Philosophy of Language

Presenting a fascinating analysis of the idea of what can't be said, this book ascertains whether the notion of there being a truth, or a state of ...

The essays in this collection explore the idea that discursive norms—the norms governing our thought and talk—are profoundly social. Not only do th...

This book aims to recast the way that philosophers understand rhetoric. Rather than follow most philosophers in conceiving rhetoric as a specific w...

Philosophical questions regarding both the existence and nature of properties are ubiquitous in ordinary life, the sciences, and philosophical theo...

This book examines and breaks the routine to propose alternative languages for criticism. It shows the commitments of some of the most distinctive ...

This volume provides a geographically and historically diverse overview of philosophical traditions that establish a deep connection between truth ...

My Philosophical Development is Russell's intellectual autobiography and provides a fascinating insight into the extraordinary energy and philosoph...

In 1975, Putnam published a paper called The Meaning of 'Meaning', which challenged the orthodox view in the philosophies of language and mind. The...

Modality - the question of what is possible and what is necessary - is a fundamental area of philosophy and philosophical research. The Routledge H...

The handicap principle, first proposed by Zahavi about 17 years ago, has in the past several years become widely accepted as a central unifying the...

In recent years, the idea of a concept has become increasingly central to different areas of philosophy. This collection of original essays present...

This title, first published in 1985, provides a detailed analysis of aspects of the semantics and the syntax of some wh-constructions. The first pa...

This title, first published in 1991, opens with an account by Gadamer of his own life and work and their relation to the achievements of hermeneuti...

My Philosophical Development is Russell's intellectual autobiography and provides a fascinating insight into the extraordinary energy and philosoph...

In 1975, Putnam published a paper called The Meaning of 'Meaning', which challenged the orthodox view in the philosophies of language and mind. The...

Language of Fiction was the first book of criticism by the renowned novelist and critic David Lodge. His uniquely informed perspective - he was alr...

This book explores the growing tension between multilingualism and monolingualism in the European Union in the wake of Brexit, underpinned by the i...

Peter Munz, a former student of both Popper and Wittgenstein, begins his comparison of the two great twentieth-century philosophers, by explaining ...

Regardless of its particular topic, each of Donald Davidson's essays is part of a comprehensive progrqamme to address questions about language, min...

This volume celebrates the work of Hans-Johann Glock, a philosopher renowned for both his exegesis of Wittgenstein and his many contributions to de...

Wittgenstein’s philosophical achievement lies in the development of a new philosophical method rather than in the elaboration of a particular philo...

Concept auditing is based on an innovative premise for philosophers: when they address an everyday life conception on the order of knowledge, truth...

The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality provides a wide-ranging survey of topics in a rapidly expanding area of interdisciplinary resea...

Peter Munz, a former student of both Popper and Wittgenstein, begins his comparison of the two great twentieth-century philosophers, by explaining ...

How do we explain violence?What is so significant of modern forms of violence that it has produced such large-scale destruction in its wake?This vo...

This volume attempts to solve a grave problem about critical self-reflection. The worry is that we critical thinkers are all in "epistemic bad fait...

The chapters in this volume investigate the question of where, and in what sense, the bounds of intelligible thought, knowledge, and speech are to ...

Recognizing the dominance of neoliberal forces in education, this volume offers a range of critical essays which analyze the language used to under...

This book aims to reclaim the significance of meaning within the philosophical thinking that has evolved from Descartes and Locke through Kant, Hus...

This book presents an interpretation of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason as a priori psychologism. It groups Kant’s philosophy together with those of...

How do we explain violence?What is so significant of modern forms of violence that it has produced such large-scale destruction in its wake?This vo...

This volume explores the linguistic expression of modality in natural language from a cross-linguistic perspective. Modal expressions provide the b...

This series provides short, accessible and lively introduction to the major schools, movements and traditions in philosophy and the history of idea...

Many philosophy majors are shocked by the gap between the relative ease of lower-level philosophy courses and the difficulty of upper-division cour...