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- Philosophy of Language, World Congress Papers - Proceedings of the 20th World Congress of Philosophy, held at Boston University in 1998. Archive of contributed papers in the subject area of Philosophy of Language. Provided by The Paideia Archive.
- Luntley, Michael - Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Warwick. Interested in ontology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and especially in semantic realism.
- Pacific Philosophical Quarterly - Journal of analytic philosophy covering all areas of philosophy, including epistemology, moral philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, aesthetics and history of philosophy. Periodically, the journal devotes an issue to a specific topic of interest. Edited by Janet Levin, Sharon A. Lloyd and Kadri Vihvelin. Published on behalf of the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern California by Blackwell Publishing. Includes contents and abstracts since 1997.
- Wikipedia - Philosophy of Language - Acknowledges difficulties in defining the field but suggests a focus mainly on questions of meaning and truth.
- University of Barcelona - Logic, Language and Cognition Research Group - Concerned with the philosophy of logic, language, metaphysics, mathematics and mind.
- Philosophy of Language in Classical China - Historical overview by Chad Hansen of interpretations of language in the major schools of philosophical thought in classical China (up to the Han dynasty).
- Floyd, Juliet - Boston University - philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, Wittgenstein.
- Bach, Kent - Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University. A good resource on pragmatics in the philosophy of language.
- Philosophy - Offers an undergraduate major and minor and a graduate program. Focuses include epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. Course descriptions, degree requirements, 2002-03 lecture series, and links to online philosophy texts.
- Department of Philosophy - Offers courses on the philosophy of mind, moral and political philosophy, philosophy of language,and critical thinking.
Wikipedia Articles
- Philosophy of language - Philosophy of language is the reasoned inquiry into the nature, origins, and usage of language. As a topic, the philosophy of language for Analytic Philosophers is concerned with four central problems: the nature of meaning, language use, language cognition, and the relationship between language and reality.
- Ordinary language philosophy - Ordinary language philosophy is a philosophical school that approached traditional philosophical problems as rooted in misunderstandings philosophers develop by forgetting what words actually mean in a language. These approaches typically involve eschewing philosophical "theories" in favour of close attention to the details of the use of everyday, "ordinary" language.
- Radical Philosophy - Radical Philosophy is a UK-based academic journal of critical theory and continental philosophy, appearing six times a year. It was founded in 1972 in response to the widely felt discontent with the sterility of academic philosophy at the time (in Britain completely dominated by the narrowest sort of ordinary language philosophy), with the purpose of providing a forum for the ...
- German philosophy - German philosophy, here taken to mean either (1) philosophy in the German language or (2) philosophy by Germans, has been extremely diverse, and central to both the analytic and continental traditions in philosophy for centuries, from Leibniz through Kant, Hegel, Marx, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Weber, to contemporary philosophers such as Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
- Natural language - In the philosophy of language, a natural language (or ordinary language) is a language that is spoken, written, or signed (visually or tactilely) by humans for general-purpose communication, as distinguished from formal languages (such as computer-programming languages or the "languages" used in the study of formal logic, especially mathematical logic).