Essays on Reference, Language, and Mind

Essays on Reference, Language, and Mind
Title Essays on Reference, Language, and Mind PDF eBook
Author Keith Donnellan
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 231
Release 2012-07-26
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0199857997

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This volume presents a highly focused collection of articles by Donnellan. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the philosophy of language and mind went through a paradigm shift, with the then-dominant Fregean theory losing ground to the 'direct reference' theory sometimes referred to as the direct reference revolution. Donnellan played a key role in this shift, focusing on the relation of semantic reference, a touchstone in the philosophy of language and the relation of 'thinking about' - a touchstone in the philosophy of mind.

New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind

New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind
Title New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind PDF eBook
Author Noam Chomsky
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 252
Release 2000-04-13
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 9780521658225

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Outstanding and unique contribution to the philosophical study of language and mind by Noam Chomsky.

New Essays on Singular Thought

New Essays on Singular Thought
Title New Essays on Singular Thought PDF eBook
Author Robin Jeshion
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 337
Release 2010-05-27
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 0199567883

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Leading philosophers present essays on an issue central to philosophy of mind, language, and perception: the nature of our thought about the external world. The essays explore directions for future research, an important resource for anyone working at the interface of semantics and mental representation.

Language and Mind

Language and Mind
Title Language and Mind PDF eBook
Author Noam Chomsky
Publisher New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pages 218
Release 1972
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN

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In this collection of Chomsky's lectures, the first three essays describe linguistic contributions to the study of the mind and the last three discuss the relationship among linguistics, philosophy, and psychology.

Direct Reference

Direct Reference
Title Direct Reference PDF eBook
Author Francois Recanati
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
Pages 436
Release 1997-08-15
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780631206347

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This volume puts forward a distinct new theory of direct reference, blending insights from both the Fregean and the Russellian traditions, and fitting the general theory of language understanding used by those working on the pragmatics of natural language

John Searle's Philosophy of Language

John Searle's Philosophy of Language
Title John Searle's Philosophy of Language PDF eBook
Author Savas L. Tsohatzidis
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 308
Release 2007-10-18
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780521685344

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This is a volume of original essays on key aspects of John Searle's philosophy of language. It examines Searle's work in relation to current issues of central significance, including internalism versus externalism about mental and linguistic content, truth-conditional versus non-truth-conditional conceptions of content, the relative priorities of thought and language in the explanation of intentionality, the status of the distinction between force and sense in the theory of meaning, the issue of meaning scepticism in relation to rule-following, and the proper characterization of 'what is said' in relation to the semantics/pragmatics distinction. Written by a distinguished team of contemporary philosophers, and prefaced by an illuminating essay by Searle, the volume aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of Searle's work in philosophy of language, and to suggest innovative approaches to fundamental questions in that area.

Language Topics

Language Topics
Title Language Topics PDF eBook
Author Ross Steele
Publisher John Benjamins Publishing
Pages 688
Release 1987-01-01
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 902728623X

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This second volume in honour of Michael Halliday contains three sections: The Design of Language, Text and Discourse and Exploring Language as Social Semiotic, and concludes with a recent interview conducted by Paul Thibault in which Halliday provides further insights in his theory of language. The essential design features of language are semantic, lexico-grammatical and phonological. Text for Halliday is a semantic unit expressed by the lexico-grammatical and phonological patterns in language. The papers in the first section study aspects of these three strata of language and the relation between them. The second section deals with units higher than the clause complex and the papers there attempt to integrate the analysis of the lexico-grammatical and phonological systems into higher level discourse units. The papers in the third section develop the notion of language as social semiotic which is central to Haliday’s model of language.