Philosophy of language

David E.

Epistemic contextualism is a recent and hotly debated topic in philosophy.

This volume is focused on understanding a key idea in modern semantics-direct reference-and its integration into a general semantics for natural language.

This collection of essays presents a systematic and up-to-date survey of the main aspects of Georg Henrik von Wright's philosophy, tracing the general humanistic leitmotiv to be found in his vast, varied output.

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The editors of the Applied Logic Series are happy to present to the reader the fifth volume in the series, a collection of papers on Logic, Language and Computation.

Provides a thematically integrated analysis and discussion of neuroethical questions about memory capacity, content, and interventions.

This book takes concepts developed by researchers in theoretical computer science and adapts and applies them to the study of natural language meaning.

Informed by a provocative exhibition at the Louvre curated by the author, The Severed Head unpacks artistic representations of severed heads from the Paleolithic period to the present.

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In The Natural Background to Meaning Denkel argues that meaning in language is an outcome of the evolutionary development of forms of animal communication, and explains this process by naturalising the Locke-Grice approach.

What are the landmarks of the cognitive revolution?

This volume represents the first attempt in the field of language pedagogy to apply a systems approach to issues in English language education.

Wittgenstein was a faithful and passionate reader of Plato's Dialogues as confirmed by writings and witnesses.

Almost no systematic theorizing is generality-free.

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Eric Funkhouser uncovers a logical structure that is common to many, if not all, classificatory systems or taxonomies.

Wittgenstein is arguably the greatest philosopher of the last hundred years and scepticism is one of the central problems that modern philosophy faces.

The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century is the first collective critical study of this important period in intellectual history.

In this book, Angelika Neuwirth provides a new approach to understanding the founding text of Islam.

This book explores what new light philosophical approaches shed on a deeper understanding of (im)politeness.

What are epistemic reasons?

Understanding Islam's sacred text is integral to understanding your Muslim neighbor Cross-cultural missionary and scholar Matthew Aaron Bennett blends the insights of Islamic believers, secular Qur'an scholars, and missionaries to Muslims, making The Qur'an and the Christian like no other resource for Christian ministry to Muslims.

Herman Cappelen investigates ways in which language (and other representational devices) can be defective, and how they can be improved.

This study examines the marital data preserved within the Arabic genealogical works of the early ninth century CE in order to better understand the tribal relationships of the pre-Islamic Quraysh (the Arabic tribe to which Muhammad belonged).

Sprachkritik ‑ so der Ausgangspunkt ‑ ist die linguistisch begründete, positive wie negative Würdigung der menschlichen Sprache und ihrer Leistungen.

This book offers a sustained, interdisciplinary examination of taste.

Modernism can be characterised by the acute attention it gives to language, to its potential and its limitations.

This is the first exhaustive investigation of gradience in syntax, conceived of as grammatical indeterminacy.

The selected articles compiled in the present volume are based on contributions prepared for the 17th International L.

The philosopher Stanley Cavell once asked, "e;Can a human being be free of human nature?

Als Kind dachte Nicola Gardini, seine Mutter spräche perfekt Latein, weil er sie das «Ave Maria» und das «Pater noster» beten hörte.

The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry starts from a simple fact: our written language does not represent the way we speak.

The philosophical significance of Maurice Blanchot's writings has rarely been in doubt.

This unconventional book by a distinguished historian of philosophy tells the story of how humans became rational beings.

The problem of necessity remains one of the central issues in modern philosophy.

This collection of fourteen original essays addresses the seminal contribution of Franz Brentano and his heirs, to philosophy of language.

Ordinary language and scientific language enable us to speak about, in a singular way (using demonstratives and names), what we recognize not to exist: fictions, the contents of our hallucinations, abstract objects, and various idealized but nonexistent objects that our scientific theories are often couched in terms of.

This volume brings together new research on fiction from the fields of philosophy and linguistics.

Humans think of ourselves as acting according to reasons that we can typically articulate and acknowledge, though we may be reluctant to do so.

A germinal examination of rhetoric's beginnings through pre-fourth-century Greek textsHow did rhetoric begin and what was it before it was called "e;rhetoric"e;?