Philosophy of Language

The notions of necessity and possibility, as well as the notion of a possible world, are ubiquitous in philosophy. Nevertheless, these notions rema...

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Recent decades of studies have been human-centred while zooming in on cognition, verbal choices and performance. () [and] have provided interesting...

All the chapters in this volume somehow and quite diversely, directly or indirectly, address the relation of Wittgensteins philosophy, or at least ...

All the chapters in this volume somehow and quite diversely, directly or indirectly, address the relation of Wittgensteins philosophy, or at least ...

The book offers a view of the translation of a literary text as a reconstruction of the non-standard linguistic worldview embedded in that text, an...

In this work, Xavier Lakshmanan argues for a textual linguistic approach to Christian theology. The book takes its shape in conversation with Paul ...

Truth Be Told explains how truth and falsity result from relations that sentences have to the contexts in which they occur and the circumstances at...

Language requires investigation within a broad framework, which can only be achieved if the elements studied belong to all realms of verbal (and to...

Why do we love to swear so much? Why do we get so offended when others do it? With wit and insight, philosopher Rebecca Roache seeks answers to the...

We usually think about language and pain as opposites, the one being about expression and connection, the other destructive, beyond words so to spe...

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit has a long-standing reputation as one of the key books in the history of Western philosophy, but many are unsure ju...

The classical Protagorean idea that the idea of absolute truth is an illusion that there is only 'your truth' and 'my truth', or perhaps 'our trut...

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback.   Rol...

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback.   Rol...

A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback.   Rol...