Philosophy of Language

Taking inspiration from the later Wittgenstein, On Moral Certainty, Justification and Practice explores the practical basis of human morality. It o...

What sorts of alien languages can there be? And might reality be such that some alien language represents reality better than familiar languages do...

How did writers understand the soul in late seventeenth-century England? This book considers depictions of the soul in literary texts that engage w...

In this book, Scott Soames argues that the revolution in the study of language and mind that has taken place since the late nineteenth century must...

Omega knowledge is the strongest kind of knowledge. When you omega know something, you know it. You know that you know it. You possess every iterat...

Hey, that was kind of racist.I'm not a racist! I have Black friends.This exchange highlights a problem with how people in the United States tend to...

In Words and Meaning in Metasemantics, Juan José Colomina-Almiñana puts forward a new way of understanding the linguistic and philosophical foundat...

A fresh and fascinating look at the philosophies, politics, and intellectual legacy of one of the twentieth centurys most influential and controver...

Inventors in the age of the Enlightenment created lifelike androids capable of playing music on real instruments. Music and the Forms of Life exami...

This book charges that just about every philosophical theory of mind or language developed over the past 50 years in the West is systematically ina...

Provocative and engagingThe array of urgent questions and crises facing our democracy makes one miss Richard Rortys voice: insistent, relentlessly ...

A major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal, exploring the Romantic poetics central to his theory of lang...

Hey, that was kind of racist.I'm not a racist! I have Black friends.This exchange highlights a problem with how people in the United States tend to...

In Europe, and later in the United States, the revitalization of the philosophy of language emerged from the need to address certain perplexities c...

Motion is one of the most basic human experiences, and it provides an important window for looking into human cognition and language. Within the pa...

In Words and Meaning in Metasemantics, Juan José Colomina-Almiñana puts forward a new way of understanding the linguistic and philosophical foundat...

What does 'if' mean? It is one of the most commonly used words in the English language, in itself a sign to the importance of conditional thinking...

People often get away with belittling others if they frame their speech as jokes-speech that would be condemned if stated seriously. It's just a jo...

Vtsyyana's Commentary on the Nyya-stra is one of classical India's most important philosophical works. This Guide offers both a map and interpretat...

What does it mean to advocate - in translation, for translation, through translation? What does advocacy look like, for those who do the translatin...

In this highly original interdisciplinary study incorporating close readings of literary texts and philosophical argumentation, Henry W. Pickford d...