Problems in the Philosophy of Language
Author | : Thomas M. Olshewsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 792 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Thomas M. Olshewsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 792 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ryan M. Nefdt |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2021-03-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3030554384 |
This volume brings together a diverse range of scholars to address important philosophical and interdisciplinary questions in the study of language. Linguistics throughout history has been a conduit to the study of the mind, brain, societal structure, literature and history itself. The epistemic and methodological transfer between the sciences and humanities in regards to linguistics has often been documented, but the underlying philosophical issues have not always been adequately addressed. With 15 original and interdisciplinary chapters, this volume therefore tackles vital questions relating to the philosophy, history, and theoretical interplay between the study of language and fields as varied as logic, physics, biology, classical philology and neuroscience. With a four part structure, questions of the mathematical foundations of linguistics, links to the natural sciences, cognitive implications and historical connections, take centre stage throughout the volume. The final chapters present research related to the linguistic connections between history, philosophy and the humanities more broadly. Advancing new avenues of research, this volume is exemplary in its treatment of diachronic and cross-disciplinary interaction, and will be of interest to all scholars interested in the study of language.
Author | : William G. Lycan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2012-08-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134696043 |
Philosophy of Language introduces the student to the main issues and theories in twentieth-century philosophy of language. Topics are structured in three parts in the book. Part I, Reference and Referring Expressions, includes topics such as Russell's Theory of Desciptions, Donnellan's distinction, problems of anaphora, the description theory of proper names, Searle's cluster theory, and the causal-historical theory. Part II, Theories of Meaning, surveys the competing theories of linguistic meaning and compares their various advantages and liabilities. Part III, Pragmatics and Speech Acts, introduces the basic concepts of linguistic pragmatics, includes a detailed discussion of the problem of indirect force and surveys approaches to metaphor. Unique features of the text: * chapter overviews and summaries * clear supportive examples * study questions * annotated further reading * glossary.
Author | : Andrea Nye |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1998-11-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
This anthology brings together a diversity of readings in the philosophy of language from the ancient Greeks to contemporary analytic, feminist, and multicultural perspectives. The emphasis is on issues that have a direct bearing on concerns about knowledge, reality, meaning, and understanding. A general introduction and introductions to each group of readings identify both the continuities and differences in the way "big" questions in philosophy of language have been addressed by philosophers of different historical periods, institutional affiliations, races, and genders.
Author | : Zoltán Gendler Szabó |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2018-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107096642 |
The first philosophy of language textbook on the market to cater to both linguists and philosophers.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 774 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Language and languages |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ufuk Özen Baykent |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2016-08-17 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1443898201 |
Language is what we all share and is our common concern. What is the nature of language? How is language related to the world? How is communication possible via language? What is the impact of language on our reasoning and thinking? Many people are unaware that misunderstandings and conflicts during communication occur as a result of the way we use language. This book introduces the central issues in the history of philosophical investigations about the concept of language. Topics are structured with reference to the world’s foremost philosophers of language. The book will encourage the reader to explore the depths of the concept of language and will raise an awareness of this distinctive human capacity.
Author | : Gary Kemp |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0415517834 |
Philosophy of language explores some of the fundamental yet most technical problems in philosophy, such as meaning and reference, semantics, and propositional attitudes. Some of its greatest exponents, including Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell are amongst the major figures in the history of philosophy. In this clear and carefully structured introduction to the subject Gary Kemp explains the following key topics: the basic nature of philosophy of language and its historical development early arguments concerning the role of meaning, including cognitive meaning vs expressivism, context and compositionality Frege's arguments concerning sense and reference; non-existent objects Russell and the theory of definite descriptions modern theories including Kripke and Putnam; arguments concerning necessity, analyticity and natural kind terms indexicality, context and modality. What are indexicals? Davidson's theory of language and the 'principle of charity' propositional attitudes Quine's naturalism and its consequences for philosophy of language. Chapter summaries, annotated further reading and a glossary make this an indispensable introduction to those teaching philosophy of language and will be particularly useful for students coming to the subject for the first time.
Author | : Scott Soames |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2012-09-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0691155976 |
A masterful overview of the philosophy of language from one of its most important thinkers In this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field—its principal achievements, its most pressing current questions, and its most promising future directions. In addition to explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical framework for the study of language, Scott Soames investigates foundational concepts—such as truth, reference, and meaning—that are central to the philosophy of language and important to philosophy as a whole. The first part of the book describes how philosophers from Frege, Russell, Tarski, and Carnap to Kripke, Kaplan, and Montague developed precise techniques for understanding the languages of logic and mathematics, and how these techniques have been refined and extended to the study of natural human languages. The book then builds on this account, exploring new thinking about propositions, possibility, and the relationship between meaning, assertion, and other aspects of language use. An invaluable overview of the philosophy of language by one of its most important practitioners, this book will be essential reading for all serious students of philosophy.
Author | : Ian Hacking |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1975-09-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521099981 |
Many people find themselves dissatisfied with recent linguistic philosophy, and yet know that language has always mattered deeply to philosophy and must in some sense continue to do so. Ian Hacking considers here some dozen case studies in the history of philosophy to show the different ways in which language has been important, and the consequences for the development of the subject. There are chapters on, among others, Hobbes, Berkeley, Russell, Ayer, Wittgenstein, Chomsky, Feyerabend and Davidson. Dr Hacking ends by speculating about the directions in which philosophy and the study of language seem likely to go. The book will provide students with a stimulating, broad survey of problems in the theory of meaning and the development of philosophy, particularly in this century. The topics treated in the philosophy of language are among the central, current concerns of philosophers, and the historical framework makes it possible to introduce concretely and intelligibly all the main theoretical issues.