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Meaning addresses the fundamental question of human language interaction: what it is to mean, and how we communicate our meanings to others.

The groundbreaking contribution made by this unique book draws on the experiences recorded by five people who are facing death - Jenny Diski, Philip Gould, Christopher Hitchens, Michael Mayne and Cory Taylor.

This book is concerned with the evaluation of natural argumentative discourse, and, in particular, with the language in which arguments are expressed.

No other recent book in Anglophone philosophy has attracted as much criticism and has found so few friends as Saul Kripke's "e;Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language"e;.

What is the future of languages in an increasingly globalized world?

An extraordinary amount of recent work by philosophers of language, meta-ethicists, and semanticists has focused on the meaning and function of language expressing concepts having to do with what is allowed, forbidden, required, or obligatory, in view of the requirements of morality, the law, one's preferences or goals, or what an authority has commanded: in short, deontic modality.

This books offers a naturalistic and critical theory of signs, minds, and meaning-in-the-world.

This book serves as a basis for the exploration of language in a more systematic way.

At an international conference held in 1981 at the Universidada Estudual of Campinas (Brazil), a controversial lecture was given by John Searle which presented two conceptual theses: that conversation does not have an intrinsic structure about which a relevant theory can be formulated, and that conversations are not subject to (constitutive) rules.

Conciliation in the Qur?

In ordinary discourse we appear to ta1k about many things that have seemed mysterious to philosophers.

This collection of fourteen original essays addresses the seminal contribution of Franz Brentano and his heirs, to philosophy of language.

The art of interpreting Holy Scriptures flourished throughout the culturally heterogeneous pre-modern Orient among Jews, Christians and Muslims.

Language and Meaning provides a clear, accessible and unique perspective on the philosophical and linguistic question of what it means to mean.

This book approaches classic epistemological problems from a contextualist perspective.

Fusing speculative realism, analytical and linguistic philosophy this book theorises the fundamental impact the experience of reading has on us.

In this book, leading scholars consider the ways in which syntactic variation can be accounted for in a minimalist framework.

This book is about supporting students in Higher Education using language, and specifically using a combination of written text based linguistic approaches alongside and with other non-text related languages.

This is the first book to critically examine Hollywood films that focus on male partner violence against women.

Fifty years after Wittgenstein's death, his philosophy and the arguments it embodied remain vital and applicable.

The present collection of papers derives from a philosophy conference organised in the Sicilian town of M ussomeli in September 1991.

Original papers by leading international authors address the most important problem in the philosophy of language, the question of how to assess the prospects of developing a tenable theory of meaning, given the influential sceptical attacks mounted against the concept of meaning by Willard Van Quine and Saul Kripke and their adherents in particular.

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.

The Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations invites readers to deepen their understanding of the historical, social, cultural, and political themes that impact modern-day perceptions of interfaith dialogue.

Welchen Stellenwert hat die Kenntnis einer Grammatik für das Verhältnis des Menschen zur Welt und zu sich selbst?

Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war.

This innovative study re-evaluates the philosophical significance of aesthetics in the context of contemporary debates on the nature of philosophy.

This innovative volume investigates the meaning of 'something' in different recent philosophical traditions in order to rethink the logic and the unity of ontology, without forgetting to compare these views to earlier significative accounts in the history of philosophy.

The Hungarian Nominal Functional Sequence combines the methods of syntactic cartography with evidence from compositional semantics in a comprehensive exploration of the structure of Noun Phrases.

Altered states of consciousness - including experiences of deprivation, pain, hallucination, fear, desire, alienation, and spiritual transcendence - can transform the ordinary experience of selfhood.

This book looks at three different kinds of writing practice - theory-fiction, autofiction/autotheory and art writing - that are increasingly prevalent as genres (or 'hybrid genres') in the arts and critical humanities.

An anthology of selections from the Qur'an in contemporary English on topics ranging from the story of Creation and the idea of God to politics and economics.

The main aim of this book is to reconstruct a philosophical context for the Hieroglyphica of Horapollo, a late 5th century Greek study of hieroglyphic writing.

Methods and Skills for Philosophy introduces students to methodologies, strategies, heuristics and formal tools which are typically employed in contemporary analytic philosophy.

Articulating a thought can be astoundingly easy.

This book argues that a basic grasp of philosophy and logic can produce written and spoken material that is both grammatically correct and powerful.

This book explores the nature of the control of language processing by the hemispheres of the neocortex.