Philosophy of language

This volume is concerned with the philosophical foundations of Psychical Research.

I first became interested in Husserl and Heidegger as long ago as 1980, when as an undergraduate at the Freie Universitat Berlin I studied the books by Professor Ernst Tugendhat.

This volume brings together a diverse range of scholars to address important philosophical and interdisciplinary questions in the study of language.

Arthur Pap's work played an important role in the development of the analytic tradition.

This volume brings together essays that explore the intersections between Nietzsche and Wittgenstein from various perspectives.

This Handbook offers students and more advanced readers a valuable resource for understanding linguistic reference; the relation between an expression (word, phrase, sentence) and what that expression is about.

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

Can normative words like "e;good,"e; "e;ought,"e; and "e;reason"e; be defined in entirely non-normative terms?

This book highlights the important, yet often forgotten, roles that Jamaican women played in the World Wars.

Composition is the relation between a whole and its parts--the parts are said to compose the whole; the whole is composed of the parts.

Moralisten beobachten die Menschen und die Wirklichkeit und versprachlichen ihre Blicke und Reflexionen in literarischen Kurzformen mit fragmentarisch offenem Charakter.

A fresh and fascinating look at the philosophies, politics, and intellectual legacy of one of the twentieth century’s most influential and controversial minds Occupying a pivotal position in postwar thought, Noam Chomsky is both the founder of modern linguistics and the world’s most prominent political dissident.

Published in 1998, this book argues that in recent decades, Anglo-American philosophy of language has been captivated by the idea that the key to progress in this area of philosophy lies in investigating the possibility of constructing a theory of meaning.

What are mental states?

With publication of the present volume, The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science enters its second phase.

How is it that sounds from the mouth or marks on a page-which by themselves are nothing like things or events in the world-can be world-disclosive in an automatic manner?

What if the pollution of the world did not only concern the environment in which we live, but also the flow of our thoughts in every moment of everyday life?

This book is an advanced debate on the nature of scalar implicatures, one of the most popular topics in philosophical linguistics in the last 20 years.

There are arguably moral, legal, and prudential constraints on behavior.

This handbook is a comprehensive practical resource on corpus linguistics.

John McDowell is one of the most widely read philosophers in recent years.

Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) remains one of the most enigmatic works of twentieth century thought.

As the foundation of our rationality, logic has traditionally been considered fixed, stable and constant.

The limit of language is one of the most pervasive notions found in Wittgenstein's work, both in his early Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and his later writings.

Peirce's Speculative Grammar: Logic as Semiotics offers a comprehensive, philologically accurate, and exegetically ambitious developmental account of Peirce's theory of speculative grammar.

Questions about truth and questions about reality are intimately connected.

Traditional philosophical discussions of knowledge have focused on the epistemic status of full beliefs.

This volume contains eight papers by the late Niels Danielsen, Danish linguist and philologist, and serves as a fine introduction to this theory of linguistic universality.

Algebraic Structures in Natural Language addresses a central problem in cognitive science concerning the learning procedures through which humans acquire and represent natural language.

'A rich compendium of incidents, anecdotes and studies illustrating the linguistic abilities of animals .

This book honors the original and influential work by Goran Sundholm in the fields of the philosophy and history of logic and mathematics.

Wittgenstein, Mind and Meaning offers a provocative re-reading of Wittgenstein's later writings on language and mind, and explores the tensions between Wittgenstein's ideas and contemporary cognitivist conceptions of the mental.

Wittgenstein is one of the most important and influential twentieth-century philosophers in the western tradition.

Anton Marty (Schwyz, 1847-Prague, 1914) contributed significantly to some of the central themes of Austrian philosophy.

Linguistic pragmatism claims that what we literally say goes characteristically beyond what the linguistic properties themselves mandate.

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In recent years, questions about epistemic reasons, norms and goals have seen an upsurge of interest.

This volume celebrates the work of Hans-Johann Glock, a philosopher renowned for both his exegesis of Wittgenstein and his many contributions to debates in contemporary philosophy.