本书是讨论儿童语言获得实验方法的名著，亦是国外儿童语言获得研究的经典教材，是将生成语法理论的假设与儿童语言实证研究紧密结合的典范。
书中展示了大量儿童句法、语义获得研究的实验，详细阐述了实验设计的理念、必须满足的合理性条件、具体实施的步骤以及存在的问题，为开展儿童语言的科学实验提供了很强的实用性指导。
作者重点推介的两种实验方法——真值判断任务和诱导产出任务在国外已广泛用于儿童语言获得研究。这些方法逻辑性强，可以有效地控制句子使用的语境，为实验数据的可靠性提供保证。

This unique textbook introduces linguists to key issues in the philosophy of language. Accessible to students who have taken only a single course in linguistics, yet sophisticated enough to be used at the graduate level, the book provides an overview of the central issues in philosophy of language, a key topic in educating the next generation of researchers in semantics and pragmatics. Thoroughly grounded in contemporary linguistic theory, the book focus on the core foundational and philosophical issues in semantics and pragmatics, richly illustrated with historical case studies to show how linguistic questions are related to philosophical problems in areas such as metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics. Students are introduced in Part I to the issues at the core of semantics, including compositionality, reference and intentionality. Part II looks at pragmatics: context, conversational update, implicature and speech acts; whilst Part III discusses foundational questions about meaning. The book will encourage future collaboration and development between philosophy of language and linguistics.

A fascinating analysis of human language and its influence on other disciplines by one of the nation's most respected linguists. Chomsky is also the author of What Uncle Sam Really Wants and The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many (15,000 copies sold).

言語哲学を超克する言語哲学。チョムスキーの方法論的自然主義とはなにか。言語と思考の問題の「行き着くところはわたしたちの本性の核心部分なのです」。言語に関わる諸説の問題設定の妥当性、一般的知識、言語知識、言語使用、等々を吟味し、言語の座位を自然の一部たる人間の内界に見いだすチョムスキーの言語哲学。

蒂莫西•威廉姆森通过《含混性》一书仔细检视了现存的含混性理论，并为认知主义辩护。威廉姆森先从历史来追溯含混性问题，以批判性的眼光浏览含混性哲学的历史；他的观察是：一方面，现存的含混性理论无法很好地解释高阶含混性的问题；另一方面，认知主义的观点受到了不公平的对待。有别于当时大多数学者将含混性问题视为一个语言问题，威廉姆森将含混性问题视为一个知识问题，亦即不知道含混语词/概念的精确边界，希望能为认知主义观点提供一个趋近完备的理论。
尽管《含混性》使用的逻辑不多，但读者若有一定程度的逻辑基础，将能很好地理解书中的论证，体会到论证的精妙之处。对研究含混性问题的学者来说，就算不同意认知主义观点，也不能不读《含混性》，因为《含混性》早已成为研究含混性问题的经典之一。

《意义的形而上学》内容简介：对于20世纪的西方世界而言，哲学的焦点是语言。而对于语言的深层结构和规则而言，其焦点是自然主义。卡茨指出，由于维特根斯坦、奎因、戴维森、乔姆斯基等人关于意义与语言的特定论证，将20世纪的英美哲学引入了自然主义，并使其成为这个时代占主导地位的哲学。而《意义的形而上学》的目的，正是对于这种自然主义的语言及哲学观念进行批判，从而为另一种求真之路提供可能。
在《意义的形而上学》中，卡茨的批判分为两个部分。一、对当代自然主义的两位设计师（维特根斯坦与奎因）的论证进行系统的、全面的分析，并表明他们的论点不足以支持自然主义。二、识别出自然主义的根本问题，即其哲学立场与手段之间悖论性的关系。

In Matter and Consciousness, Paul Churchland presents a concise and contemporary overview of the philosophical issues surrounding the mind and explains the main theories and philosophical positions that have been proposed to solve them. Making the case for the relevance of theoretical and experimental results in neuroscience, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence for the philosophy of mind, Churchland reviews current developments in the cognitive sciences and offers a clear and accessible account of the connections to philosophy of mind.
For this third edition, the text has been updated and revised throughout. The changes range from references to the iPhone's "Siri" to expanded discussions of the work of such contemporary philosophers as David Chalmers, John Searle, and Thomas Nagel. Churchland describes new research in evolution, genetics, and visual neuroscience, among other areas, arguing that the philosophical significance of these new findings lies in the support they tend to give to the reductive and eliminative versions of materialism.
Matter and Consciousness, written by the most distinguished theorist and commentator in the field, offers an authoritative summary and sourcebook for issues in philosophy of mind. It is suitable for use as an introductory undergraduate text.
To read this book with attention is not just to find out about philosophy, but to do it. Churchland has written the best introduction available, for students and for general readers.
(Margaret Boden Times Higher Education Supplement)
The book is superb as an introductory text. Difficult matters are treated from an introductory perspective gracefully, interestingly, and with remarkably little in the way of distorting simplification. My prediction is that the word about this book will spread, and it will soon be a standard textbook.
(Ned Block, New York University)

The tradition descending from Frege and Russell has typically treated theories of meaning either as theories of meanings (propositions expressed), or as theories of truth conditions. However, propositions of the classical sort don't exist, and truth conditions can't provide all the information required by a theory of meaning. In this book, one of the world's leading philosophers of language offers a way out of this dilemma. Traditionally conceived, propositions are denizens of a 'third realm' beyond mind and matter, 'grasped' by mysterious Platonic intuition. As conceived here, they are cognitive-event types in which agents predicate properties and relations of things - in using language, in perception, and in nonlinguistic thought. Because of this, one's acquaintance with, and knowledge of, propositions is acquaintance with, and knowledge of, events of one's cognitive life. This view also solves the problem of 'the unity of the proposition' by explaining how propositions can be genuinely representational, and therefore bearers of truth. The problem, in the traditional conception, is that sentences, utterances, and mental states are representational because of the relations they bear to inherently representational Platonic complexes of universals and particulars. Since we have no way of understanding how such structures can be representational, independent of interpretations placed on them by agents, the problem is unsolvable when so conceived. However, when propositions are taken to be cognitive-event types, the order of explanation is reversed and a natural solution emerges. Propositions are representational because they are constitutively related to inherently representational cognitive acts. Strikingly original, "What Is Meaning?" is a major advance.

本书是乔姆斯基与加拿大麦吉尔大学哲学教授詹姆斯的对话录。诺姆·乔姆斯基（Noam Chomsky）是我们这个时代最具影响力的思想家之一，可他的观点却常遭误解。在这个此前未曾发表过的访谈系列中，乔姆斯基挑战传统，对其有关语言、人类本质以及政治的重要思想做了深入探讨。乔姆斯基论及众多话题——人类语言的设计和功能、语言演化、表征论、人的概念本质、普通语法的最优性和完美性、人类本质、进化心理学、道德、认识论、人类理解的生物限度等问题。麦克吉尔弗雷教授广博的评论则可以方便不同类型的读者理解这个内容深刻的系列访谈。本书对语言和心智研究者，对任何想了解乔姆斯基思想的人而言，都是重要读物。

简介：
《自足语义学》是当代知名哲学家赫尔曼·开普兰和厄尼·利珀尔的一部哲学力作。本书对哲学中形形色色的语境论倾向进行了系统而深入的归纳和分析，并根据不同的语境论展开了颇有针对性的批评，在此基础上提出了他们自己的哲学主张，即语义最简论和言语行为多元论
本书很巧妙地辩护了通常视为不相容的两个哲学立场：真值条件语义学和语义最简论。开普兰和利珀尔所提出的充满争议的观点，已经而且还会持续不断地成为探讨语言交流本质的核心论题。
——杰森·斯坦利，密歇根大学
开普兰和利珀尔把语境论争论中的各种脉络整理出来，并在已有的理论流派基础上提出语义最简论，他们的工作卓有成效。
——詹姆斯·希金博特姆，南加州大学
这是一个不多见而又非常复杂的哲学讨论，它意在说明戴维森的理论是如何处理语言使用中所广泛出现的语境敏感性的，很棒的哲学著作。
——保罗·彼得罗斯基，马里兰大学
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译者的话……………………………………………………………………………………………
作者前言……………………………………………………………………………………………
鸣　谢………………………………………………………………………………………………
第一章　概览…………………………………………………………………………………
第一部分　从温和语境论到激进语境论…………………………………………………………
第二章　诠释：语境论者的方法论…………………………………………………………
第三章　语境转移论证的不稳定性…………………………………………………………
第四章　诊断：为什么语义学家误用语境转移论证………………………………………
第五章　不完全性论证的不稳定性…………………………………………………………
第六章　插曲：约束和隐蔽索引词…………………………………………………………
第二部分　对激进语境论的驳斥…………………………………………………………………
第七章　反驳激进语境论（一）：没有通过语境敏感性测试……………………………
第八章　反驳激进语境论（二）：致使交流无法实现……………………………………
第九章　反驳激进语境论（三）：内在矛盾………………………………………………
第三部分　语义最简论和言语行为多元论………………………………………………………
第十章　语义最简论…………………………………………………………………………
第十一章　语义学与形而上学………………………………………………………………
第十二章　语义学和心理学…………………………………………………………………
第十三章　言语行为多元论…………………………………………………………………
参考文献……………………………………………………………………………………………
索　引………………………………………………………………………………………………

意识是什么？大脑物理过程如何能够产生自我意识的心智，产生爱与恨的深刻情感，产生审美的愉悦和精神的渴望？这些问题直到今天依然是科学家和哲学家激烈争论的焦点。查默斯在论证科学的还原理论不能解释意识的本质的基础上，提出了意识研究的二元论观点。按照这种观点，意识必须被理解为不可还原的实体（类似于事件、空间和质量这样的物理性质），这种实体在一个基本的层面上存在。《当代世界学术名著：有意识的心灵·一种基础理论研究》还详细阐述了任何附载信息的系统都是有意识的观点。
《当代世界学术名著：有意识的心灵·一种基础理论研究》行文严谨，立意深远。作者通过遍历当代意识科学的各个分支，从而带领读者进行了一次遥远而深邃的心灵哲学之旅。而遍布全书的新颖的思想实验极大增强了查默斯思想的说服力。

In this book, one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field - its principal achievements, its most pressing current questions, and its most promising future directions. In addition to explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical framework for the study of language, Scott Soames investigates foundational concepts - such as truth, reference, and meaning - that are central to the philosophy of language and important to philosophy as a whole. The first part of the book describes how philosophers from Frege, Russell, Tarski, and Carnap to Kripke, Kaplan, and Montague developed precise techniques for understanding the languages of logic and mathematics, and how these techniques have been refined and extended to the study of natural human languages. The book then builds on this account, exploring new thinking about propositions, possibility, and the relationship between meaning, assertion, and other aspects of language use. An invaluable overview of the philosophy of language by one of its most important practitioners, this book will be essential reading for all serious students of philosophy.

《字面意义论》内容简介：在当今理论界存在两种潮流，或日坚持两种路径。一种是占主导地位的“字面论”立场。按照这种立场，可以合理地将真值条件内容赋予自然语言的语句，这完全独立于说出语句的讲话者所要表达的意义。字面论与另一种观点——“语境论”——相对立。语境论观点与半个世纪前日常语言哲学家的观点相似，主张言语行为是语义内容的基本载体。唯有在言语行为的语境中语句才能表达确定的内容。“所言”究竟取决于语言规约抑或是“讲话者意义”的一个方面？在确定真值条件中需要语用学吗？什么是“字面意义”？语义组合在何种程度上是一种生成过程？语境敏感具有怎样的普遍性？雷卡纳蒂在书中批判了字面论，对语境论作出了极具原创性且不乏洞见的辩护，同时讨论了介于这两种观点之间的各种立场，指出这些立场与目前关于语义学／语用学界面之争中实际持有的观点相对应。《字面意义论》对从事语义学／语用学界面研究的语言学家、哲学家等具有很高的参考价值。

Many beginning students in philosophy of language find themselves grappling with dense and difficult texts not easily understood by someone new to the field. This book offers an introduction to philosophy of language by explaining ten classic, often anthologized, texts. Accessible and thorough, written with a unique combination of informality and careful formulation, the book addresses sense and reference, proper names, definite descriptions, indexicals, the definition of truth, truth and meaning, and the nature of speaker meaning, as addressed by Frege, Kripke, Russell, Donnellan, Kaplan, Evans, Putnam, Tarski, Davidson, and Grice. The explanations aim to be as simple as possible without sacrificing accuracy; critical assessments are included with the exposition in order to stimulate further thought and discussion.
Philosophy of Language will be an essential resource for undergraduates in a typical philosophy of language course or for graduate students with no background in the field. It can be used in conjunction with an anthology of classic texts, sparing the instructor much arduous exegesis.

《语言哲学：经典诠释》形式独特。不同于通常的语言哲学专著或者文选，也有别于常见的语言哲学教程，旨在与诸如乌丁尼奇《语言哲学》等文选配合使用。作者选取了语言哲学领域的十部经典文献，着力对十位著名语言哲学家的观点和著作做了清晰明了、深入浅出的阐释和评判。
《语言哲学：经典诠释》并非围绕语言哲学论题的普通导论，而是聚焦于上述经典文献各个作者之代表性思想观点做出的导读性诠释。

マイケル・ダメットは1925年生まれ、イギリスの哲学者。ダメットの主張は「反実在論」と呼ばれる。彼の着想は従来の実在論―反実在論の論争とは違うところにある。この論争を外的世界についての言明に対してどのような意味論を採用するかをめぐる論争と捉えるのである。膨大な数の著作でなされる議論の相互関係を分り易く解説する。

《形而上学的逻辑基础》是达米特的代表性著作，它最为系统地反映了作者哲学思想的全貌。全面阐述了意义，真与反实的论等问题。从弗雷格的意义理论出发，作者阐发了弗雷格的涵义和指称的概念，对弗雷格关于涵义与指称区别的论证做了进一步的辩护，批判了真值条件意义理论，提出了辩护主义的意义理论以及意义理论的显示原则、交流原则，试图把应用于数学领域的直觉主义逻辑方法推广到日常语言领域，解决实在论与反实在论的争论问题，以奠定其哲学理论的逻辑基础。
《形而上学的逻辑基础》涉及的哲学理论博大精深，其主要观点大胆而深刻，颇有争议而极具原创性，是学界公认的一部相当重要的著作，是20世纪哲学的真正高水准的成果之一。

《整体论：一本购物指南》是美国当代著名（分析）哲学家杰瑞·福多和欧尼·勒炮合作的重要语言哲学著作。
《整体论：一本购物指南》的核心论题是语义整体论。
《整体论：一本购物指南》作者富于洞察地看到，语言哲学中的原子论和整体论之争可以重述为一个形而上学问题-一语义性质究竟是不是非原子性质？从这个观察入手，通过分析几种支持语义整体论的论证（现在看来，也是20世纪出现的几种主要论证），作者认为，迄今为止，支持语义整体论的动机还没有得到有力辩护，哲学（以及认知科学）文献中所提供的支撑语义整体论的论证都不具有理性的说服力；意义原子论和意义整体论二者都还没有真正被驳倒。
对从事语言研究的学者，同情某种整体论的有识之±，以及想考虑哲学问题（特别是语言的意义和心灵的内容）的人，《整体论：一本购物指南》应富于启发。