Why are philosophers, as opposed to, say, linguists and
psychologists, puzzled by language? How should we attempt to shed
philosophical light on the phenomenon of language? "How to
Understand Language" frames its discussion by these two questions.
The book begins by thinking about the reasons that language is hard
to understand from a philosophical point of view and, armed with
the fruits of that discussion, begins searching for an approach to
these questions. After finding fault with approaches based on
philosophical analysis and on translation it undertakes an extended
investigation of the programme of constructing a theory of meaning.
Donald Davidson's advocacy of that approach becomes pivotal;
though, the book endorses his broad approach, it argues strongly
against the roles both of truth theory and of radical
interpretation.
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