Philosophy of Language

Hiding in Plain Sight is a captivating exploration of the intricate relationship between language and the concealed order of human existence. Drawi...

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the nature and role of hypothetical reasoning about impossibilities. The interest in this subject stems ...

This book provides beginners with a sense of the questions and methods that make up the philosophy of language. The first four chapters develop the...

This book provides beginners with a sense of the questions and methods that make up the philosophy of language. The first four chapters develop the...

T. M. Scanlon offers a qualified defense of normative cognitivism--the view that there are irreducibly normative truths about reasons for action. H...

Law can be seen as a motley of different languages deployed in the legal domain. The authors of the chapters share interest in what determines the ...

This is the first book focused on the logico-philosophical aspects of the lambda-calculus since the inception of the field in 1932 in the pioneerin...

This edited collection features fourteen newly commissioned articles, each of which responds to the theme of plague from different disciplinary per...

This edited collection features fourteen newly commissioned articles, each of which responds to the theme of plague from different disciplinary per...

How might we speak of human life amid violence, deprivation, or disease so intrusive as to put the idea of the human into question? How can scholar...

This book provides the first fully developed account of Frank Ramsey's theory of conditionals. It is divided into two parts. The first part of the ...

Plato is one of the most widely read and studied philosophers of all time. A pivotal figure in the history of philosophy, his work is foundational ...

This volume features new essays on the application, justification and role of naturalism in philosophical inquiry. It serves as an important update...

This book covers the topic of history and the role that it played in the Austrio-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgensteins thought. The topic is exp...

This volume develops a theory of meaning and a semantics for both mathematical and empirical sentences inspired to Chomskys internalism, namely to ...

Bringing together a renowned group of scholars from a range of disciplines sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, philosophy of language, and ...

This volume collects a selection of papers concerning the history of linguistics spanning the centuries from the 17th to the 20th. These contributi...

This collection brings together perspectives on the interplay of communication, dialogue, and responsibility, exploring communicative acts of disru...

The Gongsun Longzi is often considered the only extant work of the Classical Chinese School of Names, an early intellectual tradition (trad. dated ...