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| Author | : Etienne Gilson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : |
The dual purpose of this volume-to provide a distinctively philosophical introduction to logic, as well as a logic-oriented approach to philosophy-makes it a unique and worthwhile primary text for logic or philosophy courses.
| Author | : Bernard Harrison |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 1972 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Margaret Cameron |
| Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2015-03-19 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0191046337 |
Philosophy of language has a rich and varied history stretching back to the Ancient Greeks. Twelve specially written essays explore this richness, from Plato and Aristotle, through the Stoics, to medieval thinkers, both Islamic and Christian; from the Renaissance and the early modern period, all the way up to the twentieth Century. Among the many topics that arise across this 2500-year trajectory are metaphysical questions about linguistic content. A first focal point of the volume is the issue of which broad ontological family linguistic contents belong to. Are linguistic contents mental ideas, physical particulars, abstract Forms, social practices, or something else again? And do different sorts of linguistic contents belong to different ontological categories-e.g., might it be that names stand for ideas, whereas logical terms stand for mental processes? The second focal point is the metaphysical grounding of linguistic content: that is, in virtue of what more basic facts do content facts obtain? Do words mean what they do because of natural resemblances? Because of causal relations? Because of arbitrary conventional usage? Or because of some combination of the above?
| Author | : Max Black |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 1966 |
| Genre | : General semantics |
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| Author | : Siobhan Chapman |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2009-01-19 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0748631429 |
This book offers introductory entries on 80 ideas that have shaped the study of language up to the present day. Entries are written by experts in the fields of linguistics and the philosophy of language to reflect the full range of approaches and modes of thought. Each entry includes a brief description of the idea, an account of its development, and its impact on the field of language study. The book is written in an accessible style with clear descriptions of technical terms, guides to further reading, and extensive cross-referencing between entries. A useful additional feature of this book is that it is cross-referenced throughout with Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language (Edinburgh, 2005), revealing significant connections and continuities in the two related disciplines. Ideas covered range from Sense Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Logic, through Generative Semantics, Cognitivism, and Conversation Analysis, to Political Correctness, Deconstruction, and Corpora.
| Author | : Scott Soames |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 440 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0691136815 |
The two volumes of Philosophical Essays bring together the most important essays written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of language. Scott Soames has selected thirty-one essays spanning nearly three decades of thinking about linguistic meaning and the philosophical significance of language. A judicious collection of old and new, these volumes include sixteen essays published in the 1980s and 1990s, nine published since 2000, and six new essays. The essays in Volume 1 investigate what linguistic meaning is; how the meaning of a sentence is related to the use we make of it; what we should expect from empirical theories of the meaning of the languages we speak; and how a sound theoretical grasp of the intricate relationship between meaning and use can improve the interpretation of legal texts. The essays in Volume 2 illustrate the significance of linguistic concerns for a broad range of philosophical topics--including the relationship between language and thought; the objects of belief, assertion, and other propositional attitudes; the distinction between metaphysical and epistemic possibility; the nature of necessity, actuality, and possible worlds; the necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori; truth, vagueness, and partial definition; and skepticism about meaning and mind. The two volumes of Philosophical Essays are essential for anyone working on the philosophy of language.
| Author | : Peter Ludlow |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 1108 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9780262621144 |
A central theme of this collection is that the philosophy of language, at least a core portion of it, has matured to the point where it is now being spun off into linguistic theory.
| Author | : Piotr Stalmaszczyk |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 426 |
| Release | : 2013-05-02 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 3110330474 |
Papers gathered in the two volumes investigate the complex relations between philosophy of language and linguistics, viewed as independent, but mutually influencing one another, disciplines. They concentrate on the ‘formal’ and ‘philosophical’ turns in the philosophy of language, initiated by Gottlob Frege, with further developments associated with the work of Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, W.O.V. Quine, Richard Montague, Pavel Tichý, Richard Rorty. The volumes bring together contributions by philosophers, logicians and linguists, representing different theoretical orientations but united in outlining the common ground, necessary for further research in philosophy of language and linguistics. The papers were submitted and, in most cases, presented at the first International Conference on Philosophy of Language and Linguistics, PhiLang2009, organized by the Chair of English and General Linguistics at the University of Lódz.
| Author | : John R. Searle |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 166 |
| Release | : 1971 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : |
Contains an introductory essay by the editor on the ten contemporary articles selected and on the questions which they raise.
| Author | : Richard Rorty |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 420 |
| Release | : 1992-03 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780226725697 |
The Linguistic Turn provides a rich and representative introduction to the entire historical and doctrinal range of the linguistic philosophy movement. In two retrospective essays titled "Ten Years After" and "Twenty-Five Years After," Rorty shows how his book was shaped by the time in which it was written and traces the directions philosophical study has taken since. "All too rarely an anthology is put together that reflects imagination, command, and comprehensiveness. Rorty's collection is just such a book."—Review of Metaphysics
