Philosophy of language books

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Ranging over a variety of topics in the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and epistemology, Professor Donald...  Read More >>

Doing Worlds with Words throws light on the problem of meaning as the meeting point of linguistics, logic and philosophy,...  Read More >>

Many articles and books dealing with Donald Davidson's philosophy are dedicated to the papers and ideas Davidson...  Read More >>

We- as agents (persons, selves, subjects) - make our actions happen. Who -~ or what - is an agent ? And how - in...  Read More >>

Willard VanOrman Quine has probably been the most influential th American philosopher of the 20 century. He has...  Read More >>

In recent years, numerous important innovations in generative grammar have originated within the field of Germanic...  Read More >>

Tense, Attitudes, and Scope is a model-theoretic inquiry into the semantics of tense in natural language. The book...  Read More >>

Pluralities begins with a concise introduction to recent theories of the semantics of plurals. The author argues,...  Read More >>

the interaction between morphological and prosodic structure, on the semantics of word formation, and on a number...  Read More >>

The emphasis is on theories of meaning and reference for 'J', but a fair amount of space is devoted to 'I' -thoughts...  Read More >>

rules of language have no significance in language production and understanding, being descriptions of linguistic...  Read More >>

Vendler not only began to straighten out the distinctions, but pursued more specific and more interesting questions...  Read More >>

Brings a collection of essays which offer a systematic account of Wittgenstein's philosophy of mind and contribute...  Read More >>

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This book deals with various aspects of metaphorics and yet it is not only, or perhaps not even primarily, about...  Read More >>

At the turn of the century, Gottlob Frege and Edmund Husserl both participated in the discussion concerning the...  Read More >>

This collection of essays presents a systematic and up-to-date survey of the main aspects of Georg Henrik von Wright's...  Read More >>

How is linguistic theory related to linguistic practice?  Read More >>

Negation, Critical Theory, and Postmodern Textuality features 14 new essays by leading specialists in critical...  Read More >>

Throughout his career he made important contributions to philosophy of mind in such papers as ""The Simplicity of...  Read More >>

Confrontations of Reinach's theories of states of affairs, concepts and speech acts with the work of contemporary...  Read More >>

Talking Wolves advances an analysis of Hobbes which takes language seriously (as seriously as Hobbes took it)....  Read More >>

Philosophical Dimensions of Logic and Science is a collection of outstanding contributed papers presented at the...  Read More >>

Philosophers contributing new ideas are commonly caught within a received philosophical vocabulary and will often...  Read More >>