Philosophy of language books

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 >>

Like the journal TOPOl, the TOPOl Library is based on the assumption that philosophy is a lively, provocative, delightful...  Read More >>

Aim's to give a working representation of metaphysics. This work reveals the roots of metaphysical themes and how...  Read More >>

This book gives a state-of-the-art survey of current research in logic and philosophy of science, as viewed by...  Read More >>

Defends moral cognitivism with a fresh approach. This book argues that if a moral theory can be developed, which...  Read More >>

I am very grateful to Kluwer Academic Publishers for the opportunity to republish these articles about knowledge...  Read More >>

This is the first of two volumes containing papers submitted by the invited speakers to the 11th International Congress...  Read More >>

A revival of interest in morphology has occurred during recent years. In the Yearbook of Morphology 2002 a number...  Read More >>

Metaphors and Logic Metaphors are among the most vigorous offspring of the creative mind; I'll argue that some sentences...  Read More >>

Austronesian languages have long raised interesting questions for generative theories of syntax and morphology....  Read More >>

Incommensurability and Related Matters draws together some of the most distinguished contributors to the critical...  Read More >>

In doing so I shall rely - sometimes quite heavily - on the notion of conceptual scheme. I shall use the notion...  Read More >>