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Atlas, Jay David was born on February 1, 1945 in Houston, Texas, United States. Son of Jacob Henry and Babette Fancile (Friedman) Atlas.
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This fresh look at the philosophy of language focuses on the interface between a theory of literal meaning and pragmatics--a philosophical examination of the relationship between meaning and language use and its contexts. Here, Atlas develops the contrast between verbal ambiguity and verbal generality, works out a detailed theory of conversational inference using the work of Paul Grice on Implicature as a starting point, and gives an account of their interface as an example of the relationship between Chomsky's Internalist Semantics and Language Performance. Atlas then discusses consequences of his theory of the Interface for the distinction between metaphorical and literal language, for Grice's account of meaning, for the Analytic/Synthetic distinction, for Meaning Holism, and for Formal Semantics of Natural Language. This book makes an important contribution to the philosophy of language and will appeal to philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists.
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This book expounds and defends a new conception of the relation between truth and meaning. Atlas argues that the sense of a sense-general sentence radically underdetermines (independently of indexicality) its truth-conditional content. He applies this linguistic analysis to illuminate old and new philosophical problems of meaning, truth, falsity, negation, existence, presupposition, and implicature. In particular, he demonstrates how the concept of ambiguity has been misused and confused with other concepts of meaning, and how the interface between semantics and pragmatics has been misunderstood. The problems he tackles are common to philosophy, linguistics, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence, and his conclusions will be of interest to all those working in these fields.
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Atlas, Jay David was born on February 1, 1945 in Houston, Texas, United States. Son of Jacob Henry and Babette Fancile (Friedman) Atlas.
AB summa cum laude, Amherst College, Massachusetts, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1976.
Member common room Wolfson College, Oxford, England, 1978, England, 1980. Visiting fellow Princeton University, 1979. Research associate Institute for Advanced Study, 1982-1984.
Visiting lecturer University Hong Kong, 1986. Professor Pomona College, Claremont, California, since 1989, chair department linguistics and cognitive science, 2001—2003, 2006—2009, Peter W. Stanley professor linguistics philosophy, since 2003. Senior associate Jurecon, Inc., Los Angeles.
Lecturer 2d European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information, 1990. Examiner University Edinburgh, Scotland, 1993, University Groningen, Netherlands, 1991, 93-97, visiting research professor, 1995, 2005. Visiting professor University of California at Los Angeles, 1988-1995, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands, 1997, 2005.
Visiting fellow Amherst College, 2004. Honoree, conference asserting, meaning & implying Pomona College, 2005. Distinguished scholar faculty linguistics University Cambridge, 2006.
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Member American Philosophical Association, Linguistic Society of America, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi.