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This is a list of philosophers of language. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The philosophy of language became so pervasive that for a time, in analytic philosophy circles, philosophy as a whole was understood to be a matter of philosophy of language. In continental philosophy, the foundational work in the field was Ferdinand de Saussure's Cours de linguistique générale, [13] published posthumously in 1916.
Philosophers of language are those who study philosophy of language Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. A ...
Philosophy of language is the branch of philosophy that studies language. Its primary concerns include the nature of linguistic meaning , reference , language use, language learning and creation, language understanding, truth , thought and experience (to the extent that both are linguistic), communication , interpretation , and translation .
A Companion to Analytic Philosophy, Blackwell, 2001) Soames, S. (2005), Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century: Volume II: The Age of Meaning. Princeton: Princeton UP. (Contains a large section on ordinary language philosophy, and a chapter on Austin's treatment of skepticism and perception in Sense and Sensibilia).
The linguistic turn was a major development in Western philosophy during the early 20th century, the most important characteristic of which is the focusing of philosophy primarily on the relations between language, language users, and the world.
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Jason Stanley (born 1969) is an American philosopher who is the Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. [1] [2] He is best known for his contributions to philosophy of language and epistemology, [3] which often draw upon and influence other fields, including linguistics and cognitive science.