Philosophy of language

"e;Tell me,"e; Wittgenstein once asked a friend, "e;why do people always say, it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating?

This handsome new edition of Stanley Cavell's landmark text, first published 20 years ago, provides a new preface that discusses the reception and influence of his work, which occupies a unique niche between philosophy and literary studies.

Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his lifetime.

The close connection between philosophy of language and philosophy of law has been recognized for decades through the work of many influential legal philosophers.

This book addresses a wide range of aspects of the study of language in a variety of domains such as cognition, change, acquisition, structure, philosophy, politics, and education.

Inferentialism is a philosophical approach premised on the claim that an item of language (or thought) acquires meaning (or content) in virtue of being embedded in an intricate set of social practices normatively governed by inferential rules.

This book builds on the idea that pragmatics and philosophy are strictly interconnected and that advances in one area will generate consequential advantages in the other area.

Written by a celebrated Islamic scholar to his students in Turkey after his political exile in 1925, these letters follow the long-established traditions of correspondence between spiritual masters and their students in remote lands.

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

This book will appeal to students and professional in the philosophy of science, the philosophy of biology and the philosophy of language.

Whereas the relationship between truth and propositional content has already been intensively investigated, there are only very few studies devoted to the task of illuminating the relationship between truth and illocutionary acts.

This book explores linguistic and philosophical issues presented by sentences expressing personal taste, such as Roller coasters are fun, or Licorice is tasty.

This book aims to provide a solution to the semantic paradoxes.

This introduction brings to life the main themes in Indian philosophy of language by using an accessible translation of an Indian classical text to provide an entry into the world of Indian linguistic theories.

The Readability of the World represents Hans Blumenberg's first extended demonstration of the metaphorological method he pioneered in Paradigms for a Metaphorology.

Engaging undergraduate students and instigating debate within philosophy seminars is one of the greatest challenges faced by instructors on a daily basis.

Truth: The Basics is a concise and engaging introduction to philosophical theories about the nature of truth.

This collection of newly published essays examines our relationship to physical objects that invoke, commemorate, and honor the past.

What is philosophy, why does it matter, and how would it be different if women wrote more of it?

Metaphors of Multilingualism explores changing attitudes towards multilingualism by focusing on shifts both in the choice and in the use of metaphors.

Richard Gaskin presents a work in the philosophy of language.

Preußischer Staatsmann, Schulreformer, Philosoph und Sprachforscher - Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835) wirkte auf vielen Gebieten.

Communication is one of the most challenging human phenomena, and the same is true of its paradigmatic verbal realization as a dialogue.

Exploring the relationship between hermeneutics and the arts, including painting, music, and literature, this book builds on hermeneutics from a practical perspective, connecting this area of critical research with others to reveal how it is viewed from different perspectives.

"Que Wittgenstein es uno de los grandes nombres de la filosofía del siglo XX es indiscutible.

Interrogating the relatively new field of cognitive semiotics, this book explores shared issues in cognitive science and semiotics.

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.

The widespread understanding of language in the West is that it represents the world.

In Gestalt der Wortphilosophie besitzt das abendländische Denken eine Bühne, auf der die zeitlosen Fragen der klassischen Metaphysik in neuartiger Weise diskutierbar sind.

This is the first book to focus on occasionalism in early modern German philosophy.

The wide-ranging European perspectives brought together in this volume aim to analyse, by means of an interdisciplinary approach, the numerous implications of a massive shift in the conception of 'work' and the category of 'worker'.

The chapters in this volume address a variety of issues surrounding quotation, such as whether it is a pragmatic or semantic phenomenon, what varieties of quotation exist, and what speech acts are involved in quoting.

Stories about gendered social relations permeate the Qur'an, and nearly three hundred verses involve specific women or girls.

In this volume we witness Wittgenstein in the act of composing and experimenting with his new visions in philosophy.

This book is concerned with the appropriate form of explanations in historiography and the social sciences.

This is the first account of invented stories involving the Christian supernatural.