Philosophy of Language

The creators of An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments return at last with a desperately timely guide to rhetoric. Have you ever wondered how languag...

Philosophy (especially philosophy of language and philosophy of mind), science (especially linguistics and cognitive science), and common sense all...

At the time of its publication, How Language Began received high acclaim for capturing the fascinating history of mankind''s most incredible creati...

When social scientists and social theorists turn to the work of philosophers for intellectual and practical authority, they typically assume that t...

There are no men so dull and stupid, not even idiots, as to be incapable of joining together different words, and thereby constructing a declaratio...

There are no men so dull and stupid, not even idiots, as to be incapable of joining together different words, and thereby constructing a declaratio...

This book argues that definite descriptions ('the table', 'the King of France') refer to individuals, as Gottlob Frege claimed. This apparently sim...

Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had acted differently? Are there future people, who have not...

Julian Wolfreys starts with loss. All memory is the memory of loss... All that we are, all we experience, all we remember, all that we forget but w...

Some part of me believed I would become a more complete person if I spoke Irish, more in tune with my roots, my identity, my very being.  I was o...

The fundamental issues that structure social and political philosophy revolve around the tensions between cooperative (ethical) values and competit...

This book analyzes the uses of emotive language and redefinitions from pragmatic, dialectical, epistemic and rhetorical perspectives, investigating...

This book examines how speakers of Ibero-Romance 'do things' with conversational units of language, paying particular attention to what they do wit...

Do we really know how words actually refer to things, how they describe the world? These questions are not limited to the study of language. They q...

Meaning, the complex phenomenon of individuation and the definition of identity are the core theme of this work. Grounded on a theoretical framewor...

Henri Meschonnic was a linguist, poet, translator of the Bible and one of the most original French thinkers of his generation. He strove throughout...

Semantics aims to describe the significance (or meaning) of linguistic expressions in a systematic way. Metasemantics, or foundational semantics, a...

Why are facts and statistics disparaged and dismissed, now more than ever? Why do people trust 'fake news'? If we have 'had enough of experts' who ...