Ebook: Meaning and Truth: Investigations in Philosophical Semantics

The first volume in the TOPICS IN CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY series contains 15 essays on a range of topics in the philosophy of language by leading authors in the field. Each essay investigates some aspect of philosophical semantics; among the themes addressed are the nature of truth, the relation between truth and meaning, the semantic nature of quantifiers, and the distinction between semantics and pragmatics.