Philosophy of language books

This book presents selected academic papers addressing five key research areas – archaeology, history, language,...  Read More >>

This monograph examines truth in fiction by applying the techniques of a naturalized logic of human cognitive practices....  Read More >>

Wylie Breckenridge offers a fresh understanding of the character of visual experience by deploying the methods of...  Read More >>

Trenton Merricks presents an original argument for the existence of propositions, and defends an account of their...  Read More >>

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This book opens by accounting for the felicity conditions on clausal disjunctions in terms of general principles...  Read More >>

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First published in 1977, this book presents a comprehensive and lucid guide through the labyrinths of semiology...  Read More >>

First published in 1990, this dissertation presents an event-based model-theoretic semantics for plural expressions...  Read More >>

First published in 1983, the aim of this book is to diagnose linguists’ failure to advance satisfactory theories...  Read More >>

First published in 1997, this book focuses on the semantics of definite and indefinite descriptions — taking the...  Read More >>

First published in 1983, this book represents an effort to lay the groundwork for a general approach to lexical...  Read More >>

"First published in 1982, this book looks at a wide variety of issues concerning the vast field of study that is...  Read More >>

First published in 1987, this book is an attempt to re-establish semiotic on the basis of principles consistent...  Read More >>

First published in 1994, this book is concerned with certain kinds of wh-clauses, whose interpretations are easily...  Read More >>

Interpretation as the Engagement of Operational Artifacts is a refreshing look at the conceptual tools provided...  Read More >>

Imogen Dickie develops an account of aboutness-fixing for thoughts about ordinary objects, and of reference-fixing...  Read More >>

This book provides an extensive overview and analysis of current work on semiotics that is being pursued globally...  Read More >>

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The book addresses different linguistic and philosophical aspects of referring to the self in a wide range of languages...  Read More >>

This book applies phenomenological methodology to examine the transformations of messages as they pass from the...  Read More >>

Physiologie transcendentale: analyse des choses, essai sur la science future, son influence certaine sur les religions,...  Read More >>

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Travel narratives abound in French cinema since the 1980s. This study delineates recurrent travel tropes in films...  Read More >>

This book presents a systematic interpretation of Charles S. Peirce’s work based on a Kantian understanding of his...  Read More >>