Switch to: Citations

References in:

Yes, the search for explanation is all we have

Philosophical Studies 173 (9):2565-2573 (2016)

Add references

You must login to add references.

Philosophy of Language.Scott Soames - 2010 - Princeton University Press.details In this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field--its principal achievements, its most pressing current questions, and its most promising future directions. In addition to explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical framework for the study of language, Scott Soames investigates foundational concepts--such as truth, reference, and meaning--that are central to the philosophy of language and important to philosophy as a whole. The first part of the book describes (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 60 citations
The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Volume 1: The Founding Giants.Scott Soames - 2014 - Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.details Volume 1 examines the initial phase of the analytic tradition through the major contributions of three of its four founding giants—Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and G. E. Moore. Soames describes and analyzes their work in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and the philosophy of language. He explains how by about 1920 their efforts had made logic, language, and mathematics central to philosophy in an unprecedented way. But although logic, language, and mathematics were now seen as powerful tools (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 10 citations
What is Meaning?Scott Soames - 2010 - Princeton University Press.details The tradition descending from Frege and Russell has typically treated theories of meaning either as theories of meanings, or as theories of truth conditions. However, propositions of the classical sort don't exist, and truth conditions can't provide all the information required by a theory of meaning. In this book, one of the world's leading philosophers of language offers a way out of this dilemma. Traditionally conceived, propositions are denizens of a "third realm" beyond mind and matter, "grasped" by mysterious Platonic (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 176 citations
Rethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning.Scott Soames - 2015 - Princeton University Press.details In this book, Scott Soames argues that the revolution in the study of language and mind that has taken place since the late nineteenth century must be rethought. The central insight in the reigning tradition is that propositions are representational. To know the meaning of a sentence or the content of a belief requires knowing which things it represents as being which ways, and therefore knowing what the world must be like if it is to conform to how the sentence (...) Download Export citation Bookmark 77 citations

1