Philosophy of language

This book is an exploration of how knowledge about the reliability of information sources manifests itself in linguistic phenomena and use.

Impassioned Belief presents an original expressivist theory of normative judgments.

In this volume, originally published in 1983, W Montgomery Watt looks at the meeting of Christianity and Islam, how they see and have seen each other, and considers how they can aid each other in dealing with the problems of the world today.

Moritz Schulz explores counterfactual thought and language: what would have happened if things had gone a different way.

This book analyzes the uses and implicit dimensions of emotive language from a pragmatic, dialectical, epistemic and rhetorical perspective.

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 book argues that positivism, though now the dominant paradigm for both the natural and the human sciences, is intrinsically unfit for the latter.

Raciolinguistics reveals the central role that language plays in shaping our ideas about race and vice versa.

This volume showcases the potential richness of frame representations.

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This book presents a cross-linguistic investigation of the behaviour of negation in gapping sentences.

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'.

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Philosophical themes as diverse as language, value, mind and God are among the topics discussed in this set of 11 books, originally published between 1963 and 1991.

Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity was one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century.

Ever since Darwin, animal behavior has intrigued and perplexed human observers.

It is natural to distinguish, for any thinking creature, those events and states that are internal to the creature -- its brain states, for example -- from those that are not.

First published in 1990, this dissertation presents an event-based model-theoretic semantics for plural expressions in English.

Divides Aristotle''s concept of lexis into three interconnected levels, exposing numerous valuable statements on language and style.

This book celebrates the many important contributions to philosophy by one of the leading philosophers in the analytic field, Michael Devitt.

In the field of philosophy of language, is there life beyond Chomsky?

Frege is widely regarded as having set much of the agenda of contemporary analytic philosophy.

Striking out from a number of new headings and in a number of new directions each of the essays in this collection pushes at the borders of their topics, disciplines and ways of thinking, providing innovative and inventive insights into the work - and application - of Jacques Derrida on a diverse range of themes including Irish identity, communication, ethics, love, tele-technology, Victorian studies, the limits of philosophy, translation, otherness and literature, demonstrating that, today, despite repeated accusations over recent years that the work of Derrida has become passe, there is more vitality and spirit in engaging with the writings of Derrida than ever before.

In recent years, the relation between contemporary academic philosophy and evolutionary theory has become ever more active, multifaceted, and productive.

Language is central to political philosophy, yet until now there has been little in the way of a common framework capable of bridging disciplines that share an interest in language, power, and ethics.

Der vierte Band der Reihe nimmt die Entwicklung der Systembegriffe nach 1800–1809, fokussiert auf das Thema ›Systeme in Bewegung‹, in den Blick.

Cet ouvrage est la première tentative de présenter une analyse approfondie et synthétisant des théories phénoménologique de Marc Richir.

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

What did Bakhtin think about the theatre?

Faith occupies an important place in human lives.

The study of Islam's origins from a rigorous historical and social science perspective is still wanting.

Based on extensive fieldwork in the community of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in western North Carolina, this book uses a semiotic approach to investigate the historic and contemporary role of the Sequoyan syllabary--the written system for representing the sounds of the Cherokee language--in Eastern Cherokee life.

As the world becomes increasingly globalised Islam faces some important choices.

Television is the most powerful system of images in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

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.

Wittgenstein's philosophical achievement lies in the development of a new philosophical method rather than in the elaboration of a particular philosophical system.

This unique introduction fully engages and clearly explains pragmatism, an approach to knowledge and philosophy that rejects outmoded conceptions of objectivity while avoiding relativism and subjectivism.

My Philosophical Development is Russell's intellectual autobiography and provides a fascinating insight into the extraordinary energy and philosophical ambition that saw him write over 40 books.

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

The moral philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch said that philosophy "e;is both the guide and mirror of the age"e;.

Almost no systematic theorizing is generality-free.

This comprehensive handbook presents a Zen account of fundamental and important dimensions of daily living.