Philosophy of language

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Numerous volumes have been written on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, and new translations of his writings appear on a regular basis.

This is the first book to offer a philosophical engagement with microaggressions.

Essays on Existence and Essence presents a series of writings-including several previously unpublished-by Bob Hale on the topics of ontology and modality.

This book revives the study of conventional implicatures in natural language semantics.

John McDowell is one of the most widely read philosophers in recent years.

Now in paperback, Sandra Laugier's reconsideration of analytic philosophy and ordinary language.

This book focuses on the connection between action and verbal communication, exploring topics such as the mechanisms of language processing, action processing, voluntary and involuntary actions, knowledge of language and assertion.

Dieses Lehrbuch führt in die Grundbegriffe und Methoden der syntaktischen Analyse des Deutschen ein.

This volume sheds a new light on Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein's master opus, by taking a new approach to its first stretch (sections 1-88), with special emphasis on its atypical opening.

By comprehensively exploring the theoretical questions raised by professional communication, this book provides an introduction to the philosophy of communication.

Wittgenstein, possibly the most influential philosopher of the twentieth century, is often labelled a Neopositivist, a New-Kantian, even a Sceptic.

In this 2004 book, Paolo Crivelli discusses all the main aspects of Aristotle''s views on truth and falsehood.

This volume deals with the connection between thinking-and-speaking and our form(s) of life.

Using Reichenbach's (1947) theory of tenses and temporal structures as a point of departure, McGilvray modifies it to produce a theory of his own.

This volume explores the question of why languages - even those spoken in the same geographical area by people who share similar social structures, occupations, and religious beliefs - differ in the meanings expressed by their grammatical systems.

This book, published in 1976, presents an entirely original approach to the subject of the mind-body problem, examining it in terms of the conceptual links between the physical sciences and the sciences of human behaviour.

Offering an analysis of Christian-Muslim dialogue across four centuries, this book highlights those voices of ecumenical tone which have more often used the Qur'an for drawing the two faiths together rather than pushing them apart, and amplifies the voice of the Qur'an itself.

This is a self-contained introduction to the Minimalist Program for linguistic theory, the boldest and most radical version of Noam Chomsky's naturalistic approach to language.

The issue of Muslim women's rights never seems outdated and has become trendy in the post-9/11 environment.

The linguistic turn in critical theory has been routinely justified with the claim that Adorno's philosophy is trapped within the limits of consciousness philosophy.

Truth without Objectivity provides a critique of the mainstream view of 'meaning'.

This volume is a tribute to Roger Schwarzschild's immense contributions in the formal semantics of nouns, focus, degrees and space, and tense and aspect.

This book presents the theory of the validity of legal norms, aimed at the practice of law, in particular the jurisdiction of the constitutional courts.

The life of Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) was tormented by physical and mental illnesses.

This book is a full reference grammar of Qiang, one of the minority languages of southwest China, spoken by about 70,000 Qiang and Tibetan people in Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in northern Sichuan Province.

Combining semantics, pragmatics, and philosophy, this is a guide on how to think about meaning like a linguist and philosopher.

The definitive guide to demonstratives, which play a key role in language acquisition and use.

"e;Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.

This book brings together novel work on the semantics and pragmatics of certain indefinite expressions that also convey modality.

This book carries forward the discourse on the mind's engagement with the world.

The essays in this collection are the outgrowth of a workshop, held in June 1976, on formal approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of natural languages.

This book defends the Direct Reference (DR) thesis in philosophy of language regarding proper names and indexical pronouns.

Consequentialism is a focal point of discussion and a driving force behind important developments in moral philosophy.

This book demonstrates how, through cross-tradition engagement, insights and engaging treatments from the Chinese philosophical tradition can work with relevant resources from modern logic and contemporary philosophy to enhance our understanding of two basic principles of logic: the law of identity and the law of non-contradiction.

Sense, Reference, and Philosophy develops the far-reaching consequences for philosophy of adopting non-Fregean intensionalism, showing that long-standing problems in the philosophy of language, and indeed other areas, that appeared intractable can now be solved.

This edited book offers a broad selection of interdisciplinary studies within cognitive science.