Philosophy of language

This volume stresses the importance of a multidisciplinary perspective in deepening knowledge of the interface between semantics and pragmatics.

The work of Mark Sainsbury has made a significant and challenging contribution to several central areas of philosophy, especially philosophy of language and logic.

This book provides an account of discursive or reason-governed cognition, by synthesizing research in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, and evolutionary anthropology.

"e;Language ideologies"e; are cultural representations, whether explicit or implicit, of the intersection of language and human beings in a social world.

A provocative and timely look at how language is used to manipulate the truth, how our gullibility leaves us susceptible to manipulation, and what we can do to reverse these trends.

Over fifteen years have passed since Cora Diamond and James Conant turned Wittgenstein scholarship upside down with the program of "e;resolute"e; reading, and ten years since this reading was crystallized in the major collection The New Wittgenstein.

Der dritte und letzte Band der »Ontosophie« ist geprägt von Ackers naturwissenschaftlichem Hintergrund und von seinem umfassenden Interesse für das menschliche Verhältnis zum Unendlichen, wie es nicht zuletzt auch von spirituellen und insbesondere anthroposophischen und fernöstlichen Welterzählungen behandelt wird.

Language, Names, and Information is an important contribution to philosophy of language by one of its foremost scholars, challenging the pervasive view that the description theory of proper names is dead in the water, and defending a version of the description theory from a perspective on language that sees words as a wonderful source of information about the nature of the world we live in.

This volume brings together a selection of 20 out of altogether 170 papers presented at the 13th International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS XIII), held at the University of Tras-os-Montes and Alto Douro in Vila Real, Portugal, 25-29 August 2014.

An important work by 20-century philosopher Hans Blumenberg, here translated into English for the first time, The Laughter of the Thracian Woman describes the reception history of an anecdote best known from Plato's Theaetetus dialogue: while focused on observing the stars, the early astronomer and proto-philosopher Thales of Miletus fails to see a well directly in his path and tumbles down.

The semantics for modal interpretation yields two types of belief ascriptions, elucidating various semantic phenomena and fluent aphasia.

Thema dieses Bandes ist der spezifische Stellenwert der Begriffsgeschichte für die Literaturwissenschaft: Wie ist das Verhältnis zwischen philosophischer und literaturwissenschaftlicher Metaphorologie systematisch und historisch zu beschreiben?

This book explores some of Kit Fine's outstanding contributions to logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and metaphysics, among others.

The nature of truth is a current preoccupation both in political and social debates.

This book explores matters that have negatively affected the public image and led to distorted depictions of Islam from the late nineteenth century to the present.

Twitter allows us to build communities, track celebrities, raise our social profile, and promote a personal brand.

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

Many metaphors go beyond pionting to the existing similarities between two objects -- they create the similarities.

This book offers a critical engagement with languages that describe, perpetuate, respond to, and resist economic crises.

Spanning the centuries, from the seventeenth to the twentieth, and ranging across cultures, from England to Mexico, this collection gathers together important statements on the function and feasibility of literary translation.

It is widely held in contemporary moral philosophy that moral agency must be explained in terms of some more basic account of human nature.

First published in 1972, Philosophical Tasks was written to identify and examine some central themes in contemporary Anglo-American philosophy.

This book investigates how neoliberalism shaped the women's movement in Aotearoa/New Zealand from the mid-1980s to late 2010s and looks at the future of the movement.

This book offers a comprehensive defense of the knowledge argument, arguing that materialism cannot accommodate or explain consciousness.

How is it that words come to stand for the things they stand for?

Fifteen specially written papers examine the ways in which the content of what we say is dependent on the context in which we say it.

In Speculating on the Edge of Psychoanalysis, Pablo Lerner questions, and takes a step beyond, the prevailing paradigm of Lacanian psychoanalysis and its emphasis on the sovereignty of language and jouissance.

Claiming to know is more than making a report about one's epistemic position: one also offers one's assurance to others.

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.

The area of research on printed word recognition has been one of the most active in the field of experimental psychology for well over a decade.

Is the appropriate form of human action explanation causal or rather teleological?

Pioneers an innovative framework for theorizing about meaning in natural language and the role of context in interpretation.

This book describes a novel conception of reality, one that uniquely incorporates an idealistic view of existence with an account of objectivity.

Discourse analysis is a wide ranging area of study that examines the features of language beyond the limits of a sentence - including vocal, written and sign language, along with any significant semiotic events.

This book is an investigation into metaphysics: its aims, scope, methodology and practice.

Fictional Discourse: A Radical Fictionalist Semantics combines the insight of linguistic and philosophical semantics with the study of fictional language.

These are exciting times for philosophical theorizing about propositions, with the last 15 years seeing the development of new approaches and the emergence of new theorists.

What is the true worth of Wittgenstein's contribution to philosophy?

Language carries more than meanings; language conveys a means of conceiving the world.

The book aims to provide a contemporary individual with an extensive but focused set of examples of kitsch in non-artistic spheres to create theoretical and practical backgrounds for conscious recognition of kitsch in fields like psychology, education, politics, law, religion, terrorism, television, or journalism.

An evaluation of Chomsky''s work from the perspectives of linguistics, evolution of language, history of physics, and philosophy of mind.