Logical Form and Language

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-924555-0
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 524 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 787 g

One of the central issues of analytic philosophy and especially the theory of language is the concept of logical form. As typically understood this concept covers investigations into universal logical features underlying languages. However, from Frege and Russell onwards logical form analysts were no longer confined to such narrow linguistic perspectives. For them, investigating the logical form of language took the wider philosophical perspective of trying to understand language as our principal means for representing the world. From Russell's theory of definite descriptions to Davidson's truth-theoretical analyses of adverbial modification, citation, and reported speech, to lay open the logical structures underlying language is seen as a way of revealing the structure and features of the thereby represented world.

Seventeen specially written essays by eminent philosophers and linguists appear for the first time in this anthology. Logical Form and Language brings together exciting new contributions from diverse points of view, which illuminate the lively current debate about this topic.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Preyer, Gerhard

Peter, Georg

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Gerhard Preyer and Georg Peter: Introduction

- 1 The Nature of Logical Form

- 3: Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig: What is Logical Form?

- 4: Paul M. Pietroski: Functions and Concatenation

- 5: Jeffrey King: Two Sorts of Claim about 'Logical Form'

- 6: Peter Ludlow: LF and Natural Logic

- 7: Robert Fiengo and Robert May: Identity Statements

- II Intensionality, Events, and Semantic Content

- 9: Richard Larson: The Grammar of Intensionality

- 10: Barry Schein: Events and the Semantic Content of Thematic Relations

- 11: Norbert Hornstein: A Grammatical Argument for a Neo-Davidsonian Semantics

- 12: Jason Stanley: Nominal Restriction

- III Logical Form, Belief, Ascription, and Proper Names

- 14: Lenny Clapp and Robert J. Stainton: 'Obviously Propositions are Nothing': Russell and the Logical Form of 'Belief Reports'

- 15: Robert J. Matthews: Logical Form and the Relational Conception of Belief

- 16: Marga Reimer: Ordinary Proper Names

- 17: Reinaldo Elugardo: The Predicate View of Proper Names

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gerhard Preyer is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt and editor of the journal ProtoSociology.

Georg Peter is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt, and with Gerhard Preyer edits the journal ProtoSociology.