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Meaning, Expression, and Thought
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 intention. But Grice’s own
formulations are rejected, and alternatives are developed. The foundations
of the expression theory are explored at length, and the author develops
the theory of thought as a fundamental cognitive phenomenon distinct
from belief and desire and argues for the thesis that thoughts have parts,
identifying ideas or concepts with parts of thoughts.
This book will appeal to students and professionals interested in the
philosophy of language.
Wayne A. Davis is a professor of philosophy at etown University.
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cambridge studies in philosophy
General editor ernest sosa (Brown University)
Advisory editors:
jonathan dancy (University of Reading)
john haldane (University of St. Andrews)
gilbert harman (Princeton University)
frank jackson (Australian National University)
william g. lycan (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
sydney shoemaker (Cornell University)
judith j. thomson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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