A History of Language PhilosophiesTheory and history combine in this book to form a coherent narrative of the debates on language and languages in the Western world, from ancient classic philosophy to the present, with a final glance at on-going discussions on language as a cognitive tool, on its bodily roots and philogenetic role. An introductory chapter reviews the epistemological areas that converge into, or contribute to, language philosophy, and discusses their methods, relations, and goals. In this context, the status of language philosophy is discussed in its relation to the sciences and the arts of language. Each chapter is followed by a list of suggested readings that refer the reader to the final bibliography. About the author: Lia Formigari, Professor Emeritus at University of Rome, La Sapienza. Her publications include: Language and Experience in XVIIth-century British Philosophy. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1988; Signs, Science and Politics. Philosophies of Language in Europe 1700 1830. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1993; La sémiotique empiriste face au kantisme. Liège: Mardaga, 1994. |
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... Diogenes Laertius — the Greek writer whose Lives of Eminent Philosophers (1965) is one of our most important sources for Greek philosophy — Demo critus had written a number of works on language. Proclus, in a much debated note found in ...
... Diogenes Laertius — the Greek writer whose Lives of Eminent Philosophers (1965) is one of our most important sources for Greek philosophy — Demo critus had written a number of works on language. Proclus, in a much debated note found in ...
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... (Diogenes Laertius, VII, 57—58). In time, this taxonomy evolved as the canonical classification into eight grammatical categories: noun, verb and its conjugation, participle (declinable like nouns, and having modes like verbs), article ...
... (Diogenes Laertius, VII, 57—58). In time, this taxonomy evolved as the canonical classification into eight grammatical categories: noun, verb and its conjugation, participle (declinable like nouns, and having modes like verbs), article ...
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... Diogenes Laertius ascribes to the Sophists a systematic consideration of the various types of speech. Both he (VII, 66 ff.) and Sextus Empiricus, a Greekspeaking physician and philosopher living around the turn of the 2nd century AD ...
... Diogenes Laertius ascribes to the Sophists a systematic consideration of the various types of speech. Both he (VII, 66 ff.) and Sextus Empiricus, a Greekspeaking physician and philosopher living around the turn of the 2nd century AD ...
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... Diogenes Laertius. His description of the Stoics' encyclopedia gives us an idea of the breadth of their approach to language, which bordered on psychology (because the theory of meaning is inseparable from a theory of mental ...
... Diogenes Laertius. His description of the Stoics' encyclopedia gives us an idea of the breadth of their approach to language, which bordered on psychology (because the theory of meaning is inseparable from a theory of mental ...
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... (Diogenes Laertius VII, 63), dialectics is the science that studies the semainon (that which serves to signify something) and the semainomenon (that which is signified). Now, the distinction between semainon and semainomenon is an ...
... (Diogenes Laertius VII, 63), dialectics is the science that studies the semainon (that which serves to signify something) and the semainomenon (that which is signified). Now, the distinction between semainon and semainomenon is an ...
Contents
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4 Philosophy of language from Boethius to Locke | 57 |
5 Language and philosophy from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment | 83 |
6 Languages peoples and nations | 129 |
7 Language and philosophy at the turn of the 19th century | 149 |
8 Conclusion | 189 |
Bibliography | 207 |
Author index | 237 |
Subject index | 245 |
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