new book philosophy language philosophy language big questions edited andrea nye university wisconsin whitewater wideranging anthology brings together variety readings philosophy language ancient greeks contemporary analytic feminist multicultural perspectives emphasis issues direct bearing concerns knowledge reality meaning understanding general introduction introductions group readings identify continuities differences way big questions philosophy language addressed philosophers different historical periods institutional affiliations races genders contents general introduction language 1 plato language weaving together forms 2 jean jacques rousseau origins language 3 john locke words 4 gottlob frege scientific justification conceptual notation 5 john dewey existential matrix inquiry 6 ludwig wittgenstein picturing reality 7 emile benveniste subjectivity language 8 jerry fodor private language public languages 9 monique wittig mark gender b meaning words get sense 10 gottlob frege sense reference 11 j ayer principle verifiability 12 ludwig wittgenstein meaning use 13 ruth millikan biosemantics 14 merrill jaakko hintikka language sexist c speaking say something 15 h p grice meaning 16 john austin performative utterances 17 v n volosinov verbal interaction 18 arindam chakrabati telling letting know 19 luce irigaray sought find reference talk 20 bertrand russell denoting 21 saul kripke naming necessity excerpts 22 michel foucault formation objects 23 judith butler critically queer 24 maria lugones worlds world travelling e truth relation language reality 25 alfred tarski semantic theory truth 26 donald davidson method truth metaphysics 27 linda alcoff truth coherence 28 david theo goldberg truth social praxis 29 sandra harding truth claims dysfunctional f minds foreign tongues possible understand someone else says 30 bronislaw malinowski translation untranslatable words 31 w v quine indeterminacy translation 32 donald davidson idea conceptual scheme 33 benjamin whorf american indian model universe 34 gloria anzaldua tame wild tongue 35 wole soyinka language boundary philosophy big questions series june 1998 6 x 9 336 pages 0631 20602 7 paperback 29 95 0631 20601 9 hardcover 62 95 available review order please call blackwell publishers 1800 2162522 visit website http www blackwellpub com