Philosophy of language

This book introduces the most important problems of reference and considers the solutions that have been proposed to explain them.

This book tells a great philosophical tale.

Das Anliegen der Ontosophie besteht darin, evolutionär und kulturell verzerrte Vorstellungen von dem, was Denken und Realität seien, herauszustellen und sie via Bewusstwerdung zu durchschauen.

Plurality, Conjunction and Events presents a novel theory of plural and conjoined phrases, in an event-based semantic framework.

Qur'anic Studies Today brings together specialists in the field of Islamic studies to provide a range of essays that reflect the depth and breadth of scholarship on the Qur'an.

I n order to appreciate properly what we are doing in this book it is necessary to realize that our approach to linguistic theorizing differs from the prevailing views.

In the study of language, as in any other systematic study, there is no neutral terminology.

In this fascinating volume, Zipi Rosenberg Schipper approaches the fundamental topic of testimony, seeking to recognize its value as a distinct and vital function in psychoanalytic work, separate from its inherited importance to work on trauma.

One of the most influential contemporary philosophers, Hilary Putnam's involvement in philosophy spans philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, ontology and epistemology and logic.

This is the first comprehensive textbook on higher-order logic that is written specifically to introduce the subject matter to graduate students in philosophy.

An accessible introduction to the key topics in theoretical pragmatics, including Grice, speech acts, relevance theory, and politeness.

This volume addresses the problem of how language expresses conceptual information on event structures and how such information can be reconstructed in the interpretation process.

This volume brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to define and describe tabooed words and language and to investigate the reasons and beliefs behind them.

A state-of-the-art view of present-day linguistic typology, focussing on universal tendencies across the world''s languages and variation within individual categories.

The study of meaning in language embraces a diverse range of problems and methods.

This book examines the arguments and evidence for and against conceptual metaphors across academic disciplines.

First published in 1990, this book argues that any theory of language constructs its 'object' by separating 'relevant' from 'irrelevant' phenomena - excluding the latter.

What is astro-culture?

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.

In his writings around 1930, Wittgenstein relates his philosophy in different ways to the idea of phenomenology.

Russell's On Denoting and Frege's On Sense and Reference are now widely held to be two of the founding papers of twentieth century philosophy and form the heart of the famous "e;linguistic turn"e;.

This monograph examines truth in fiction by applying the techniques of a naturalized logic of human cognitive practices.

This book offers a new view of Italian Renaissance intellectual life, linking philosophy and literature as expressed in both Latin and Italian.

I have been thinking about the philosophical issue of truth for more than two decades.

This edited volume offers an incisive exploration of the intersection between Islam and evolutionary theory - a topic that remains a focal point of vigorous academic debate and inquiry.

En clara consonancia con el problema del «comprender del comprender» como de-poner originario, en esta cuidada selección de ensayos Werner Hamacher nos sitúa en un plano más elemental: el hecho de que el conocimiento, el arte, la cultura y el mundo están constituidos lingüísticamente y que, por lo tanto, se conforman en el detraimiento, las sustracciones, y las desavenencias de la lengua.

By creating certain marks on paper, or by making certain sounds-breathing past a moving tongue-or by articulation of hands and bodies, language users can give expression to their mental lives.

This book is an innovative, formal framework for studying the meanings of words and how their meanings combine.

Philosophy and the Vision of Language explores the history and enduring significance of the twentieth-century turn to language as a specific object of investigation and resource for philosophical reflection.

In this fascinating, provocative account, eminent philosopher John Searle shows how our everyday actions and cultural knowledge are of a metaphysical complexity that is truely staggering.

Originally published in 1973, this book shows that methods developed for the semantics of systems of formal logic can be successfully applied to problems about the semantics of natural languages; and, moreover, that such methods can take account of features of natural language which have often been thought incapable of formal treatment, such as vagueness, context dependence and metaphorical meaning.

To clarify and facilitate our inquiries we need to define a disquotational truth predicate that we are directly licensed to apply not only to our own sentences as we use them now, but also to other speakers' sentences and our own sentences as we used them in the past.

This book provides a new, linguistic approach to Argumentation Theory.

This collection examines the instrumental role of intersubjectivity in Husserl's philosophy and explores the potential for developing novel ways of addressing and resolving contemporary philosophical issues on that basis.

This book builds a case for how social norms are neither mere conventions nor are they merely anthropological phenomena, which are relativistic.

The largely Arabo-centric approach to the academic study of tafsir has resulted in a lack of literature exploring the diversity of Qur'anic interpretation in other areas of the Muslim-majority world.