Author: M. Bunge
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401099227
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Semantics II: Interpretation and Truth
Author: M. Bunge
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401099227
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401099227
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Semantics II: Interpretation and Truth
Author: Mario BUNGE
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9789027705358
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9789027705358
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Donald Davidson's Truth-Theoretic Semantics
Author: Ernest Lepore
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191537497
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Ernest Lepore and Kirk Ludwig examine the foundations and applications of Davidson's influential program of truth-theoretic semantics for natural languages. The program uses an axiomatic truth theory for a language, which meets certain constraints, to serve the goals of a compositional meaning theory. Lepore and Ludwig explain and clarify the motivations for the approach, and then consider how to apply the framework to a range of important natural language constructions, including quantifiers, proper names, indexicals, simple and complex demonstratives, quotation, adjectives and adverbs, the simple and perfect tenses, temporal adverbials and temporal quantifiers, tense in sentential complement clauses, attitude and indirect discourse reports, and the problem of interrogative and imperative sentences. They not only discuss Davidson's own contributions to these subjects but consider criticisms, developments, and alternatives as well. They conclude with a discussion of logical form in natural language in light of the approach, the role of the concept of truth in the program, and Davidson's view of it. Anyone working on meaning will find this book invaluable.
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0191537497
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Ernest Lepore and Kirk Ludwig examine the foundations and applications of Davidson's influential program of truth-theoretic semantics for natural languages. The program uses an axiomatic truth theory for a language, which meets certain constraints, to serve the goals of a compositional meaning theory. Lepore and Ludwig explain and clarify the motivations for the approach, and then consider how to apply the framework to a range of important natural language constructions, including quantifiers, proper names, indexicals, simple and complex demonstratives, quotation, adjectives and adverbs, the simple and perfect tenses, temporal adverbials and temporal quantifiers, tense in sentential complement clauses, attitude and indirect discourse reports, and the problem of interrogative and imperative sentences. They not only discuss Davidson's own contributions to these subjects but consider criticisms, developments, and alternatives as well. They conclude with a discussion of logical form in natural language in light of the approach, the role of the concept of truth in the program, and Davidson's view of it. Anyone working on meaning will find this book invaluable.
Donald Davidson on Truth, Meaning, and the Mental
Author: Gerhard Preyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199697515
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
This volume offers a reappraisal of Donald Davidson's influential philosophy of thought, meaning, and language, Twelve specially written essays by leading philosophers in the field illuminate a range of themes and problems relating to these subjects, and engage in particular with Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig's interpretation of Davidson's thought.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199697515
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
This volume offers a reappraisal of Donald Davidson's influential philosophy of thought, meaning, and language, Twelve specially written essays by leading philosophers in the field illuminate a range of themes and problems relating to these subjects, and engage in particular with Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig's interpretation of Davidson's thought.
Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness
Author: Ori Simchen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019879214X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Semantics aims to describe the significance (or meaning) of linguistic expressions in a systematic way. Metasemantics, or foundational semantics, asks how expressions gain their significance in the first place - what makes it the case that expressions mean what they do. Metasemantics has recently been discussed extensively by philosophers of language, philosophers of mind, and philosophically minded linguists and psychologists. A large concern is semantic indeterminacy, the worry that there is no fact of the matter as to the semantic significance of our words. Ori Simchen offers a distinctly metasemantic strategy to counter this threat. Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness is the first book-length treatment of metasemantics and its relation to the thriving research program of truth-conditional semantics.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019879214X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Semantics aims to describe the significance (or meaning) of linguistic expressions in a systematic way. Metasemantics, or foundational semantics, asks how expressions gain their significance in the first place - what makes it the case that expressions mean what they do. Metasemantics has recently been discussed extensively by philosophers of language, philosophers of mind, and philosophically minded linguists and psychologists. A large concern is semantic indeterminacy, the worry that there is no fact of the matter as to the semantic significance of our words. Ori Simchen offers a distinctly metasemantic strategy to counter this threat. Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness is the first book-length treatment of metasemantics and its relation to the thriving research program of truth-conditional semantics.
Idealization X: The Richness of Idealization
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004457690
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
Contents: Preface. - Introduction. - Science as a caricature of reality. - Three methodological revolutions. - The method of idealization. - Explanations and applications. - Truth and idealization. - A generalization of idealization. - References.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004457690
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 541
Book Description
Contents: Preface. - Introduction. - Science as a caricature of reality. - Three methodological revolutions. - The method of idealization. - Explanations and applications. - Truth and idealization. - A generalization of idealization. - References.
The Meaning of Meaning
Author: Charles Kay Ogden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
Subjectivity and Perspective in Truth-theoretic Semantics
Author: Peter Lasersohn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199573670
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This book explores linguistic and philosophical issues presented by sentences expressing personal taste, such as Roller coasters are fun, and examines how truth-theoretic semantics can account for expressions of this type. It provides a detailed and explicit formal grammar paired with semantic analysis and pragmatic theory.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199573670
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
This book explores linguistic and philosophical issues presented by sentences expressing personal taste, such as Roller coasters are fun, and examines how truth-theoretic semantics can account for expressions of this type. It provides a detailed and explicit formal grammar paired with semantic analysis and pragmatic theory.
Studies on Mario Bunge's Treatise
Author: Paul Weingartner
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789051831870
Category : Philosophie
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9789051831870
Category : Philosophie
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Foundations of Biophilosophy
Author: Martin Mahner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662033682
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Over the past three decades, the philosophy of biology has emerged from the shadow of the philosophy of physics to become a respectable and thriving philosophical subdiscipline. The authors take a fresh look at the life sciences and the philosophy of biology from a strictly realist and emergentist-naturalist perspective. They outline a unified and science-oriented philosophical framework that enables the clarification of many foundational and philosophical issues in biology. This book will be of interest both to life scientists and philosophers.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3662033682
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Over the past three decades, the philosophy of biology has emerged from the shadow of the philosophy of physics to become a respectable and thriving philosophical subdiscipline. The authors take a fresh look at the life sciences and the philosophy of biology from a strictly realist and emergentist-naturalist perspective. They outline a unified and science-oriented philosophical framework that enables the clarification of many foundational and philosophical issues in biology. This book will be of interest both to life scientists and philosophers.