Philosophy of language

This book provides an original perspective on the debate about anti-representationalism and the nature of philosophy.

This volume brings together the work of a group of Islamic studies scholars from across the globe.

Should philosophy of language use experimental methods, or can it be pursued in the armchair?

This book explores the interdisciplinarity of semiotics and communication studies, comprising both theoretical explorations and semiotic applications to communication with theoretical bearings.

Offering an in-depth analysis of the relationship between touch and language through the history of philosophy, this book revitalizes the field of haptic studies, providing new insights into the philosophy of language and ontological nature of touch.

Since the ground-breaking work of Saul Kripke, David Lewis, and others in the 1960s and 70s, one dominant interest of analytic philosophers has been in modal truths, which concerns the questions of what is possible and what is necessary.

This volume analyses the complex relations between multilingualism and the media: how the media manage multilingualism; how multilingualism is presented and used as media content; and how the media are discursive sites where debates about multilingualism and other language-related issues unfold.

Die Sprache ist ein omnipräsentes Ausdrucksmittel – im Alltag und in den Wissenschaften.

"e;A Basic Guide to Understanding the Qur'an:For the first time in Islamic history, interested non Arabic-speaking laymen can easily and quickly navigate the pages of the Qur'an and have immediate access to clear and accurate information.

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

One of the most important philosophers of recent times, Elizabeth Anscombe wrote books and articles on a wide range of topics, including the ground-breaking monograph Intention.

When discussing normative reasons, oughts, requirements of rationality, motivating reasons, and so on, we often have to use verbs like "e;believe"e; and "e;want"e; to capture a relevant subject's perspective.

An eclectic history of human curiosity, a great feast of ideas, and a memoir of a reading life from an internationally celebrated reader and thinker Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward and the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters.

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

The second Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter was held in Jerusalem on April 25-28, 1976.

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In this book, Yaqub describes a simple conception of truth and shows that it yields a semantical theory that accommodates the whole range of our seemingly conflicting intuitions about truth.

A picture of the world as chiefly one of discrete objects, distributed in space and time, has sometimes seemed compelling.

In this collection leading thinkers, writers, and activists offer their responses to the simple question "e;do I have a body, or am I my body?

Asay provides a fresh and daring perspective on the age-old question ''What is truth?

This book offers a sustained, interdisciplinary examination of taste.

This volume outlines a theory of translation, set within the framework of Peircean semiotics, which challenges the linguistic bias in translation studies by proposing a semiotic theory that accounts for all instances of translation, not only interlinguistic translation.

Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present.

The book aims to serve as a theoretical framework for the socio-cognitive approach (SCA) that is an alternative to the two main lines of pragmatics research: linguistic-philosophical pragmatics and sociocultural-interactional pragmatics.

Lying is a familiar and morally important phenomenon.

To understand play, we need a bottom-up phenomenology of play.

Abelard is one of the foremost protagonists of the "e;twelfth-century Renaissance"e;.

Martin Heidegger's radical and, for that, controversial reflections on language were not simply a passing interest in his thinking, but a fundamental, career-long concern arguably as significant to him as his study of being.

A book on the theory and practice of Medieval Historiography in Spain.

How we understand, protect, and discharge our rights and responsibilities as citizens in a democratic society committed to the principle of political equality is intimately connected to the standards and behaviour of our media in general, and our news media in particular.

When we represent the world in language, in thought, or in perception, we often represent it from a perspective.

A new critical method for the Divine Comedy which focuses not only on language-as-writing but also and equally on other discursive modes that the Divine Comedy authorizes.

Joseph LaPorte offers a new account of the connections between the reference of words for properties and kinds, and theoretical identity statements.

Governing the Tongue explains why the spoken word assumed such importance in the culture of early New England.

As philosophy departments attempt to define their unique value amid program closures in the humanities and the rise of interdisciplinary research, metaphilosophy has become an increasingly important area of inquiry.

Sentence (1) represents the phenomenon of reported thought, (2) that of reported speech: (1) Sasha thought: "e;This is fine"e; or Sasha thought that this would be fine (2) Sasha said: "e;This is fine"e; or Sasha said that this would be fine While sentences as in (1) have often been discussed in the context of those in (2) the former have rarely received specific attention.

Current debate in cognitive science, from robotics to analysis of vision, deals with problems like the perception of form, the structure and formation of mental images and their modelling, the ecological development of artificial intelligence, and cognitive analysis of natural language.

Many philosophy majors are shocked by the gap between the relative ease of lower-level philosophy courses and the difficulty of upper-division courses.

This book presents an anthropological study of the Qur'an, offering an unprecedented challenge to some of the epistemological and metaphysical assumptions of the tawhidic discourses.

This Handbook examines the reasons behind the loss of linguistic diversity and what can be done to document and support endangered languages.

Narratives of Jihadi-Salafi operations are often filled with praise for what are considered exemplary acts of self-renunciation in the vein of early Islamic tradition.