Language and World

Richard Gaskin is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Liverpool. He has published extensively in metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of literature, and literary criticism. His main book publications include Experience and the World’s Own Language: A Critique of John McDowell’s Empiricism (2006), The Unity of the Proposition (2008), Language, Truth, and Literature: A Defence of Linguistic Idealism (2013), Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature: A Philosophical Perspective (Routledge 2018).

• 1. Context and Compositionality2. The Theoreticity of Meaning3. Reference and Ontology4. Reference and Sense5. Propositions6. Truth, Falsity, and the World7. Realism, Pragmatism, and Linguistic Idealism8. Linguistic Idealism: Problems and Solutions

"Gaskin has produced a highly provocative work, delivered with his usual erudition, elegance, and quiet humour. Although he swims against the current, he makes good head way against numerous orthodoxies and should give pause to all, no matter one’s assumptions about the connection of language to mind and world." – John Collins, University of East Anglia, UK"This book is an impressive mix of scholarship, rigorous argument, and controversial philosophical doctrine that makes a novel contribution to contemporary work on the metaphysics of language." – Graham Stevens, University of Manchester, UK