Philosophy of language

Analyticity, or the 'analytic/synthetic' distinction is one of the most important and controversial problems in contemporary philosophy.

This book presents a new, contemporary introduction to medieval philosophy as it was practiced in all its variety in Western Europe and the Near East.

Is a whole something more than the sum of its parts?

Divides Aristotle''s concept of lexis into three interconnected levels, exposing numerous valuable statements on language and style.

In this book, Ilhan Inan questions the classical definition of curiosity as a desire to know.

The relative merits and demerits of historically prominent views about truth, such as the correspondence theory, coherentism, pragmatism, verificationism, and instrumentalism have been subject to much attention, and have fueled the long-lived debate over which of these views is the most plausible.

This book addresses the fundamental issues in the phase-based approach to the mental computation of language that have arisen from the recent developments in the Minimalist Program.

This is the first guide and introduction to the extraordinary range of languages in Amazonia, which include some of the most the most fascinating in the world and many of which are now teetering on the edge of extinction.

This book offers a systematic account of syntactic categories - the building blocks of sentences and the units of grammatical analysis - and explains their place in different theories of language.

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.

This volume stresses the importance of a multidisciplinary perspective in deepening knowledge of the interface between semantics and pragmatics.

In Corsica, spelling contests, road signs, bilingual education bills and Corsican language newscasts leave language planners and ordinary speakers deeply divided over how to define what "e;counts"e; as Corsican and how it is connected with cultural identity.

This book offers an innovative defense of Wilfrid Sellars's notion of ideal truth.

The plot thickens--in novels and our lives--forcing us from the fairy tale into a bewildering, even heartbreaking narrative.

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.

Philosophy and rhetoric are both old enemies and old friends.

Rethinking Organizational Change: The Role of Dialogue, Dialectic & Polyphony in the Organization makes an important scholarly contribution to our understanding of dialogue applied to the management of change.

This volume brings together two series of papers: one began with Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepore's 1997 paper 'On an Alleged Connection Between the Theory of Meaning and Indirect Speech'.

Written by a diverse range of scholars, this accessible introductory volume asks: What is implicit bias?

Pondering on Problems of Argumentation is a collection of twenty essays brought together for anyone who is interested in theoretical issues in the study of argumentation.

Originally published in 1969.

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

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.

A remarkably clear explication of the tenets of Object-Oriented Philosophy and an acute critique of the movement''s ramifications for philosophy today.

The Qur'an: Modern Muslim Interpretations offers a lucid guide to how Muslims have read the Qur'an in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

In fifteen essays-one new, two newly revised and expanded, three with new postscripts-Kendall L.

A provocative case for the inherently political nature of languageIn The Politics of Language, David Beaver and Jason Stanley present a radical new approach to the theory of meaning, offering an account of communication in which political and social identity, affect, and shared practices play as important a role as information.

The articles in this volume grew from papers presented at the workshop on control held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 1989.

Jonathan Ichikawa develops a contextualist semantics for knowledge ascriptions, and shows how it can illuminate foundational questions in epistemology.

This volume looks at the forms and functions of counterspeech as well as what determines its effectiveness and success from multidisciplinary perspectives.

Our words and ideas refer to objects and properties in the external world; this phenomenon is central to thought, language, communication, and science.

Derivation and Explanation in the Minimalist Program presents accessible, cutting edge research on an enduring and fundamental question confronting all linguistic inquiry the respective roles of derivation and representation.

This volume is a collective exploration of major themes in the work of Crispin Wright, one of today's leading philosophers.

The voluminous writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein contain some of the most profound reflections of recent times on the nature of the human subject and self-understanding - the human condition, philosophically speaking.

Winner, ASA (American Society for Aesthetics) 2023 Outstanding Monograph Prize

For Theodore Gracyk meaning in popular music depends as much on the context of reception and performer's intentions as on established musical and semantic practices.

Close Listening brings together seventeen strikingly original essays, especially written for this volume, on the poetry reading, the sound of poetry, and the visual performance of poetry.

Lying is a familiar and morally important phenomenon.

This book is all about the captivating ability that the human language has to express intricately logical (mathematical) meanings using tiny (microsemantic) morphemes as utilities.

Schizophrenia is one of the most enigmatic mental disorders, and language is one of its most essential and distinctive traits.

At the centre of our ethical thought stands the human being.

First published in 1994, this book is concerned with certain kinds of wh-clauses, whose interpretations are easily and, the author argues, plausibly rendered by a logicosemantic analysis on which wh-phrases translate as open sentences, that is, as expressions of the semantically interpreted representation which contain free variables.

This volume brings together papers originally presented at a seminar series on Speculative Grammar, Universal Grammar, and Philosophical Analysis, held at the University of Bologna in 1984.

This book asks how we-as citizens, immigrants, activists, teachers-can counter the abuse of language in our midst.

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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.