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Relative Truth by Manuel Garcia-Carpintero 9780199234950
Booksplease Price: £56.97The truth of an utterance depends on various factors. Usually these factors are assumed to be: the meaning of the sentence uttered, the context in which the utterance was made, and the way things are... -
Two-Dimensional Semantics by Manuel Garcia-Carpintero 9780199272020
Booksplease Price: £51.63According to two-dimensional semantics, the meaning of an expression involves two different "dimensions": one dimension involves reference and truth-conditions of a familiar sort, while the other... -
The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Language by Manuel Garcia-Carpintero 9781472578235
Booksplease Price: £39.39Beginning 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... -
Empty Representations: Reference and Non-Existence by Manuel Garcia-Carpintero 9780199647057
Booksplease Price: £101.24It is the linguistic job of singular terms to pick out the objects that we think or talk about. But what about singular terms that seem to fail to designate anything, because the objects they refer... -
About Oneself: De Se Thought and Communication by Manuel Garcia-Carpintero 9780198713265
Booksplease Price: £112.65This volume addresses foundational issues concerning the nature of first-personal, or de se, thought and how such thoughts are communicated. One of the questions addressed is whether there is... -
Truth and Reference in the Making of Fiction: A View on Fictionality by Manuel García-Carpintero 9781009298452
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £82.46A standard feature of our engagement with fictions is that we praise them as if they offer true insights on factual, psychological or evaluative matters, or criticize them as if they purport to do it... -
Relative Truth by Manuel García-Carpintero 9780199234943
Booksplease Price: £54.74The truth of an utterance depends on various factors. Usually these factors are assumed to be: the meaning of the sentence uttered, the context in which the utterance was made, and the way things are... -
Arguing About Language by Darragh Byrne
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £55.45Arguing About Language presents a comprehensive selection of key readings on fundamental issues in the philosophy of language. It offers a fresh and exciting introduction to the subject, addressing... -
Truth and Truth Bearers: Meaning in Context, Volume II by Mark Richard 9780198747765
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £74.27This book collects nine seminal essays by Mark Richard published between 1980 and 2014, alongside four new essays and an introduction that puts the essays in context. Each essay is an attempt, in one... -
Explicit Communication: Robyn Carston's Pragmatics by Belen Soria 9780230545472
Booksplease Price: £46.28This collection brings about a current interdisciplinary debate on explicit communication. With Robyn Carston's pragmatics at the core of the discussion, special attention is drawn to linguistic... -
From Utterances to Speech Acts by Mikhail Kissine 9781107009769
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £95.00Most of the time our utterances are automatically interpreted as speech acts: as assertions, conjectures and testimonies; as orders, requests and pleas; as threats, offers and promises. Surprisingly,... -
Category Mistakes by Ofra Magidor 9780199572977
Booksplease Price: £79.81Category mistakes are sentences such as 'Green ideas sleep furiously', 'Saturday is in bed', and The theory of relactivity is eating breakfast. Such sentences strike most speakers as highly... -
Category Mistakes by Ofra Magidor 9780198779261
Booksplease Price: £35.55Category mistakes are sentences such as 'Green ideas sleep furiously', 'Saturday is in bed', and 'The theory of relativity is eating breakfast'. Such sentences strike most speakers as highly... -
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature by Noel Carroll 9780367360399
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £48.60The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature is an in-depth examination of literature through a philosophical lens, written by distinguished figures across the major divisions of philosophy... -
Pursuing Meaning by Emma Borg 9780199588374
RRP: £93.00Booksplease Price: £64.00Emma Borg examines the relation between semantics (roughly, features of the literal meaning of linguistic items) and pragmatics (features emerging from the context within which such items are being... -
Pursuing Meaning by Emma Borg 9780198738985
RRP: £30.49Booksplease Price: £27.26Emma Borg examines the relation between semantics (roughly, features of the literal meaning of linguistic items) and pragmatics (features emerging from the context within which such items are being...