Philosophy of Language

This textbook/software package covers first-order language in a method appropriate for a wide range of courses, from first logic courses for underg...

This book explores the internalism/externalism debate inherent in ontology and semantics from the point of view of phenomenology. The debate centre...

There is undoubtedly considerable intellectual and methodological progress evident in approaches to linguistics, from systemic and formal methods, ...

The boundary between semantics and pragmatics has been important since the early twentieth century, but in the last twenty-five years it has become...

For well over a century, academic disciplines have studied human behavior using quantitative information. Until recently, however, the humanities h...

We think it is wise to accept reality, rather than fight for something that does not exist or might never be. But in Of Reality, Gianni Vattimo con...

The notion of singular (or de re) thought has become central in philosophy of mind and language, yet there is still little consensus concerning the...

Peter Adamson presents a lively introduction to six hundred years of European philosophy, from the beginning of the ninth century to the end of the...

Bertrand Russell famously distinguished between 'knowledge by acquaintance' and 'knowledge by description'. For much of the latter half of the twen...

On Goodness attempts to answer the question What is goodness? It is natural to associate this question with ethics; but goodness is not confined to...

One of the most important problems of modern philosophy concerns the place of the mind -- and, in particular, of consciousness, meaning, and intent...

In Wittgenstein on Logic as the Method of Philosophy, Oskari Kuusela examines Wittgenstein's early and late philosophies of logic, situating their ...

When you light a match it is the striking of it which causes the lighting; the presence of oxygen in the room is a background condition to the ligh...

In the past few decades, cognitive linguistics has developed into one of the most dynamic and empirically insightful frameworks within theoretical ...

Wylie Breckenridge offers a fresh understanding of the character of visual experience by deploying the methods of semantics. He develops a theory o...

In the foreword to Wisdom & Metaphor, Jan Zwicky observes that those who think metaphorically are enabled to think truly, because the shape of...

The Philosophical Imagination brings together several of Richard Moran's essays, ranging over a remarkable variety of topics in philosophy of mind ...

We all know that speech can be harmful. But what are the harms and how exactly does the speech in question brings those harms about? Mary Kate McGo...

Linguistic Turns rewrites the intellectual and cultural history of early twentieth-century Europe. In chapters that study the work of Saussure, Rus...

The widespread understanding of language in the West is that it represents the world. This view, however, has not always been commonplace. In fact,...

Speech Actions in Theory and Applied Studies, the first of the two volumes of Pragmatic Perspectives on Language and Linguistics, brings together t...

Bringing together philosophers, logicians and linguists, Telling Time provides, in one handy volume, a short collection of historically informed, s...

Linguistics in the Netherlands is a collection of internationally peer-reviewed articles representing current research in the Netherlands, in vario...

This book is a timely analysis of the securitisation of Islam since 9/11 and presents an original study of Islamophobia and White fragility in a co...

These essays by A.W. Moore are all concerned with the business of representing how things are - its nature, its scope, and its limits. The essays i...

This volume brings together work by both well-known scholars and emerging researchers in the various areas of Language for Specific Purposes (LSP),...

Explores the origins of key concepts in semantics and semiotics.This book explores the influential currents in the philosophy of language and lingu...

From Plato's contempt for the madness of the multitude to Kant's lament for the great unthinking mass, the history of Western thought is riddled wi...

From Plato's contempt for the madness of the multitude to Kant's lament for the great unthinking mass, the history of Western thought is riddled wi...

When discussing normative reasons, oughts, requirements of rationality, motivating reasons, and so on, we often have to use verbs like believe and ...

This book contains new articles by leading philosophers and linguists discussing a promising philosophical framework distinct from currently domina...

Disparities exist in the way current linguistic research approaches prepositions, both in terms of definition and classification. Despite an abunda...