Linguistic content : new essays on the history of philosophy of language
Margaret Cameron (Editor), Robert Stainton (Editor)
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
History
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9780191796715, 9780191046339, 9780198732495, 0191796719, 0191046337, 019873249X
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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
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