
Philosophy and Ordinary Language
The Bent and Genius of our Tongue
Oswald Hanfling(Author)
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1st Edition
Published on 16. December 1999
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Hardback
278 pages
978-0-415-21779-8 (ISBN)
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What is philosophy about and what are its methods? Philosophy and Ordinary Language is a defence of the view that philosophy is largely about questions of language, which to a large extent means ordinary language. Some people argue that if philosophy is about ordinary language, then it is necessarily less deep and difficult than it is usually taken to be but Oswald Hanfling shows us that this isn't true.
Hanfling, a leading expert in the development of analytic philosophy, covers a wide range of topics, including scepticism and the definition of knowledge, free will, empiricism, folk psychology, ordinary versus artificial logic, and philosophy versus science. Drawing on philosophers such as Austin, Wittgenstein, and Quine, this book explores the nature of ordinary language in philosophy.
Hanfling, a leading expert in the development of analytic philosophy, covers a wide range of topics, including scepticism and the definition of knowledge, free will, empiricism, folk psychology, ordinary versus artificial logic, and philosophy versus science. Drawing on philosophers such as Austin, Wittgenstein, and Quine, this book explores the nature of ordinary language in philosophy.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
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College/higher education
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Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
484 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-21779-8 (9780415217798)
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Content
INTRODUCTION 1.THE PHILOSOPHY OF WHAT WE SAY: ITS PRACTICE AND JUSTIFICATION 1. Socrates and the quest for definitions. 2. Austin: 'at least one philosophical method'. 3. Wittgenstein: bringing words back to their everyday use. 4. 'What we say': who says? 5. What is wrong with the Paradigm Case Argument? 6. Knowledge and the use of 'knowledge'. 7. Philosophical sceptism and 'what we say'. 2.THE PHILOSOPHY OF 'WHAT WE SAY': CHALLENGE AND REJECTION 8. Drawing the curtain of words. 9. Language remade: ancient cities and orderly towns. 10. Grice: 'true even if misleading' 11. Quine and the unity of science. 12. Scientific realism: discovering what we really mean. 13. 'Folk psychology' and the language of science.