Meanings and other things

by Ostertag, Gary

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Full title :Meanings and other things / edited by Gary Ostertag.

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Stephen Schiffer's writing has been central to analytic philosophy of language and mind since the 1970s. In 1972 his book 'Meaning' launched an important research program into Gricean, or intention-based, approaches to linguistic meaning, which would come to dominate much subsequent theorizing about language. A sea change occurred in 1987 with the publication of 'Remnants of Meaning'. Schiffer here repudiated the project initiated by 'Meaning', arguing that the theory of public-language meaning it described and the account of mental representation it required were based on false presuppositions. The ramifications here were far reaching and set the agenda for discussions in the philosophy of language and mind for a generation. In 2003, 'The Things We Mean' initiated a more positive program, but one informed by the negative results of 'Remnants'. 'Things' also reflected the broadening of Schiffer's concerns, which now extended to metaphysics, metaethics, and the skeptical paradoxes.