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Author : Aloysius Martinich
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Total Pages : 504 pages
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Download or read book Philosophy of Language: Singular terms, propositional attitudes, and modality written by Aloysius Martinich and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dov M. Gabbay
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400911718
Total Pages : 726 pages
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Download or read book Handbook of Philosophical Logic written by Dov M. Gabbay and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: conceptual, realist) theories of predication. Chapter IV.4 centers on an important class of expressions used for predication in connection with quantities: mass expressions. This chapter reviews the most well-known approaches to mass terms and the ontological proposals related to them. In addition to quantification and predication, matters of reference have constituted the other overriding theme for semantic theories in both philosophical logic and the semantics of natural languages. Chapter IV.5 of how the semantics of proper names and descrip presents an overview tions have been dealt with in recent theories of reference. Chapter IV.6 is concerned with the context-dependence of reference, in particular, with the semantics of indexical expressions. The topic of Chapter IV.7 is related to predication as it surveys some of the central problems of ascribing propositional attitudes to agents. Chap ter IV.8 deals with the analysis of the main temporal aspects of natural language utterances. Together these two chapters give a good indication of the intricate complexities that arise once modalities of one or the other sort enter on the semantic stage. in philosophical Chapter IV.9 deals with another well-known topic logic: presupposition, an issue on the borderline of semantics and prag matics. The volume closes with an extensive study of the Liar paradox and its many implications for the study of language (as for example, self reference, truth concepts and truth definitions).
Author : Gary Kemp
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415517834
Total Pages : 226 pages
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Download or read book What Is This Thing Called Philosophy of Language? written by Gary Kemp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy of language explores some of the fundamental yet most technical problems in philosophy, such as meaning and reference, semantics, and propositional attitudes. Some of its greatest exponents, including Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell are amongst the major figures in the history of philosophy. In this clear and carefully structured introduction to the subject Gary Kemp explains the following key topics: the basic nature of philosophy of language and its historical development early arguments concerning the role of meaning, including cognitive meaning vs expressivism, context and compositionality Frege's arguments concerning sense and reference; non-existent objects Russell and the theory of definite descriptions modern theories including Kripke and Putnam; arguments concerning necessity, analyticity and natural kind terms indexicality, context and modality. What are indexicals? Davidson's theory of language and the 'principle of charity' propositional attitudes Quine's naturalism and its consequences for philosophy of language. Chapter summaries, annotated further reading and a glossary make this an indispensable introduction to those teaching philosophy of language and will be particularly useful for students coming to the subject for the first time.
Author : Mark Platts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315533871
Total Pages : 335 pages
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Download or read book Reference, Truth and Reality written by Mark Platts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this collection discuss the central questions about the connections between language, reality and human understanding. The complex relations between accounts of meaning and facts about ordinary speakers’ understanding of their language are examined so as to illuminate the philosophical character of the connections between language and reality. The collection as a whole is a thematically unified treatment of some of the most central questions within contemporary philosophy of language.
Author : Leonard Linsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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Total Pages : 196 pages
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Download or read book Reference and Modality written by Leonard Linsky and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1971 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deals with the two concepts which form a very important current of contemporary philosophical writing.
Author : Nathan U. Salmon
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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Total Pages : 304 pages
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Download or read book Propositions and Attitudes written by Nathan U. Salmon and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of readings investigates many different philosophical issues concerning the nature of propositions and the ways they have been regarded through the years. The book includes articles by Bertrand Russell, Gottlob Frege, Alonzo Church, David Kaplan, John Perry, Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam, Mark Richard, Scott Soames, and Nathan Salmon.
Author : Peter A. French
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Total Pages : 442 pages
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Download or read book Contemporary Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language II written by Peter A. French and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophy of language has emerged in the 20th century as a fundamental area of philosophic inquiry. It is unquestionably central to research in many other areas, and some have even suggested that it should now be seen as the foundation of philosophy.
Author : Tomoo Ueda
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110429594
Total Pages : 186 pages
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Download or read book Telling What She Thinks written by Tomoo Ueda and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frege’s puzzle concerning belief reports has been in the middle of the discussion on semantics and pragmatics of attitude reports: The intuition behind the opacity does not seem to be consistent with the thesis of semantic innocence according to which the semantic value of proper names is nothing but their referent. Main tasks of this book include providing truth-conditional content of belief reports. Especially, the focus is on semantic values of proper names. The key aim is to extend Crimmins’s basic idea of semantic pretense and the introduction of pleonastic entities proposed by Schiffer. They enable us to capture Frege’s puzzle in the analysis without giving up semantic innocence. To reach this conclusion, two issues are established. First, based on linguistic evidence, the frame of belief reports functions adverbially rather than relationally. Second, the belief ascriptions, on which each belief report is made, must be analyzed in terms of the measurement-theoretic analogy.
Author : James W. Garson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521682290
Total Pages : 429 pages
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Download or read book Modal Logic for Philosophers written by James W. Garson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-14 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2006 book provides an accessible, yet technically sound treatment of modal logic and its philosophical applications.
Author : Finn Collin
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
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Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book Meaning, Use, and Truth written by Finn Collin and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is linguistic meaning? What do people precisely do in uttering sentences? What are the principles involved in linguistic interpretation? How is it possible that linguistic signs, such as oral sounds or squiggles on a piece of paper, refer to things in the world? This book presents the attempts by philosophers in the 20th century to understand the workings of language, and address questions such as these.Presenting an accessible, balanced introduction to the philosophy of language as it has evolved in analytical philosophy during the 20th century, this textbook offers equal attention to both of the main divisions within the field of philosophical semantics - truth-conditional theory and speech act theory - and shows how these theoretical approaches may be construed as complementary abstractions from a prior, undifferentiated understanding of meaning as defined by use.Meaning, Use and Truth offers students of philosophy of language and those in related fields such as logic or linguistics a comprehensive introduction to the field, and explores why philosophy of language in the 20th century could be viewed as providing the key to the solution of the classical problems of philosophy.
