Philosophy of Language

Many physical theories suggest that time does not pass, yet temporality deeply permeates our experience. We perceive change and movement, we are aw...

Working from newly available texts in Heidegger's Complete Works, Krzysztof Ziarek presents Heidegger at his most radical and demonstrates how the ...

William Lycan is an internationally renowned American philosopher whose work since the late 1960s has been not only extensive but also influential,...

This book is an advanced debate on the nature of scalar implicatures, one of the most popular topics in philosophical linguistics in the last 20 ye...

The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French...

The fascinating history of French words that have entered the English language and the fertile but fraught relationship between English- and French...

Wittgenstein and the Possibility of Meaning develops a new, non-reductionist, response to the sceptical argument about meaning famously developed i...

Disagreeing despite the Data: The Destruction of the Factual Commons examines the pressing problem of factual disagreement between social groups, s...

This book investigates dispositions in grammatical-normative terms through a contrast between a naturalized paradigm and a Wittgenstein-inspired pe...

An original and accessible discussion of the nature of religious language that draws on the latest research in the philosophy of language. The hist...

The authors explore some of the ways in which standardization, ideology and linguistics are interrelated. Through a number of case studies they sho...

When a word describing an emotion is said to be untranslatable, is that emotion untranslatable also? This unique study focuses on three word-concep...

This first book-length study of the work and life of L. Susan Stebbing relates the development of her thought to the philosophical, social and poli...

This volume brings together twelve papers by linguists and philosophers contributing novel empirical and formal considerations to theorizing about ...

Victor Dudman's revolutionary English Grammar brings grammar and logic together by conceiving grammar as 'the necessary preliminary to logic'. The ...

What is buried in the crypts of the Gothic? Building on psychoanalytic research on haunting, cryptonymy and melancholy, as well as on French philos...

Exploring the ethical dimension of Wittgenstein's thought, Iczkovits challenges the view that Wittgenstein had a vision of language and subsequentl...

In his attempts to define the uncanny, Sigmund Freud asserted that the concept is undoubtedly related to what is frightening, to what arouses dread...

Pynchon and Philosophy radically reworks our readings of Thomas Pynchon alongside the theoretical perspectives of Wittgenstein, Foucault and Adorno...