Epistemology of Language [Paperback]

What must linguistic knowledge be like if it is to explain our capacity to use language? All linguists and philosophers of language presuppose some answer to this critical question, but all too often the presupposition is tacit. In this collection of sixteen previously unpublished essays, a distinguished international line-up of philosophers and linguists address a variety of interconnected themes concerning our knowledge of language.

1. Introduction,Alex Barber
Part One: Knowledge in Linguistics
2. Rabbit-Pots and Supernovas: On the Relevance of Psychological Data to Linguistic Theory,Louise M. Antony
3. Is Linguistics a Branch of Psychology?,Stephen Laurence
4. Linguistics is Not Psychology,Michael Devitt
5. Intentional Content and a Chomskian Linguistics,Georges Rey
6. Does Linguistic Competence Require Knowledge of Language?,Robert J. Matthews
Part Two: Understanding
7. The Character of Natural Language Semantics,Paul M. Pietroski
8. Grasping Objects and Contents,Reinaldo Elugardo and Robert J. Stainton
9. Knowledge of Meaning,Stephen Schiffer
10. Understanding and Knowledge of What is Said,Elizabeth Fricker
11. Truth Conditions and Their Recognition,Alex Barber
Part Three: Linguistic Externalism
12. Externalism, Logical Form, and Linguistic Intentions,Peter Ludlow
13. Ignorance of Meaning,Gabriel Segal
14. Externalism and the Fregean Tradition,Jessica Brown
Part Four: Epistemology through Language
15. What is the Acquistion Argument?,Alexander Miller
16. Remembering, Imagining, and the First Person,James Higginbotham