Philosophy of language

This book addresses fundamental issues in linguistic theory, including the relation between formal and cognitive approaches, the autonomy of syntax, the content of universal grammar, and the value of generative and functional approaches to grammar.

Freedom and Responsibility in Context argues for a contextualist account of freedom and moral responsibility.

Several myths about Plato's work are decisively challenged by Catherine Rowett: the idea that Plato agreed with Socrates about the need for a definition of what we know; the idea that he set out to define justice in the Republic; the idea that knowledge is a kind of true belief, or that Plato ever thought that it might be something like that; the idea that "e;knowledge proper"e; is propositional, and that the Theaetetus was Plato's best attempt to define knowledge as a species of belief, and that it only failed due to his incompetence.

The work of Bertrand Russell had a decisive influence on the emergence of analytic philosophy, and on its subsequent development.

On January 20th, 22nd, and 29th, 1970 Saul Kripke delivered three lectures at Princeton University.

In The Qur'an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism, Mohammad Salama navigates the labyrinthine semantics that underlie this sacred text and inform contemporary scholarship.

Theory and history combine in this book to form a coherent narrative of the debates on language and languages in the Western world, from ancient classic philosophy to the present, with a final glance at on-going discussions on language as a cognitive tool, on its bodily roots and philogenetic role.

This volume constitutes the Proceedings of a workshop on formal seman- tics of natural languages which was held in Tiibingen from the 1st to the 3rd of December 1977.

This volume examines the complex interaction between the English language and the construction of ethnicity in the global English-speaking world.

This books aims to open up new perspectives in the study of language proficiency by bringing together current research from different fields in psychology and linguistics.

The Linguistics of Laughter examines what speakers try to achieve by producing 'laughter-talk' (the talk preceding and eliciting an episode of laughter) and, by using abundant examples from language corpora, what hearers are signalling when they produce laughter.

Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (1915-1975) was one of the leading intellectuals of Israel and of the world.

Together with the volume "e;Inquiries in philosophical pragmatics: Linguistic and theoretical issues,"e; this book provides a journey through the more recent developments of pragmatics, considering both its philosophical and linguistic nature.

This book considers how women's experiences have been treated in films dealing with Nazi persecution.

This book presents a new nominalistic philosophy of mathematics: semantic conventionalism.

This volume advances discussion between critics and defenders of the force-content distinction and opens up new ways of thinking about force and speech acts in relation to the unity problem.

The conviction that we all have, possess or inhabit a discrete culture, and have done so for centuries, is one of the more dominant default assumptions of our contemporary politico-intellectual moment.

Howard Pattee is a physicist who for many years has taken his own path in studying the physics of symbols, which is now a foundation for biosemiotics.

Freedom and Responsibility in Context argues for a contextualist account of freedom and moral responsibility.

Von Hans Wollschläger sorgsam ausgewählt: Die besten Texte aus der "Fackel" von Karl KrausWas hätte er uns wohl heute zu sagen?

First published in 1997, this book focuses on the semantics of definite and indefinite descriptions - taking the presuppositional theory of definiteness and indefiniteness proposed by Heim as a starting point.

This book explores the development of interpretations of Qur''ānic verses on gender roles in testimony, human creation and marriage.

This edited volume brings together leading international researchers from across the social sciences to examine the theoretical premises, methodological options and critical potentials of the Essex School of discourse analysis, founded on the work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe.

This book presents cutting-edge concepts on the question of trust.

David Kellogg Lewis (1941-2001) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century.

When we represent the world in language, in thought, or in perception, we often represent it from a perspective.

Truth is a pervasive feature of ordinary language, deserving of systematic study, and few theorists of truth have endeavoured to chronicle the tousled conceptual terrain forming the non-philosopher's ordinary view.

This book presents a unique approach to the semantics of verbs.

This volume is a tribute to Roger Schwarzschild's immense contributions in the formal semantics of nouns, focus, degrees and space, and tense and aspect.

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

Donald Davidson has made enormous contributions to the philosophy of action, epistemology, semantics and philosophy of mind and today is recognized as one of the most important analytical philosophers of the late twentieth century.

This volume explores the relationship between the philosophical thought of Simone Weil and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Carefully considering the difference in the philosophical potential of page poetry and performance poetry, Karen Simecek argues that it is only by considering them side by side that the unique cognitive value of each can be realised.

Each of us bears a unique name given to us at birth.

Sooner or later, our words take on meanings other than we intended.

The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity maps a central terrain of philosophy, and provides an authoritative guide to it.

The concepts of mind and soul have occupied the thoughts of philosophers throughout the ages and have given rise to numerous conflicting theories.

This is a work in Kantian conceptual geography.

This third edition includes a new and specially written introduction by James McGilvray, contextualising the work for the twenty-first century.

Philosophy (especially philosophy of language and philosophy of mind), science (especially linguistics and cognitive science), and common sense all sometimes make reference to propositions--understood as the things we believe and say, and the things which are (primarily) true or false.

Wie hängt Sprache mit dem Denken zusammen?

Analytic philosophy is once again in a methodological frame of mind.

A collection of the best work by philosophers, cognitive scientists, and linguists on grammatical gradience and linguistic uncertainty - such as when warm becomes hot, how many grains make a heap, and when a puddle becomes a pond - introduced, explained, contextualized, and indexed.