Linguistic Content

New Essays on the History of Philosophy of Language

Margaret Cameron, Robert J. Stainton (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

282 Seiten

2015
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-873249-5 (ISBN)

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This volume explores the rich history of philosophy of language in the Western tradition, from Plato and Aristotle to the twentieth century. A team of leading experts focus in particular on key metaphysical debates about linguistic content, including questions of ontological status and metaphysical grounding.

Philosophy of language has a rich and varied history stretching back to the Ancient Greeks. Twelve specially written essays explore this richness, from Plato and Aristotle, through the Stoics, to medieval thinkers, both Islamic and Christian; from the Renaissance and the early modern period, all the way up to the twentieth Century. Among the many topics that arise across this 2500-year trajectory are metaphysical questions about linguistic content. A first focal point of the volume is the issue of which broad ontological family linguistic contents belong to. Are linguistic contents mental ideas, physical particulars, abstract Forms, social practices, or something else again? And do different sorts of linguistic contents belong to different ontological categories-e.g., might it be that names stand for ideas, whereas logical terms stand for mental processes? The second focal point is the metaphysical grounding of linguistic content: that is, in virtue of what more basic facts do content facts obtain? Do words mean what they do because of natural resemblances? Because of causal relations? Because of arbitrary conventional usage? Or because of some combination of the above?

Margaret Cameron completed her PhD in the Collaborative Program in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy at the University of Toronto in 2005. She is currently Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Aristotelian Tradition at the University of Victoria. Robert Stainton first studied Philosophy and Linguistics as an undergraduate in his home town of Toronto, at Glendon College, part of York University. He completed the Ph.D. at MIT in 1993, and took up his first academic job at Carleton University in Ottawa, where he was Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science. Presently he is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario in London.

Introduction ; 1. Method, Meaning, and Ontology in Plato's Philosophy of Language ; 2. Names, Verbs, and Sentences in Ancient Greek Philosophy ; 3. On what is said: the Stoics and Peter Abelard ; 4. Philosophy of Language in the Medieval Arabic Tradition ; 5. Those 'funny words': medieval theories of syncategorematic terms ; 6. Semantic Content in Aquinas and Ockham ; 7. Meaning and Linguistic Usage in Renaissance Humanism: The case of Valla ; 8. Medieval Theories of Signification to John Locke ; 9. Locke on the Names of Modes ; 10. Herder's Doctrine of Meaning as Use ; 11. Thomas Reid on Language ; 12. 'Meaning in Action': Anton Marty's Pragmatic Semantics

Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 240 mm
Gewicht	582 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10	0-19-873249-X / 019873249X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-873249-5 / 9780198732495
Zustand	Neuware