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    The Internet Encyclopedia of

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    Philosophy of Language

    Those who use the term philosophy of language typically use it to refer to work within the

    field of Anglo-American analytical philosophyand its roots in German and Austrian philosophy

    of the early 20thcentury. Many philosophers outside this tradition hae iews on the nature and

    use of language! and the "order "etween analytical and continental philosophy is

    "ecoming more porous with time! "ut most who speak of this field are appealing to a specificset of traditions! canonical authors and methods. The article takes this more narrow focus in

    order to descri"e a tradition#s history! "ut readers should "ear in mind this restriction of

    scope.

    The history of the philosophy of language in the analytical tradition "egins with adances in

    logic and with tensions within traditional accounts of the mind and its contents at the end of

    the $%thcentury. A reolution of sorts resulted from these deelopments! often known as the

    &inguistic Turn in philosophy. 'oweer! its early programs ran into serious difficulties "y

    mid-century! and significant changes in direction came a"out as a result. (ection $ "elowaddresses the precursors and early stages of the &inguistic Turn! while (ection 2 addresses its

    deelopment "y the &ogical )ositiists and others. (ection * outlines the sudden shifts that

    resulted from the works of +uine and ,ittgenstein! and (ection charts the maor approaches

    and figures that hae followed from mid-century to the present.

    Table of Contents

    $. /rege! ussell and the &inguistic Turn

    a. eferential Theories of Meaning". /rege on (ense and eference

    c. ussell

    2. 1arly Analytical )hilosophy of &anguage

    a. The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

    ". The ienna 3ircle and the &ogical )ositiists

    c. Tarski#s Theory of Truth

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    *. Mid-century eolutions

    a. +uine and the Analytic4(ynthetic 5istinction

    ". The &ater ,ittgenstein

    . Maor Areas in the 3ontemporary /ield

    a. Truth-3onditional Theories of Meaning". Meaning and 6se

    c. (peech Act Theory and )ragmatics

    7. /uture 5irections and 1merging 5e"ates

    8. eferences and /urther eading

    1. Frege, Russell and the Linguistic Turn

    a. eferential Theories of Meaning

    Much of the stage-setting for the so-called &inguistic Turn in Anglo-American philosophy took

    place in the mid $%thcentury. Attention turned to language as many came to see it as a focal

    point in understanding "elief and representation of the world. &anguage came to "e seen as

    the medium of conceptuali9ation! as ,ilfrid (ellars would later put it. :dealists working in

    ;ant#s wake had deeloped more sophisticated transcendental accounts of the conditions for

    the possi"ility of e*! $! 2! sec. 7B. Mill#s empiricism led him to think that for meaning to hae

    any significance for our thought and understanding! we must e

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    as we often think of proper names sering simply as la"els for the things they denote. Mill also

    tended to use meaning in talking a"out connotation! and might hae reserations with saying

    that proper names had meanings! though this is not to deny that they denote things.B Thus!

    $B The cat sat on the refrigerator.

    should "e understood as a comple< arrangement of signs. The cat denotes or refers to a

    particular furry domesticated Euadruped! the refrigerator denotes something! and so forth.

    (ome further ela"oration would "e needed for er"s! logical oca"ulary and other categories of

    terms! "ut most philosophers took the "ack"one of an account of meaning to "e denotation!

    and language use to "e a process of the management of signs. These signs might denote

    o"ects directly! or they might do so indirectly "y standing for something within our minds!

    following &ocke! who descri"ed words as signs of ideas $8%0! :::! $B.

    Accounts that emphasi9ed the reference of terms as constitutie of the meaning of most

    e

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    :f Atlantis does not e

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    information would in turn determine a referent for each e

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    is false! especially in cases where &i9 does not knowthat 1lis 3ostello is 5eclan McManus! or

    neer learns the latter name at all. ,hat has happened hereH Cote that ?B and >B "oth

    include strings of words that could "e sentences in their own right 1lis 3ostello was "orn in

    &ierpool and 5eclan McManus was "orn in &ierpoolB and &i9 knows thatI e>B for a thorough attack on psychologistic accounts of

    meaning.B Cor were they the causal and mechanical o"ects of natural science! reduci"le to

    accounts of lawlike regularity. They were entities playing a logical and cognitie role! and

    would "e "oth e

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    5enoting $%07B. =oth men were mathematicians "y training and shared a concern with the

    foundations of arithmetic. 'oweer! ussell shared a sense with some earlier philosophers that

    at least some e

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    the property N is false! and we hae a means to analy9e non-denoting e

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    any sentence that did not yield to such analysis would not hae a sense at all. 1erything that

    can "e thought at all can "e thought clearly. 1erything that can "e said can "e said clearly.

    $%22! P.$$8B ,ittgenstein#s claim here is not that we cannot string together words in unclear

    waysD indeed! we do that all the time. ather! in doing so! we do not e

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    phenomenalist strains of =ritish empiricism as a more suita"le epistemological foundation for

    such goals. 3arnap adopted the insights of /rege#s work and "rought tremendous sophistication

    to the analytical enterprise! particularly in his The Logical Structure of the World$%2>B. The

    &ogical )ositiists also took inspiration from ,ittgenstein#s Tractatus! "ut their fidelity to his

    more a"struse aims is tenuous at "est. They shared ,ittgenstein#s iew that logical proofswere true in irtue of internal relations among their propositions! not "y irtue of any actual

    facts a"out the world! and parsed this as support for a renewed ersion of the

    analytic4synthetic distinction. Analytic sentences were those true solely in irtue of the

    meanings of their constituent e>B

    =y gien here! (chlick alluded to the stream of sense-data that come "efore us. /ew if any

    sentences were understood in such ways "y most speakers! so the work of philosophy was

    logical analysis and definition of the concepts of the natural sciences into erificationist terms.

    ,hile one could imagine empirical erification of many things in the physical sciences for

    e

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    theoretical identity to eEuate the entities of! say! psychology with the entities of the physical

    sciences and thus translate the terms of older theories into new ones. Again! in some cases

    the preferred mode would "e to eEuate them directly with sense-data.B ,here this could not

    "e done! the )ositiists took it that the sentences in Euestion were meaningless! and they

    adocated the elimination of many canonical concepts! sentences and theories! derisielylumped under the term metaphysics. A sentence like God e

    the language natural or formalB that is our target for analysis! while the metalanguage is the

    language in which we conduct our analysis. Metalanguage is the language that we use to studyanother language! and the o"ect language is the language that we study. /or instance!

    children learning a second language typically take classes conducted in their mother tongue

    that treat the second language as an o"ect to "e studied. Thus! copies of all the sentences of

    the o"ect language should "e included in the metalanguage and the metalanguage should

    include sufficient resources to descri"e the synta< of the o"ect language! as well. :n effect! an

    o"ect language would not contain its own truth predicateOthis could only occur in a

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    metalanguage! since it reEuires speakers to talk a"out sentences themseles! rather than

    actually using them. There is great controersy a"out the shape that a metalanguague would

    hae to take to ena"le analysis of a natural language! and Tarski openly dou"ted that these

    methods would transfer easily from formal to natural languages! "ut we will not dele into

    these issues here.

    Tarski argued that a definition of truth would hae to "e formally correct or as he put it

    $B /or allx! True

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    modern logic was "oth within their grasp and immensely rewarding.

    !. "id#century Re$olutions

    =y the middle of the 20thcentury! the approach spawned "y /rege! Moore and ussell had

    taken root with the &ogical )ositiists. The (econd ,orld ,ar did a great deal to scatter the

    most talented philosophers from the 3ontinent! and many settled at uniersities in Great

    =ritain and the 6nited (tates! spreading their iews and influencing generations of philosophers

    to come. 'oweer! the analytical tradition always had a ro"ust streak of criticism from within!

    and some of the pillars of the early orthodo

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    empiricists or worry a"out such empirical content! "ut rather that no indiidual sentence or

    e

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    that we should not prefer some translations oer others! "ut our grounds for doing so are

    usually pragmatic concerns a"out simplicity and efficiency! ,e should also note that each

    speaker is in much the same position when it comes to understanding other speakers een in

    her mother tongueD we hae only the o"sera"le "ehaiors of other speakers and familiarity

    with our own usage of such terms! and we must make ongoing assessments of other speakers inconersation in ust these ways. 5onald 5aidson! +uine#s student! would continue to deelop

    these ideas een further in +uine#s wake! emphasi9ing that the interpretation we do on an

    eeryday "asis was no less radical than his mentor was suggesting of the field linguist see his

    $%>B.

    +uine#s work inspired many! "ut also came under sharp attack. The "ehaiorism at the heart of

    his account has fallen out of faor with the maority of philosophers and cognitie scientists.

    Much of Coam 3homsky#s $%7%B critiEue of =./ (kinner may "e said to apply to +uine#s work.

    The emphasis on innateness and tacit knowledge in 3homsky#s work has "een su"ect tointense criticism as well! "ut this criticism has not pointed philosophers and linguists "ack

    towards the sort of strongly "ehaiorist empiricism on which +uine#s account was founded.

    (till! most contemporary philosophers of language owe some de"t to +uine for dismantling the

    dogmas of early analytical philosophy and opening new aenues of inEuiry.

    ". The &ater ,ittgenstein

    ,ittgenstein left 3am"ridge in the early $%20s and pursued proects outside academia for

    seeral years. 'e returned in $%2% and "egan doing ery different sorts of work. :t is a matterof great de"ate! een among ,ittgenstein acolytes! how much affinity there is "etween these

    stages. Many philosophers of language will speak of the later ,ittgenstein as though the

    earlier iews were wholly different and incompati"le! while others insist that there is strong

    continuity of themes and methods. Though his early work was widely misunderstood at the

    time! there can "e little dou"t that some important changes took place! and these are worth

    noting here.

    :n the posthumously pu"lished Philosophical !nvestigations$%7*B! ,ittgenstein "roke with

    some of the theoretical aspirations of analytical philosophy in the first half of the century.,here analytical philosophers of language had stried for elegant! parsimonious logical

    systems! the !nvestigationssuggested that language was a dierse! mercurial collection of

    language gamesOgoal-directed social actiities for which words were ust so many tools to

    get things done! rather than fi

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    ushered in a new concern for the pragmatic dimensions of language usage. To speak of the

    pragmatic significance of an e0

    and 200$B read this as a call to social conentionalism a"out meaning! Mc5owell $%>B

    e

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    remem"ering in that caseH 6ntil we say how a priate episode could esta"lish a pattern of

    correct usage! memory is "eside the point. To alleiate this difficulty! ,ittgenstein turned his

    attention to the realm of pu"lic phenomena! and suggested that those who make the same

    moes with the rules share a le"ensform or form of life! which most hae taken to "e

    one#s culture or the sum total of the social practices in which one takes part. ;ripke $%>2Boffered a nota"le interpretation of ,ittgenstein#s priate language argument! though opinions

    ary on its fidelity to ,ittgenstein#s work. (u"seEuent generations of philosophers on "oth

    sides of the Atlantic would "e profoundly influenced "y this argument and struggle with its

    implications for decades to come.

    %. "a&or reas in the Conte'porary Field

    After the seminal works of +uine and ,ittgenstein at mid-century! the maority of iews

    e

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    referents! to which the rest of a sentence attri"utes something! ery roughly speaking. Truth-

    conditional theories of meaning hae also "een attractie to those who would prefer a

    naturalistic and reductionist semantics! appealing to nothing outside the natural world as an

    e

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    reductionist elements of these theories leae us with an implausi"ly direct and unmediated

    account of reference that must "e refined or replaced 5ummett $%?B! Mac=eth $%%7B and

    ,olf 2008BB.

    ". Meaning and 6se

    erificationist theories fell out of faor after +uine! "ut were reinigorated "y Michael

    5ummett#s work on meaning and logic as well as his e2 and $%>?B! =lock $%>8 and $%>?B! and

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    =random $%%B hae all pursued an inferential role or conceptual role semantics that

    characteri9ed a grasp of the meaning of sentences as a grasp of the inferences one would make

    to and from that sentence. =lock and 'arman hae e

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    often leads to special attention to the goals that a speaker might achiee "y uttering a

    sentence in a particular way in that conte

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    diided these implicatures into two large categories conentional implicatures and

    conersational implicatures. 3onentional implicatures are those assigned to utterances "ased

    on the conentional meanings of the words used! though not in the ways familiar from ordinary

    logical entailments. /or instance

    $?B Michael is an Frioles fan! "ut he doesn#t lie in =altimore.

    $>B Michael is an Frioles fan! and he doesn#t lie in =altimore.

    $%B Michael#s "eing an Frioles fan is une

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    presupposition! as well. As the name would suggest! the discussion of this su"ect focuses on

    the sorts of information reEuired as "ackground for arious sorts of logical and conersational

    features to o"tain. The well-worn e

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