This book elucidates the poetics of Philodemus of Gadara, a first century BCE Epicurean philosopher and poet, whose On Poems survives in extensive fragments among the Herculaneum papyri.
Through his innovative study of language, noted Heidegger scholar Lawrence Hatab offers a proto-phenomenological account of the lived world, the "e;first"e; world of factical life, where pre-reflective, immediate disclosiveness precedes and makes possible representational models of language.
In The Qur'an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism, Mohammad Salama navigates the labyrinthine semantics that underlie this sacred text and inform contemporary scholarship.
Erin Plunkett draws from both analytic and continental sources to argue for the philosophical relevance of style, making the case that the essay form is uniquely suited to address the sceptical problem.
En clara consonancia con el problema del «comprender del comprender» como de-poner originario, en esta cuidada selección de ensayos Werner Hamacher nos sitúa en un plano más elemental: el hecho de que el conocimiento, el arte, la cultura y el mundo están constituidos lingüísticamente y que, por lo tanto, se conforman en el detraimiento, las sustracciones, y las desavenencias de la lengua.
This book develops a novel generalization of possible world semantics, called 'world line semantics', which recognizes worlds and links between world-bound objects (world lines) as mutually independent aspects of modal semantics.
In this volume, Maher contextualizes the work of a group of contemporary analytic philosophers-The Pittsburgh School-whose work is characterized by an interest in the history of philosophy and a commitment to normative functionalism, or the insight that to identify something as a manifestation of conceptual capacities is to place it in a space of norms.
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.
Politicians and philosophers presenting themselves as the ultimate bearers of truth and reality have created unprecedented technological, cultural, and political framings.
Saving Truth from Paradox is an ambitious investigation into paradoxes of truth and related issues, with occasional forays into notions such as vagueness, the nature of validity, and the Godel incompleteness theorems.
This volume develops a theory of meaning and a semantics for both mathematical and empirical sentences inspired to Chomsky's internalism, namely to a view of semantics as the study of the relations of language not with external reality but with internal, or mental, reality.
This Routledge Revival, first published in 1985, gives detailed attention to the bearing of literary theory on questions of truth, meaning and reference.
This book explores some of Kit Fine's outstanding contributions to logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and metaphysics, among others.
First published in 1968, The Language of Time clarifies certain large-scale features of ordinary or common-sense concept of time by using linguistic analysis or ordinary language philosophy.
