Philosophy of language

This book is a collection of original research articles on the representation and in- terpretation of indefinite and definite noun phrases, anaphoric pronouns, and closely related issues such as reference, scope and quantifier movement.

The thirty-two papers in this collection are offered to Professor S.

Deservedly so, Jules Vuillemin is widely respected and greatly admired.

3 of law as an object that has always already been there, systematic and com- plete.

This collection of essays is dedicated to 'Joe' Karel Lambert.

What can the philosophy of language learn from the classical Indian philosophical tradition?

For a philosopher with an abiding interest in the nature of objective knowledge systems in science, what could be more important than trying to think in terms of those very subjects of such knowledge to which men like Galileo, Newton, Max Planck, Einstein and others devoted their entire lifetimes?

(1) Beliefs are involuntary, and not nonnally subject to direct voluntary control.

The present publication forms part of a projected book that F.

This work is in two parts.

Kaun&ddotu;abhatta's Vaiyakarana-bhusana is a massive work on semantic theory written in India in the 17th century.

A volume of essays on the themes of tradition, oral communication versus literal communication, Wittgenstein, and computers.

Scholarly studies of mathematics and the sciences, carried out by philos- ophers and historians in Taiwan in recent years, have two main goals: first, positive and critical participation in the logical analysis of scientific theories and scientific explanation; and second, conceptual clarification joined with faithful historical investigation of the sciences of traditional and modem China.

The goal of this book is to ascertain Lessing's views on argumentation and rhetoric.

Metaphor lies at the heart of the contemporary debate in aesthetics, semantics and the philosophy of science.

Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse presents a novel framework and analysis of the ways we refer to abstract objects in natural language discourse.

Case, Scope, and Binding investigates the relation between syntax and semantics within a framework which combines the syntactic Government-Binding theory with a novel cross-linguistic theory of case and semantics.

Part I of this book presents a theory of modal metaphysics in the possible-worlds tradition.

Patrick Suppes is a philosopher and scientist whose contributions range over probability and statistics, mathematical and experimental psychology, the foundations of physics, education theory, the philosophy of language, measurement theory, and the philosophy of science.

not lie in the conceptual distinctions but in the perceived functions of metaphors and whether in the concrete case they are judged positive or negative.

Leibniz said with a mixture of admiration and inspiration that the Duchess Sophie of Hannover always wanted to know the reason why behind the reason why.

Gottlob Frege's Uber Sinn und Bedeutung (`On Sense and Reference'), has come to be seen, in the century since its publication in 1892, as one of the seminal texts of analytic philosophy.

Since the first chapter of this book presents an intro- duction to the present state of game-theoretical semantics (GTS), there is no point in giving a briefer survey here.

Communication is one of the most challenging human phenomena, and the same is true of its paradigmatic verbal realization as a dialogue.

This book offers a critical outline of the sources of the history, of the spirit and of the doctrines of present-day Soviet Russian Dialectical- Materialism ('Diamat'), i.

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RUSSELL AND THE LINGUISTIC PHILOSOPHY It 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.

Now how would things be intelligible if they did not proceed from an intelligence?

The papers and comments published in the present volume represent the proceedings of a research workshop on the grammar and semantics of natural languages held at Stanford University in the fall of 1970.

One of the first things to strike the reader of Wittgenstein's writings is the unique power of his style.

This book is nominally about linguistic representation.

Philosophers of science work not only with the methods of the sciences but with their contents as well.

This book deals with the philosophy of language and with what is at issue in the philosophy of language.

Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (1915-1975) was one of the leading intellectuals of Israel and of the world.

This book has arisen out of lectures I gave in recent years at the Uni- versities of Munich and Regensburg, and it is intended to serve as a textbook for courses in the Philosophy of Language.

In 1973 a workshop was held at The University of Western Ontario on topics of common interest to philosophers and linguists.

It is gratifying to see that philosophers' continued interest in Words and Objections has been so strong as to motivate a paperback edition.

A preface is best written last, after a book is done and its author may look back to survey what he hopes he has accomplished and what he must admit he has not.

For the past four or five years much of my thinking has centered up- on the relationship of symbolic forms to philosophic imagination and interpretation.

Predicates and their Subjects is an in-depth study of the syntax-semantics interface focusing on the structure of the subject-predicate relation.

In Rediscovering Colors: A Study in Pollyanna Realism, Michael Watkins endorses the Moorean view that colors are simple, non-reducible, properties of objects.

Since the revolution in philosophic method that began about a century ago, the focus of philosophic attention has been on language as used both in daily conversation and in specialized institutional activities such as science, law, and the arts.