Insensitive Semantics: A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism

ISBN: 978-1-4051-2674-8

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232 pages

January 2005, Wiley-Blackwell

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Provides detailed and wide-ranging overviews of the central positions and arguments surrounding contextualism

Addresses broad and varied aspects of the distinction between the semantic and non-semantic content of language

Takes up the question of how to accommodate context sensitivity within a theory of human communication

Defends a distinctive and explanatorily powerful combination of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism

Confronts core problems which not only run to the heart of philosophy of language and linguistics, but which arise in epistemology, metaphysics, and moral philosophy as well