Traditional and Analytical Philosophy
Lectures on the Philosophy of Language

This book is P. A. Gorner's English translation of Ernst Tugendhat's major philosophical work.

Ernst Tugendhat (Author), P. A. Gorner (Translated by)

9781316508893, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 August 2016

448 pages
23.1 x 15.3 x 2.4 cm, 0.64 kg

Ernst Tugendhat's major work, Vorlesungen zur Einführung in die sprachanalytische Philosophie (1976), was translated into English in 1982. Although trained in Heideggerian phenomenological and hermeneutical thinking, Tugendhat increasingly came to believe that the most appropriate approach to philosophy was an analytical one. This influential work grew from that conviction and brought new perspectives to some of the central and abiding questions of metaphysics and the philosophy of language. Presented in a fresh twenty-first-century series livery, and including a specially commissioned preface written by Hans-Johann Glock, illuminating its enduring importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry, this impressive work has been revived for a new generation of readers.

Preface to this edition Hans-Johann Glock
Translator's preface
Part I. Introduction: Confrontation of Analytical Philosophy with Traditional Conceptions of Philosophy: 1. A question of method
2. A philosopher in search of a conception of philosophy
3. Ontology and semantics
4. Has formal semantics a fundamental question?
5. Consciousness and speech
6. The argument with the philosophy of consciousness continued
7. A practical conception of philosophy
Part II. A First Step: Analysis of the Predicative Sentence: 8. Preliminary reflections on method and preview of the course of the investigation
9. Husserl's theory of meaning
10. Collapse of the traditional theory of meaning
11. Predicates: the first step in the development of an analytical conception of the meaning of sentences. The dispute between nominalists and conceptualists
12. The basic principle of analytical philosophy. The dispute continued. Predicates and quasi-predicates
13. The meaning of an expression and the circumstances of its use. Dispute with a behaviouristic conception
14. The employment-rule of an assertoric sentence. Argument with Grice and Searle
15. Positive account of the employment-rule of assertoric sentences in terms of the truth-relation
16. Supplements
17. 'And' and 'or'
18. General sentences. Resumption of the problem of predicates
19. The mode of employment of predicates. Transition to singular terms
20. What is it for a sign to stand for an object? The traditional account
21. The function of singular terms
22. Russell and Strawson
23. What is 'identification'?
24. Specification and identification. Specification and truth
25. Spatio-temporal identification and the constitution of the object-relation
26. Supplements
27. Results
28. The next steps
Notes
Bibliography
Indexes.

Subject Areas: Philosophy of mind [HPM], Philosophy of language [CFA]