Rhetoric
In this seminal work of Western philosophy, Aristotle focuses on the use of language in persuasive argument. He identifies practical and aesthetic elements and their proper combination in an effective...
View ArticleRousseau on Language and Writing: Two Perspectives
Two contemporary philosophers take two very different approaches to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Essay on the Origin of Languages, and then each reflects upon the approach of the other. Barry Stocker takes...
View ArticleNaturalness: Is the "Natural" Preferable to the "Artificial"?
<span><span style="font-style:italic;">Naturalness</span><span> delves into a long withstanding argument of everyday life—the argument of </span><span...
View ArticleAboutness
<p>Aboutness has been studied from any number of angles. Brentano made it the defining feature of the mental. Phenomenologists try to pin down the aboutness-features of particular mental states....
View ArticleTractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Ludwig Wittgenstein wrote The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Latin for "Logical-Philosophical Treatise") as an ambitious project to identify the relationship between language and reality and to define...
View ArticleConventional Gestures: Meaning and Methodology
Conventional gestures are those movements we make, such as waving hello and shaking hands, that are part of a learned, shared, symbolic system. In this book Richard L. Epstein working with the...
View ArticleThe Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Language
Beginning with works of Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein, <i>The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Language</i> provides a critical history of the core concepts in the area. From...
View ArticleInvisible Language: Its Incalculable Significance for Philosophy
<span><span style="font-style:italic;">Invisible Language: Its Incalcuable Significance for Philosophy </span><span>affirms that a greater awareness of language,...
View ArticleMetaphor and Metaphilosophy: Philosophy as Combat, Play, and Aesthetic...
<span><span>Sarah A. Mattice develops a comparative intervention in contemporary metaphilosophy. Drawing on resources from hermeneutics, cognitive linguistics, aesthetics, and Chinese...
View ArticleWritings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Volume 3: 1872-1878
The PEIRCE EDITION contains large sections of previously unpublished material in addition to selected published works. Each volume includes a brief historical and biographical introduction, extensive...
View ArticleBy the Late John Brockman
<p>A radical, experimental work that challenges the boundaries of poetry, philosophy, and science. First published in 1969, this new and expanded edition of John Brockman's first book,...
View ArticleRousseau on Language and Writing: Two Perspectives
Two contemporary philosophers take two very different approaches to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Essay on the Origin of Languages, and then each reflects upon the approach of the other. Barry Stocker takes...
View ArticleFrege on Thinking and Its Epistemic Significance
<span><span>Pieranna Garavaso and Nicla Vassallo investigate Gottlob Frege's largely unexplored notion of thinking to provide insight into the roles of language in expressing...
View ArticleErnst Cassirer and the Autonomy of Language
<span><span>Gregory S. Moss examines the central arguments in Ernst Cassirer's first volume of the </span><span style="font-style:italic;">Philosophy of Symbolic...
View ArticleThe Experience of Human Communication: Body, Flesh, and Relationship
<span><span style="font-style:italic;">The Experience of Human Communication</span><span> approaches everyday communication as a philosophical and psychological matter. Using...
View ArticleWhat Is Fiction For? Literary Humanism Restored
How can literature, which consists of nothing more than the description of imaginary events and situations, offer any insight into the workings of "human reality" or "the human condition"? Can mere...
View ArticleCuriosity
Curiosity has been seen through the ages as the impulse that drives our knowledge forward <I>and</I> the temptation that leads us toward dangerous and forbidden waters. The question "Why?"...
View ArticleWittgenstein on Internal and External Relations: Tracing all the Connections
<b>Does Wittgenstein's method of analysis rest on the distinction between internal and external relations? </b>Approaching Wittgenstein's writings from a new perspective,...
View ArticleRethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning
<p>In this book, Scott Soames argues that the revolution in the study of language and mind that has taken place since the late nineteenth century must be rethought. The central insight in the...
View ArticleAdvances in Experimental Philosophy of Language
Should philosophy of language use experimental methods, or can it be pursued in the armchair? Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Language represents a balanced variety of positions on this...
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