Logical Form and Language

by Preyer, Gerhard; Peter, Georg

ISBN13:
9780199244607
ISBN10:
019924460X
Format: Hardcover
Copyright: 2002-05-02
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

This title includes the following features: logical form is a very hot topic in both disciplines; brings together eminent philosophers and linguists - the best people in the field; all essays specially written for this volume; will be the starting-point for all future work

Author Biography

Gerhard Preyer is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt and editor of the journal ProtoSociology. Georg Peter is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Frankfurt, and with Gerhard Preyer edits the journal ProtoSociology.

Contributors

Introduction

(12)

Gerhard Preyer

Georg Peter

Part I The Nature of Logical Form

Abbreviation, Scope, Ontology

(41)

Stephen Neale

What is Logical Form?

(37)

Lrnie Lepore

Kirk Ludwig

Function and Concatenation

(27)

Paul M. Pietroski

Two Sorts of Claim about ``Logical Form''

118

(14)

Jeffrey King

LF and Natural Logic

132

(37)

Peter Ludlow

Identity Statements

169

(38)

Robert Fiengo

Robert May

Part II Intensionality, Events, and Semantic Content

Why is Sequence of Tense Obligatory?

207

(21)

James Higginbotham

The Grammar of Intensionality

228

(35)

Richard Larson

Events and the Semantic Content of Thematic Relations

263

(82)

Barry Schein

A Grammatical Argument for a Neo-Davidsonian Semantics

345

(20)

Norbert Hornstein

Nominal Restriction

365

(26)

Jason Stanley

Part III Logical Form, Belief Ascription, and Proper Names

Russell's Logical Form, LF, and Truth-Conditions

391

(18)

Bernard Linsky

`Obviously Propositions are Nothing': Russell and the Logical Form of Belief Reports

409

(12)

Lenny Clapp

Robert J. Stainton

Logical Form and the Relational Conception of Belief

421

(23)

Robert J. Matthews

Ordinary Proper Names

444

(23)

Marga Reimer

The Predicate View of Proper Names

467

(37)

Reinaldo Elugardo

Index

504

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