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These previously unpublished essays share the central theme of logical form--a fundamental issue in analytic philosophy and linguistic theory.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These previously unpublished essays share the central theme of logical form--a fundamental issue in analytic philosophy and linguistic theory.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...
The idea of only one way leading to a modern society seems to be hardly tenable. But even if we agree to this, our theories and terms describing modernization are gained on our own Western history. So social science has to reconsider its basic terms to describe China's modernization, and maybe even the understanding of modernization itself. The first of two volumes on China's modernization, collects articles by leading Chinese and Western scientists focusing on the main conflicts and differences this process involves. In a first section - "Changing China: Dealing with Diversity" -, Bjorn...
The idea of only one way leading to a modern society seems to be hardly tenable. But even if we agree to this, our theories and terms describing moder...
Die wissenschaftliche Diskussion ihrer Grundbegriffe hat gezeigt, dass eine soziologische Theorie der Gegenwartsgesellschaft nicht mehr fachspezifisch selbstgenugsam gestaltet werden kann. Veranderte Grenzziehungen auf Seiten der Gesellschaft treffen auf neue und zu verandernde Grenzen auf Seiten ihrer Wissenschaft: Globalisierung, Mitgliedschaft und Gruppe sind in ihrer zunehmenden Dynamisierung begrifflich in einem transdisziplinaren Kontext neu zu fassen. Die Beitrage gehen diesem Forschungsproblem aus verschiedenen Perspektiven nach und werfen einen Blick auf die veranderte asthetische...
Die wissenschaftliche Diskussion ihrer Grundbegriffe hat gezeigt, dass eine soziologische Theorie der Gegenwartsgesellschaft nicht mehr fachspezifisch...
This volume features a critical evaluation of the recent work of the philosopher, Prof. Raimo Tuomela and it also offers it offers new approaches to the collectivism-versus-individualism debate. It specifically looks at Tuomela's book Social Ontology and its accounts of collective intentionality and related topics.
The book contains eight essays written by expert contributors that present different perspectives on Tuomela's investigation into the philosophy of sociality, social ontology, theory of action, and (philosophical) decision and game theory. In addition, Tuomela himself gives...
This volume features a critical evaluation of the recent work of the philosopher, Prof. Raimo Tuomela and it also offers it offers new approaches t...
