Meaning and Structure

Structuralism of (Post)Analytic Philosophers

Jaroslav Peregrin

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781351919036
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory

In Meaning and Structure, Peregrin argues that recent and contemporary (post)analytic philosophy, as developed by Quine, Davidson, Sellars and their followers, is largely structuralistic in the very sense in which structuralism was originally tabled by Ferdinand de Saussure. The author reconstructs de Saussure's view of language, linking it to modern formal logic and mathematics, and reveals close analogies between its constitutive principles and the principles informing the holistic and neopragmatistic view of language put forward by Quine and his followers. Peregrin also indicates how this view of language can be made compatible with what is usually called 'formal semantics'. Drawing on both the Saussurean tradition and recent developments in analytic philosophy of language, this book offers a unique study of the ways in which the concept of meaning can be seen as consisting in the concept of structure.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• 1 Introduction
• Part I: The Whys and Hows of Structuralism
• Part II: Structuralism of Postanalytic Philosophers
• Part III: Semantic Structure of Language and of its Expressions
• References
• Index