Philosophy of language

Saul Kripke is one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century.

Playing a key role in our lives, as a vehicle for our thoughts and a powerful medium of communication, language is at the centre of philosophical investigation.

This book explains how the meanings of the symbols of logic are determined by the rules that govern them.

This is a collection of essays on the native and non-native acquisition of syntax within the Principles and Parameters framework.

This book presents a collection of interrelated essays that analyze the theoretical foundations of semiotic-cultural constructivism in psychology written by one of the pioneers in this field of research: Dr.

Exploring the subjectivity of the Qur?

Felicitous uses of contextually sensitive expressions generally have unique semantic values in context.

This study describes the 1200-year history of German quantifying expressions like nioman anderro > niemand anderer 'nobody else', analyzing the morpho-syntactic developments within the generative framework.

This volume reprints eight of Anil Gupta's essays, some with additional material.

This volume develops a theory of meaning and a semantics for both mathematical and empirical sentences inspired to Chomsky's internalism, namely to a view of semantics as the study of the relations of language not with external reality but with internal, or mental, reality.

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A familiar trope of cognitive science, linguistics, and the philosophy of psychology over the past forty or so years has been the idea of the mind as a modular system-that is, one consisting of functionally specialized subsystems responsible for processing different classes of input, or handling specific cognitive tasks like vision, language, logic, music, and so on.

This edited volume presents new lines of research dealing with the language of thought and its philosophical implications in the time of Ockham.

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

The Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations invites readers to deepen their understanding of the historical, social, cultural, and political themes that impact modern-day perceptions of interfaith dialogue.

This book argues that languages are composed of sets of 'signs', rather than 'strings'.

"e;Abrahamic religion"e; has long been a buzzword in ecumenical discourse.

This Pivot studies the influence of Julia Kristeva's work on American literary and film studies.

Michael Forster here presents a ground-breaking study of German philosophy of language in the nineteenth century (and beyond).

A concise, readable and up-to-date introduction to Bakhtin, which provides students with an accessible but sophisticated guide to his work.

Fusing speculative realism, analytical and linguistic philosophy this book theorises the fundamental impact the experience of reading has on us.

The art of interpreting Holy Scriptures flourished throughout the culturally heterogeneous pre-modern Orient among Jews, Christians and Muslims.

This book contains updated and substantially revised versions of Angelika Kratzer's classic papers on modals and conditionals, including 'What "e;must"e; and "e;can"e; must and can mean', 'Partition and Revision', 'The Notional Category of Modality', 'Conditionals', 'An Investigation of the Lumps of Thought', and 'Facts: Particulars or Information Units?

Though inspired by a Panofskyan legacy, this book diverges at certain points from Erwin Panofsky's declared objectives, and calls attention to several of aspects that were until now less accentuated in his intellectual reception.

Understanding Wittgenstein's Tractatus provides an accessible and yet novel discussion of all the major themes of the Tractatus.

Le present volume reunit les contributions d'un colloque sur la pensee semiotique et linguistique des Ideologues qui s'est tenu a Berlin du 3 au 5 octobre 1983.

In recent years, questions about epistemic reasons, norms and goals have seen an upsurge of interest.

Part I of this book presents a theory of modal metaphysics in the possible-worlds tradition.

An introduction to philosophy of language through systematic and accessible explanations of ten classic texts by such thinkers as Frege, Kripke, Russell, and Putnam.

This volume features fifteen new papers by an international group of scholars in ancient philosophy, with a particular focus on new work in ancient Greek and Roman ethics, epistemology, logic, and science.

First published in 1990, Philosophy at the Limit was originally part of the Problems of Modern European Thought book series.

This book argues that a tribe of the primitive society is formed because of kinship, while a state of the civilized society is formed because of language.

Harry Smit examines the elements of current evolutionary theory and how they bear on the evolution of the human mind.

This book explores the intersections between dreaming and the literary imagination, in light of the findings of recent neurocognitive and empirical research, with the aim to lay a groundwork for an empirically informed aesthetics of dreaming.

(Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein will be read by philosophers investigating Wittgenstein and by scholars, interpreters, students, and specialists, in both analytic and continental philosophy.

'Free speech' has become central to discussions about racism, and is increasingly weaponised against anti-racist movements.

Die Lautgeographie gehört zu den erfolgreichsten Gebieten der klassischen Dialektologie.

This monograph details a new solution to an old problem of metaphysics.

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.

At a superficial examination, English has different types of nominals with similar meaning and distribution: (1)a.