Bad Language

Herman Cappelen is a professor of philosophy at the University of Oslo and at the University of St Andrews. He is a Co-Director at CSMN (in Oslo), and the Editor-in-Chief of Inquiry. He has written, co-authored, or edited more than ten books and many articles. He works in all areas of systematic philosophy.Josh Dever is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin and a professorial fellow at the Arche research centre at the University of St Andrews. He has co-written three books and many articles on the philosophy of language.

• 1: Idealized Communication 2: Three Forms of Non-Ideal Language 3: Messing with the Truth 4: Bullshitting and Deep Bullshitting 5: Conceptual Engineering 6: Slurs and Pejoratives 7: Lexical Effects: The Non-Cognitive, Associative, Effects of Words 8: Generics and Defective Reasoning 9: Non-Ideal Speech Acts 10: Linguistic Oppressing and Linguistic Silencing 11: The Speech Act of Consent 12: Thoughts on Ideal vs. Non-Ideal Theories of Language

... it's wonderful to see philosophy of language made so relevant to ethical, social and political concerns. It's a salutary development for the 21st Century. And Cappelen and Dever's newest textbook is a very useful resource for teaching it. I expect the book to be adopted widely.