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

Peregrin, Jaroslav

ISBN 10: 1138272914 / ISBN 13: 9781138272910

Published by Routledge, 2016

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pp. 288.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Meaning and Structure: Structuralism of (Post)Analytic Philosophers (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138272914
• ISBN 13: 9781138272910
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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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.

About the Author

Jaroslav Peregrin