Meaning, Expression and Thought |
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Author:
| Davis, Wayne A. |
Series title: | Cambridge Studies in Philosophy Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-521-03904-8 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2007 |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $63.99 |
Book Description:
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This philosophical treatise on the foundations of semantics is a systematic effort to clarify, deepen, and defend the classical doctrine that words are conventional signs of mental states, principally thoughts and ideas, and that meaning consists in their expression. This expression theory of meaning is developed by carrying out the Gricean program, explaining what it is for words to have meaning in terms of speaker meaning, and what it is for a speaker to mean something in terms of...
More DescriptionThis philosophical treatise on the foundations of semantics is a systematic effort to clarify, deepen, and defend the classical doctrine that words are conventional signs of mental states, principally thoughts and ideas, and that meaning consists in their expression. This expression theory of meaning is developed by carrying out the Gricean program, explaining what it is for words to have meaning in terms of speaker meaning, and what it is for a speaker to mean something in terms of intention. But Grice's own formulations are rejected, and alternatives developed.