List of philosophers of language
This is a list of philosophers of language.
- Virgil Aldrich
- William Alston
- G. E. M. Anscombe
- Karl-Otto Apel
- Saint Thomas Aquinas, OP
- Aristotle
- J. L. Austin
- Alfred Jules Ayer
- Joxe Azurmendi
- Jody Azzouni
- Kent Bach
- Ingeborg Bachmann
- Archie J. Bahm
- Yehoshua Bar-Hillel
- Walter Benjamin
- Jonathan Bennett
- Henri Bergson
- Max Black
- Paul Boghossian
- Andrea Bonomi
- Jacques Bouveresse
- F. H. Bradley
- Robert Brandom
- Berit Brogaard
- Cardinal Thomas Cajetan, OP
- Herman Cappelen
- Rudolf Carnap
- Hector-Neri Castañeda
- Stanley Cavell
- Melchiorre Cesarotti
- David Chalmers
- Cheung Kam Ching
- Noam Chomsky
- Alonzo Church
- Nino Cocchiarella
- James F. Conant
- William Crathorn
- Donald Davidson
- Arda Denkel
- Michael Devitt
- Keith Donnellan
- William C. Dowling
- César Chesneau Dumarsais
- Michael Dummett
- David Efird
- S. Morris Engel
- John Etchemendy
- Gareth Evans
- Kit Fine
- Dagfinn Føllesdal
- Gottlob Frege
- Marilyn Frye
- Robert Maximilian de Gaynesford
- Peter Geach
- Alexander George
- Allan Gibbard
- Gongsun Long
- Nelson Goodman
- Paul Grice
- Jeroen Groenendijk
- Samuel Guttenplan
- Þorsteinn Gylfason
- Susan Haack
- Jürgen Habermas
- Peter Hacker
- Ian Hacking
- Axel Hägerström
- Bob Hale
- Oswald Hanfling
- Gilbert Harman
- John Hawthorne
- Jaakko Hintikka
- William Hirstein
- Richard Hönigswald
- Jennifer Hornsby
- Paul Horwich
- Wilhelm von Humboldt
- Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins
- David Kaplan
- Jerrold Katz
- Saul Kripke
- Mark Lance
- Stephen Laurence
- Ernest Lepore
- David Kellogg Lewis
- John Locke
- Béatrice Longuenesse
- Paul Lorenzen
- William Lycan
- John McDowell
- Colin McGinn
- Merab Mamardashvili
- Ruth Barcan Marcus
- José Medina
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- John Stuart Mill
- Ruth Millikan
- Richard Montague
- Charles W. Morris
- Adam Morton
- Stephen Neale
- William of Ockham
- Jesús Padilla Gálvez
- Peter Pagin
- L.A. Paul
- Charles Sanders Peirce
- Carlo Penco
- John Perry
- Gualtiero Piccinini
- Steven Pinker
- Plato
- Hilary Putnam
- Willard Van Orman Quine
- Adolf Reinach
- Denise Riley
- Richard Rorty
- Roscellinus
- Jay Rosenberg
- Bertrand Russell's views on philosophy
- Bertrand Russell
- Gilbert Ryle
- Robert Rynasiewicz
- Mark Sainsbury
- Nathan Salmon
- Stephen Schiffer
- Duns Scotus
- John Searle
- Susanna Siegel
- Brian Skyrms
- Quentin Smith
- Scott Soames
- David Sosa
- Robert Stalnaker
- Jason Stanley
- John of St. Thomas, OP (John Poinsot)
- Jaun Elia
- Stephen Yablo
- P. F. Strawson
- Alfred Tarski
- Kenneth Allen Taylor
- Ernst Tugendhat
- Michael Tye
- Zeno Vendler
- Vācaspati Miśra
- Friedrich Waismann
- Brian Weatherson
- Michael Williams
- Timothy Williamson
- John Wisdom
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Crispin Wright
- Georg Henrik von Wright
- Edward N. Zalta
- Eddy Zemach
- Paul Ziff
- Dean Zimmerman
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- Confucius
- Gorgias
- Cratylus
- Plato
- Aristotle
- Eubulides
- Diodorus
- Chrysippus
- Zhuangzi
- Xunzi
- Averroes
- Ibn Khaldun
- Hobbes
- Leibniz
- Herder
- von Humboldt
- Mauthner
- Ricœur
- de Saussure
- Frege
- Boas
- Tillich
- Sapir
- Bloomfield
- Bergson
- Vygotsky
- Wittgenstein
- Russell
- Carnap
- Derrida
- Whorf
- Austin
- Chomsky
- Gadamer
- Kripke
- Ayer
- Anscombe
- Hintikka
- Dummett
- Davidson
- Grice
- Ryle
- Strawson
- Quine
- Putnam
- Lewis
- Searle
- Watzlawick
- Causal theory of reference
- Contrast theory of meaning
- Contrastivism
- Conventionalism
- Cratylism
- Deconstruction
- Descriptivism
- Direct reference theory
- Dramatism
- Dynamic semantics
- Expressivism
- Inquisitive semantics
- Linguistic determinism
- Mediated reference theory
- Nominalism
- Non-cognitivism
- Phallogocentrism
- Relevance theory
- Semantic externalism
- Semantic holism
- Situation semantics
- Structuralism
- Supposition theory
- Symbiosism
- Theological noncognitivism
- Theory of descriptions (Definite description)
- Theory of language
- Unilalianism
- Verification theory
- Ambiguity
- Cant
- Linguistic relativity
- Language
- Truth-bearer
- Proposition
- Use–mention distinction
- Concept
- Categories
- Set
- Class
- Family resemblance
- Intension
- Logical form
- Metalanguage
- Mental representation
- Modality (natural language)
- Presupposition
- Principle of compositionality
- Property
- Sign
- Sense and reference
- Speech act
- Symbol
- Sentence
- Statement
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- Cratylus (n.d.)
- Port-Royal Grammar (1660)
- De Arte Combinatoria (1666)
- An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language (1668)
- Alciphron (1732)
- "On Denoting" (1905)
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921)
- Language, Truth, and Logic (1936)
- Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1951)
- Philosophical Investigations (1953)
- Of Grammatology (1967)
- Naming and Necessity (1980)
- Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language (1982)
- Limited Inc (1988)
- Analytic philosophy
- Philosophy of information
- Philosophical logic
- Linguistics
- Pragmatics
- Rhetoric
- Scholasticism
- School of Names
- Semantics
- Formal semantics
- Semiotics
- Category
- Task Force
- Discussion