Philosophy of language

A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years.

Recent years have seen a revival of interest in morphology.

Recent years have seen a revival of interest in morphology.

A revival of interest in morphology has taken place during recent years and the subject is seen now as a relatively autonomous subdiscipline of linguistics.

Willard VanOrman Quine has probably been the most influential th American philosopher of the 20 century.

he present book and its companion volume The Tensed Theory of Time: a T Critical Examination are an attempt to adjudicate what one recent discussant has called "e;the most fundamental question in the philosophy of time,"e; namely, "e;whether a static or a dynamic conception ofthe world is correct.

How is linguistic theory related to linguistic practice?

Philosophers contributing new ideas are commonly caught within a received philosophical vocabulary and will often coin new, technical terms.

Analytic philosophy has been a dominant intellectual movement in the 20th century and a reflection of the cultural pre-eminence of scientism.

One of the most basic themes in the philosophy of language is referential uptake, viz.

There are in this volume sentences written as long ago/ as 1957.

impossible triangle, after apprehension of the perceptively given mode of being of that 'object', the visual system assumes that all three sides touch on all three sides, whereas this happens on only one side.

Scientific Philosophy: Origins and Development is the first Yearbook of the Vienna Circle Institute, which was founded in October 1991.

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One of the central areas of concern in late twentieth-century philosophy is the debate between Realism and anti-Realism.

The papers in this volume address central issues in the study of Plurality and Quantification from three different perspectives: * Algebraic approaches to Plurals and Quantification * Distributivity and Collectivity: Theoretical Foundations * Distributivity and Collectivity: Empirical Investigations Algebraic approaches to the semantics of natural languages were in- dependently introduced for the study of generalized quantification, pred- ication, intensionality, mass terms and plurality.

Pluralities begins with a concise introduction to recent theories of the semantics of plurals.

Philosophical Dimensions of Logic and Science is a collection of outstanding contributed papers presented at the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science held in Krakow in 1999.

This book deals with various aspects of metaphorics and yet it is not only, or perhaps not even primarily, about metaphor itself.

Many metaphors go beyond pionting to the existing similarities between two objects -- they create the similarities.

Professor Donald Davidson is one of the most innovative and influential recent philosophers.

I am very grateful to Kluwer Academic Publishers for the opportunity to republish these articles about knowledge and language.

Never before, in any anthology, have contemporary epistemologists and philosophers of language come together to address the single most neglected important issue at the confluence of these two branches of philosophy, namely: Can we know facts from reliable reports?

constraints', which serve to block the association of antecedent to gap under specific syntactic conditions.

Andrea Bottani Massimiliano Carrara Pierdaniele Giaretta What do we do when we do metaphysics?

This collection of essays presents a systematic and up-to-date survey of the main aspects of Georg Henrik von Wright's philosophy, tracing the general humanistic leitmotiv to be found in his vast, varied output.

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As usual, the Proceedings of the International Colloquium on Cognitive Science include leading-edge work by outstanding researchers in the field.

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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he present book and its companion volume The Tenseless Theory of Time: a T Critical Examination are an attempt to adjudicate what one recent discussant has called "e;the most fundamental question in the philosophy of time,"e; namely, "e;whether a static or a dynamic conception of the world is correct.

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

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.