Modern Philosophy of Language

Modern Philosophy of Language
Title Modern Philosophy of Language PDF eBook
Author Maria Baghramian
Publisher Catapult
Total Pages 429
Release 1999-09-17
Genre Art
ISBN 158243042X

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A collection of seminal writings on the philosophy of language. In our century, philosophers have become increasingly concerned with the relationship between language, the mind, and the world. Language has come to be viewed both as a source of puzzlement and as a repository for untapped knowledge. The philosophy of language is an attempt to understand the nature of language and to explore the link between what we say and what we intend. Modern Philosophy of Language brings together the most significant writings on language in twentieth-century philosophy–from the work of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and the logical positivists to the contemporary contributions of W. V. O. Quine, Noam Chomsky, and Michael Dummett. The articles collected here are benchmarks in the development of various strands in the modern analytic philosophy of language.

Linguistic Turns in Modern Philosophy

Linguistic Turns in Modern Philosophy
Title Linguistic Turns in Modern Philosophy PDF eBook
Author Michael Losonsky
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Total Pages 304
Release 2006-01-16
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780521652568

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Locke's linguistic turn -- The road to Locke -- Of angels and human beings -- The form of a language -- The import of propositions -- The value of a function -- From silence to assent -- The whimsy of language.

Philosophy of Language

Philosophy of Language
Title Philosophy of Language PDF eBook
Author William G. Lycan
Publisher Routledge
Total Pages 261
Release 2012-08-21
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1134696043

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Philosophy of Language introduces the student to the main issues and theories in twentieth-century philosophy of language. Topics are structured in three parts in the book. Part I, Reference and Referring Expressions, includes topics such as Russell's Theory of Desciptions, Donnellan's distinction, problems of anaphora, the description theory of proper names, Searle's cluster theory, and the causal-historical theory. Part II, Theories of Meaning, surveys the competing theories of linguistic meaning and compares their various advantages and liabilities. Part III, Pragmatics and Speech Acts, introduces the basic concepts of linguistic pragmatics, includes a detailed discussion of the problem of indirect force and surveys approaches to metaphor. Unique features of the text: * chapter overviews and summaries * clear supportive examples * study questions * annotated further reading * glossary.

Skepticism and Language in Early Modern Philosophy

Skepticism and Language in Early Modern Philosophy
Title Skepticism and Language in Early Modern Philosophy PDF eBook
Author Danilo Marcondes
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages 137
Release 2020-12-10
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1793614733

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Danilo Marcondes argues that, contrary to a traditional view maintaining that language is not given any central role in early modern philosophy, an “early linguistic turn” in the seventeenth century opened a place for the philosophy of language as part of the philosophical system then under construction. Skepticism and Language in Early Modern Philosophy: The Early Linguistic Turn also claims that the revival of ancient skepticism at the modern age contributed decisively towards this “linguistic turn” insofar as it attacked the “powers of the intellect” in representing reality and making knowledge possible. Marcondes also argues that the concept of language itself becomes crucial to this investigation since the various understandings that developed during this period led to the central role that would be given to the philosophy of language in contemporary philosophy.

Philosophy of Language

Philosophy of Language
Title Philosophy of Language PDF eBook
Author Scott Soames
Publisher Princeton University Press
Total Pages 200
Release 2012-09-24
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0691155976

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A masterful overview of the philosophy of language from one of its most important thinkers In this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field—its principal achievements, its most pressing current questions, and its most promising future directions. In addition to explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical framework for the study of language, Scott Soames investigates foundational concepts—such as truth, reference, and meaning—that are central to the philosophy of language and important to philosophy as a whole. The first part of the book describes how philosophers from Frege, Russell, Tarski, and Carnap to Kripke, Kaplan, and Montague developed precise techniques for understanding the languages of logic and mathematics, and how these techniques have been refined and extended to the study of natural human languages. The book then builds on this account, exploring new thinking about propositions, possibility, and the relationship between meaning, assertion, and other aspects of language use. An invaluable overview of the philosophy of language by one of its most important practitioners, this book will be essential reading for all serious students of philosophy.

German Philosophy of Language

German Philosophy of Language
Title German Philosophy of Language PDF eBook
Author Michael N. Forster
Publisher Oxford University Press
Total Pages 363
Release 2011-04-07
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0199604819

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Michael Forster presents a ground-breaking study of German philosophy of language in the nineteenth century, and its continuing significance. This book explores the lasting impact of J. G. Herder's work in the tradition, and traces his legacy in the philosophy of Friedrich Schlegel, Wilhelm von Humboldt, and G. W. F. Hegel.

An Introductory Course to Philosophy of Language

An Introductory Course to Philosophy of Language
Title An Introductory Course to Philosophy of Language PDF eBook
Author Ufuk Özen Baykent
Publisher Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages 115
Release 2016-08-17
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1443898201

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Language is what we all share and is our common concern. What is the nature of language? How is language related to the world? How is communication possible via language? What is the impact of language on our reasoning and thinking? Many people are unaware that misunderstandings and conflicts during communication occur as a result of the way we use language. This book introduces the central issues in the history of philosophical investigations about the concept of language. Topics are structured with reference to the world’s foremost philosophers of language. The book will encourage the reader to explore the depths of the concept of language and will raise an awareness of this distinctive human capacity.