Philosophy of language

Speech-act theory is the interdisciplinary study of the wide range of things we do with words.

The Logic of Language opens a new perspective on logic.

It can be said that western literature begins with a war story, the Iliad; and that this is true too of many non-Western literary traditions, such as the Mahabharata.

Knowledge ascriptions, such as 'Sam knows that Obama is president of the United States', play a central role in our cognitive and social lives.

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.

Current Legal Issues, like its sister volume Current Legal Problems (now available in journal format), is based upon an annual colloquium held at University College London.

In recent years the idea that an adequate semantics of ordinary language calls for some theory of events has sparked considerable debate among linguists and philosophers.

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Interpretation and Construction examines the interpretation and products of intentional human behavior, focusing primarily on issues in art, law, and everyday speech.

Quantification is a topic which brings together linguistics, logic, and philosophy.

This volume offers recent developments in pragmatics and adjacent territories of investigation, including important new concepts such as the pragmatic act and the pragmeme, and combines developments in neighboring disciplines in an integrative holistic pragmatic approach.

This book utilizes archive research, interviews and historical analysis to present a comprehensive overview of the works of Christine Brooke-Rose.

This collection of classic and contemporary essays in philosophy of language offers a concise introduction to the field for students in graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses.

Linguistic theories often suffer from the dilemma that their explanatory power is based on extra-linguistic assumptions.

Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy, whose contributions to logic, philosophical semantics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mathematics set the agenda for future generations of theorists in these and related areas.

This book showcases the history and theory of pragmatism and its alignment to the sensibilities of contemporary analytic philosophy.

This book focuses on reconnecting with the lost rich humanitarian content of the Qur'an through a hermeneutical investigation of al-Khidr's story.

The thirty-two papers in this collection are offered to Professor S.

Interpreting Figurative Meaning explores interdisciplinary debates on the ways in which humans comprehend figurative language in everyday life.

In this first book-length study of the topic, Robert C.

Charles Travis presents a series of essays in which he has developed his distinctive view of the relation of thought to language.

The study of the linguistic reflexes of aspect has been an active field of research in various sub-disciplines of linguistics, such as syntax, semantics (including discourse theory) and acquisition studies.

Sebastian Knell untersucht die Sprach- und Intentionalitätstheorie, die Robert B.

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.

The question of how language relates to the world is one of the most important problems of philosophy.

This book provides an accessible, comprehensive and critical overview of theories of linguistic reference and meaning in the 20th century.

This book considers the Arabic biographies of Prophet Muhammad, the earliest of which dates from two centuries after his life.

Our understanding of CS Peirce, and his semiotics, is largely influenced by a twentieth century perspective that prioritizes the sign as a cultural artifact, or as one that that 'distorts', in some way, our understanding of the empirical world.

Der Band umfasst Beitrage zur "e;systematischen Wissensforschung"e;.

This second edition discusses advances in Chomsky''s science of language, his view of the human mind and its study, and his socioeconomic-political contributions.

Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) is a towering figure in modern thought, but one who has hitherto been severely underappreciated.

"e;According to the words of Phaedrus in the Symposium of Plato, Love, sometimes named Eros, has no parents, no age, no history, and its origin remains unknown to anyone.

This book presents cutting-edge concepts on the question of trust.

The tenets of Islam cannot be grasped without a proper understanding of the Qur'an.

When you light a match it is the striking of it which causes the lighting; the presence of oxygen in the room is a background condition to the lighting.

This book examines the philosophical and scientific achievements of Sir Kenelm Digby, a successful English diplomat, privateer and natural philosopher of the mid-1600s.

This book advances a reading of Wittgenstein's Tractatus that moves beyond the main interpretative options of the New Wittgenstein debate.

Jurgen Trabant reads the profound insights into human semiosis contained in Vico's 'sematology' as both a spirited rejection of Cartesian philosophy and an early critique of enlightened logocentricism.

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.

Traditional philosophical discussions of knowledge have focused on the epistemic status of full beliefs.

Wittgenstein is one of the most important and influential twentieth-century philosophers in the western tradition.

First published in 1977, this book is intended as a record of sources in Islamic prophetology which focus on the prophet Isa - Jesus in Christian theology.

This book argues that a basic grasp of philosophy and logic can produce written and spoken material that is both grammatically correct and powerful.

Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had acted differently?

The nine contributors to this collection examine rhetorician Kenneth Burke's understanding of transcendence, applying it to a wide range of social and political issues, including racial and presidential politics.