Philosophy of language

It is tempting to think that, if a person's beliefs are coherent, they are also likely to be true.

This pioneering book lays new foundations for the study of reference and truth.

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

This groundbreaking book offers a new and compelling perspective on the structure of human language.

Mark Wilson presents a highly original and broad-ranging investigation of the way we get to grips with the world conceptually, and the way that philosophical problems commonly arise from this.

This book explores the semantic and pragmatic mechanisms underlying grammaticalization.

This introduction to the role of information structure in grammar discusses a wide range of phenomena on the syntax-information structure interface.

A collection of the best work by philosophers, cognitive scientists, and linguists on grammatical gradience and linguistic uncertainty - such as when warm becomes hot, how many grains make a heap, and when a puddle becomes a pond - introduced, explained, contextualized, and indexed.

The Nature of Normativity presents a complete theory about the nature of normative thought -- that is, the sort of thought that is concerned with what ought to be the case, or what we ought to do or think.

Knowledge by Agreement defends the ideas that knowledge is a social status (like money, or marriage), and that knowledge is primarily the possession of groups rather than individuals.

Brad Inwood presents a selection of his most influential essays on the philosophy of Seneca, the Roman Stoic thinker, statesman, and tragedian of the first century AD.

Paradox and Platitude in Wittgenstein's Philosophy is a concise and readable study of five intertwined themes at the heart of Wittgenstein's thought, written by one of his most eminent interpreters.

This book explores how grammatical structure is related to meaning.

Discussion of Wittgenstein's Tractatus is currently dominated by two opposing interpretations of the work: a metaphysical or realist reading and the 'resolute' reading of Diamond and Conant.

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 Liar paradox raises foundational questions about logic, language, and truth (and semantic notions in general).

The analytic/synthetic distinction looks simple.

Language Turned on Itself examines what happens when language becomes self-reflexive; when language is used to talk about language.

Saving Truth from Paradox is an ambitious investigation into paradoxes of truth and related issues, with occasional forays into notions such as vagueness, the nature of validity, and the Godel incompleteness theorems.

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

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.

This is the first exhaustive investigation of gradience in syntax, conceived of as grammatical indeterminacy.

Testimony is an invaluable source of knowledge.

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

This book is about the representations - both visual and linguistic - which people give of their own places of origin.

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.

Fifteen specially written papers examine the ways in which the content of what we say is dependent on the context in which we say it.

In this volume leading researchers present new work on the semantics and pragmatics of adjectives and adverbs, and their interfaces with syntax.

This book examines the hypothesis of "e;direct compositionality"e;, which requires that semantic interpretation proceed in tandem with syntactic combination.

This book gives a clear and readable overview of the philosophical work of Jurgen Habermas, the most influential German philosopher alive today, who has commented widely on subjects such as Marxism, the importance and effectiveness of communication, the reunification of Germany, and the European Union.

A complement clause is used instead of a noun phrase; for example one can say either I heard [the result] or I heard [that England beat France].

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.

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

Between the beginnings of European lexicography and 1700, many glossaries and dictionaries were arranged not according to the alphabet, but in a topical order which followed the influential paradigms of theology, philosophy, and natural history at that time.

Philosophers and logicians have long debated how best to understand conditional or hypothetical sentences.

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The Cambridge philosopher Frank Ramsey (1903-1930) died tragically young, but had already established himself as one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century.

Constructions of Intersubjectivity shows that the meaning of grammatical constructions often has more to do with the human cognitive capacity for taking other peoples' points of view than with describing the world.

This book argues that language is a network of concepts which in turn is part of the general cognitive network of the mind.

This book considers how expressions involving number are used by speakers and understood by hearers.

This handbook presents an overview of the phenomenon of reference - the ability to refer to and pick out entities - which is an essential part of human language and cognition.

This handbook presents an overview of the phenomenon of reference - the ability to refer to and pick out entities - which is an essential part of human language and cognition.

When we represent the world in language, in thought, or in perception, we often represent it from a perspective.

In this volume we witness Wittgenstein in the act of composing and experimenting with his new visions in philosophy.

Knowledge and Presuppositions develops a novel account of epistemic contextualism based on the idea that pragmatic presuppositions play a central role in the semantics of knowledge attributions.

This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use language to describe events.

This handbook deals with research into the nature of events, and how we use language to describe events.

This book examines the question of whether languages can differ in grammatical complexity and, if so, how relative complexity differences might be measured.

Stephen Schiffer's writing has been central to analytic philosophy of language and mind since the 1970s.