Philosophy of Language

Objects of Metaphor puts forward a philosophical account of metaphor radically different from those currently on offer. Powerful and flexible enoug...

This book is the first systematic account of the syntax and semantics of names. Drawing on work in onomastics, philosophy, and linguistics John And...

Thinking and speaking about time is ridden with puzzles and paradoxes. How do human beings conceptualize time? Why, for example, does the availabil...

Reference is a central topic in philosophy of language, and has been the main focus of discussion about how language relates to the world. R. M. Sa...

The Liar paradox raises foundational questions about logic, language, and truth (and semantic notions in general). A simple Liar sentence like 'Thi...

One of the most important philosophers of recent times, Elizabeth Anscombe wrote books and articles on a wide range of topics, including the ground...

It is tempting to think that, if a person's beliefs are coherent, they are also likely to be true. Indeed, this truth-conduciveness claim is the co...

Thought's Footing is an enquiry into the relationship between the ways things are and the way we think and talk about them. It is also a study of W...

This introduction to the role of information structure in grammar discusses a wide range of phenomena on the syntax-information structure interface...

This book addresses the fundamental issues in the phase-based approach to the mental computation of language that have arisen from the recent devel...

Thomas Sattig's book develops a comprehensive framework for doing philosophy of time. He brings together a variety of different perspectives, linki...

Truth and Paradox offers a comprehensive account of truth values and the norms governing claims about truth, based on a new approach to logic and s...

Meaning and the Lexicon brings together 35 years of pathbreaking work on language by Ray Jackendoff. It traces the development of his Parallel Arch...

Deflationist accounts of truth are widely held in contemporary philosophy: they seek to show that truth is a dispensable concept with no metaphysic...

This book revives the study of conventional implicatures in natural language semantics. H. Paul Grice first defined the concept. Since then his def...

This book argues that language is a network of concepts which in turn is part of the general cognitive network of the mind. It challenges the widel...

Thoughts is a collection of twelve essays by Stephen Yablo which together constitute a modern-day examination of Cartesian themes in the metaphysic...

Discussion of Wittgenstein's Tractatus is currently dominated by two opposing interpretations of the work: a metaphysical or realist reading and th...

This book explores the semantic and pragmatic mechanisms underlying grammaticalization. Regine Eckardt argues that language change frequently invol...

Truth, Language, and History is the much-anticipated final volume of Donald Davidson's philosophical writings. In four groups of essays, Davidson c...

A picture of the world as chiefly one of discrete objects, distributed in space and time, has sometimes seemed compelling. It is however one of two...

Leading scholars in the philosophy of language and theoretical linguistics present brand-new papers on a major topic at the intersection of the two...

Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457) was the most important theorist of the humanist movement. He wrote a major work on Latin style, On Elegance in the Latin ...

By the time of his death in 2006, Sir Peter Strawson was regarded as one of the world's most distinguished philosophers. First published thirty yea...