Philosophy of language

This volume addresses philosophical questions raised by the possibility of alien life and extraterrestrial intelligence.

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

Robert Brandom's Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing and Discursive Commitment is one of the most significant, talked about and daunting books published in philosophy in recent years.

This title, first published in 1991, opens with an account by Gadamer of his own life and work and their relation to the achievements of hermeneutics.

Language, Names, and Information is an important contribution to philosophy of language by one of its foremost scholars, challenging the pervasive view that the description theory of proper names is dead in the water, and defending a version of the description theory from a perspective on language that sees words as a wonderful source of information about the nature of the world we live in.

Proposes a new empirical model to analyse how humans can express social cognition at different levels of complexity.

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.

Are there nonexistent objects?

Beginning with works of Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein, The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Language provides a critical history of the core concepts in the area.

Film Figures develops a figural account of the memory structure of films.

An influential scientist in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) explains its fundamental concepts and how it is changing culture and society.

Stories told within institutions play a powerful role, helping to define not only the institution itself, but also its individual members.

This is a self-contained introduction to the Minimalist Program for linguistic theory, the boldest and most radical version of Noam Chomsky's naturalistic approach to language.

This book is a defense of a Chomskyan conception of language against philosophical objectionsthat have been raised against it.

We are often asked to describe ourselves.

We are grateful to the authors who wrote papers specially for this volume and kindly gave their permission for printing them together.

First published in 1992, this book evokes Pandora and Occam as metaphoric corner posts in an argument about language as discourse and in doing so, brings analytic philosophy to bear on issues of Continental philosophy, with attention to linguistic, semiological, and semiotic concerns.

A comprehensive examination of the advantages and disadvantages of philosophical jargon, examining  its origins in early modern philosophy.

This pioneering work provides a comprehensive analysis of general extenders, a new linguistic category.

This book considers the Arabic biographies of Prophet Muhammad, the earliest of which dates from two centuries after his life.

Explores how humor can be explained across the various sub-disciplines of linguistics, in order to aid communication.

This book argues against the mainstream view that we should treat propositional attitudes as internal states, suggesting that to treat beliefs as things of certain sort (i.

First published in 1959, this book aims to provide a practical introduction to semantics, relating the critical study of language to real-life situation, with a wealth of anecdotes and numerous illustrations drawn from everyday personal predicaments.

William Lycan is an internationally renowned American philosopher whose work since the late 1960s has been not only extensive but also influential, particularly in the areas of philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and more recently metaphilosophy.

Stanley Cavell was one of the most influential American philosophers of the past several decades.

This book makes the Qur'an accessible to the English-speaking student who lacks the linguistic background to read it in the original Arabic by offering accessible translations of, and commentary on, a series of selected passages that are representative of the Islamic scripture.

This book discusses developments in the study of implicatures and presuppositions, drawing on recent linguistic and psycholinguistic literature.

This is the first English-language guidebook geared at an interdisciplinary audience that reflects relevant scholarly developments related to the legacy and legitimacy of Ferdinand de Saussure's Course in General Linguistics (1916) today.

Philosophizing is an activity-a process carries on by mind-endeavored creatures.

This book explores implications of the modern view of central banks rising from the proposition that words have no meaning beyond their use in a particular context and setting.

The analytic/synthetic distinction looks simple.

Vague words, like "e;tall,"e; "e;rich,"e; and "e;old,"e; lack clear boundaries of application: no clear line divides the tall people from the above average, or the old people from the middle-aged.

Logical pluralism is the view that different logics are equally appropriate, or equally correct.

This book focuses on dialog from a varied combination of fields: Linguistics, Philosophy of Language and Computation.

Mark Jago presents and defends a novel theory of what truth is, in terms of the metaphysical notion of truthmaking.

Sowohl die Alltags- als auch die Wissenschaftssprache sind reich an Dispositionsausdrucken wie loslich"e;, elastisch"e;, zuverlassig"e; und humorvoll"e;.

"e;According to the words of Phaedrus in the Symposium of Plato, Love, sometimes named Eros, has no parents, no age, no history, and its origin remains unknown to anyone.

Thanks to their heterogeneity, the nine essays in this volume offer a clear testimony of Donald Davidson's authority, and they undoubtedly show how much his work - even if it has raised many doubts and criticisms - has been, and still is, highly influential and significant in contemporary analytical philosophy for a wide range of subjects.

The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems.

This book explores the various choices speakers or communicators make when expressing power relations in modern societies.

This book analyzes the role of language in scientific research and develops the semantics of science from different angles.

Truth is a pervasive feature of ordinary language, deserving of systematic study, and few theorists of truth have endeavoured to chronicle the tousled conceptual terrain forming the non-philosopher's ordinary view.

Taking inspiration from the later Wittgenstein, On Moral Certainty, Justification and Practice explores the practical basis of human morality.

Meaning Diminished examines the complex relationship between semantic analysis and metaphysical inquiry.