Philosophy of language books

""Philosophy and Ordinary Language"" is a defence of the view that philosophy is largely about questions of language,...  Read More >>

Presents research on the history of the Tibeto-Burman (TB) language family, a typologically diverse group of over...  Read More >>

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What must linguistic knowledge be like if it is to explain our capacity to use language? Linguists and philosophers...  Read More >>

The source and nature of earliest speech and civilization are puzzles which have intrigued people for many centuries....  Read More >>

Marshaling far-flung evidence from anthropology, animal behavior, neurology, molecular biology, anatomy, linguistics,...  Read More >>

This book is the first major reassessment of the reception of Saussure's ideas in the academic world of the twentieth...  Read More >>

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A landmark in linguistics and cognitive science. Ray Jackendoff proposes a new holistic theory of the relation between...  Read More >>

Stephen Schiffer presents an account of meaning and belief, and shows how it can illuminate a range of crucial problems...  Read More >>

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Stephen Schiffer presents an account of meaning and belief, and shows how it can illuminate a range of crucial problems...  Read More >>

"Jerry Fodor claims Hume's ""Treatise of Human Nature"" as the foundational document of cognitive science, showing...  Read More >>

And the book is a work in the field of philosophy by virtue of its demonstrating the existence and factual significance...  Read More >>

A comprehensive study of representation and the language of displacement, this work covers such topics as: gender...  Read More >>

A fruitful and insightful study of how language affects how we understand the world, this book is also an indispensable...  Read More >>

"This work presents selected papers of the millenial conferences of the Center for Research and Documentation on...  Read More >>

"This work presents selected papers of the millenial conferences of the Center for Research and Documentation on...  Read More >>

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Robert Stalnaker draws together in this volume his work in metaphysics. The book begins with reflections on the...  Read More >>

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Scholars in the field of language evolution give accounts of their theories on the origins of language and reflect...  Read More >>