{"product_id":"overlooking-conventions-michael-devitt-9783030706524","title":"Overlooking Conventions: The Trouble with Linguistic Pragmatism","description":"PREFACE\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1.1 Background1.2 Summary of Chapters\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 2: RELIANCE ON INTUITIONS: 2.1 The Received View2.2 The Task?2.3 Experimental Semantics 2.4 \"Cartesianism\"2.5 A Priori Knowledge?2.6 Embodied Theory?2.7 Competence as a Skill2.8 Intuitions as Empirical Judgments2.9 Rejecting \"Voice of Competence\"2.11 Conclusion\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 3: THE SEMANTICS-PRAGMATICS DISTINCTION3.1 Introduction3.2 The Theoretical Motivation3.2.1 Human Thoughts3.2.2 Animal Communication3.2.3 Human Language3.2.4 Our Theoretical Interest in a Language3.3 Terminology3.4 Communication3.5 The Semantics-Pragmatics Dispute3.6 The Evidence3.7 Conclusion\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 4: SPEAKER MEANINGS AND INTENTIONS4.1 Intending to Refer4.1.1 Objection 1: Implausible Starting Point4.1.2 Objection 2: Incomplete4.1.3 Objection 3: Redundant4.1.4 Objection 4: Misleading4.2 Intending to Communicate4.3. Constraints on Intentions\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 5: LINGUISTIC CONVENTIONS AND LANGUAGEPART I: THE POSITION5.1 Conventions and Linguistic Meanings5.2 Linguistic ConventionsPART II: CONVENTION DENIERS5.3 Collins Against Conventions5.4 Chomsky Against Linguistic Conventions5.5 Chomsky against Common Languages5.6 Davidson, Malapropisms, Spoonerisms, and Slips\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 6: BACH AND NEALE ON \"WHAT IS SAID\"PART I: BACH6.1 Bach's Notion6.2 Criticisms of Bach6.3 Bach's ResponsePART II: NEALE6.4 Neale's Notion6.5 Criticisms of Neale\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 7: CONFUSION OF THE METAPHYSICS OF MEANING WITH THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF INTERPRETATIONPART I: THE CONFUSION7.1 The Meaning\/Interpretation Distinction7.2 Confusing Meaning and Interpretation7.3 Examples of the Confusion7.3.1 Jason Stanley and Zoltan Szabo7.3.2 Dan Sperber and Deidre Wilson7.3.3 Fran輟is Recanati 7.3.4 Anne Bezuidenhout7.3.5 Robert Stainton7.3.6 Kepa Korta and John Perry 7.4 A Principled Position?PART II: DEFENDING THE CONFUSION7.5 Elugardo and Stainton's Defense7.6 Tidying Up the Defense7.7 Two Major Failings of the Defense\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 8: MODIFIED OCCAM'S RAZOR AND THE DENIAL OF LINGUISTIC MEANINGS8.1 Embracing the Razor8.2 The Falsity of the Razor (as Commonly Construed)8.3 The Explanatory Onus8.4 Objections to Semantic Polysemy8.4.1 The Failure of the tests8.4.2 Too Psychologically Demanding8.4.3 Distinguishing Polysemy From Homonymy8.4.4 Nunberg on the Arbitrariness of Meanings8.5 Bach on the Razor8.6 Bach's \"Standardization\"\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 9: REFERENTIAL DESCRIPTIONS: A CASE STUDY9.1 Introduction9.2 The Argument from Convention9.3 The Incompleteness Argument Against Pragmatic Explanations9.4 Bach's Pragmatic Defense of Russell9.5 Bach's Response9.6 Three Further Arguments for Semantic or against Pragmatic Explanations9.7 Neale's Illusion9.8 Conclusion\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 10: SATURATION AND PRAGMATISM'S CHALLENGE10.1 Introduction10.2 Truth-Conditional Pragmatics10.3 Meaning Eliminativism10.4 Implicit Saturation10.5 The Tyranny of Synt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Devitt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3030706524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783030706524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Springer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 326\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d","brand":"Michael Devitt","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44073540419839,"sku":"9783030706524","price":99.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6cd437b4-e7a7-4787-b238-1484beacbb01.jpg?v=1685448425","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/overlooking-conventions-michael-devitt-9783030706524","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}