Philosophy of language

Walter Benjamin's work represents one of the most radical and controversial responses to the problems of twentieth-century culture and society.

When you light a match it is the striking of it which causes the lighting; the presence of oxygen in the room is a background condition to the lighting.

This anthology of papers analyzes a range of specificity markers found in natural languages.

This book makes available for the first time in English-and for the first time in its entirety in any language-an important yet little-known interview on the topic of photography that Jacques Derrida granted in 1992 to the German theorist of photography Hubertus von Amelunxen and the German literary and media theorist Michael Wetzel.

Challenging the prevalent view, this book illustrates the importance of animals in the Islamic tradition, in which they are viewed as equal beings to humans.

The present collection of seventeen papers, most of them already published in international philosophical journals, deals both with issues in the philosophy of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language and epistemology.

Exploring complex relations between Muslim visions and critical stances, this textbook is a compact introduction to Islam, dealing with the origins of its forms, from early developments to contemporary issues, including religious principles, beliefs and practices.

Patrick Suppes is a philosopher and scientist whose contributions range over probability and statistics, mathematical and experimental psychology, the foundations of physics, education theory, the philosophy of language, measurement theory, and the philosophy of science.

What role does language play in the formation and perpetuation of our ideas about nationality and other social categories?

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

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

Assuming no prior knowledge, The Qur'an: A Philosophical Guide is an introduction to the Qur'an from a philosophical point of view.

This outstandingly clear and lively 1969 book provokes its readers to rethink issues they may have regarded as long since settled.

Connecting poetry and philosophy of language, Philip Mills bridges the continental and analytical divide by bringing together the writings of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein.

Quine was one of the foremost philosophers of the Twentieth century.

This book is about the idea that some true statements would have been true no matter how the world had turned out, while others could have been false.

Covering India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Nepal, Rethinking New Womanhood effectively introduces a 'new' wave of gender research from South Asia that resonates with feminist debates around the world.

As its title states, this work formulates in language a sense of language, a sense of our involvement in speaking and listening, reading and writing.

This book presents a collection of interrelated essays that analyze the theoretical foundations of semiotic-cultural constructivism in psychology written by one of the pioneers in this field of research: Dr.

This book places binomials - word pairs - in the context of phonology, stylistics, semantics, translation theory and practice in various periods.

The notion of singular (or de re) thought has become central in philosophy of mind and language, yet there is still little consensus concerning the best way to think about the nature of singular thought.

'Why can't a human be more like a cat?

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Stories told within institutions play a powerful role, helping to define not only the institution itself, but also its individual members.

Philosophy and the Vision of Language explores the history and enduring significance of the twentieth-century turn to language as a specific object of investigation and resource for philosophical reflection.

Shaykh Tantawi Jawhari was an Egyptian exegete known for having produced a scientific interpretation of the Qur?

The aim of this book is to consider what reasonably follows from the hypothesis that the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus can be interpreted from a mystical point of view.

Despite widespread admiration for the First Amendment's protection of speech, this iconic feature of American legal thought has never been adequately theorized.

Wilfrid Sellars was and remains one of the most prominent and important twentieth-century philosophers: his writings played a key role in shaping the philosophical agenda in the English-speaking world during the second half of the 20th century, and they remain an active focus of intense critical attention and lively discussion.

This monograph details a new solution to an old problem of metaphysics.

"e;'Interdisciplinarity' has dynamised the Modern Humanities like no other recent academic trend.

Together with the first volume "e;Inquiries in philosophical pragmatics: Theoretical developments,"e; this book collects contributions that represent the state of the art on the interconnection between pragmatics and philosophy.

Critical Semiotics provides long overdue answers to questions at the junction of information, meaning and 'affect'.

Kathrin Koslicki offers an analysis of ordinary materials objects, those material objects to which we take ourselves to be committed in ordinary, scientifically informed discourse.

This volume contributes to the growing body of literature exploring the work of contemporary French philosopher Catherine Malabou.

This volume clusters together issues centered upon the variety of types of intensional semantics.

Artworld Metaphysics turns a critical eye upon aspects of the artworld, and articulates some of the problems, principles, and norms implicit in the actual practices of artistic creation, interpretation, evaluation, and commodification.

The chapters in this volume investigate the question of where, and in what sense, the bounds of intelligible thought, knowledge, and speech are to be drawn.

Playing a key role in our lives, as a vehicle for our thoughts and a powerful medium of communication, language is at the centre of philosophical investigation.

Kirk Ludwig develops a novel reductive account of plural discourse about collective action and shared intention.