Logical Form and Language [Paperback]

These previously unpublished essays share the central theme of logical form--a fundamental issue in analytic philosophy and linguistic theory.Logical Form and Languagebrings together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


1. Introduction,Gerhard Preyer and Georg Peter
I. The Nature of Logical Form
2. Abbreviation, Scope, Ontology,Stephen Neale
3. What is Logical Form?,Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig
4. Functions and Concatenation,Paul M. Pietroski
5. Two Sorts of Claim about 'Logical Form',Jeffrey King
6. LF and Natural Logic,Peter Ludlow
7. Identity Statements,Robert Fiengo and Robert May
II. Intensionality, Events, and Semantic Content
8. Why is Sequence of Tense Obligatory?,James Higginbotham
9. The Grammar of Intensionality,Richard Larson
10. Events and the Semantic Content of Thematic Relations,Barry Schein
11. A Grammatical Argument for a Neo-Davidsonian Semantics,Norbert Hornstein
12. Nominal Restriction,Jason Stanley
III. Logical Form, Belief, Ascription, and Proper Names
13. Russell's Logical Form, LF, and Truth-Conditions,Bernard Linsky
14. 'Obviously Propositions are Nothing': Russell and the Logical Form of 'Belief Reports',Lenny Clapp and Robert J. Stainton
15. Logical Form and the Relational Conception of Belief,Robert J. Matthews
16. Ordinary Proper Names,Marga Reimer
17. The Predicate View of Proper Names,Reinaldo Elugardo
Index

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