Much contemporary thinking about language is animated by the idea that the core function of language is to represent how the world is and that therefore the notion of representation should play a fundamental explanatory role in any explanation of language and language use. Leading thinkers in the field explore various ways this idea may be challenged as well as obstacles to dev...(展开全部)

What does talk of meaning mean? All thinking consists in natural happenings in the brain. Talk of meaning though, has resisted interpretation in terms of anything that is clearly natural, such as linguistic dispositions. This, Kripke's Wittgenstein suggests, is because the concept of meaning is normative, on the 'ought' side of Hume's divide between is and ought. Allan Gibbard...(展开全部)

Truth and Meaning is a classic collection of original essays on fundamental questions in the philosophy of language. It was first published in 1976, and has remained essential reading in this area ever since; this is its first appearance in paperback. The contributors include leading figures in late twentieth-century philosophy, such as Donald Davidson, Saul Kripke, P. F. Straw...(展开全部)

弗兰克•安柯斯密特（1945— ），格罗宁根大学观念史和历史哲学教授。1983年出版《叙述的逻辑：史家语言的语义分析》，1986年当选荷兰皇家人文和科学院院士，2007年创办《历史哲学杂志》。发表过多部历史哲学论著，包括《历史表现》《政治表现》《历史与喻义》《美学政治》《崇高的历史经验》等。.

In this book, the noted intellectual historian Frank Ankersmit provides a systematic account of the problems of reference, truth, and meaning in historical writing. He works from the conviction that the historicist account of historical writing, associated primarily with Leopold von Ranke and Wilhelm von Humboldt, is essentially correct but that its original idealist and romant...(展开全部)

This volume brings together fourteen major essays on truth, naturalism, expressivism and representationalism, by one of contemporary philosophy's most challenging thinkers. Huw Price weaves together Quinean minimalism about truth, Carnapian deflationism about metaphysics, Wittgensteinian pluralism about the functions of declarative language, and Rortyian skepticism about repres...(展开全部)

The analysis of the connections between truth, meaning, thought, and action poses a major philosophical challenge-one that Donald Davidson addressed by establishing a unified theory of language and mind. This volume offers a reappraisal of Davidson's intellectual legacy. Twelve specially written essays by leading philosophers in the field illuminate a range of enduring philosop...(展开全部)

In this companion volume to "Iconology", the author extends his investigation to pictures - the concrete, representational objects in which images appear. Although we have many words about pictures, Mitchell notes that we do not yet have a satisfactory theory of them. What we have is a variety of disciplines - semiotics, philosophical inquiries into representation, new departur...(展开全部)

In this companion volume to "Iconology", the author extends his investigation to pictures - the concrete, representational objects in which images appear. Although we have many words about pictures, Mitchell notes that we do not yet have a satisfactory theory of them. What we have is a variety of disciplines - semiotics, philosophical inquiries into representation, new departur...(展开全部)

W. J. T. 米切尔（W. J. T. Mitchell），芝加哥大学盖罗德·多奈利杰出贡献讲座教授，任教于芝加哥大学英语语言文学系与艺术史系，兼任《批评研究》（Critical Inquiry）编辑。 译者 兰丽英，女，陕西师范大学文学院文艺 学专业硕士毕业，研究方向为西方文论。