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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... specific instinct of humans as members of the animal world. My subdivision into cognitively-oriented chapters and anthropologically-oriented ones serves a practical purpose only. It helps distinguish different itineraries on the same ...
... specific instinct of humans as members of the animal world. My subdivision into cognitively-oriented chapters and anthropologically-oriented ones serves a practical purpose only. It helps distinguish different itineraries on the same ...
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... specific groups, communities, or societies, as well as the problems of inter-ethnic communication, the relation between oral and written communication, and communication modalities between populations lacking writing; in short, the ...
... specific groups, communities, or societies, as well as the problems of inter-ethnic communication, the relation between oral and written communication, and communication modalities between populations lacking writing; in short, the ...
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... specific nature. Blacksmiths can use different types of iron to forge the same instrument and, so long as it is suits its purpose, it will be neither better nor worse for having being produced in Greece or among Barbarians. On the same ...
... specific nature. Blacksmiths can use different types of iron to forge the same instrument and, so long as it is suits its purpose, it will be neither better nor worse for having being produced in Greece or among Barbarians. On the same ...
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... specific section dedicated to grammar. Yet they do speak of grammar both from the perspective of dialectics (when they deal with the truth conditions of sentences, an aspect that relates language to ontology), and from the perspective ...
... specific section dedicated to grammar. Yet they do speak of grammar both from the perspective of dialectics (when they deal with the truth conditions of sentences, an aspect that relates language to ontology), and from the perspective ...
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... specific norms. When the foundational criterion of truth is questioned, one can resort to common sense as a repertoire of pragmatic truths of which ordinary language is the expression. A radical skepticism, instead, is directed against ...
... specific norms. When the foundational criterion of truth is questioned, one can resort to common sense as a repertoire of pragmatic truths of which ordinary language is the expression. A radical skepticism, instead, is directed against ...
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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