# Philosophy of Language

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Category: Philosophy
Slides: 30
Updated: 2026-05-15T22:19:02.845Z
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## Summary

The philosophy of language is the philosophical investigation of meaning, reference, truth, and the relation of language to thought and world. As an organised research programme, it is the central achievement of analytic philosophy — the discipline that, in the early 20th century, redirected philosophical attention from the structure of consciousness to the structure of language. Key sections include: Philosophy of Language.; Opening The linguistic turn.; Chapter I Frege founds the field.; Chapter II Russell on descriptions.; Chapter III The Tractatus.; Chapter IV The Vienna Circle.; Chapter V The later Wittgenstein.; Chapter VI Austin and speech acts.; Chapter VII Grice on implicature.; Chapter VIII Quine's two dogmas..

## Slide Outline

1. Philosophy of Language.
2. Opening The linguistic turn.
3. Chapter I Frege founds the field.
4. Chapter II Russell on descriptions.
5. Chapter III The Tractatus.
6. Chapter IV The Vienna Circle.
7. Chapter V The later Wittgenstein.
8. Chapter VI Austin and speech acts.
9. Chapter VII Grice on implicature.
10. Chapter VIII Quine's two dogmas.
11. Chapter IX Davidson and truth-conditional semantics.
12. Chapter X Kripke and rigid designation.
13. Chapter XI Putnam and externalism.
14. Chapter XII Lewis on conventions and possible worlds.
15. Chapter XIII The linguistic context: Chomsky.
16. Chapter XIV Brandom and inferentialism.
17. Chapter XV The sorites and vagueness.
18. Chapter XVI Stalnaker and conversational context.
19. Chapter XVII Modern pragmatics.
20. Chapter XVIII Language models.
21. Chapter XVIII-bis Tarski's truth definition.
22. Chapter XVIII-ter Dummett and meaning-theories.
23. Chapter XVIII-quat Conceptual engineering.
24. Chapter XVIII-pent Williamson and the post-Quinean programme.
25. Chapter XVIII-sex Slurs and pejorative content.
26. Chapter XVIII-sept Metaphor.
27. Chapter XIX The shelf.
28. Chapter XX Watch & read.
29. Chapter XXI What the field has learned.
30. Colophon

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