Philosophy of language

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

This volume presents a cross-linguistic investigation of clausal noun-modifying constructions in genetically varied languages of Eurasia.

This Element solves the problem of modal truthmaking for mathematical anti-realists by providing a novel view of modal truth.

This book affords a neopragmatic theory of animal ethics, taking its lead from American Pragmatism to place language at the centre of philosophical analysis.

The book investigates modern Qur'an commentaries in South Asia and engages with how Muslim scholars have imagined and assessed their past intellectual heritage.

This book presents a study of meaning relations, linking the philosophical tradition of conceptual analysis with recent theories and methodologies in cognitive semantics.

This book investigates context-sensitivity in natural language by examining the meaning and use of a target class of theoretically recalcitrant expressions.

Fritz Mauthner (1849–1923) bezeichnet "Muttersprache und Vaterland" als einen Versuch, die Grundbegriffe der Nationalitätsidee deutlich zu machen.

The Qur'an is God's verbatim speech for most traditional Muslims.

Hellenistic philosophy concerns the thought of the Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics, the most influential philosophical groups in the era between the death of Alexander the Great (323 BCE) and the defeat of the last Greek stronghold in the ancient world (31 BCE).

This book offers a detailed account and discussion of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics.

This volume brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to define and describe tabooed words and language and to investigate the reasons and beliefs behind them.

This collection of original essays explores the topic of skeptical invariantism in theory of knowledge.

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This book confronts the hotly debated claim that language is a species specific trait of humans.

The Qur'an with Cross-References provides for nearly every verse in the Qur'an a selection of other verses which shed light upon, clarify, or explain the verse you are reading.

Imam Nawawi's commentary on Sahih Muslim is one of the most highly regarded works in Islamic thought and literature.

Die vorliegende Taschenbuchausgabe "Der Koran - Übersetzung" gibt den von Rudi Paret bereits vorgelegten Text seiner international anerkannten großen Koran-Übersetzung in überarbeiteter Fassung wieder.

This book provides a critical, up-to-date and original overview of the contemporary metaphysical debate on the problem of universals.

This textbook is a logic manual which includes an elementary course and an advanced course.

With the growth of modern information technology, it is time to re-examine the concept and purpose of writing, and question the long cherished idea that the alphabet stands at the apex of a hierarchy towards which all 'proper' forms of writing must necessarily progress.

Sprache war für Paulus als Missionar das Handwerkszeug, mit dem er die christliche Botschaft vermittelte.

This marks the first time Linguistics and Philosophy, published in France in 1969, has been translated into English.

In recent years philosophers have produced important books on nearly all the major arts: the novel and painting, music and theatre, dance and architecture, conceptual art and even gardening.

Wittgenstein's thought is reflected in his reading and reception of other authors.

Der Sammelband widmet sich dem Thema "sprachliche Kürze" in umfassender Weise.

A study of the interactions between the semantics, epistemology and metaphysics of the future.

"e;We frequently see one idea appear in one discipline as if it were new, when it migrated from another discipline, like a mole that had dug under a fence and popped up on the other side.

Contextualism, the view that the epistemic standards a subject must meet in order for a claim attributing "e;knowledge"e; to her to be true do vary with context, has been hotly debated in epistemology and philosophy of language during the last few decades.

Originally published in 1973.

Too often today it seems we find ourselves communicating from radically different perspectives on the world and we often despair of communication even being possible.

Over the past few years, the tree model of time has been widely employed to deal with issues concerning the semantics of tensed discourse.

Presenting an engaging reflection on the work of prominent modern Iranian literary artists in exchange with contemporary Continental literary criticism and philosophy, this book tracks the idea of silence - through the prism of poetics, dreaming, movement, and the body - across the textual imaginations of both Western and Middle Eastern authors.

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The Philosophical Imagination brings together several of Richard Moran's essays, ranging over a remarkable variety of topics in philosophy of mind and action, aesthetics, and moral psychology.

Thirteen essays in the book explore and investigate diverse contemporary philosophically current themes and issues.

This book offers readers a collection of 50 short chapter entries on topics in the philosophy of language.

(Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein will be read by philosophers investigating Wittgenstein and by scholars, interpreters, students, and specialists, in both analytic and continental philosophy.

Philosophers since Descartes have felt themselves compelled to make a choice between mind and body.