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Philosophy and Linguistics edited by Kumiko Murasugi and Robert Stainton offers ten new essays in areas of overlap between philosophy and theoretical linguistics. Specific areas include semantics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of linguistics, with papers on topics as diverse as the language of perception, compositionality, situations, moral competence, and the notion of simplicity in.
Philosophy of Language is organised around general questions of language and meaning. The nature of language has long been an obsession of philosophers, more recently it has also become the focus of empirical investigation in linguistics. The subject is concerned both with the most general and abstract aspects of language, meaning and knowledge of both and with more specific problems that.
It also encompasses issues that lie at the intersection of linguistics with philosophy, including especially the philosophy of language and mind, such as the nature of linguistic meaning and reference and whether such things even exist (i.e., semantic indeterminancy); interrelations between language and thought, including Whorfian “linguistic relativity”; whether there is knowledge of.
Linguistics and Philosophy focuses on issues related to structure and meaning in natural language, as addressed in the semantics, philosophy of language, pragmatics and related disciplines, in particular the following areas: philosophical theories of meaning and truth, reference, description, entailment, presupposition, implicatures, context-dependence, and speech acts; linguistic theories of.
New Essays on Singular Thought presents ten new, specially written essays on an issue central to philosophy of mind, language, and perception: the nature of our thought about the external world.
Philosophy of language, philosophical investigation of the nature of language; the relations between language, language users, and the world; and the concepts with which language is described and analyzed, both in everyday speech and in scientific linguistic studies. Because its investigations are conceptual rather than empirical, the philosophy of language is distinct from linguistics, though.
In areas relating the philosophy of mind, the distinction is especially difficult to draw, because many philosophers who take the analogy between thinking and speaking seriously have blurred the distinction between language and mind. As a separate, independent subfield of philosophy, philosophy of language is concerned with foundational issues relating to language. These can include very.