Spreading the Word: Groundings in the Philosophy of Language pdf

西蒙布莱克本是一位英国学术哲学家，以他在元伦理学方面的工作而闻名，他在其中捍卫准现实主义和语言哲学。 最近，他因努力普及哲学而赢得了广大观众。 他于 2011 年从剑桥大学哲学教授的职位上退休，但仍然是北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校的杰出哲学研究教授，每个秋季学期都任教。 他还是剑桥大学三一学院的院士，以及新人文学院的教授成员。 他以前是牛津大学彭布罗克学院的研究员，还曾在北卡罗来纳大学担任 Edna J. Koury 教授的全职教授。 他是亚里士多德学会的前任主席，曾在 2009 年至 2010 年任期内任职。

Spreading the Word: Groundings in the Philosophy of Language pdf 西蒙布莱克本

In this book, Simon Blackburn provides a route into the central problems of modern philosophy of language. The text is designed not to give the student a superficial acquaintance with well-known writers and their results, but to foster a genuine appreciation of the problems which have dominated the area, and of the place these problems have in a wider philosophical context. Individual chapters on rule-following, meaning and convention, realism, theories of truth, semantics, and reference, enable the reader to appreciate the real import of recent investigations, and to understand the perennial concern of philosophers with the language we use to describe and change our world.