Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Language

Feminist philosophers have made important strides in altering the overwhelmingly male-centric discipline of philosophy. Yet, in Nancy Bauer's view, most are still content to work within theoretical frameworks that are fundamentally false to human beings' everyday experiences. This is particularly intolerable for a species of philosophy whose central aspiration is to make the world a less sexist place. How to Do Things with Pornography models a new way to write philosophically about pornography, women's self-objectification, hook-up culture, and other contemporary phenomena. Unafraid...

The book starts by considering the general problem of how conflicts over logical laws may be rationally discussed and adjudicated. This leads to a consideration of the...

The volume explores conceptual, methodological, and practical issues related to ideal of authenticity in communication - that is, speech and writing that appropriately relates to the objective world and at the same time communicates the true intentions of the speaker or author.

Das Handbuch liefert erstmals eine umfassende Darstellung des spannungsvollen Verhaltnisses von Rhetorik und Philosophie. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei die wichtigsten Stationen der Konflikte und Dialoge beider Diszipline von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, die ambivalente Rolle der Rhetorik in der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts sowie der programmatische Ausblick auf zukunftige Forschungsfelder rhetorischen Philosophierens.

This volume contributes to the debate on relativism vs. contextualism. It comprises a collection of papers that take the problem of "faultless disagreement" as their starting point. The contributors all criticize the relativist view that the variability in subjective judgments necessitates the variability of the notion of truth dependent on a judge or assessor. They investigate the problem of faultless disagreement by investigating differences and similarities between subjective judgments with epistemic modals on the one hand and predicates of personal taste on the other. Importantly, they...

These are exciting times for philosophical theorizing about propositions, with the last 15 years seeing the development of new approaches and the emergence of new theorists. Propositions have been invoked to explain thought and cognition, the nature and attribution of mental states, language and communication, and in philosophical treatments of truth, necessity and possibility. According to Frege and Russell, and their followers, propositions are structured mind- and language-independent abstract objects which have essential and intrinsic truth-conditions.

Some recent theorizing...

Youth languages have increasingly attracted the attention of scholars and students of various disciplines. African youth languages are a vibrant phenomenon with manifold characteristics involving a range of different languages. This book is a first comprehensive study of African youth languages and presents fresh insights into various youth languages, providing linguistic as well as sociolinguistic data and analyses.

This book aims at analyzing semantic values of proper names occurring in belief reports. The focus is on the discussion about Frege's puzzle concerning belief reports. The goal is to analyze Frege's puzzle without giving up semantic innocence. To this end, a pragmatic analysis named 'VarCA analysis' is proposed.

Language is more like a snowflake than a giraffe's neck. Its specific properties are determined by laws of nature, they have not developed through the accumulation of historical accidents.--Noam Chomsky

In I Speak, Therefore I Am, the Italian linguist and...

Language is more like a snowflake than a giraffe's neck. Its specific properties are determined by laws of nature, they have not developed through the accumulation of historical accidents.--Noam Chomsky

In I Speak, Therefore I Am, the Italian linguist and...