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I bought this text as an introduction the philosophy of language. As the title suggests, it is just that. However, I am somewhat familar with the other books in this series, and they do not exactly "hold one's hand," as it were in the presentation of views on their topics; I felt as though Lycan was doing just that. Many of the debates that he discusses in this book are given a quite superficial treatment. He shies away from any engagement with the issues of logical form (and almost any use of symbolic logic at all); important distinctions such as extensionality/intensionality go unmentioned, and the organization--especially of the first section--is somewhat baffling, as some reviewers have already pointed out; and the central importance of demonstratives, for example, is just barely gestured at. What this book does have going for it, however, is the "further reading" sections at the end of each chapter and the concise "objection/response" sections in the theories of meaning section. However, this does not exactly set this book apart; Miller's "Philosophy of Language" has even more extensive "further reading" sections, a discernable theme (rather than Lycan's "dumptruck metho

Who reads Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy)?

Author

William G. Lycan

Publisher

Routledge

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9786610354474

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Language Learning, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.76 / 5 (207 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14