Philosophy of language books

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Each article is divided into numbered sections, the numbers, in boldface type, being addresses to which we refer....  Read More >>

Suitable for philosophers, linguists, and graduate students of philosophy of language and linguistics, this title...  Read More >>

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Professor Pandit, working among the admirable group of philosophers at the University of Delhi, has written a fundamental...  Read More >>

Many metaphors go beyond pionting to the existing similarities between two objects -- they create the similarities....  Read More >>

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Current debate in cognitive science, from robotics to analysis of vision, deals with problems like the perception...  Read More >>

In The Natural Background to Meaning Denkel argues that meaning in language is an outcome of the evolutionary development...  Read More >>

Michael Dunn in Chapter 2 (A Comparative Study of Various Model-theoretic Treatments of Negation: A History of Formal...  Read More >>

This implied that truth (and consequently semantic concepts to which truth appeared to be reducible) proved itself...  Read More >>

Comprises systematic as well as historical essays, including contributions intended to give comprehensive overviews...  Read More >>

First, there has been increasing involvement of syntactic theory in semantics and of semantic theory in syntax,...  Read More >>

Comprising articles on the theory, acquisition and processing of island constraints, this work takes an interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

Language Origin: A Multidisciplinary Approach presents a synthesis of viewpoints and data on linguistic, psychological,...  Read More >>

Translating from Sanskrit some contemporary Indian Pandits' reactions to Western analytic accounts of meaning and...  Read More >>

Perspectives on Time deals with the problem of time from different perspectives such as logic, physics and philosophy....  Read More >>

Includes a selection of papers presented at the international conference 'Applied Logic: Logic at Work', held in...  Read More >>

Metaphor is one of the most frequently evoked and also a poorly understood concept in philosophy and literary theory....  Read More >>

Addresses three central issues in the study of plurality and quantification in natural languages. This collection...  Read More >>

This book is a study in the logic of questions (sometimes called erotetic logic). In other words, there are inferential...  Read More >>

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It covers the philosophical foundations of rational agency, logical and decision-theoretic approaches to rational...  Read More >>

Central topics in medieval logic are here treated in a way that is congenial to the modern reader, without compromising...  Read More >>

This text explores the relationship between theories of topic-focus structure, principally as developed in the Prague...  Read More >>