Lukol Directory: Society: Philosophy: Philosophy of Language: Meaning

Propositional Attitude Reports
Explores semantic accounts of propositional attitude reports, and some of the theories developed to deal with Frege's puzzle. From the Stanford Encyclopedia, by Thomas J. McKay.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/prop-att...

Introduction to Semantics
Introductory article by Richard Spencer-Smith which explains Frege's distinction between sense and reference.
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/ai/samples/nlp/se...

A Puzzle about Belief Reports
By Kent Bach.
http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~kbach/puzzle.html

Mind, A.I., Language
Devoted to Theory of Meaning and its applications to Artificial Intelligence and Communication and Media Science.
http://mackubat.com

Good Works On Earth
Researches the art and science of the Lexigram and argues that the power of the word is far greater than we have been led to believe, or allowed to imagine.
http://www.goodworksonearth.org/

On Denoting
Online text of Russell's 1905 paper.
http://www.santafe.edu/~shalizi/Russell/de...

Holism in Artificial Intelligence?
Argues against the idea that research in AI supposes meaning holism, and against classifying Wittgenstein as a meaning holist. By Carlo Penco.
http://www.lettere.unige.it/sif/strutture/...

Psychosemantics
Review by Daniel C. Dennett of Fodor's book. Appeared in Journal of Philosophy, 1987.
http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/fodor....

Meaning Realism
In this article Manuel Liz argues that meaning realism and the rejection of holism are compatible even if one rejects the analytic/synthetic division.
http://sowi.iwp.uni-linz.ac.at/Sorites/Mea...

Pacitti.org
A 3-part study of negation & meaning by Domenico Pacitti. With articles and reviews.
http://www.pacitti.org/books.htm

Sub Topics:
Metaphor
Pragmatics
Realism and Antirealism
Narrow Content
Theories of Reference
Inferential Role Semantics
Indeterminacy


Related Topics:
Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics: Semantics



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