Interperspectival Content
Title | Interperspectival Content PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Ludlow |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2019-01-21 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0192557068 |
Too often today it seems we find ourselves communicating from radically different perspectives on the world and we often despair of communication even being possible. Peter Ludlow argues that perspectival content, or what some call indexical content, is ineliminable and ubiquitous, running through our accounts of human action and emotions, perception, normative behaviour, and even our theories of computation and information. While such content may be ineliminable, it also gives rise to philosophical puzzles - particularly those involving reporting these contents from different perspectival positions. Such puzzles have led some to try and abandon perspectival content, and others to despair of communication across diverse perspectival positions. Ludlow argues that communication across diverse perspectival positions is not only possible, but routine, and develops a theory of interperspectival content and cognitive dynamics to explain how it is accomplished.
Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics
Title | Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics PDF eBook |
Author | Daisuke Bekki |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 363 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 303160878X |
The Philosophy of Generative Linguistics
Title | The Philosophy of Generative Linguistics PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Ludlow |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2011-02-17 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199258538 |
Peter Ludlow presents the first book on the philosophy of generative linguistics. He explains the motivation of the generative framework, describes its mechanisms, and addresses issues of broad philosophical interest, for instance the ontology of linguistics, the nature of data, language/world relations, and best theory criteria.
Lexical Relatedness
Title | Lexical Relatedness PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Spencer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press (UK) |
Pages | 474 |
Release | 2013-09 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199679924 |
Andrew Spencer argues that inflection and derivation cannot be properly distinguished and that conventional approaches to morphology are fatally flawed. He uses intermediate types of lexical relatedness in a variety of languages (including Slavic, Australian, Germanic, and Romance) to develop an enriched and morphologically-informed model of the lexical entry. He then uses this to build the foundations for a model of lexical relatedness that is consistent withparadigm-based models. This profound and stimulating book will interest morphologists, lexicographers, and theoretical linguists more generally.
Computational Phenotypes
Title | Computational Phenotypes PDF eBook |
Author | Sergio Balari |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0199665478 |
This book, written accessibly for both biologists and linguists, argues that language is not as exceptional a human trait as some linguists believe it to be. It is rather, according to the authors, just the human version of a fairly common and conservative organic system, the Central Computational Complex.
Rethinking the Curriculum
Title | Rethinking the Curriculum PDF eBook |
Author | Orlando Nang Kwok Ho |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 2018-12-13 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9811089027 |
This book is an inter-disciplinary endeavour. Encompassing education and basic research, it discusses the modular-curriculum embodied in The Epistle from educational, historical, sociolinguistic, anthropological, phenomenological, and non-sectarian perspectives. It shows the cross-boundary philosophical reasoning and pedagogic dimensions of St. Paul as a great teacher and thinker from the Jewish-and-Christian faith. In doing so, this book refocuses academia’s attention on the inevitable antimonic nature inherent in humans’ efforts to create systemic knowledge. Knowledge about the inner aesthetic and volitional-interpretative self – the immanent psychic “I” – and other philosophical aspects of the realm of the transcendental should be rescued from the deepening trends of secularity. Being strong, powerful, productive, and performative should not be taken as the indisputable and exclusive aim of education. Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) do not constitute a sufficient basis for building a better humanity. Education via public curriculums ought to serve both the belly and the mind. Deliberative curricular recalibrations, with rationales for grace, are thus needed for a better future for humanity.... This book is relevant for anyone with a core fascination about truths, values, epistemologies, life, spirituality, and holistic human development. It can also be used as a textbook or a reference in a number of fields including counselling, psychology, translation, cultural studies, and theology.
Living Words
Title | Living Words PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Ludlow |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0198712057 |
Peter Ludlow shows how word meanings are much more dynamic than we might have supposed, and explores how they are modulated even during everyday conversation. The resulting view is radical, and has far-reaching consequences for our political and legal discourse, and for enduring puzzles in the foundations of semantics, epistemology, and logic.