Sandra Laugier is professor of philosophy at the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne and a senior fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France. She is the author or editor of many books in French and several articles and chapters in English. Daniela Ginsburg is a freelance translator. She cotranslated Knowledge of Life by Georges Canguilhem.

“Sandra Laugier’s book is already quite influential in France and Italy, and it has drawn a renewed interest in language conceived not only as a cognitive capacity but also as used, and meant, as part of our form of life. This translation is very welcome, even indispensable, and could change the perspective on philosophy of language as well as on the analytic-continental divide.”

• PrefaceIntroductionCHAPTER 1. From Empiricism to RealismCHAPTER 2. Relativity, Conceptual Schemes, and TheoriesCHAPTER 3. Truth, Language, and ImmanenceCHAPTER 4. Language, Facts, and ExperienceCHAPTER 5. Empiricism AgainCHAPTER 6. Language as Given: Words, Differences, AgreementsCHAPTER 7. The Ordinary as Heritage: Natural and ConventionalCHAPTER 8. The Myth of InexpressivenessCHAPTER 9. To Speak, To Say Nothing, To Mean to SayConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Sandra Laugier is professor of philosophy at the University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne and a senior fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France. She is the author or editor of many books in French and several articles and chapters in English. Daniela Ginsburg is a freelance translator. She cotranslated Knowledge of Life by Georges Canguilhem.

“Sandra Laugier’s book is already quite influential in France and Italy, and it has drawn a renewed interest in language conceived not only as a cognitive capacity but also as used, and meant, as part of our form of life. This translation is very welcome, even indispensable, and could change the perspective on philosophy of language as well as on the analytic-continental divide.”

• PrefaceIntroductionCHAPTER 1. From Empiricism to RealismCHAPTER 2. Relativity, Conceptual Schemes, and TheoriesCHAPTER 3. Truth, Language, and ImmanenceCHAPTER 4. Language, Facts, and ExperienceCHAPTER 5. Empiricism AgainCHAPTER 6. Language as Given: Words, Differences, AgreementsCHAPTER 7. The Ordinary as Heritage: Natural and ConventionalCHAPTER 8. The Myth of InexpressivenessCHAPTER 9. To Speak, To Say Nothing, To Mean to SayConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex