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Lewis, Language, Lust and Lies

Max Kolbel

Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 41 (3):301-315 (1998)

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Convention: A Philosophical Study.David Kellogg Lewis - 1969 - Cambridge, MA, USA: Wiley-Blackwell.details _ Convention_ was immediately recognized as a major contribution to the subject and its significance has remained undiminished since its first publication in 1969. Lewis analyzes social conventions as regularities in the resolution of recurring coordination problems-situations characterized by interdependent decision processes in which common interests are at stake. Conventions are contrasted with other kinds of regularity, and conventions governing systems of communication are given special attention. Download Export citation Bookmark 911 citations
Utterer's Meaning, Sentence-Meaning, and Word-Meaning.H. P. Grice - 1968 - Foundations of Language 4 (3):225-242.details Download Export citation Bookmark 106 citations
(2 other versions)Languages and language.David K. Lewis - 2010 - In Darragh Byrne & Max Kölbel (eds.), Arguing about language. New York: Routledge. pp. 3-35.details Download Export citation Bookmark 291 citations
(1 other version)Mood and language-game.Erik Stenius - 1967 - Synthese 17 (1):254 - 274.details Download Export citation Bookmark 71 citations
Agreements, conventions, and language.Margaret Gilbert - 1983 - Synthese 54 (3):375 - 407.details The question whether and in what way languages and language use involve convention is addressed, With special reference to David Lewis's account of convention in general. Data are presented which show that Lewis has not captured the sense of 'convention' involved when we speak of adopting a linguistic convention. He has, In effect, attempted an account of social conventions. An alternative account of social convention and an account of linguistic convention are sketched. Download Export citation Bookmark 39 citations
Game Theory and “Convention‘.Margaret Gilbert - 1981 - Synthese 46 (1):41 - 93.details A feature of David Lewis's account of conventions in his book "Convention" which has received admiring notices from philosophers is his use of the mathematical theory of games. In this paper I point out a number of serious flaws in Lewis's use of game theory. Lewis's basic claim is that conventions cover 'coordination problems'. I show that game-Theoretical analysis tends to establish that coordination problems in Lewis's sense need not underlie conventions. Download Export citation Bookmark 39 citations
Meaning, communication, and knowledge.John McDowell - 1980 - In Z. van Straaten (ed.), Philosophical Subjects. Oxford University Press. pp. 1.details Download Export citation Bookmark 55 citations
(1 other version)Mood and Language-Game.Erik Stenius - 1969 - In J. W. Davis (ed.), Philosophical logic. Dordrecht,: D. Reidel. pp. 251--271.details Download Export citation Bookmark 46 citations

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