Logico-Linguistic Papers

P.F. Strawson has been a major and influential spokesman for ordinary language philosophy throughout the late twentieth century, studying the relationship between common language and the language of formal logic. This reissue of his collection of early essays, Logico-Linguistic Papers, is published with a brand new introduction by Professor Strawson but, apart from minor corrections to the text, these classic essays remain original and intact.

Autorentext

P.F. Strawson is Waynflete Professor Emeritus of Metaphysical Philosophy at University College, Oxford, UK.

Inhalt

Contents: Preface; Introduction; On referring; Particular and general; Singular terms and predication; Identifying reference and truth-values; The asymmetry of subjects and predicates; Propositions, concepts and logical truths; Grammar and philosophy; Intention and convention in speech acts; Meaning and truth; Truth; A problem about truth; Truth: a reconsideration of Austin's views; Index.