Title: Insensitive Semantics: A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Publication Date: 2005
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1405126752
ISBN 13: 9781405126755
Binding: Paperback / softback
Condition: New
Weight: 370 grams

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Insensitive Semantics is an overview of and contribution to the debates about how to accommodate context sensitivity within a theory of human communication, investigating the effects of context on communicative interaction and, as a corollary, what a context of utterance is and what it is to be in one.

Provides detailed and wide-ranging overviews of the central positions and arguments surrounding contextualism
Addresses broad and varied aspects of the distinction between the semantic and non-semantic content of language
Defends a distinctive and explanatorily powerful combination of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism
Confronts core problems which not only run to the heart of philosophy of language and linguistics, but which arise in epistemology, metaphysics, and moral philosophy as well

About the Author

Herman Cappelen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College and the University of Oslo. He has published extensively in philosophy of language and mind, including articles in No�s, Mind, Mind & Language, Analysis, and Synthese.

Ernie Lepore is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He is author of Meaning and Argument (revised edition, Blackwell, 2003) and, with Jerry Fodor, of Holism (Blackwell, 1991). He is editor of Truth and Interpretation (Blackwell, 1989), and co-editor, with Zenon Pylyshyn, of What is Cognitive Science? (Blackwell, 1999), as well as general editor of the Blackwell series Philosophers and Their Critics.

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