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It is quite possible that the attacks to which the traditional notion of meaning has been subjected, from various sides, and the appearance of a whole series of doctrines or tendencies which could be grouped under the convenient general designation of " semantic skepticism ”appear afterwards as having constituted one of the major events, not to say the major event, of the philosophy of the second half of the twentieth century. By "semantic skepticism", I mean an attitude which can range from the simple challenge of the possibility of submitting a notion like that of "meaning" to a theoretical treatment appropriate to the outright negation of the existence of semantic facts that it might be a question of explaining with the help of some theory.On the other hand, it is only too fair to note that the recent period has also been distinguished, on the other hand, by forms no less typical of exaggerated confidence in the possibilities that the theory of signification offers to philosophy today. - the most remarkable of which being represented by the idea, of which Michael Dummett will have been the most convinced and the most talented defender, that the theory of meaning could have reached since Frege the status of new paradigm of first philosophy .

Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- scepticisme sémantique --- référence --- Saul Kripke --- dénotation --- Gottlob Frege --- Ludwig Wittgenstein --- signification --- Michael Dummett

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This is a concise introduction to current philosophical debates about truth. Combining philosophical and technical material, the book is organized around, but not limited to, the view known as deflationism. In clear language, Burgess and Burgess cover a wide range of issues, including the nature of truth, the status of truth-value gaps, the relationship between truth and meaning, relativism and pluralism about truth, and semantic paradoxes from Alfred Tarski to Saul Kripke and beyond. The book provides a rich picture of contemporary philosophical theorizing about truth, one that will be essential reading for philosophy students as well as philosophers specializing in other areas.

Truth. --- Conviction --- Belief and doubt --- Philosophy --- Skepticism --- Certainty --- Necessity (Philosophy) --- Pragmatism --- Alfred Tarski. --- Aristotle. --- Davidsonianism. --- Dummettianism. --- Frank P. Ramsey. --- Saul Kripke. --- W. V. Quine. --- antirealism. --- axiomatic theories. --- communication. --- contextualist solutions. --- correspondence theories. --- defeatism. --- deflationism. --- denial strategy. --- deviance strategy. --- direct definition. --- dis"ationalism. --- disqualification strategy. --- doublespeak strategy. --- equivalence principle. --- formal language. --- holism. --- inconsistency theories. --- indeterminacy. --- inflationism. --- logical solutions. --- mathematics. --- meaning. --- metalanguage. --- minimum fixed point. --- model theory. --- normativity. --- object language. --- paraconsistency. --- paradoxes. --- physicalism. --- pluralism. --- presupposition. --- realism. --- redundancy theory. --- reference. --- relativism. --- relativity. --- revenge. --- revision theories. --- self-reference. --- semantic truth. --- sentences. --- slogans. --- transfinite construction. --- truth predicate. --- truth-conditional semantics. --- truth. --- truthmaker theories. --- ungroundedness. --- utility. --- vagueness. --- value. --- verification-conditional semantics.

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In this collection of recent and unpublished essays, leading analytic philosopher Scott Soames traces milestones in his field from its beginnings in Britain and Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, through its subsequent growth in the United States, up to its present as the world's most vigorous philosophical tradition. The central essay chronicles how analytic philosophy developed in the United States out of American pragmatism, the impact of European visitors and immigrants, the midcentury transformation of the Harvard philosophy department, and the rapid spread of the analytic approach that followed. Another essay explains the methodology guiding analytic philosophy, from the logicism of Frege and Russell through Wittgenstein's linguistic turn and Carnap's vision of replacing metaphysics with philosophy of science. Further essays review advances in logic and the philosophy of mathematics that laid the foundation for a rigorous, scientific study of language, meaning, and information. Other essays discuss W.V.O. Quine, David K. Lewis, Saul Kripke, the Frege-Russell analysis of quantification, Russell's attempt to eliminate sets with his "no class theory," and the Quine-Carnap dispute over meaning and ontology. The collection then turns to topics at the frontier of philosophy of language. The final essays, combining philosophy of language and law, advance a sophisticated originalist theory of interpretation and apply it to U.S. constitutional rulings about due process.

Philosophy, American --- Analysis (Philosophy) --- History --- American pragmatism. --- Begriffsschrift. --- Bertrand Russell. --- Carnap. --- Charles Sanders Pierce. --- Clarence Irving Lewis. --- David Lewis. --- Fifth Amendment. --- Fourteenth Amendment. --- Frege's puzzle. --- FregeВussell analysis. --- Gottlob Frege. --- Indeterminacy of Translation. --- Inscrutability of Reference. --- J. L.ӠAustin. --- John Langshaw. --- John Rawls. --- Kit Fine. --- Kripke. --- Millian terms. --- Millian. --- Millianism. --- Peter Strawson. --- Platonism. --- Principia Mathematica. --- Quine. --- QuineЃarnap debate. --- Rudolf Carnap. --- Saul Kripke. --- Semantic Relationism. --- The Logical Syntax of Language. --- The Philosophy of Logical Atomism. --- U.S. Constitution. --- United States. --- W. V. O. Quine. --- William James. --- Wittgenstein. --- a posteriori. --- abstract objects. --- analytic philosophy. --- analytic tradition. --- analyticity. --- arithmetic. --- attitude ascription. --- deferentialism. --- due process. --- empirical theory. --- epistemic possibility. --- epistemicism. --- extensionalism. --- holistic verificationism. --- information. --- intensional constructions. --- intensional facts. --- law. --- legal interpretation. --- legal norms. --- legal texts. --- legal vagueness. --- linguistic semantics. --- logic empiricism. --- logic. --- logicism. --- logico-linguistic analysis. --- mathematics. --- meaning. --- metaphysical possibility. --- natural kinds. --- naturalism. --- necessary a posteriori. --- no class theory. --- nonhyperintensional sentences. --- normative theory. --- ontological commitment. --- ontology. --- philosophical debates. --- philosophy of language. --- philosophy of law. --- physicalism. --- pragmatism. --- properties. --- propositions. --- quantification. --- quantified modal logic. --- quantifiers. --- science. --- scientific inquiry. --- semantics. --- substitutional quantification. --- tractarian theory. --- truth. --- underdetermination thesis. --- verificationism.