Philosophy Of Language Books

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Philosophical Investigations Philosophical Investigations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 15,589 ratings — published 1953
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Naming and Necessity Naming and Necessity (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,467 ratings — published 1971
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.10 — 21,924 ratings — published 1921
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Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy) Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)
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avg rating 3.79 — 414 ratings — published 1999
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How to Do Things with Words How to Do Things with Words (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,574 ratings — published 1955
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Language, Truth and Logic Language, Truth and Logic (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 3.75 — 4,194 ratings — published 1936
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Word and Object Word and Object (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 1,737 ratings — published 1960
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Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 3.88 — 498 ratings — published 1969
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The Philosophy of Language The Philosophy of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.10 — 287 ratings — published 1985
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Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,071 ratings — published 1982
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Philosophy of Language: The Classics Explained Philosophy of Language: The Classics Explained (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 72 ratings — published 2015
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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language (Oxford Handbooks) The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language (Oxford Handbooks)
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avg rating 4.33 — 15 ratings — published 2006
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Philosophy of Language Philosophy of Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 3.78 — 68 ratings — published 1997
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Metaphors We Live By Metaphors We Live By (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 6,780 ratings — published 1980
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Studies in the Way of Words Studies in the Way of Words (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 113 ratings — published 1989
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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy) An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy)
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avg rating 3.55 — 65 ratings — published 2002
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Language and Mind Language and Mind (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,308 ratings — published 1968
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The Frege Reader The Frege Reader (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 169 ratings — published 1997
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On Certainty On Certainty (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 4,932 ratings — published 1969
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Reference and Existence: The John Locke Lectures Reference and Existence: The John Locke Lectures (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 84 ratings — published 2013
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The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 13 ratings — published 2005
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Cratylus Cratylus (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.62 — 1,598 ratings — published -350
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The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 22,361 ratings — published 1994
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Philosophical Papers, Volume 2: Mind, Language and Reality Philosophical Papers, Volume 2: Mind, Language and Reality (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 70 ratings — published 1975
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Frege: Philosophy of Language Frege: Philosophy of Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 87 ratings — published 1973
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On Bullshit On Bullshit (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 3.58 — 15,401 ratings — published 2005
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Culture and Value Culture and Value (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 1,922 ratings — published 1977
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Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations (Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks) Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations (Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 3.80 — 157 ratings — published 1997
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Mind, Language And Society: Philosophy In The Real World Mind, Language And Society: Philosophy In The Real World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 603 ratings — published 1998
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Syntactic Structures Syntactic Structures (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 3.83 — 886 ratings — published 1957
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Themes from Kaplan Themes from Kaplan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.50 — 10 ratings — published 1989
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On Denoting On Denoting (ebook)
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avg rating 3.73 — 192 ratings — published
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On Sense and Reference On Sense and Reference (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.81 — 294 ratings — published
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Philosophy of Language: The Central Topics Philosophy of Language: The Central Topics (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.29 — 21 ratings — published 2007
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Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings (Harper Perennial Modern Thought) Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.31 — 373 ratings — published 2009
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Course in General Linguistics Course in General Linguistics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,590 ratings — published 1916
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Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (Advances in Semiotics) Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language (Advances in Semiotics)
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avg rating 4.08 — 506 ratings — published 1984
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Marxism and the Philosophy of Language Marxism and the Philosophy of Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 314 ratings — published 1929
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Coming to our Senses: A Naturalistic Program for Semantic Localism (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy) Coming to our Senses: A Naturalistic Program for Semantic Localism (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1995
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The Metaphysics of Meaning The Metaphysics of Meaning (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 1990
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Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1: The Dawn of Analysis Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1: The Dawn of Analysis (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 92 ratings — published 2003
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Philosophical Troubles (Collected Papers, #1) Philosophical Troubles (Collected Papers, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 52 ratings — published 2011
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Articulating Reasons: An Introduction to Inferentialism Articulating Reasons: An Introduction to Inferentialism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 117 ratings — published 2000
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Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy? Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy? (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 59 ratings — published 1975
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Philosophy of Language (Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy) Philosophy of Language (Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy)
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avg rating 3.51 — 68 ratings — published 2010
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Logik, filosofi och språk: Strömningar och gestalter i modern filosofi Logik, filosofi och språk: Strömningar och gestalter i modern filosofi (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 3.35 — 60 ratings — published 1965
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Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic (Midway Reprints) Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic (Midway Reprints)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.23 — 88 ratings — published 1947
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Semantic Relationism (The Blackwell / Brown Lectures in Philosophy) Semantic Relationism (The Blackwell / Brown Lectures in Philosophy)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 3.40 — 15 ratings — published 2007
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The Blue and Brown Books The Blue and Brown Books (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,426 ratings — published 1935
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Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as philosophy-of-language)
avg rating 4.13 — 252 ratings — published 1984
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Walter Benjamin
“There is no event or thing in either animate or inanimate nature that does not in some way partake of language.”
Walter Benjamin

William G. Lycan
“Now (obviously) a sentence’s truth—even when we hold the sentence’s meaning fixed—depends on which world we are considering. “Brown is Prime Minister” is true in the actual world but, since Brown need not have been Prime Minister, there are countless worlds in which “Brown is Prime Minister” is false: in those worlds, Brown did not succeed Tony Blair, or never went into politics, or never even existed. And in some other worlds, someone else is Prime Minister — David Cameron, P. F. Strawson, me, Madonna, or Daffy Duck. In still others, there is no such office as Prime Minister, or not even a Britain; and so on and so forth. So a given sentence or proposition varies its truth-value from world to world.”
William G. Lycan, Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction

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