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Scottish common-sense philosopher, colleague of Reid's, and professor of moral philosophy at Marischal College, Aberdeen from 1860, Beattie was famous for his refutation of Hume in his 1778 Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth. "An important, albeit minor figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, Beattie had the misfortune usually to be on the wrong side in his controversies — he opposed Hume and sided with Macpherson in the dispute over Ossian" [Rieber catalog #37].
14 papers including Alan Ryan's "The Nature of Human Nature in Hobbes and Rousseau"; Jeann-Marie Benoist's "Classicism Revisited: Human Nature and Structure in Lévi-Strauss and Chomsky"; Koestler's "The Limits of Ma and His Predicament"; David Bohm's "Human Nature as the Product of our Mental Models"; Raymond Williams's "Social Darwinism"; John Maynard Smith's "Can We Change Human Nature? The Evidence of Genetics"; Michael Chance's "The Dimensions of Our Social Behavior"; Liam Hudson's "The Limits of Human Intelligence"; Max Clowes's "Man the Creative Machine: A Perspective from Artificial Intelligence Research"; Terry Winograd's "The Processes of Language Understanding."
First published in Britannica Perspectives.
Contains Chomsky's "Changing Perspectives on Knowledge and Use of Language"; Dennett's "The Logical Geography of Computational Approaches: A View from the East Pole"; Fodor's "Information and Association"; Dretske's "Aspects of Cognitive Representation"; Robert Cummins' "Inexplicit Information"; William G. Lycan's "Thoughts about Things"; Kent Bach's "Thought and Object: De re Representations and Relations"; Lynn Nadel et al's "The Neurobiology of Mental Representation"; Lance J. Rips' "Mental Muddles"; Alvin I. Goldman's "Constraints on Representation"; T. G. Bever's "The Aesthetic Basis for Cognitive Structures."
Contains Brunner's "Le langage et l'homme"; Theodor Spoerri's "Sprache und Denken als psychopathologisches Problem"; Paul Zinsli's "Muttersprache und Umwelt"; Georges Redard's "Langue et société"; Siegried Heinimann's "Werden und Wandel der Sprache"; Olof Gigon's "Sprache und Tradition"; Walter Frei's "Die Sprache vor dem Unsagbaren Gottes."
Reissue with a new 32 page introduction by Mayock.
Contains Dinneen's "Linguistics and Classic Philosophy"; Stuart's "Linguistics and Modern Philosophy"; Ray's "The Relevance of Linguistics to Philosophy"; Farre's "The Epistemological Function of Language"; Chafe's "Some Indeterminacies in Language"; Komai's "A Transformational Model for Japanese"; Rensch's "Some Aspects of Chinantec Grammar: A Tagmemic View"; Smith's "Syntax and Semiology"; Ferguson's "Linguistic Theory and Language Learning"; O'Connor's "Linguistic Cuidelines for Intermediate FL Materials"; Saporta's "Grammatical Models and Language Learning"; Fries' "Linguistics and Reading."
Contains F. Waismann's "Language Strata"; F. L. Will's "Will the Future Be Like the Past?"; D. F. Pears' "Universals" and "Incompatibilities"; Ryle's "Categories"; G. E. Moore's "Is Existence a Predicate?"; G. J. Warnock's "'Every Event Has a Cause'"; Austin's "Other Minds"; J. O. Urmson's "On Grading"; A. M. MacIver's "Historical Explanation"; Douglas Gasking's "Mathematics and the World"; J. J. C. Smart's "Theory Construction."
Proposes a new account of the nature of language, founded upon the authors' interpretation of Wittgenstein.
Hazard's first book and a significant early American treatise on language. Published anonymously.
Contains Chomsky's "Lingistics and Philosophy"; Quine's "Linguistics and Philosophy"; Danto's "Semantic Vehicles, Understanding and Innate Ideas"; Goodman's "The Emperor's New Ideas"; Nagel's "Linguistics and Epistemology"; Ziff's "Natural and Formal Languages"; Chisholm's "Language, Logic, and States of Affairs"; and 19 other papers.
The pioneer book on philosophical semantics; Johnson's third and most widely read book on language.The first important American philosopher of language, Johnson was born in Gosport, England; emigrated to the USA in 1801; and became wealthy as a banker in Utica, NY. Though he wrote numerous works on politics, economics, and banking, it is his books on the philosophy of language, which went completely unrecognized for nearly a century, that are now regarded as important precursors to modern thinking about language.
- Johnson's penultimate book in which he applies his epistemological and semantic theory explained in the 1836 Treatise on Language to derive knowledge from sensory experience. Since for Johnson the world explains language (rather than vice versa), the ultimate referents of words must be found in affective or sensible experience.
- Johnson spent his entire career as a banker in Utica, New York. Johnson's highly original philosophy, which was far ahead of his time, was ignored until he was rediscovered in the late 1940s.
Variorum edition giving variant readings from the two editions as well as passages from the 1828 edition omitted in the 1836 edition. Reprints in full the text of the expanded 1836 edition with the printer's errors corrected. In addition to his 126 page critical essay, Rynin supplied a useful introduction that includes a bibliography of Johnson's publications.Johnson's extraordinary book on semantics, though almost entirely ignored in its time, was probably the greatest American contribution to the philosophy of language until John Searle's Speech Acts.
Translations also by Kockelmans.
A semiotic dream theory based on Carnap, Morris, & Jung.
Contains selections from Ryle, Austin, Flew, Fodor & Katz, Searle, and others.
Gives both transliterated text and English translation based on the Sanskrit text on pp. 77-88 of Ratnakirtinibandhavali (Buddhist Sanskrit Works of Ratnakirti), edited by A. Thakur, Patna, 1957.
A Marxist analysis.
Draws on philosophy, psychology, and linguistics to advance a novel theory about the formation of initial subjective beliefs and their function as a basis for the later acquisition of objective knowledge.
A Czech emigré, Stern was Lecturer in German at Cambridge University. He knew Wittgenstein and was inspired by publication of his Philosophical Investigations to study the similarities between Lichtenberg and Wittgenstein. This resulted in the present book, which contains a number of references to Wittgenstein, the most significant being a comparison of W's with L's language analysis on pages 158-164. All quotations from Lichtenberg are given both in the original German and in Stern's English translation.
Despite Tooke's curious notion that each word had a single and unchangeable meaning, a seminal and widely influential philological work.Born John Horne, Horne Tooke added in 1782 to his own name the last name of his benefactor William Tooke. His Epea Pteroenta was an early attempt to analyze language scientifically. The 1798 second edition of the first volume must have been sold with the 1805 first edition of volume two, since this is how the set is commonly found.
Wisdom's five papers originally appeared in Mind, April 1931 to April 1933. Thomson's introduction is a 37 page historically oriented discussion.
German and English text on facing pages.