Philosophy and Linguistics

ISBN-13: 9780367298326 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 296 str.

Kumiko Murasugi; Robert Stainton

Opis

This volume presents the reader with a variety of papers which exemplify the current reorientation of philosophy of language. At the core are questions of logical form: a joint linguistic and philosophical investigation into the syntax and semantics of various natural language constructions.

Spis treści

Introduction -- Philosophy, Syntax, and Semantics -- Perceptual Reports Revisited -- Coloring and Composition -- Philosophy, Semantics, and Pragmatics -- On Communication-Based De Re Thought, Commitments De Dicto, and Word Individuation1 -- Situations and the Structure of Content -- Linguistics and Philosophy of Science -- Moral Competence -- Simplicity and Generative Linguistics1 -- A Case Study in Philosophy and Linguistics: Mixed Quotation -- Semantics for Quotation1 -- Mixed Quotation -- Compositional Quotation (without Parataxis) -- Remarks on the Syntax and Semantics of Mixed Quotation1 -- Replies to the Commentaries

O autorze

Kumiko Murasugi and Robert Stainton