Philosophy of language Books

Easy Steps in Latin is a book written by Mary Hamer in 1901. The book is designed to teach Latin to beginners in a simple and easy-to-understand manner. It covers the basic grammar rules of Latin, including declensions, conjugations, and syntax. The book...

French and German Socialism in Modern Times is a historical book written by Richard Theodore Ely in 1883. The book provides an in-depth analysis of the development of socialism in France and Germany during the modern era. Ely explores the origins of...

This book uncovers the relation between figuration and science in the early modern world. It shows that changes we tend to understand in scientific terms had implications for, and were implicated by, changes in literary structure, revealing that the...

Self and Other in an Age of Uncertain Meaning explores the nature and origins of widespread problems of self in modern societies. It examines the paradoxical interplay between the modern world's many benefits and freedoms, and its mounting social...

Mamma's Echoes For Her Little Ones: Or Reading By Sound is a book written by E. Smith and published in 1871. The book is aimed at young children and is designed to help them learn to read through the use of sound. The book is structured in such a way...

""On Germinal Selection As A Source Of Definite Variation"" is a scientific book written by August Weismann and published in 1896. The book explores the concept of germinal selection, which is the idea that variations in an organism's traits arise from...

This book is about the idea that some true statements would have been true no matter how the world had turned out, while others could have been false. It develops and defends a version of the idea that we tell the difference between these two types of...

This book investigates the connection between language, mind and computation in theoretical linguistics in particular and cognitive science in general. The relationship between grammar, mind and computation which buttresses much of mainstream linguistic...

Nations usually define themselves in positive terms; they proclaim themselves strong and victorious, or developed and prosperous. But what does it mean when the opposite is true - when negative feelings like regret, nostalgia, melancholy and fatalism are...

Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity was one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century. In this collection of essays leading specialists explore issues arising from this and other works of Kripke's.

Dummett argues that the aim of philosophy is the analysis of thought and that, with Frege, analytical philosophy learned that the route to the analysis of thought is the analysis of language. Here are bold and deep readings of the subject's history and...

This dissertation explores the nature, origin, and significance of impersonal judgement, which refers to judgments that are not based on personal biases or emotions but rather on objective criteria. The author uses a range of philosophical and...

Each of us bears a unique name given to us at birth. When people use your name, they typically refer to you. But what is the linkage that ties a name to a person and hence allows it to refer? Li's book approaches this question of reference empirically...

Unleash the Most Powerful Force in All the Universe!We as humanity face unprecedented challenges at a global scale, such as institutional violence, distressing epidemics, economic turbulence and climate change. Underneath these lies a crisis in...

Divine Psychology of the Revolution of Biafra is a Poetic Fantasy of Biafra, which poeticizes upon the divine-concept Biafra, and solicits its redemption from the non-status of a “Military Ambition of the Old Order”. The Divine Psychology...

This book aims to reclaim the significance of meaning within the philosophical thinking that has evolved from Descartes and Locke through Kant, Husserl, and Frege, focusing on intentionality-the mind's directedness toward the reality.

This book proposes a novel theory of truth and falsity. It argues that truth is a form of reference and falsity is a form of reference failure.Most of the philosophical literature on truth concentrates on certain ontological and epistemic problems. This...

This collection is devoted to Gilbert Ryle's philosophy of mind and language. It features essays from prominent scholars on the topics of category mistakes, hypotheticals, dispositions, emotion, thinking, perception, and the task-achievement distinction.

The Written World of God is the first and only systematic overview of the science of letters (ʿilm al-hurūf) according to the great Andalusian spiritual master, scholar, poet and philosopher Ibn ʿArabī (d. 1240). Ibn ʿArabī defined the science of...

""First Readings In Latin: With Vocabularies And A Short Accidence"" is a book written by George Frederick H. Sykes and published in 1880. The book is designed to provide beginners with an introduction to the Latin language. It includes a collection of...

Philosophie De La Langue Francaise: Ou Nouvelle Doctrine Litteraire (1841) est un livre �����crit par Tredos, Rene qui explore la philosophie de la langue fran�����aise. Dans ce livre, l'auteur examine l'importance de la langue fran�����aise dans la...

Today's leading theories of meaning, chiefly those of Michael Dummett and Donald Davidson, depend crucially upon Gottlob Frege's distinctions between sense and reference, sense and utterance-force, and sense and tone. But while the notions of reference,...

The essays in this collection explore the idea that discursive norms-the norms governing our thought and talk-are profoundly social. Not only do these norms govern and structure our social interactions, but they are sustained by a variety of social...

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...

Le présent ouvrage est le premier recueil publié en français d'écrits du linguiste et philosophe néerlandais Hendrik Pos. Les seize textes proposés ici (en version originale pour la moitié d'entre eux, dans une traduction de l'allemand ou du néerlandais...

Did you know that an internet survey revealed that 54% of single heterosexual women enjoy when a man who they find appealing and attractive converses with them in an X-rated and/or XXX-rated manner? And that another 28% of women enjoy a man...

Glaciation of the Puget Sound Region is a scientific book written by J. Harlen Bretz in 1913. The book is a comprehensive study of the geological history of the Puget Sound region, an area in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The author...

This book defends the Direct Reference (DR) thesis in philosophy of language regarding proper names and indexical pronouns. It uniquely draws out the significant consequences of DR when it is conjoined with the fact that these singular terms sometimes...

Brian Loar (1939-2014) was an eminent and highly respected philosopher of mind and language. He was at the forefront of several different field-defining debates between the 1970s and the 2000s-from his earliest work on reducing semantics to psychology,...

The essays in this volume investigate the question of where, and in what sense, the bounds of intelligible thought, knowledge, and speech are to be drawn. The chapters examine how they figure in Kant's and Wittgenstein's most significant works and put...

<p><strong>Introducing this new edition of George Orwell's critical essays on politics and literature, this volume features both 'Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels' and 'Politics and the English Language'...

The emotional life of any human being can be a confusing thing. For most of us, an everyday, common sense understanding of emotional life routinely compares and contrasts the experiences of anxiety and fear, as if the two emotions are cut from the same...

Taking issue with Transformational Grammar Theory, which has dominated language study since Noam Chomsky introduced it more than 30 years ago, Shaumyan separates language from psychology, arguing that language occupies a different world, that of the...

The purpose of Sheriff's work is to expound Peirce's unified theory of the universe--from cosmology to semiotic--and to discuss its ramifications for how he should live.

This book studies the origins of language. It presents language as the product of a unique non-linguistic cognitive feature (i.e. metacognition) that emerged late in human evolution. Within this framework, the author lays special emphasis on the tight...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Slips of the tongue, unwitting favoritism, and stereotyped assumptions are just some examples of microaggression. Nearly all of us commit microaggressions at some point, even if we don't intend to. Yet over time a pattern of microaggression can cause...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

Liber sin Nomine, or 'a book without name,' was James Cowan's final testament to this world. The book was written in the final months of his life leading up to his passing in October 2018. This is what James had to say about it: 'My task has always been...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This book explores the relationship between Hegel's dialectics and formal logic. It examines the concept of dialectics, its meaning, and its use in contemporary thought. This volume was originally published as a special issue of History and...

In this book, seven experts in logic and semantics examine reasons for using the intensional operator approach over the variable binding approach and vice versa. This book was originally published as a special issue of Inquiry.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...