Philosophy of Language

How should thought and consciousness be understood within a view of the world as being through-and-through physical? Many philosophers have propose...

Contextualism, the view that the epistemic standards a subject must meet in order for a claim attributing knowledge to her to be true do vary with ...

Binomials, such as for and against, dead or alive, to have and to hold, can be broadly defined as two words belonging to the same grammatical categ...

On the precipice of the Sixth Extinction, we face a frightening fate - ongoing ecological crises that may result in not only the extinction of a mi...

This volume stems from a workshop organised by the Corpus Linguistics and Language Variation in English Research Centre, known as CLAVIER, held at ...

'Full of charm and fascination' The Bookseller'Would dazzle any storyteller in love with words and their deepest meanings' Amy Tan, author of Joy L...

Hermeneutic philosophies of social science offer an explicit concern with the subject of the human. This volume outlines the key elements of a herm...

In this book, William Ian Miller offers his reflections on the perverse consequences, indeed often the opposite of intended effects, of so-called '...