Philosophy of language

Though inspired by a Panofskyan legacy, this book diverges at certain points from Erwin Panofsky's declared objectives, and calls attention to several of aspects that were until now less accentuated in his intellectual reception.

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A selection of papers presented at the international conference `Applied Logic: Logic at Work', held in Amsterdam in December 1992.

In the study of language, as in any other systematic study, there is no neutral terminology.

The word 'ought' is one of the core normative terms, but it is also a modal word.

This book presents the current state of experimental philosophy of language, drawing attention to corpus methods.

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Arley Ramos Moreno, a pioneering Brazilian philosopher, makes an important contribution to current discussions around meaning, knowledge and symbolism in the first English translation of his work.

This collection of essays grew out of the workshop 'Existence: Semantics and Syntax', which was held at the University of Nancy 2 in September 2002.

This book defends a novel view of mental representation-of how, as thinkers, we represent the world as being.

This book pursues an investigation at the intersection of philosophy of physics and philosophy of language, and offers a critical analysis of rival explanations of the semantic facts of quantum mechanics.

This book presents a cutting-edge critical analysis of the trope of miscegenation and its biopolitical implications in contemporary Palestinian and Israeli literature, poetry, and discourse.

A rich and informative biography of one of the most important and influential figures of analytic philosophy.

Peirce's Speculative Grammar: Logic as Semiotics offers a comprehensive, philologically accurate, and exegetically ambitious developmental account of Peirce's theory of speculative grammar.

This volume of the Argumentation Library contains a collection of twenty-six theor- etical contributions to the study of argumentation.

An investigation into the underlying logic of human languages which looks at how children acquire English and Mandarin.

Mark Platts is responsible for the first systematic presentation of truth-conditional semantics and for turning a generation of philosophers on to the Davidsonian program.

Roman Jakobson stands alone in his semiotic theory of poetic analysis which combines semiotics, linguistics and structuralist poetics.

The paradox of knowability, derived from a proof by Frederic Fitch in 1963, is one of the deepest paradoxes concerning the nature of truth.

Merleau-Ponty's status as a philosopher of perception is well-established, but his distinctive contributions to the philosophy and phenomenology of language have yet to be fully appreciated.

This book examines in detail the concept of "e;abrogation"e; in the Qur'an, which has played a major role in the development of Islamic law and has implications for understanding the history and integrity of the Qur'anic text.

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

From Naming to Saying explores the classicquestion of the unity of the proposition, combining an historical approach with contemporary causal theories to offer a unique and novel solution.

Language and Materiality argues the importance of analyzing language use with an eye toward new materialisms, semiotics, and ideology.

First published in 1966, the Language of Criticism was the first systematic attempt to understand literary criticism through the methods of linguistic philosophy and the later work of Wittgenstein.

This book criticizes the methodology of the recent semantics-pragmatics debate in the theory of language and proposes an alternative.

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

This book proposes a novel theory of truth and falsity.

Poetry is the most complex and intricate of human language used across all languages and cultures.

This book analyzes the role of language in scientific research and develops the semantics of science from different angles.

This book brings together, in a novel way, an account of the structure of time with an account of our language and thought about time.

This volume presents studies on pronouns in embedded contexts, and offers fundamental insights into this central area of research.

This book offers an in-depth and updated examination of the nature of haecceity-that primitive entity which explains why something is distinct from other things.

This is a work in Kantian conceptual geography.

Kaun&ddotu;abhatta's Vaiyakarana-bhusana is a massive work on semantic theory written in India in the 17th century.

Xing Lu examines language, art, persuasion, and argumentation in ancient China and offers a detailed and authentic account of ancient Chinese rhetorical theories and practices within the society's philosophical, political, cultural, and linguistic contexts.

Written through both the first and second person singular, "e;Passionate Being"e; takes its author and its reader on a journey that has them thinking of their experience of and belonging to language and the possibility of an instance of the world taking-place without prejudice and exclusion.

The Qur'an and the Bible have been called "e;intertwined scriptures"e; due to the Qur'an's frequent invocation of biblical narratives and figures.

This book demonstrates how a radical version of physicalism ('No-Self Physicalism') can offer an internally coherent and comprehensive philosophical worldview.

Metaphors of Multilingualism explores changing attitudes towards multilingualism by focusing on shifts both in the choice and in the use of metaphors.

Particularism is a justly popular 'cutting-edge' topic in contemporary ethics across the world.

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

The book explores the impact of manuscript remarks during the year 1929 on the development of Wittgenstein's thought.