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Hobbes and 20th-Century Philosophy of Language

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ID10928491
AutoresW P Grundy (University of Cambridge), William Grundy (University of Cambridge, autor correspondente)
Ano2008
Volume38
Fascículo4
Páginas486-512
Data de publicação2008-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPhilosophy of the Social Sciences (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0048-3931 • E-ISSN: 1552-7441
EditoraSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0048393108323862
OpenAlexW2002241134
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas17

The author argues that Thomas Hobbes anticipates a set of questions about meaning and semantic order that come to fuller expression in the 20th century, in the writings of W.V.O. Quine, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Donald Davidson, Jacques Derrida, and Richard Rorty. Despite their different points of departure, these 20th-century writers pose a number of profound questions about the conditions for the stability of meaning, and about the conditions that govern the use of the term “language” itself. Though the more recent debate benefits from a set of philosophical tools unavailable in the seventeenth century, the author further argues that Hobbes performs a number of maneuvers in his texts from which his 20th-century successors would profit

Epistemology · Expression (computer science) · Meaning (existential) · Order (exchange) · Quine · Set (abstract data type) · Computer Science · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought