Philosophy of language

Austronesian languages have long raised interesting questions for generative theories of syntax and morphology.

In this book, Veikko Rantala makes a systematic attempt to understand cognitive characteristics of translation by bringing its logical, pragmatic and hermeneutic features together and examining a number of scientific, logical, and philosophical applications.

This book describes the main objective of EuroWordNet, which is the building of a multilingual database with lexical semantic networks or wordnets for several European languages.

This book gives a state-of-the-art survey of current research in logic and philosophy of science, as viewed by invited speakers selected by the most prestigious international organization in the field.

This is the second of two volumes containing papers submitted by the invited speakers to the 11th international Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, held in Cracow in 1999, under the auspices of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science.

Abelard is one of the foremost protagonists of the "e;twelfth-century Renaissance"e;.

Concepts of Meaning includes contributions from well-known philosophers of language and semanticists.

This book is a historical investigation of the leading philosophical movement in England in the twentieth century.

Some time ago I wrote a book (Moral Language, 1982) in which I argued that moral judgments are capable of being true ('truth-apt,' to use a current phrase, or descriptive and having truth-value, to use a more traditional term), that the methods of discovering moral facts are fundamentally similar to those of discovering non-moral facts, and that moral judgments may be true.

Central topics in medieval logic are here treated in a way that is congenial to the modern reader, without compromising historical reliability.

Incommensurability and Related Matters draws together some of the most distinguished contributors to the critical literature on the problem of the incommensurability of scientific theories.

Current debate in cognitive science, from robotics to analysis of vision, deals with problems like the perception of form, the structure and formation of mental images and their modelling, the ecological development of artificial intelligence, and cognitive analysis of natural language.

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How can one think about a thing, think something false about it, and still be thinking about that thing at all?

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The notion of negation is one of the central logical notions.

Hermeneutics was elaborated as a specific art of understanding in humanities.

Philosophical aspects of law and jurisprudence are investigated from various points of view.

Like the journal TOPOl, the TOPOl Library is based on the assumption that philosophy is a lively, provocative, delightful activity, which constantly challenges our inherited habits, painstakingly elaborates on how things could be different, in other stories, in counterfactual situations, in alternative possible worlds.

The question how to turn the principles implicitly governing the concept of truth into an explicit definition (or explication) of the concept hence coalesced with the question how to get a finite grip on the infinity of T-sentences.

Many articles and books dealing with Donald Davidson's philosophy are dedicated to the papers and ideas Davidson put forward in the `sixties and `seventies.

We act for reasons.

Over the past decade, rational agency has come to be recognised as a central theme in artificial intelligence.

In The Natural Background to Meaning Denkel argues that meaning in language is an outcome of the evolutionary development of forms of animal communication, and explains this process by naturalising the Locke-Grice approach.

XIV The stability of a philosophical construction will depend not only upon the solidity of the blocks, of the pillars and architraves that make it up, but also upon the way in which all these parts are connected.

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`Peterson is an authority of a philosophical and linguistic industry that began in the 1960s with Vendler's work on nominalization.

Talking Wolves advances an analysis of Hobbes which takes language seriously (as seriously as Hobbes took it).

Perspectives on Time deals with the problem of time from different perspectives such as logic, physics and philosophy.

The subject of this book is the first person in thought and language.

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Smirnov was born on March 2, 1931.

We are happy to present to the reader the first book of our Applied Logic Series.

Tense, Attitudes, and Scope is a model-theoretic inquiry into the semantics of tense in natural language.

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Plurality, Conjunction and Events presents a novel theory of plural and conjoined phrases, in an event-based semantic framework.

Human knowing is examined as it emerges from classical empirical psychology, with its ramifications into language, computing, science, and scholarship.

A selection of papers presented at the international conference `Applied Logic: Logic at Work', held in Amsterdam in December 1992.

Adolf Reinach was one of the leading figures of the Munich and Gottingen circles of phenomenology, and Husserl's first real co-worker.

Doing Worlds with Words throws light on the problem of meaning as the meeting point of linguistics, logic and philosophy, and critically assesses the possibilities and limitations of elucidating the nature of meaning by means of formal logic, model theory and model-theoretical semantics.

Semantic underspecification is an essential and pervasive property of natural language.

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Kurt Wolff has written principally in two veins (in English) for the last fifty years, 1) on sociology, epistemology (sociology of knowledge) and the philosophy of sociology; and 2) on the relevance of his formulation of "e;surrender and catch"e; to human experience, particularly in its cogni- tive forms.

This book is a study in the logic of questions (sometimes called erotetic logic).

The present collection of papers derives from a philosophy conference organised in the Sicilian town of M ussomeli in September 1991.

At the turn of the century, Gottlob Frege and Edmund Husserl both participated in the discussion concerning the foundations of logic and mathematics.

This book is a collection of essays in honor of Paul Ziff written by his col- leagues, students, and friends.

The International Congresses of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, which are held every fourth year, give a cross-section of ongoing research in logic and philosophy of science.

Negation, Critical Theory, and Postmodern Textuality features 14 new essays by leading specialists in critical theory, comparative literature, philosophy, and English literature.