Philosophy of language

Die Essaysammlung An-denken der Komparatistin Sarah C.

Best known for his groundbreaking and influential work in Buddhist philosophy, Mark Siderits is the pioneer of "e;fusion"e; or "e;confluence philosophy"e;, a boldly systematic approach to doing philosophy premised on the idea that rational reconstruction of positions in one tradition in light of another can sometimes help address perennial problems and often lead to new and valuable insights.

This book builds a case for how social norms are neither mere conventions nor are they merely anthropological phenomena, which are relativistic.

This book builds a case for how social norms are neither mere conventions nor are they merely anthropological phenomena, which are relativistic.

This book develops a novel theory of intentionality.

This book focuses on how we should treat philosophy's theoretical representations.

This book focuses on how we should treat philosophy's theoretical representations.

When a word describing an emotion is said to be untranslatable, is that emotion untranslatable also?

This book explores ways in which common metaphors can play a detrimental role in everyday life; how they can grow in outsized importance to dominate their respective terrains and push out alternative perspectives; and how forms of resistance might act to contain their dominance.

This book explores ways in which common metaphors can play a detrimental role in everyday life; how they can grow in outsized importance to dominate their respective terrains and push out alternative perspectives; and how forms of resistance might act to contain their dominance.

This book offers a critical update of current Wittgenstein research on the Tractatus logico-philosophicus (TLP) and its relation to the Vienna Circle.

This book argues that positivism, though now the dominant paradigm for both the natural and the human sciences, is intrinsically unfit for the latter.

This book argues that positivism, though now the dominant paradigm for both the natural and the human sciences, is intrinsically unfit for the latter.

This book provides an original perspective on the debate about anti-representationalism and the nature of philosophy.

This book presents a collection of interrelated essays that analyze the theoretical foundations of semiotic-cultural constructivism in psychology written by one of the pioneers in this field of research: Dr.

This volume investigates Eric Weil's innovative conceptualization of the place of violence in the philosophical tradition with a focus on violence's relationship to language and to discourse.

What exactly does "e;Europe"e; mean for philosophy today?

In ENLIGHTENMENT FROM THE QURAN you will learn:* The purpose of life.

What does a truly democratic experience of political action look like today?

This is an original reading of Mikhail Bakhtin in the context of Western philosophical traditions and counter-traditions.

Transparency is the order of the day.

Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual.

With the growth of modern information technology, it is time to re-examine the concept and purpose of writing, and question the long cherished idea that the alphabet stands at the apex of a hierarchy towards which all 'proper' forms of writing must necessarily progress.

This book rethinks Plato's creation and use of myth by drawing on theories and methods from myth studies, religious studies, literary theory and related fields.

This book analyzes the role of language in scientific research and develops the semantics of science from different angles.

This volume is the second part of a project which hosts an interdisciplinary discussion about the relationship among law and language, legal practice and ordinary conversation, legal philosophy and the linguistics sciences.

This book aims to explain the decline of the later Wittgensteinian tradition in analytic philosophy during the second half of the twentieth century.

"e;According to the words of Phaedrus in the Symposium of Plato, Love, sometimes named Eros, has no parents, no age, no history, and its origin remains unknown to anyone.

This book examines the seventeenth-century project for a "e;real"e; or "e;universal"e; character: a scientific and objective code.

Together with the volume "e;Inquiries in philosophical pragmatics: Linguistic and theoretical issues,"e; this book provides a journey through the more recent developments of pragmatics, considering both its philosophical and linguistic nature.

Presenting the first comprehensive, in-depth study of hyperintensionality, this book equips readers with the basic tools needed to appreciate some of current and future debates in the philosophy of language, semantics, and metaphysics.

The two sections of this volume present theoretical developments and practical applicative papers respectively.

Offering a radical reassessment of 1930s British literature, this volume questions the temporal limits of the literary decade, and broadens the scope of queer literary studies to consider literary-historical responses to a variety of behaviours encompassed by the term 'queer' in its many senses.

This volume addresses the intriguing issue of indirect reports from an interdisciplinary perspective.

This book offers innovative investigations of the concept of life in art and in theory.

This book asks how we-as citizens, immigrants, activists, teachers-can counter the abuse of language in our midst.

The wide-ranging European perspectives brought together in this volume aim to analyse, by means of an interdisciplinary approach, the numerous implications of a massive shift in the conception of 'work' and the category of 'worker'.

This work presents the structure, distribution and semantic interpretation of quantificational expressions in languages from diverse language families and typological profiles.

This book presents cutting-edge concepts on the question of trust.

This handbook is a comprehensive practical resource on corpus linguistics.

This book presents and discusses the varying and seminal role which colour plays in the development of Wittgenstein's philosophy.

This book focuses on dialog from a varied combination of fields: Linguistics, Philosophy of Language and Computation.

This present book explores recent advances in modeling discourse processes, in particular, new approaches aimed at understanding pathological language behavior specific to schizophrenia.

This book compares the historical development of ideas about language in two major traditions of linguistic scholarship from either end of Eurasia - the Graeco-Roman and the Sinitic - as well as their interaction in the modern era.

This edited collection brings linguistics into contact with a millennia of works by Buddhist scholars.

This book systematically investigates what follows about meaning in language if current views on the limited, or even redundant, role of linguistic semantics are taken to their radical conclusion.

Logic and Philosophy of Mathematics in the Early Husserl focuses on the first ten years of Edmund Husserl's work, from the publication of his Philosophy of Arithmetic (1891) to that of his Logical Investigations (1900/01), and aims to precisely locate his early work in the fields of logic, philosophy of logic and philosophy of mathematics.

This book brings together the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Jacques Lacan around their treatments of 'astonishment,' an experience of being struck by something that appears to be extraordinarily significant.

This book provides a refreshingly new perspective for investigating linguistic texts, which foregrounds models of the human.