Philosophy of language

John Hawthorne and David Manley present an original treatment of the semantic phenomenon of reference and the cognitive phenomenon of singular thought.

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The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems.

The past 15 years have witnessed an increasing interest in the comparative study of language and music as cognitive systems.

Simon Blackburn presents a selection of his philosophical essays from 1995 to 2010.

This book presents a radical reconceptualization of the nature of linguistic knowledge.

This collection brings together the best contemporary philosophical work in the area of intersection between philosophy of language and the law.

A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a profound and arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world.

Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher, developed his critical technique known as 'deconstruction'.

It's an obvious enough observation that the standards that govern whether ordinary speakers will say that someone knows something vary with context: What we are happy to call "e;knowledge"e; in some ("e;low-standards"e;) contexts we'll deny is "e;knowledge"e; in other ("e;high-standards"e;) contexts.

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.

A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a profound and arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world.

The goal of inquiry is to acquire knowledge of truths about the world.

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

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

At least since Locke, philosophers and psychologists have usually held that concepts arise out of sensory perceptions, thoughts are built from concepts, and language enables speakers to convey their thoughts to hearers.

There is a lot that we don't know.

Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher, developed his critical technique known as 'deconstruction'.

Since the middle of the 20th century Ludwig Wittgenstein has been an exceptionally influential and controversial figure wherever philosophy is studied.

One of the most important philosophers of recent times, Elizabeth Anscombe wrote books and articles on a wide range of topics, including the ground-breaking monograph Intention.

Thought, to be thought at all, must be about a world independent of us.

What is truth?

Jerry Fodor presents a new development of his famous Language of Thought hypothesis, which has since the 1970s been at the centre of interdisciplinary debate about how the mind works.

Expressivism - the sophisticated contemporary incarnation of the noncognitivist research program of Ayer, Stevenson, and Hare - is no longer the province of metaethicists alone.

Philosophers on Music: Experience, Meaning, and Work presents significant new contributions to central issues in the philosophy of music, written by leading philosophers working in the analytic tradition.

Artworld Metaphysics turns a critical eye upon aspects of the artworld, and articulates some of the problems, principles, and norms implicit in the actual practices of artistic creation, interpretation, evaluation, and commodification.

Is the point of belief and assertion invariably to think or say something true?

Between Saying and Doing aims to reconcile pragmatism (in both its classical American and its Wittgensteinian forms) with analytic philosophy.

Brian Skyrms presents a fascinating exploration of how fundamental signals are to our world.

In Truly Understood, Christopher Peacocke argues that truth and reference have a much deeper role in the explanation of meaning and understanding than has hitherto been appreciated.

The phenomenon of substitution failure is a longstanding focus of discussion for philosophers of language.

Testimony is an invaluable source of knowledge.

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.

Among the various conceptions of truth is one according to which 'is true' is a transparent, entirely see-through device introduced for only practical (expressive) reasons.

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

This volume explores the expression of the concepts count and mass in human language and probes the complex relation between seemingly incontrovertible aspects of meaning and their varied grammatical realizations across languages.

This book is a cross-linguistic exploration of semantic and functional change in modal markers.

Simon Blackburn presents a selection of his philosophical essays from 1995 to 2010.

This book presents recent research on the role of space as a mechanism in language use and learning.

Knowledge in an Uncertain World is an exploration of the relation between knowledge, reasons, and justification.

Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a large scale in war.

This book presents a state-of-the-art account of what we know and would like to know about language, mind, and brain.

Kathrin Koslicki offers an analysis of ordinary materials objects, those material objects to which we take ourselves to be committed in ordinary, scientifically informed discourse.

Internalism in philosophy of mind is the thesis that all conditions that constitute a person's current thoughts and sensations, with their characteristic contents, are internal to that person's skin and contemporaneous.

This volume presents a series of essays published by Charles Kahn over a period of forty years, in which he seeks to explicate the ancient Greek concept of Being.

In 1945 Alonzo Church issued a pair of referee reports in which he anonymously conveyed to Frederic Fitch a surprising proof showing that wherever there is (empirical) ignorance there is also logically unknowable truth.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original philospher, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking goes well beyond philosophy itself.

Philosophy of language has for some time now been the very core of the discipline of philosophy.

In this book Joseph Raz develops his views on some of the central questions in practical philosophy: legal, political, and moral.