The Lvov-Warsaw School and Contemporary Philosophy of Language

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-47113-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 117, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

Reihe: Poznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities

This book highlights the legacy of the Lvov-Warsaw School in broadly understood contemporary philosophy of language. Fundamental methodological issues, important topics in syntax, semantics and pragmatics (such as modern Categorial Grammar, theories of truth, game-theoretical semantics, and argumentation theory) are tracked down to their origins in the Lvov-Warsaw School, and – the other way round – modern renderings of the ideas expressed by Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Tadeusz Kotarbinski, Stanislaw Lesniewski, Jan Lukasiewicz, Alfred Tarski, Kazimierz Twardowski, and other members of the School are presented. Among contributors there are philosophers, logicians, formal linguists and other specialists from France, Italy, Poland, and Spain.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Stalmaszczyk, Piotr

Talasiewicz, Mieszko

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Analytische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

The Lvov-Warsaw School and Contemporary Philosophy of Language

Piotr Stalmaszczyk and Mieszko Talasiewicz

1 Good Work in Philosophy

Jacek Jadacki

2 Truth and Proofs. From Tarski’s Convention T to Game Theory 35
Christian Bassac and Joan Busquets

3 On Tarski’s Theory of Truth

Luis Fernández Moreno

4 Relation between Logic and Linguistics according to the Lvov-Warsaw School

Anna Brozek

5 An Unorthodox Viewpoint on Natural Language Syntax and Its Relations to the Lvov-Warsaw School

Giovanni Gobber

6 On the Difficulty of Using Philosophical Theories to Develop a Semantics

The Case of Ajdukiewicz

Béatrice Godart-Wendling

7 Strawson’s Philosophy of Language and Ajdukiewicz’s Categorial Grammar

Mieszko Talasiewicz

8 Normativity in the Directival Theory of Meaning

Pawel Grabarczyk

9 Verbal Issue or Deep Flaw?

On Categories of Meaning, Content, and Connotation in the Lvov-Warsaw School

Marcin Bedkowski

10 Polish Roots of Some Solutions to the Sorites Paradox

Joanna Odrowaz-Sypniewska

11 Meaning and Mimicking

Parataxis in Kotarbinski and Davidson

Janusz Maciaszek

12 The Classifications of Reasoning of Lukasiewicz and Ajdukiewicz as a Foundation for Systematising Argument Patterns

Michal Araszkiewicz and Marcin Koszowy

Subject Index

Name Index

Über Autor(innen)

Piotr Stalmaszczyk is professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Lodz (PhD in 1991). His research is concerned with philosophy of language and linguistics. Recent publications include the edited volume Philosophical Insights into Pragmatics (De Gruyter 2019), and two edited volumes on predication theory (both with Peter Lang, 2017). In 2017, he was elected president of the Polish Linguistics Association.

Mieszko Talasiewicz is professor of philosophy at the University of Warsaw (PhD in 1999). He works in the fields of philosophy of language (categorial grammar, subject and predicate, truthmaking, intentionality), experimental philosophy and metaphilosophy. He is the author of Philosophy of Syntax. Foundational Topics (Springer 2010).