Philosophy of language books

Linguists and philosophers engage in a conversation about four questions in relation to reference: What is reference?...  Read More >>

'Ingenious… a glorious portrait of the great 15th-century prince of learning' Daily Telegraph  Read More >>

A systematic account of the nature of fiction explaining why fictions can refer to the world and state facts about...  Read More >>

A major figure in contemporary Indian and comparative philosophy, Arindam Chakrabarti’s work has spanned across...  Read More >>

Investigates early Chinese philosophy of language though the concept of 'fa'.  Read More >>

This book provides a comprehensive overview of different logics from a metainferential standpoint. It starts with...  Read More >>

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This book explains how in art history the relationship between underlying design principles in crafts such as drawing,...  Read More >>

Rare Tongues is an enthralling tour around the rarest languages in the world.  Read More >>

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This book offers a comprehensive exploration of recent advances in empirical, theoretical, and experimental research...  Read More >>

An inquiry into the origins of language and articulation, exploring how the transformation of the human voice shaped...  Read More >>

Proposes naming as a criterion for classifying and evaluating theories of morphology  Read More >>

This book presents a philosophical conception of logic — “logical expressivism”— according to which the role of...  Read More >>

This handbook offers a detailed and wide-ranging account of expressivity, the essential property that allows natural...  Read More >>

Brings together researchers from across the world to explore the creation, effect, craft, and effect of a feeling...  Read More >>

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Miklós Szentkuthy uses Casanova’s memoirs as a springboard for something far stranger: a swirling meditation on...  Read More >>

A major reconsideration of how and why we write, and where the practice fits into the doing of philosophy.  Read More >>

Miklós Szentkuthy uses Casanova’s memoirs as a springboard for something far stranger: a swirling meditation on...  Read More >>

This book is an exploration of one of the most enigmatic, influential, and oft-contested philosophical movements...  Read More >>

Sophistry is one of the most misunderstood and maligned philosophical movements in Western intellectual history....  Read More >>

Widely considered to be one of the most important public intellectuals of our time, Noam Chomsky has revolutionized...  Read More >>

This book examines Derrida's legacy, deconstruction, and political theory through anlysis of Foucault, Agamben,...  Read More >>

A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis examines the structural limits of human language, arguing that communicative...  Read More >>