Philosophy of language

This book uncovers properties of focus association with 'only' by examining the interaction between the particle and bare (or "e;evaluative"e;) gradable terms.

In this volume we witness Wittgenstein in the act of composing and experimenting with his new visions in philosophy.

This book explores relationships and maps out intersections between discussions on causation in three scientific disciplines: linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.

This book offers innovative investigations of the concept of life in art and in theory.

This volume addresses foundational issues of context-dependence and indexicality, which are at the center of the current debate within the philosophy of language.

This book unlocks the Jewish theology of YHWH in three central stages of Jewish thought: the Hebrew bible, rabbinic literature, and medieval philosophy and mysticism.

This book proposes a novel, descriptive theory that unveils the linguistic mechanisms lurking behind judicial decisions.

"e;Tell me,"e; Wittgenstein once asked a friend, "e;why do people always say, it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating?

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

This edited collection covers Friedrich Waismann's most influential contributions to twentieth-century philosophy of language: his concepts of open texture and language strata, his early criticism of verificationism and the analytic-synthetic distinction, as well as their significance for experimental and legal philosophy.

This edited volume focuses on the hypothesis that performativity is not a property confined to certain specific human skills, or to certain specific acts of language, nor an accidental enrichment due to creative intelligence.

This book shows how pragmatics and philosophy are interconnected, and explores the consequences and ramifications of this innovative idea, especially in addressing and solving the problem of breaking Grice's circle.

This book presents a new approach to semantics based on Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz's Directival Theory of Meaning (DTM), which in effect reduces semantics of the analysed language to the combination of its syntax and pragmatics.

Sortal concepts are at the center of certain logical discussions and have played a significant role in solutions to particular problems in philosophy.

This book brings together the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Jacques Lacan around their treatments of 'astonishment,' an experience of being struck by something that appears to be extraordinarily significant.

This volume presents new conceptual and experimental studies which investigate the connection between vagueness and rationality from various systematic directions, such as philosophy, linguistics, cognitive psychology, computing science, and economics.

This book examines the problem of relationships between culture and space.

This book discusses the concept of indirect reporting in relation to sociopragmatic, philosophical, and cognitive factors.

This book proposes a semantic theory of conditionals that can account for (i) the variability in usages that conditional sentences can be put; and (ii) both conditional sentences of the form 'if p, q' and those conditional thoughts that are expressed without using 'if'.

This book proposes a novel, descriptive theory that unveils the linguistic mechanisms lurking behind judicial decisions.

This volume addresses foundational issues of context-dependence and indexicality, which are at the center of the current debate within the philosophy of language.

This edited collection of eight original essays pursues the aim of bringing the spotlight back on Anton Marty.

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This book investigates the role of inference in argumentation, considering how arguments support standpoints on the basis of different loci.

This volume is a tribute to Roger Schwarzschild's immense contributions in the formal semantics of nouns, focus, degrees and space, and tense and aspect.

Presenting the first comprehensive, in-depth study of hyperintensionality, this book equips readers with the basic tools needed to appreciate some of current and future debates in the philosophy of language, semantics, and metaphysics.

Offering a radical reassessment of 1930s British literature, this volume questions the temporal limits of the literary decade, and broadens the scope of queer literary studies to consider literary-historical responses to a variety of behaviours encompassed by the term 'queer' in its many senses.

The two sections of this volume present theoretical developments and practical applicative papers respectively.

This book approaches classic epistemological problems from a contextualist perspective.

The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran.

The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran.

The Prophet is a book of 26 poetic essays written in English in 1923 by the Lebanese-American artist, philosopher and writer Khalil Gibran.

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Extrait : "Les auteurs arabes font descendre Mahomet d'Ismaël, fils d'Abraham et d'Agar.

Ausgehend von Daniel Kehlmanns Reise ins Silicon Valley und seinem Versuch, mithilfe einer KI eine Erzählung zu schreiben, zeigt Philipp Schönthaler, wie die Romantik als kulturelles Deutungsschema selbst dort noch ihre Wirkmacht entfaltet, wo die Technik am fortschrittlichsten erscheinen will: in Visionen einer Singularität und Superintelligenz.

This edited book explores how harmful speech works, how it can be used to change societies in bad ways and how we can defend against it.

Truth unites the world.

Guided by 20th century theories of language, Hansen's novel approach to interpretive theory launched the modern analytical study of Ancient Chinese philosophy.

Symbol of Divine Light surveys the history of the mosque lamp, describing the numerous variants made in different historical periods and containing more than 200 stunning color and b/w illustrations.

Now you can read and understand the complete Koran.

Now you can read and understand the Koran.

In about the time it takes to watch a professional sports event, you can comprehend the Koran.