Fifteen specially written papers examine the ways in which the content of what we say is dependent on the context in which we say it. At the centre of the current debate on this subject is Cappelen and Lepore's claim that context-sensitivity in language is best captured by a combination of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism. Using this theory as their starting point, the contributors to this volume develop a variety of different views about the role of context in communication, and reveal its wide-ranging implications for all issues in the philosophy of language and...
Fifteen specially written papers examine the ways in which the content of what we say is dependent on the context in which we say it. At the centre of...
These previously unpublished essays share the central theme of logical form--a fundamental issue in analytic philosophy and linguistic theory. Logical Form and Language brings together exciting new contributions from diverse points of view, which illuminate the lively current debate about this topic.
These previously unpublished essays share the central theme of logical form--a fundamental issue in analytic philosophy and linguistic theory. Logical...
In epistemology and in philosophy of language there is fierce debate about the role of context in knowledge, understanding, and meaning. Many contemporary epistemologists take seriously the thesis that epistemic vocabulary is context-sensitive. This thesis is of course a semantic claim, so it has brought epistemologists into contact with work on context in semantics by philosophers of language. This volume brings together the debates, in a set of twelve specially written essays representing the latest work by leading figures in the two fields. All future work on contextualism will start here....
In epistemology and in philosophy of language there is fierce debate about the role of context in knowledge, understanding, and meaning. Many contempo...
In epistemology and in philosophy of language there is fierce debate about the role of context in knowledge, understanding, and meaning. Many contemporary epistemologists take seriously the thesis that epistemic vocabulary is context-sensitive. This thesis is of course a semantic claim, so it has brought epistemologists into contact with work on context in semantics by philosophers of language. This volume brings together the debates, in a set of twelve specially written essays representing the latest work by leading figures in the two fields. All future work on contextualism will start here....
In epistemology and in philosophy of language there is fierce debate about the role of context in knowledge, understanding, and meaning. Many contempo...
If asked what Humeanism could mean today, there is no other philosopher to turn to whose work covers such a wide range of topics from a unified Humean perspective as that of David Lewis. The core of Lewis's many contributions to philosophy, including his work in philosophical ontology, intensional logic and semantics, probability and decision theory, topics within philosophy of science as well as a distinguished philosophy of mind, can be understood as the development of philosophical position that is centered around his conception of Humean supervenience. If we accept the thesis that it is...
If asked what Humeanism could mean today, there is no other philosopher to turn to whose work covers such a wide range of topics from a unified Humean...
Professor Donald Davidson is one of the most innovative and influential recent philosophers. Ranging over a variety of topics in the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and epistemology, his system of thought is unified by his inquiries into the nature of interpretation and understanding the speech and behavior of others. Together with its introduction, Language, Mind and Epistemology examines Davidson's unified stance towards philosophy by joining American and European authors within a collection of essays, published here for the first time. The authors discuss the...
Professor Donald Davidson is one of the most innovative and influential recent philosophers. Ranging over a variety of topics in the philosophy of lan...
Die Soziologie der Gegenwartsgesellschaft erkennt zunehmend die Bedeutung der kollektiven Identitaten und korrigiert die klassische Modernisierungstheorie. Sie erkennt, dass Moral wenig zu regeln vermag, da sie auf Konflikt angelegt ist. Die soziologische Forschung fuhrt uns immer mehr vor Augen, dass wir den kollektiven Gefuhlen nicht entgehen konnen. Sie belegt zudem die Klugheit der Selbststeuerung sozialer Systeme gegenuber ihrer staatlichen Ubersteuerung. Soziologische Aufklarung tragt zu der Einsicht bei, dass sich auch der genoptimierte Neue Mensch den elementaren Prozessen des...
Die Soziologie der Gegenwartsgesellschaft erkennt zunehmend die Bedeutung der kollektiven Identitaten und korrigiert die klassische Modernisierungsthe...
Wer auf dem chinesichen Markt erfolgreich sein mochte, braucht ein gewisses Verstandnis der chinesischen Kultur und Gesellschaft und ihrer Kommunikationsformen. Dieser praktische Leitfaden macht deutlich, warum wir Chinesen oft missverstehen, und zeigt, wie es gelingt, westlich-chinesische Kulturunterschiede zu erkennen, in ihrem Ausmass zu gewichten, sie zu uberbrucken und die Kommunikation mit chinesischen Geschaftspartnern erfolgreich zu gestalten. Eine klar strukturierte Anleitung, fundiert, kompakt und anschaulich mit vielen Beispielen."
Wer auf dem chinesichen Markt erfolgreich sein mochte, braucht ein gewisses Verstandnis der chinesischen Kultur und Gesellschaft und ihrer Kommunikati...
"Concept" in a historic and systematic perspective In his paper "What Happened to the Sense of a Concept-Word?," Carlo Penco deals with the boundary between semantics and pragmatics and discusses some misunderstandings in the shift from the sense/reference distinction in Frege to the intension/extension distinction in semantics. Building on Fodor, Margolis and Laurence Jacob Beck defends in "Sense, Mentalese, and Ontology" the latter Fregean view on concepts by arguing that the mind-independence of Fregean senses renders them ontologically suspect in a way that mentalese symbols are not....
"Concept" in a historic and systematic perspective In his paper "What Happened to the Sense of a Concept-Word?," Carlo Penco deals with the boundary b...
Die Soziologie der Mitgliedschaft legt einen besonderen Anschnitt bei der Untersuchung der klassischen soziologischen Grundbegriffe Rolle, Status, Erwartungen und soziale Gruppe. Er besteht darin, dass sie im Hinblick auf die Strukturbestandteile sozialer Systeme zu untersuchen sind. Der Band fuhrt in zentrale Grundbegriffe der Soziologie ein, die dem Soziologiestudenten eine Orientierung fur die Beobachtung von Kommunikation und Mitgliedschaft bereitstellen. Er wertet soziologisches Wissen aus und fuhrt die Kommunikation mit der Tradition des Faches fort."
Die Soziologie der Mitgliedschaft legt einen besonderen Anschnitt bei der Untersuchung der klassischen soziologischen Grundbegriffe Rolle, Status, Erw...
