1 Editorial Introduction : History of the Philosophy of Language 1
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The Philosophy of Language has a history almost as long as the history of Philosophy itself. Plato’s Cratylus and Sophist, and Aristotle’s De Interpretatione and Prior Analytics, contain important reflections on topics such as the conventionality of language, the subject–predicate structure, valid inference and its relations with the structure of language and thought, truth, or the ontological implications of linguistic categories. Medieval philosophers carried out studies of reference (“suppositio”) and generalization as sophisticated as any. The Port-Royal logicians, Hobbes and Locke took those discussions forward, and, in the latter case, anticipated current concerns about the way natural kind terms work. In the following few pages, however, I will limit myself to drawing a very rough (and rather idiosyncratic) map of the terrain of the contemporary scene, as it was set out in the work of Frege, Russell and the early Wittgenstein – the presupposed common background, taught to beginners in the discipline, for the themes to be further explored from a present-day perspective in the ensuing chapters. In the first part of the chapter, I will outline some core issues as they are presented in what in my view is the insightful systematic articulation of Frege’s and Russell’s themes in Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. In the second part, I will sum up the main issues, describe some contributions to them in Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein and other historical landmarks, and indicate how they are approached today, as presented in the ensuing chapters. The introduction concludes with a brief discussion of research methods and problems in the field.
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