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9780199245550

Logical Form and Language

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    9780199245550

  • ISBN10:

    019924555X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-05-02
  • Publisher: Clarendon Press

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Summary

These previously unpublished essays share the central theme of logical form--a fundamental issue in analytic philosophy and linguistic theory. Logical Form and Language brings together exciting new contributions from diverse points of view, which illuminate the lively current debate about this topic.

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.

Table of Contents

Contributors ix
Introduction
1(12)
Gerhard Preyer
Georg Peter
Part I The Nature of Logical Form
Abbreviation, Scope, Ontology
13(41)
Stephen Neale
What is Logical Form?
54(37)
Ernie Lepore
Kirk Ludwig
Function and Concatenation
91(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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