Philosophy of Language

In this book Eli Hirsch identifies and explores a `new' philosophical problem. Hirsch calls this new problem `the division problem'. This is define...

Ludwig Wittgenstein’s brief Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922) is one of the most important philosophical works of the twentieth century, yet it...

The aim of this volume is to open up new perspectives and to raise new research questions about a unified approach to truth, modalities, and propos...

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Kantian and Hegelian conceptions of freedom guide this collection of essays that engage with the linguistic turn in continental philosophy to explo...

This book addresses how our revisionary practices account for relations between texts and how they are read. It offers an overarching philosophy of...

Between Logic and the World presents a theory of generic sentences and the kind-directed modes of thought they express. The theory closely integrat...

This book provides a comprehensive philosophical theory explicating the cognitive contribution of metaphor. Metaphor effects a transference of mean...

This book reimagines the compositional semantics of comparative sentences using words such as more, as, too, and others. The book's central thesis ...

Western philosophy has often claimed for itself not just a distinct sphere of knowledge, but a distinct form of communication, set against ordinary...

Ludwig Wittgenstein's interest in the writings of Rabindranath Tagore, is recognized among scholars worldwide though little has been written on his...

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

The world keeps turning to apocalypticism. Time is imagined as proceeding ineluctably to a catastrophic, perhaps revelatory conclusion. Even when e...

Imogen Dickie develops an account of aboutness-fixing for thoughts about ordinary objects, and of reference-fixing for the singular terms we use to...

In this book, Scott Soames illuminates the notion of truth and the role it plays in our ordinary thought, as well as in our logical, philosophical,...

Scott Soames illuminates the notion of truth and the role it plays in our ordinary thought, as well as in our logical, philosophical, and scientifi...

Linguists (and others) have realised for some time that predicates of the 'know' and 'wonder' classes behave differently, in semantic terms, with r...

Between Saying and Doing aims to reconcile pragmatism (in both its classical American and its Wittgensteinian forms) with analytic philosophy. It i...

This book reimagines the compositional semantics of comparative sentences using words such as more, as, too, and others. The book's central thesis ...

Ernest Lepore and Kirk Ludwig present the definitive critical exposition of the philosophical system of Donald Davidson (1917-2003). Davidson's ide...

In fin-de-siècle and early revolutionary Russia, a group of self-educated workers produced a large body of poetry and prose in which they attempted...

Saul Kripke, in a series of classic writings of the 1960s and 1970s, changed the face of metaphysics and philosophy of language. Christopher Hughes...

The Problems of the Essential Indexical is a collection of twelve essays by John Perry and two essays he co-authored. These deal with various probl...

The moral philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch said that philosophy “is both the guide and mirror of the age”. In this wide-ranging book Mark Hopw...

How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attentionOur democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal med...

Through a series of reflections from internationally renowned performance-makers and contextualising essays from leading theatre and performance sc...

An erudite exploration of transgressive language from the Renaissance by one of Europe’s greatest living philosophers.  This book explores how earl...

Why do we have different accents and where do they come from? Why do you say ‘tomayto’ and I say ‘tomahto’? And is one way of speaking better than ...

The studies of rhetoric and literature have been closely connected on the theoretical level ever since antiquity, and many great works of literatur...

Three prominent Wittgenstein scholars introduce the broad educational significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work to a wider audience of educational...

The Good, the Bad, and the BeautifulDiscourse about Values in Yoruba CultureBarry HallenReveals everyday language as the key to understanding moral...

Conceptual atomism claims that most concepts cannot be decomposed into features, so that the conjunction of the features is equivalent to the conce...

Three prominent Wittgenstein scholars introduce the broad educational significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein's work to a wider audience of educational...

This collection of classic and contemporary essays in philosophy of language offers a concise introduction to the field for students in graduate an...

This book is a collection of papers on various aspects of the syntax and morphosyntax of Germanic and Slavic languages (English, German, Czech, Pol...

The papers in this volume discuss pivotal issues pertaining to the linguistic approaches to metaphors from theoretical and applied points of view. ...