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Should philosophy of language use experimental methods, or can it be pursued in the armchair? Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Language represents a balanced variety of positions on this extensively discussed question. In the first collection of...

Most living forms in nature display various cognitive abilities in their behaviour. However, except for humans, no other animal builds fires and wheels, navigates with maps and tells stories to other conspecifics. We can witness this unique feature of...

Winner, ASA (American Society for Aesthetics) 2023 Outstanding Monograph Prize For Theodore Gracyk meaning in popular music depends as much on the context of reception and performer’s intentions as on established musical and semantic practices. Songs are...

Dolf Rami contributes to contemporary debates about the meaning and reference of proper names by providing an overview of the main challenges and developing a new contextualist account of names. Questions about the use and semantic features of proper...

This book is about rules, and especially about human capability to create, maintain and follow rules, as a root of what makes us humans different from other animals. The leading idea is that scrutinizing this capability is able to tell us who we humans...

The Journal of Language Relationship is an international periodical publication devoted to the issues of comparative linguistics and the history of the human language. The Journal contains articles written in English and Russian, as well as scientific...

The first extended Lacanian reading of J. L. Austin's ordinary language philosophy, this book examines how it has been received in the continental tradition by Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler, Jacques Ranciere and Oswald Ducrot. This is a tradition...

What would happen if structures, forms, and other stand-alone entities thought to comprise our intellectual toolkit—words, meanings, signs—were jettisoned? How would a work written in a purportedly dead language, like The Iliad, or penned in a foreign...

What would happen if structures, forms, and other stand-alone entities thought to comprise our intellectual toolkit-words, meanings, signs-were jettisoned? How would a work written in a purportedly dead language, like The Iliad, or penned in a foreign...

It is widely believed that inconsistency is one of the greatest sins a scholar can commit. This issue is especially relevant in linguistics due to the rich diversity of data types, exceptions to the rules, counterexamples to the hypotheses, and...

What is astro-culture? In The Babylonian Planet it is unfolded as an aesthetic, an idea, a field of study, a position, and a practice. It helps to engineer the shift from a world view that is segregated to one that is integrated – from global to...

Pasgaard-Westerman rethinks the ontological and epistemological understanding of world, other and self by opposing the general anthropological paradigm within contemporary philosophy. Signs and interpretations are not functions of Man; instead Man is...

One of the basic insights of the book is that there is a notion of non-relational linguistic representation which can fruitfully be employed in a systematic approach to literary fiction. This notion allows us to develop an improved understanding of the...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888903261Author Nathaniel J P BarronFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Haymarket BooksPublisher Haymarket Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783740727Author Ben BlumsonFormat PaperbackImprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789657698112Author Christophe RicoFormat HardbackPage Count 380Imprint Polis Institute PressPublisher Polis Institute PressWeight(grams) 170g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783740734Author Ben BlumsonFormat HardbackImprint Open Book PublishersPublisher Open Book PublishersWeight(grams) 490g

This book deals with the complicated realm of metaphor, an enigma deeply embedded in language and cognition. There has been much discussion of metaphor in the past, but it was characterized by a certain fragmentation and lacked interdisciplinarity. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798987415702Author Simon J EvnineFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Tell It Slant PressPublisher Tell It Slant PressWeight(grams) 712g

The phenomenon of context dependence is so multifaceted that it is tempting to classify it as hetergenous. It is especially evident in the case of the difference between context dependence as understood in the philosophy of language and context...

The series offers a publication forum for innovative works on all topics of analytic philosophy. The focus is on the disciplines of theoretical philosophy: metaphysics, ontology, epistemology, philosophy of language, logic. Furthermore, works which...

This monograph deals with argument drop in the German prefield and it presents new insights into null subjects, topic drop and the interpretation of topic dropped elements. Major issues are (inter alia) the drop of structurally vs. obliquely cased...

The volume provides a thorough look into Marina Sbisa's distinctive, Austinian-inspired approach to speech acts. By gathering original essays from a world-class lineup of philosophers of language, linguists, social epistemologists, action theorists, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926906270Author Christopher OkemwaFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Nsemia Inc.Publisher Nsemia Inc.Weight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666721287Author Stephen J CostelloFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint Pickwick PublicationsPublisher Pickwick PublicationsWeight(grams) 363g

In this book, renowned philosopher John Perry responds to criticisms of his influential writing on "the essential indexical." He begins by explaining the conclusions of his past articles. He then argues that many criticisms are based on confusions about...

This book presents the current state of experimental philosophy of language, drawing attention to corpus methods. The volume highlights new trends in experimental philosophy of language, thus exploring the future’s discipline. It includes...

This book provides an original perspective on the debate about anti-representationalism and the nature of philosophy. This debate has come to prominence in recent years through the work of people like Richard Rorty, Paul Horwich, Huw Price and Amie...

Studies collected in this volume investigate selected issues in contemporary philosophy of language and philosophy of literature. Individual authors concentrate on philosophy of fiction and discuss fictional worlds and fictional characters. They also...

Simplifying complexity explores how to eliminate ignorance, which in the view of the author, is the purpose of the sciences and technologies and their consequent developments. More specifically, the book deals with the plurality of the sciences and...

This book investigates philosophical and formal approaches to predication. The topics discussed include Aristotelian predication, a conceptualist approach to predication, possible formalizations of the notion, Fregean predicates and concepts, and...

A Chance for Possibility defends the view that the objective modal realm is tripartite: truths about possible worlds supervene on modal truths, which in turn supervene on truths about objective chances. An understanding of supervenience in terms of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622736386Author Claudio MurgiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Vernon PressPublisher Vernon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622735068Author D.M. SpitzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Vernon PressPublisher Vernon Press

Beginning with works of Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein, The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Language provides a critical history of the core concepts in the area. From generative syntax and formal semantics to broader philosophical issues...

Connecting poetry and philosophy of language, Philip Mills bridges the continental and analytical divide by bringing together the writings of Nietzsche and Wittgenstein. Through an expressivist philosophy of poetry, he argues that we can understand some...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781961334106Author L E MaroskiFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Untimely BooksPublisher Untimely BooksWeight(grams) 866g

The book links the concept of intention to human action. It provides answers to questions like: Why do we act intentionally? Which impact do reasons and motives have on our decisions? Certain events are identified as intentional actions when they are...