Philosopher

Kent Bach

Overview

Kent Bach (born 1943) is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. His primary areas of research include the philosophy of language, linguistics and epistemology. He is the author of three books: Exit-existentialism: A philosophy of self-awareness, Linguistic Communication and Speech Acts, and Thought and Reference published by Wadsworth, the MIT Press, and Oxford University Press, respectively.

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Philosophers who discussed Kent Bach

• Jerry Fodor

Ideas Kent Bach discusses

• Anaphora (linguistics)
• Philosophy
• Internalism and externalism
• Truth value
• Linguistics
• Reliabilism
• Propositional attitude
• Jerry Fodor
• Pragmatics
• Saul Kripke
• Gottlob Frege
• Oxford University Press
• Language of thought hypothesis
• Philosophy of language
• MIT Press
• Proposition
• Epistemology
• Principle of compositionality

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