Philosophy of language

It's an obvious enough observation that the standards that govern whether ordinary speakers will say that someone knows something vary with context: What we are happy to call "e;knowledge"e; in some ("e;low-standards"e;) contexts we'll deny is "e;knowledge"e; in other ("e;high-standards"e;) contexts.

Algebraic Structures in Natural Language addresses a central problem in cognitive science concerning the learning procedures through which humans acquire and represent natural language.

Relativism, an ancient philosophical doctrine, is once again a topic of heated debate.

An accessible introduction to the key topics in theoretical pragmatics, including Grice, speech acts, relevance theory, and politeness.

It must be acknowledged that the essays presented here do not constitute a systematic account of any sort but represent occasional forays.

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

The past few years have witnessed an exponentially growing body of work conducted under the 'second person' heading.

This book deals with various aspects of metaphorics and yet it is not only, or perhaps not even primarily, about metaphor itself.

Talking Wolves advances an analysis of Hobbes which takes language seriously (as seriously as Hobbes took it).

Jurgen Trabant reads the profound insights into human semiosis contained in Vico's 'sematology' as both a spirited rejection of Cartesian philosophy and an early critique of enlightened logocentricism.

First published in 1925, A Theory of Direct Realism is divided in two parts: the first part is an attempt to formulate a realistic theory of Perception and of the physical world, and the second part is an exposition of Hegelian idealism and its compatibility with realism.

Context and the Attitudes collects thirteen seminal essays by Mark Richard on semantics and propositional attitudes.

Norris presents a series of closely linked chapters on recent developments in epistemology, philosophy of language, cognitive science, literary theory, musicology and other related fields.

First published in 1992, this book evokes Pandora and Occam as metaphoric corner posts in an argument about language as discourse and in doing so, brings analytic philosophy to bear on issues of Continental philosophy, with attention to linguistic, semiological, and semiotic concerns.

Die Lautgeographie gehört zu den erfolgreichsten Gebieten der klassischen Dialektologie.

Wittgenstein's philosophical career began in 1911 when he went to Cambridge to work with Russell.

John Perry offers a rethinking of Gottlob Frege's seminal contributions to philosophy of language.

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.

Kirk Ludwig presents a philosophical account of institutional action, such as action by corporations and nation states, arguing that it can be understood exhaustively in terms of the agency of individuals and concepts constructed out of materials that are already at play in our understanding of individual action.

This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy.

Bertrand Russell and the Nature of Propositions offers the first book-length defence of the Multiple Relation Theory of Judgement (MRTJ).

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

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This book defends a version of linguistic idealism, the thesis that the world is a product of language.

Knowledge in an Uncertain World is an exploration of the relation between knowledge, reasons, and justification.

This book examines an undertheorized topic in the study of religion and sacred texts: the figure of the neighbor.

This book offers an original philosophical perspective on exemplarity.

This volume is an interdisciplinary exploration of the modalities, meanings, and practices of silence in contemporary social discourse.

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

Despite its relevance to the subsequent development of Western Islamic studies, the intellectual contribution of early modern Catholicism is still an under-researched area.

This book unlocks the Jewish theology of YHWH in three central stages of Jewish thought: the Hebrew bible, rabbinic literature, and medieval philosophy and mysticism.

Through the eyes of northern Nigerian Qur''anic students, this book explores what it truly means to be young, poor, and Muslim.

This edited collection investigates the kinds of philosophical reflection we can undertake in the imaginative worlds of literature.

This book examines in detail Ludwig Wittgenstein's ideas on thought, thinking, will and intention, as those ideas developed over his lifetime.

This collection of new essays examines the brain-in-a-vat scenario and its implications, analyses and impact.

This book aims to explain the decline of the later Wittgensteinian tradition in analytic philosophy during the second half of the twentieth century.

This book's main goal is to show readers how to use the linguistic theory of Noam Chomsky, called Universal Grammar, to represent English, French, and German on a computer using the Prolog computer language.

This book is designed to explain the technical ideas that are taken for granted in much contemporary philosophical writing.