Meaning and Structure: Structuralism of (Post)Analytic Philosophers (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy) - Hardcover

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Peregrin, Jaroslav

 
9780754604112: Meaning and Structure: Structuralism of (Post)Analytic Philosophers (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy)
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ISBN 10: 075460411X ISBN 13: 9780754604112
Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

In Meaning and Structure, Peregrin argues that recent and contemporary (post)analytic philosophy, as developed by Quine, Davidson, Sellars and their followers, is largely structuralistic in the very sense in which structuralism was originally tabled by Ferdinand de Saussure. The author reconstructs de Saussure's view of language, linking it to modern formal logic and mathematics, and reveals close analogies between its constitutive principles and the principles informing the holistic and neopragmatistic view of language put forward by Quine and his followers. Peregrin also indicates how this view of language can be made compatible with what is usually called 'formal semantics'. Drawing on both the Saussurean tradition and recent developments in analytic philosophy of language, this book offers a unique study of the ways in which the concept of meaning can be seen as consisting in the concept of structure.

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Jaroslav Peregrin

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2001
Language
English
ISBN 10 
075460411X
ISBN 13 
9780754604112
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
288

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