Paradigms for Language Theory and Other Essays

ISBN-13: 9780792347804 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 310 str.

Jaakko Hintikka; J. Hintikka

Opis

Several central concepts and ideas of language theory are analyzed, criticized and developed in the essays contained in this volume. They include the concept of quantifier and in particular a liberalization of the rules governing the interaction of quantifiers, the ambiguities of the concept of scope, the alleged Frege-Russell ambiguity of words for being, the notion of reference which turns out to be misunderstood by the so-called new theorists of reference, different modes of identification, the hegemony of generative syntax, recent theories of demonstratives, the relation of verificationist and truth-conditional meaning theories, the notion of metaphor, and differences between alethic and epistemic language-games. A bird's-eye view of current language theory is provided by an examination of the differences between rule-oriented paradigms.

Spis treści

Introduction. Origin of the Essays. 1. The Games of Logic and the Games of Inquiry. 2. No Scope for Scope. 3. Informational Independence as a Semantical Phenomenon (with Gabriel Sandu.) 4. `Is', Semantical Games and Semantical Relativity. 5. Logical Form and Linguistic Theory. 6. On the Any-Thesis and the Methodology of Linguistics. 7. Paradigms for Language Theory. 8. (with Gabriel Sandu.) The Fallacies of the New Theory of Reference. 9. Perspectival Identification, Demonstratives and `Small Worlds'. 10. Game-theoretical Semantics as a Synthesis of Verificationist and Truth-conditional Meaning Theories. 11. (with Gabriel Sandu.) Metaphor and Other Kinds of Nonliteral Meaning.

O autorze

Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965.