Author: Soames, Scott.
Title: Philosophical Essays. Volume 2 : the philosophical significance of language.
Description: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009. Paperback. xi,480 pp. Index. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - The Philosophical Essays bring together the most important essays written by one of the world’s foremost philosophers of language. Scott Soames has selected thirty-one essays spanning nearly three decades of thinking about linguistic meaning and the philosophical significance of language. A judicious collection of old and new, these volumes include sixteen essays published in the 1980s and 1990s, nine published since 2000, and six new essays. The essays in Volume 2 illustrate the significance of linguistic concerns for a broad range of philosophical topics - including the relationship between language and thought; the objects of belief, assertion, and other propositional attitudes; the distinction between metaphysical and epistemic possibility; the nature of necessity, actuality, and possible worlds; the necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori; truth, vagueness, and partial definition; and skepticism about meaning and mind. ISBN 9780691136837.

Keywords: ISLAM, *2006-100 philosophy