A Companion To The Philosophy Of Language

Author : Gillian Russell,Delia Graff Fara
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 941 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136594083

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Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language by Gillian Russell,Delia Graff Fara Pdf

Philosophy of language is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature of meaning, the relationship of language to reality, and the ways in which we use, learn, and understand language. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language provides a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the field, charting its key ideas and movements, and addressing contemporary research and enduring questions in the philosophy of language. Unique to this Companion is clear coverage of research from the related disciplines of formal logic and linguistics, and discussion of the applications in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and philosophy of mind. Organized thematically, the Companion is divided into seven sections: Core Topics; Foundations of Semantics; Parts of Speech; Methodology; Logic for Philosophers of Language; Philosophy of Language for the Rest of Philosophy; and Historical Perspectives. Comprised of 70 never-before-published essays from leading scholars--including Sally Haslanger, Jeffrey King, Sally McConnell-Ginet, Rae Langton, Kit Fine, John MacFarlane, Jeff Pelletier, Scott Soames, Jason Stanley, Stephen Stich and Zoltan Gendler Szabo--the Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language promises to be the most comprehensive and authoritative resource for students and scholars alike.

Author : Bob Hale,Crispin Wright,Alexander Miller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1176 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781118972083

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A Companion to the Philosophy of Language by Bob Hale,Crispin Wright,Alexander Miller Pdf

“Providing up-to-date, in-depth coverage of the central question, and written and edited by some of the foremost practitioners in the field, this timely new edition will no doubt be a go-to reference for anyone with a serious interest in the philosophy of language.” Kathrin Glüer-Pagin, Stockholm University Now published in two volumes, the second edition of the best-selling Companion to the Philosophy of Language provides a complete survey of contemporary philosophy of language. The Companion has been greatly extended and now includes a monumental 17 new essays – with topics chosen by the editors, who curated suggestions from current contributors – and almost all of the 25 original chapters have been updated to take account of recent developments in the field. In addition to providing a synoptic view of the key issues, figures, concepts, and debates, each essay introduces new and original contributions to ongoing debates, as well as addressing a number of new areas of interest, including two-dimensional semantics, modality and epistemic modals, and semantic relationism. The extended “state-of-the-art” chapter format allows the authors, all of whom are internationally eminent scholars in the field, to incorporate original research to a far greater degree than competitor volumes. Unrivaled in scope, this volume represents the best contemporary critical thinking relating to the philosophy of language.

Author : Bob Hale,Crispin Wright
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0631213260

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A Companion to the Philosophy of Language by Bob Hale,Crispin Wright Pdf

This volume provides a survey of contemporary philosophy of language. As well as providing a synoptic view of the key issues, figures, concepts and debates, each essay makes new and original contributions to ongoing debate.

Author : Bob Hale,Crispin Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0761213260

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A Companion to the Philosophy of Language by Bob Hale,Crispin Wright Pdf

Author : Bob Hale,Crispin Wright,Alexander Miller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1189 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781118974711

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A Companion to the Philosophy of Language, 2 Volume Set by Bob Hale,Crispin Wright,Alexander Miller Pdf

“Providing up-to-date, in-depth coverage of the central question, and written and edited by some of the foremost practitioners in the field, this timely new edition will no doubt be a go-to reference for anyone with a serious interest in the philosophy of language.” Kathrin Glüer-Pagin, Stockholm University Now published in two volumes, the second edition of the best-selling Companion to the Philosophy of Language provides a complete survey of contemporary philosophy of language. The Companion has been greatly extended and now includes a monumental 17 new essays – with topics chosen by the editors, who curated suggestions from current contributors – and almost all of the 25 original chapters have been updated to take account of recent developments in the field. In addition to providing a synoptic view of the key issues, figures, concepts, and debates, each essay introduces new and original contributions to ongoing debates, as well as addressing a number of new areas of interest, including two-dimensional semantics, modality and epistemic modals, and semantic relationism. The extended “state-of-the-art” chapter format allows the authors, all of whom are internationally eminent scholars in the field, to incorporate original research to a far greater degree than competitor volumes. Unrivaled in scope, this volume represents the best contemporary critical thinking relating to the philosophy of language.

Author : Alex Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135365004

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Philosophy Of Language by Alex Miller Pdf

This engaging and accessible introduction to the philosophy of language provides an important guide to one of the liveliest and most challenging areas of study in philosophy. Interweaving the historical development of the subject with a thematic overview of the different approaches to meaning, the book provides students with the tools necessary to understand contemporary analytical philosophy.

Author : Scott Soames
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691155975

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Philosophy of Language by Scott Soames Pdf

A masterful overview of the philosophy of language from one of its most important thinkers In this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field—its principal achievements, its most pressing current questions, and its most promising future directions. In addition to explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical framework for the study of language, Scott Soames investigates foundational concepts—such as truth, reference, and meaning—that are central to the philosophy of language and important to philosophy as a whole. The first part of the book describes how philosophers from Frege, Russell, Tarski, and Carnap to Kripke, Kaplan, and Montague developed precise techniques for understanding the languages of logic and mathematics, and how these techniques have been refined and extended to the study of natural human languages. The book then builds on this account, exploring new thinking about propositions, possibility, and the relationship between meaning, assertion, and other aspects of language use. An invaluable overview of the philosophy of language by one of its most important practitioners, this book will be essential reading for all serious students of philosophy.

Author : Ernest Lepore,Barry C. Smith
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199552231

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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language by Ernest Lepore,Barry C. Smith Pdf

The definitive reference work for this diverse and fertile field: an outstanding international team contribute 41 new essays covering topics from the nature of language to meaning, truth, and reference, and the interfaces of philosophy of language with linguistics, psychology, logic, epistemology, and metaphysics.

Author : Piotr Stalmaszczyk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 831 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108492386

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The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language by Piotr Stalmaszczyk Pdf

A comprehensive guide to contemporary investigations into the relationship between language, philosophy, and linguistics.

Author : Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen,Kimberley Brownlee,David Coady
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781118869123

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A Companion to Applied Philosophy by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen,Kimberley Brownlee,David Coady Pdf

Applied philosophy has been a growing area of research for the last 40 years. Until now, however, almost all of this research has been centered around the field of ethics. A Companion to Applied Philosophy breaks new ground, demonstrating that all areasof philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of mind, can be applied, and are relevant to questions of everyday life. This perennial topic in philosophy provides an overview of these various applied philosophy developments, highlighting similarities and differences between various areas of applied philosophy, and examining the very nature of this topic. It is an area to which many of the towering figures in the history of philosophy have contributed, and this timely Companion demonstrates how various historical contributions are actually contributions within applied philosophy, even if they are not traditionally seen as such. The Companion contains 42 essays covering major areas of philosophy; the articles themselves are all original contributions to the literature and represent the state of the art on this topic, as well as offering a map to the current debates.

Author : Michael Morris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006-12-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781139459808

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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language by Michael Morris Pdf

In this textbook, Michael Morris offers a critical introduction to the central issues of the philosophy of language. Each chapter focusses on one or two texts which have had a seminal influence on work in the subject, and uses these as a way of approaching both the central topics and the various traditions of dealing with them. Texts include classic writings by Frege, Russell, Kripke, Quine, Davidson, Austin, Grice and Wittgenstein. Theoretical jargon is kept to a minimum and is fully explained whenever it is introduced. The range of topics covered includes sense and reference, definite descriptions, proper names, natural-kind terms, de re and de dicto necessity, propositional attitudes, truth-theoretical approaches to meaning, radical interpretation, indeterminacy of translation, speech acts, intentional theories of meaning, and scepticism about meaning. The book will be invaluable to students and to all readers who are interested in the nature of linguistic meaning.

Author : Nicholas Jolley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521367697

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The Cambridge Companion to Leibniz by Nicholas Jolley Pdf

The most comprehensive account of the full range of Leibniz's thought.

Author : Andrea Nye
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998-11-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015053135276

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Philosophy of Language by Andrea Nye Pdf

This anthology brings together a diversity of readings in the philosophy of language from the ancient Greeks to contemporary analytic, feminist, and multicultural perspectives. The emphasis is on issues that have a direct bearing on concerns about knowledge, reality, meaning, and understanding. A general introduction and introductions to each group of readings identify both the continuities and differences in the way "big" questions in philosophy of language have been addressed by philosophers of different historical periods, institutional affiliations, races, and genders.

Author : Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen,Stig Andur Pedersen,Vincent F. Hendricks
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118394236

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A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology by Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen,Stig Andur Pedersen,Vincent F. Hendricks Pdf

Drawing on essays from leading international and multi-disciplinary scholars, A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology is the first comprehensive and authoritative reference source to cover the key issues of technology’s impact on society and our lives. Presents the first complete, authoritative reference work in the field Organized thematically for use both as a full introduction to the field or an encyclopedic reference Draws on original essays from leading interdisciplinary scholars Features the most up-to-date and cutting edge research in the interdisciplinary fields of philosophy, technology, and their broader intellectual environments

Author : Ted Honderich
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1050 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105012402462

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The Oxford Companion to Philosophy by Ted Honderich Pdf

This is the most authoritative and engaging philosophical reference work in English. It gives clear and reliable guidance to all areas of philosophy and to the ideas of all notable philosophers from antiquity to the present day. The scope of the volume is not limited to English-languagephilosophy: it surveys the foremost philosophy from all parts of the world. A distinguished international assembly of more than two hundred contributors provide almost 2,000 alphabetically arranged entries which are not only instructive but also entertaining: they combine learning, lucidity, elegance, and wit. There are more than fifty extended entries of 3,000 words on themain areas of philosophy and the great philosophers: these include essays by Alasdair MacIntyre on the history of moral philosophy, Paul Feyerabend on the history of the philosophy of science, Jaegwon Kim on problems of the philosophy of mind, Richard Swinburne on problems of the philosophy ofreligion, David Charles on Aristotle, Peter Singer on Hegel, Anthony Kenny on Frege, and Anthony Quinton on philosophy itself. Short entries deal with key concepts (for instance, personal identity, time) doctrines (utilitarianism, holism), problems (the mind-body problem, the meaning of life), schools of thought (Marxist philosophy, the Vienna Circle), and practical issues (abortion, vegetarianism). Individual thinkerspast (Pythagoras, Confucius, Galileo, Goethe, Burke, Santayana, de Beauvoir, Radhakrishnan) and present (over 150 contemporary figures, such as Chomsky, Derrida, and Popper) are profiled, and eighty of them are depicted in black-and-white portraits. Interspersed throughout are short explanations ofparticular philosophical terms (qualia, supervenience, iff), puzzles (the Achilles paradox, the prisoner's dilemma), and curiosities (the philosopher's stone, slime). Every entry is accompanied by suggestions for further reading. A chronological chart of the history of philosophy is located at theend of the book, together with fourteen diagrams showing the structure of philosophy and the relations between its subjects and doctrines. This book will be an indispensable guide and a constant source of stimulation and enlightenment for anyone interested in abstract thought, the eternal questions, and the foundations of human understanding.