Philosophy of language

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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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.

Poland has played an enormous role in the development of mathematical logic.

Law is traditionally conceived as consisting of norms of conduct and power-conferring norms.

At a superficial examination, English has different types of nominals with similar meaning and distribution: (1)a.

The articles in this volume grew from papers presented at the workshop on control held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 1989.

Professor Pandit, working among the admirable group of philosophers at the University of Delhi, has written a fundamental criticism and a constructive re-interpretation of all that has been preserved as serious epistemological and methodological reflections on the sciences in modern Western philosoph- from the times of Galileo, Newton, Descartes and Leibniz to those of Russell and Wittgenstein, Carnap and Popper, and, we need hardly add, onward to the troubling relativisms and reconstructions of historical epistemologies in the works of Hanson, Kuhn, Lakatos and Feyerabend.

As its title states, this work formulates in language a sense of language, a sense of our involvement in speaking and listening, reading and writing.

This book will attempt to achieve a constructive and positive correla- tion between mythic-symbolic language and philosophical anthropolo- gy.

T is said that there is no progress in philosophy.

RUSSELL AND THE LINGUISTIC PHILOSOPHY I t is generally acknowledged that Bertrand Russell played a vital role in the so-called "e;revolution"e; that has taken place in twentieth century Anglo-American philosophy, the revolution that has led many philo- sophers virtually to equate philosophy with some variety - or varieties - of linguistic analysis.

The present volume is as much a book co-authored by all the contributors as it is an edited collection of their papers.

In his writings around 1930, Wittgenstein relates his philosophy in different ways to the idea of phenomenology.

On January 20th, 22nd, and 29th, 1970 Saul Kripke delivered three lectures at Princeton University.

The editors of the Applied Logic Series are happy to present to the reader the fifth volume in the series, a collection of papers on Logic, Language and Computation.

JERUSALEM LECTURES In 1992, I was a Lady Davis Fellow in the English Department at the Hebrew Univer- sity of Jerusalem.

Speakers can get to know the meaning of any of indefinitely many sentences that they have never heard before.

The task of the book is not to give a survey of the main theories on truth found in the literature.

In recent years, the study of events and their role as implicit arguments of predicates has been at the center of much important work in semantics and the syntax/semantics interface.