Ignorance of Language - Hardcover

Devitt, Michael

 
9780199250967: Ignorance of Language

Synopsis

A major new argument against the grain of current thinking about language and the mind.

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Review

A wealth of careful distinctions and detailed arguments...an example of how serious philosophy of a very technical area may be conducted with thoroughness, lucidity, and elegance. (John Collins, Mind Journal)

About the Author

Michael Devitt is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He taught at the University of Sydney from 1971 until 1987 and the University of Maryland from 1988 to 1999. His main research interests are in the philosophy of language and mind, and in issues of realism. He is the author of Designation (Columbia, 1981) Realism and Truth (2nd ed with Afterword, Princeton, 1997) Coming to Our Senses: A Naturalistic Program for Semantic Localism (Cambridge, 1996) and Language and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language (with Kim Sterelny, 2nd edn, MIT, 1999)

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ISBN 10:  0199250979 ISBN 13:  9780199250974
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 2008
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