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The focus of the task force will be to work as diligently as is humanly possible to create professional-quality, thoroughly documented, and encyclopedic articles on thephilosophy of language and to integrate them as much as possible with work from all branches oflinguistics:psycholinguistics,sociolinguistics,computational linguistics, etc..

Philosophy of language is a particularly challenging field. Much of its most important and groundbreaking work lies at the subtle confine between philosophy and mathematical logic, and between the humanities and rigorous scientific research.

It attempts to bridge the gap between the so-calledtwo cultures by creating a synthesizing third culture that includes and enhances the first two.

The current main article ofphilosophy of language contains hardly any information on important theoretical concepts and what it does contain is extremely ill-organized and confused.

Philosophy of language is a large and complex field. Indeed, theanalytic tradition of philosophy has traditionally, and continues to, place a tremendous amount of importance on the analysis of language as the vehicle of thought.

According to most analytic philosophers that which we want to explain is the nature of thoughts. What are they? What is their structure and constitution? What are their relations with one another in the processes of reasoning and of deliberation which ultimately result in the performance of actions.

Unlike the psychologist, we are not interested here, however, in the specificprocesses oractivities of individual thought in and of themselves.

That which should concern the philosopher of language are thecontents of thoughts: their comprehensibility, communicability and objectivity (or perhaps intersubjectivity).

AsMichael Dummett has put it:that which distinguishes analytic philosophy, in all of it diverse manifestations, from other schools is the conviction that, in the first place, a philosophical explanation of thought can be achieved through a philosophical explanation of language, and secondly, that a comprehensive explanation is achievableonly in this way.

The vast amount of information is too much for one or two people to handle. The coordinative effort of all those willing to assist is needed.

Since we are a derivative of WikiProject Philosophy, our goals are very similar and are as follows:

1. Toidentify those areas of philosophy of language which lack sufficient coverage on Wikipedia;
2. Toimprove those articles that need help;
3. Tocreate a general map of the philosophy of language articles and subjects on Wikipedia and link the articles together accordingly.

Philosophy of language task forceassessment statistics Philosophy of language articles by quality and importance Quality Importance High Mid Low NA Other ??? Total FA 1 2 3 FL 1 1 GA 2 4 2 8 B 13 13 12 5 43 C 21 59 80 7 167 Start 13 82 193 14 2 304 Stub 12 100 8 120 List 1 1 2 4 Category 123 49 172 Disambig 2 2 File 1 1 2 Project 2 2 Redirect 1 24 1 26 Template 4 4 Assessed 50 171 392 156 87 2 858 Total 50 171 392 156 87 2 858 WikiWork factors (?) ω =3,053 Ω = 4.73 statistics •log •category

WikiProject Philosophy of Language task list Paul Boghossian Implicature principle of charity (expansion) "The Meaning of "Meaning"" - different book, separate article. (Putnam) "A Plea For Excuses" (Austin) Attributive use of descriptions andReferential use of descriptions (probably one article should suffice) Frege's puzzle Guise theory "How to Do Things With Words" (Austin) Linguistic community "Logic and Conversation" (Grice) "Naming and Necessity" (Kripke) Saturated and unsaturated expressions (Frege) "Truth and Meaning" (Davidson) Contrastivism (Schaffer) Hinge proposition Anaphora (linguistics) - Definitely needs more philosophy (e.g., the Geach Hob-Nob sentence.) Vote |Larry's Text |stubs |edit this list |discuss these tasks |Category:Philosophy |Portal:Philosophy |RFC

• Identify and create missingphilosophy of language content
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• Gather interest and participation in aphilosophy of language community within Wikipedia, including a Philosophy of Language Collaboration project
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