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Date: 15-Jun-2006
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: Linguistic Turns in Modern Philosophy: Losonsky 

	
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Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:53:32
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: Linguistic Turns in Modern Philosophy: Losonsky 
 



Title: Linguistic Turns in Modern Philosophy 
Series Title: The Evolution of Modern Philosophy  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org
	

Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=052165470X 


Author: Michael Losonsky

Hardback: ISBN: 0521652561 Pages: 294 Price: U.S. $ 70.00
Paperback: ISBN: 052165470X Pages: 294 Price: U.S. $ 24.99


Abstract:

This book traces the linguistic turns in the history of modern philosophy
and the development of the philosophy of language from Locke to
Wittgenstein. It examines the contributions of canonical figures such as
Leibniz, Mill, Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Austin, Quine, and Davidson,
as well as those of Condillac, Humboldt, Chomsky, and Derrida. Michael
Losonsky argues that the philosophy of language begins with Locke¿s Essay
Concerning Human Understanding. He shows how the history of the philosophy
of language in the modern period is marked by a dichotomy between formal
and pragmatic perspectives on language and that modern philosophy has not
been able to integrate these two aspects of human language. Language as a
human activity and language as a syntactic and semantic system remain
distinct and competing focal points, although the interplay between these
points of view has driven the development of the philosophy of language.

Written with both specialists and lay audiences in mind 
Sympathetic and informed treatment of continental and analytic traditions 
An analytical history of the philosophy of language as well as an
assessment of the state of the art 



Contents
Preface; 
1. Locke's linguistic turn; 
2. The road to Locke; 
3. Of Angels and human beings; 
4. The form of a lanugage; 
5. The importance of propositions; 
6. The value of a function; 
7. From silence to assent; 
8. The whimsy of language. 


Linguistic Field(s): History of Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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