
Paradigms for Language Theory and Other Essays
Jaakko Hintikka(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 15. December 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
X, 310 pages
978-90-481-4930-8 (ISBN)
Description
Several of the basic ideas of current language theory are subjected to critical scrutiny and found wanting, including the concept of scope, the hegemony of generative syntax, the Frege-Russell claim that verbs like `is' are ambiguous, and the assumptions underlying the so-called New Theory of Reference. In their stead, new constructive ideas are proposed.
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Series
Edition
1998
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
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X, 310 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
493 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-481-4930-8 (9789048149308)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-017-2531-6
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Person
Jaakko Hintikka
is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal
Synthese
and the Managing Editor of
Synthese
Library
since 1965.
Content
1. "The Games of Logic and the Games of Inquiry".- 2. "No Scope for Scope?".- 3. (with Gabriel Sandu) "Informational Independence as a Semantical Phenomenon".- 4. "'Is', Semantical Games, and Semantical Relativity".- 5. "Logical Form and Linguistic Theory".- 6. "On the Any-Thesis and the Methodology of Linguistics".- 7. "Paradigms for Language Theory".- 8. (with Gabriel Sandu) "The Fallacies of the New Theory of Reference".- 9. "Perspectival Identification, Demonstratives and 'Small Worlds'".- 10. "Game-Theoretical Semantics as a Synthesis of Verificationist and Truth-Conditional Meaning Theories".- 11. (with Gabriel Sandu) "Metaphor and Other Kinds of Nonliteral Meaning".