Language and World

This book defends a version of linguistic idealism, the thesis that the world is a product of language. In the course of defending this radical thesis, Gaskin addresses a wide range of topics in contemporary metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and syntax theory.

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Richard Gaskin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. He has published extensively in metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of literature, and literary criticism. His main book publications include Experience and the World's Own Language: A Critique of John McDowell's Empiricism (2006), The Unity of the Proposition (2008), Language, Truth, and Literature: A Defence of Linguistic Idealism (2013), Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature: A Philosophical Perspective (Routledge 2018).

Inhalt

1. Context and Compositionality

2. The Theoreticity of Meaning

3. Reference and Ontology

4. Reference and Sense

5. Propositions

6. Truth, Falsity, and the World

7. Realism, Pragmatism, and Linguistic Idealism

8. Linguistic Idealism: Problems and Solutions