, in 1980. John McDowell is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, having previously been a Fellow of University College, Oxford; he is a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (December 23, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 019825007X
• ISBN-13: 978-0198250074
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
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This review is from: Truth and Meaning: Essays in Semantics (Paperback)

This collection of papers was first published in 1976. It represents some of the best work on both Donald Davidson's suggestion that philosophical questions about meaning can be resolved by hammering out what form should be taken by a theory specifying the meanings of all the sentences in a language, and his claim that the form of such a theory will be closely related to that of Tarski style truth definitions. Since its publication many of the papers have become classics, the content of which must be mastered by anyone interested in the philosophy of language. Examples are the contributions by Davidson, Dummett, McDowell, and Evans. Note that the content of this book is quite difficult and probably penetrable only after acquaintence w/ the basics of the philosophy of language. For that a collection like Martinich's or Ludlow's along w/ Blackburn's 'Spreading the Word' should suffice.