LINGUIST List 8.835

Fri Jun 6 1997

Books: Available for Review: Phil. of Language

Editor for this issue: Andrew Carnie <carnielinguistlist.org>

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PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE:

Platts, Mark, 1997 "Ways of Meaning: An Introduction to A Philosophy of 
Language" 2nd Edition. MIT Press, Cambridge MA.

The philosophy of language is not an isolated philosophical discipline
of merely technical interest to other philosophers. Rather, as Mark Platts
shows, it can help to solve traditional problems in other areas of philosophy 
such as metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. Ways of Meaning provides
an introduction to such issues at the forefront of philosophy. The 2nd
edition contains a new chapter on natural kinds.

• Blackwells
• Cascadilla Press
• Cornell University Linguistics Dept.
• CSLI Publications
• John Benjamins
• Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Lawrence Erlbaum
• MIT Working papers in Linguistics
• U. of Massachusetts Graduate Linguistics Association
• Pacific Linguistics Publications
• Summer Institute of Linguistics