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This book collects nine seminal essays by Mark Richard, alongside four new essays and an introduction. Each essay attempts to understand the idea of... Læs mere
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This volume offers a collective critical engagement with the thought of Charles Travis, a leading contemporary philosopher of language... Læs mere
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This book presents an analysis of how speakers of typologically diverse languages report present-time situations. Astrid De Wit brings together... Læs mere
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The descriptions 'good' and 'bad' are examples of thin concepts, as opposed to 'kind' or 'cruel' which are thick concepts. Simon Kirchin provides one of the first full-length studies of... Læs mere
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Graham Priest presents an account of the semantics of intentional language, which proceeds in terms of objects that may be either existent or non-existent, at worlds that may be either... Læs mere
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Semantics aims to describe the significance of linguistic expressions in a systematic way. Metasemantics, or foundational semantics, asks how expressions gain their... Læs mere
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This book considers the relationship between language and thought from a philosophical perspective, drawing both on the philosophical study of language and the purely... Læs mere
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With language we command, assert, query, emote, insult, and inspire. Language has meaning, and semantics is the science of... Læs mere
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Reference is a central topic in the philosophy of language, linguistic semantics, and related areas of philosophy and linguistics. This textbook offers an up-to-date introduction to... Læs mere
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Keith Simmons presents an original, unified solution to the semantic paradoxes which have dogged attempts to give a consistent account of the logic of natural language since antiquity: the Liar paradox and the paradoxes of reference and predication.
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Trenton Merricks presents an original argument for the existence of propositions, and defends an account of their nature. He draws a variety of controversial conclusions, for instance about... Læs mere
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In the first account of how the language of reasons works, Semantics for Reasons draws on the scientific discipline of linguistics, brings together the theory of reasons and... Læs mere