Insensitive Semantics: A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act PluralismISBN: 978-1-4051-2674-8
Hardcover
232 pages
November 2004, 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