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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... idea that philosophy of language is in itself a first philosophy has been repeatedly upheld; in the Romantic period, for example, when Wilhelm von Humboldt described language as the transcendental condition of thought (see 6.1 and 7.1 ...
... idea that philosophy of language is in itself a first philosophy has been repeatedly upheld; in the Romantic period, for example, when Wilhelm von Humboldt described language as the transcendental condition of thought (see 6.1 and 7.1 ...
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... ideas, terminist logic, theories ofmental representation — all these are so many ways of raising the question of the relation between language and the world (physical and mental). Nowadays semantics is a discipline that cuts through ...
... ideas, terminist logic, theories ofmental representation — all these are so many ways of raising the question of the relation between language and the world (physical and mental). Nowadays semantics is a discipline that cuts through ...
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... idea of names as instruments of knowing. This idea begins to emerge in the first part of the Cratylus (385a—391b), where Socrates confutes Hermogenes, by going to the roots of the latter's subjectivism. For Hermogenes, naming is an ...
... idea of names as instruments of knowing. This idea begins to emerge in the first part of the Cratylus (385a—391b), where Socrates confutes Hermogenes, by going to the roots of the latter's subjectivism. For Hermogenes, naming is an ...
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... idea of language as the highest cognitive tool and the primary artefact mediating between the mind and the world. 2.2 Categories of grammar, categories of thought In Cratylus, as we have seen, Plato distances himself from both the idea ...
... idea of language as the highest cognitive tool and the primary artefact mediating between the mind and the world. 2.2 Categories of grammar, categories of thought In Cratylus, as we have seen, Plato distances himself from both the idea ...
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... (Rhetoric: 1404b 33—35; 1410b 13—1411a 35—36) and lexical innovation (Poetics 1459a 6—7). It is, in short, a conceptualizing tool. This idea of the heuristic value of metaphor was taken up by. Language, thought, and reality 23.
... (Rhetoric: 1404b 33—35; 1410b 13—1411a 35—36) and lexical innovation (Poetics 1459a 6—7). It is, in short, a conceptualizing tool. This idea of the heuristic value of metaphor was taken up by. Language, thought, and reality 23.
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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