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In recent years philosophers have radically reappraised the importance and sophistication of the philosophical texts of the ancient world. This new series of Companions is intended particularly for students of ancient thought who will be reading the texts in translation but approaching them with the analytical skills of modern philosophy and with an eye to their contemporary as well as their historical significance. Each volume is devoted to a specific field of philosophy and contains discussions of relevant ideas of all the major philosophers and schools. The books do not attempt to provide a simplified conspectus of ancient views but rather critical discussions of the central and therefore representative arguments and theories.

A particular feature of the series is its exploration of post-Aristotelian philosophy, which has been shown by recent scholarship to be both philosophically exciting and historically important.

This third Companion is devoted to ancient theories of language. The chapters range over more than eight hundred years of philosophical enquiry, and provide critical analyses of all the principal accounts of how it is that language can have meaning and how we can come to acquire linguistic understanding. The discussions move from the naturalism examined in Plato''s Cratylus to the sophisticated theories of the Hellenistic schools and the work of St Augustine. The relations between thought about language and metaphysics, philosophy of mind and the development of grammar are also explored.

The essays will interest those studying ancient philosophy and philosophy of language, the history of thought about language, and linguistics.

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"If ever a case is to be made that ancient philosophy is just an early species of analytic philosophy, this is the volume to do it...The quality of the essays, in every case, is extremely high." Robert Pasnau, Review of Metaphysics

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Non-Fiction Philosophy History of Western Philosophy Ancient Western Philosophy Language & Linguistics Linguistics Philosophy of Language

Introduction	p. 1
Plato on understanding language	p. 10
Cratylus' theory of names and its refutation	p. 28
Aristotle on names and their signification	p. 37
Epicurus on mind and language	p. 74
The Stoic notion of a lekton	p. 109
Parrots, Pyrrhonists and native speakers	p. 129
Analogy, anomaly and Apollonius Dyscolus	p. 149
Usage and abusage: Galen on language	p. 166
Augustine on the nature of speech	p. 188
The verb 'to be' in Greek philosophy: some remarks	p. 212
Bibliography	p. 237
Index of names	p. 264
Index of passages discussed	p. 269
Index of subjects	p. 277
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