Philosophical Semantics

Author : Claudio Costa
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1527544729

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This book offers an innovative systematic approach to the problems of meaning, reference and related issues, unifying in promising ways some of the best insights, not only of exponential philosophers like Wittgenstein and Frege, but also of some influential later theorists like Michael Dummett, Ernst Tugendhat, John Searle and Donald Williams. Moreover, it exposes some main errors popularized by clever formalist-oriented philosophers, from Willard Van Orman Quine to Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam. In this way, it shows how some older major approaches could regain their central importance and how the cartography of philosophy of language could be once more redrawn. The book is clearly written, and will be of interest to anyone with basic training in analytic philosophy.

Author : Claudio Ferreira Costa
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781527527423

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Philosophical Semantics by Claudio Ferreira Costa Pdf

This book offers an innovative systematic approach to the problems of meaning, reference and related issues, unifying in promising ways some of the best insights, not only of exponential philosophers like Wittgenstein and Frege, but also of some influential later theorists like Michael Dummett, Ernst Tugendhat, John Searle and Donald Williams. Moreover, it exposes some main errors popularized by clever formalist-oriented philosophers, from Willard Van Orman Quine to Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam. In this way, it shows how some older major approaches could regain their central importance and how the cartography of philosophy of language could be once more redrawn. The book is clearly written, and will be of interest to anyone with basic training in analytic philosophy.

Author : Charles Schlee
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781469126487

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Philosophical Semantics and Term Meaning by Charles Schlee Pdf

In this book the author presents a meanings-as-entities view of term meaning utilizing set theory. In doing so the author discusses limitations of customary formal semantic theories, argues for the primacy of term meaning, provides an account of analyticity based on synonymy, discusses possible-worlds semantics, provides a defense of our traditionaland common-senseview of meanings as entities, and sketches an approach to bridging the gap between formal semantics and natural language. The author discusses the views of many philosophers, including Carnap, Donnellan, Hintikka, Kripke, Linsky, Quine, Russell, and Searle.

Author : Leonard Linsky
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0252000935

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Semantics and the Philosophy of Language by Leonard Linsky Pdf

Author : John L. Pollock
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400886463

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The Foundations of Philosophical Semantics by John L. Pollock Pdf

Although philosophical semantics has become both a discipline in its own right and the source of the analytic techniques used in the rest of philosophy, its foundations have themselves been problematic. To provide a unified account of the field, John L. Pollock discusses issues including the nature of possible worlds, modalities, counterfactuals, and causation. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : D.J. Hockney,W.L. Harper,B. Freed
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401017565

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Contemporary Research in Philosophical Logic and Linguistic Semantics by D.J. Hockney,W.L. Harper,B. Freed Pdf

In 1973 a workshop was held at The University of Western Ontario on topics of common interest to philosophers and linguists. This volume con tains most of the papers presented at the workshop. Also included are previously unpublished essays by R. Dougherty and H. Lasnik as well as a comment on G. Lakoff's paper by B. van Fraassen. K. Donnellan's paper was presented at the workshop and subsequently appeared in The Philosophical Review. We thank the editors of this journal for permission to publish the paper here. The papers by D. Lewis, R. Stalnaker, G. Lakoff, B. Partee and H. Herzberger appeared earlier in Journal of Philosophical Logic by arrangement of the editors with B. van Fraassen and D. Reidel Publishing Company. The editors thank the officers of The University of Western Ontario for making the workshop possible and Pauline Campbell for making the workshop work. THE EDITORS DAVID LEWIS COUNTERFACTUALS AND COMPARATIVE POSSIBILITY* In the last dozen years or so, our understanding of modality has been much improved by means of possible-world semantics: the project of analyzing modal language by systematically specifying the conditions under which a modal sentence is true at a possible world. I hope to do the same for counterfactual conditionals. I write A 0-C for the counter factual conditional with antecedent A and consequent C. It may be read as 'H it were the case that A, then it would be the case that C' or some more idiomatic paraphrase thereof.

Author : Milton Karl Munitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Existentialism
ISBN : 0814753663

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Existence and Logic by Milton Karl Munitz Pdf

Author : Maite Ezcurdia,Robert J. Stainton
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781554810697

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The Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary in Philosophy by Maite Ezcurdia,Robert J. Stainton Pdf

The boundary between semantics and pragmatics has been important since the early twentieth century, but in the last twenty-five years it has become the central issue in the philosophy of language. This anthology collects classic philosophical papers on the topic, along with recent key contributions. It stresses not only the nature of the boundary, but also its importance for philosophy generally.

Author : Bryan R. Weaver,Kevin Scharp
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198832621

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Semantics for Reasons by Bryan R. Weaver,Kevin Scharp Pdf

Semantics for Reasons is a book about what we mean when we talk about reasons. It not only brings together the theory of reasons and natural language semantics in original ways but also sketches out a litany of implications for metaethics and the philosophy of normativity. In their account of how the language of reasons works, Bryan R. Weaver and Kevin Scharp propose and defend a view called Question Under Discussion (QUD) Reasons Contextualism. They use this view to argue for a series of novel positions on the ontology of reasons, indexical facts, the reasons-to-be-rational debate, moral reasons, and the reasons-first approach.

Author : Kasia M. Jaszczolt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108606936

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Semantics, Pragmatics, Philosophy by Kasia M. Jaszczolt Pdf

Semantics and pragmatics – the study of meaning, and meaning in context, respectively – are two fundamental areas of linguistics, and as such are crucial to our understanding of how meaning is created. However, their theoretical ideas are often introduced without making clear connections between views, theories, and problems. This pioneering volume is both a textbook and a research guide, taking the reader on a journey through language and ultimately enabling them to think about meaning as linguists and philosophers would. Assuming no prior knowledge of linguistics, it introduces semantics, pragmatics, and the philosophy of language, showing how all three fields can address the 'big questions' that run through the study of meaning. It covers key theories and approaches, while also enabling increasingly more sophisticated questions about the interconnected aspects of meaning, with the end goal of preparing the reader to make their own, original contributions to ideas about meaning.

Author : Howard K. Wettstein
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804725276

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Has Semantics Rested on a Mistake? And Other Essays by Howard K. Wettstein Pdf

The nature of reference, or the relation of a word to the object to which it refers, has been perhaps the dominant concern of twentieth-century analytic philosophy. Extremely influential arguments by Gottlob Frege around the turn of the century convinced the large majority of philosophers that the meaning of a word must be distinguished from its referent, the former only providing some kind of direction for reaching the latter. In the last twenty years, this Fregean orthodoxy has been vigorously challenged by those who argue that certain important kinds of words, at least, refer directly without need of an intermediate meaning or sense. The essays in this volume record how a long-term study of Frege has persuaded the author that Frege's pivotal distinction between sense and reference, and his attendant philosophical views about language and thought, are unsatisfactory. Frege's perspective, he argues, imposes a distinctive way of thinking about semantics, specifically about the centrality of cognitive significance puzzles for semantics. Freed from Frege's perspective, we will no longer find it natural to think about semantics in this way.

Author : D. Davidson,Gilbert Harman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 781 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401025577

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Semantics of Natural Language by D. Davidson,Gilbert Harman Pdf

"The idea that prompted the conferenee for which many of these papers were written, and that inspired this book, is stated in the Editorial Introduction reprinted below from Volume 21 of Synthese. The present volume contains the artieles in Synthese 21, Numbers 3-4 and Synthese 22, Numbers 1-2. In addition, it ineludes new papers by Saul Kripke, James McCawley, John R. Ross, and Paul Ziff, and reprints 'Grammar and Philosophy' by P. F. Strawson. Strawson's artiele first appeared in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 70, and is reprinted with the kind permission of the author and the Aristotelian Society. We also repeat our thanks to the Olivetti Companyand Edizione di Comunita of Milan for permission to inelude the paper by Dana Scott; it also appeared in Synthese 21. DONALO DAVIDSON GILBERT HARMAN EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION The success of linguistics in treating naturallanguages as formal syntactic systems has aroused the interest of a number of linguists in a paralleI or related development of semantics. For the most part quite independ ently, many philosophers and logicians have reeently been applying formai semantic methods to structures increasingly like naturallanguages. While differenees in training, method and vocabulary tend to veil the fact, philosophers and linguists are converging, it seerns, on a common set of interrelated probiems. Sinee philosophers and linguists are working on the same, or very similar, probiems, it would obviously be instructive to compare notes." --

Author : William Frawley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135441777

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Linguistic Semantics by William Frawley Pdf

This volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date, and readable introduction to linguistic meaning. While partial to conceptual and typological approaches, the book also presents results from formal approaches. Throughout, the focus is on grammatical meaning -- the way languages delineate universal semantic space and encode it in grammatical form. Subjects covered by the author include: the domain of linguistic semantics and the basic tools, assumptions, and issues of semantic analysis; semantic properties of entities, events, and thematic roles; language and space; tense, aspect, and the internal structure and temporal ordering of events; modality, negation, and the epistemology of the speaker; and modification and attribution. In contrast to most current treatments of semantics, this book is accessible to the beginning student of semantics and linguistics and also useful to the advanced practitioner. A textbook and reference work in a single volume, it can be used in a number of disciplines: psychology, computer science, and anthropology as well as linguistics.

Author : Herman Cappelen,Ernest Lepore
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780470754917

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Insensitive Semantics by Herman Cappelen,Ernest Lepore Pdf

Insensitive Semantics is an overview of and contribution to the debates about how to accommodate context sensitivity within a theory of human communication, investigating the effects of context on communicative interaction and, as a corollary, what a context of utterance is and what it is to be in one. Provides detailed and wide-ranging overviews of the central positions and arguments surrounding contextualism Addresses broad and varied aspects of the distinction between the semantic and non-semantic content of language Defends a distinctive and explanatorily powerful combination of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism Confronts core problems which not only run to the heart of philosophy of language and linguistics, but which arise in epistemology, metaphysics, and moral philosophy as well

Author : Charles Kay Ogden,Ivor Armstrong Richards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Language and languages
ISBN : LCCN:58004998

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The Meaning of Meaning by Charles Kay Ogden,Ivor Armstrong Richards Pdf