Language in Focus: Foundations, Methods and Systems: Essays in Memory of Yehoshua Bar-Hillel

Cover ......Page 1
Preface ......Page 7
Table of contents ......Page 9
Introduction ......Page 11
Homage to Yehoshua Bar-Hillel / Noam Chomsky, Carl G. Hempel, Sidney Morgenbesser, Ernest Nagel, W. V. Quine ......Page 12
Scientific works of Yehoshua Bar-Hillel ......Page 18
Part I. Reference and Predication ......Page 28
Alfred J. Ayer / Identity and Reference ......Page 29
P. T. Geach / Back-Reference ......Page 51
Fred Sommers / On Predication and Logical Syntax ......Page 66
Eric Walther and Eddy M. Zemach / Substance Logic ......Page 79
M. Glouberman / Prime Matter, Predication, and the Semantics of Feature-Placing ......Page 99
Part II. Truth and Meaning ......Page 129
Jaakko Hintikka / A counterexample to Tarski-Type Truth-Definitions as Applied to Natural Languages ......Page 130
Robert L. Martin and Peter W. Woodruff / On Representing ‘True-in-L’ in L ......Page 136
Richmond H. Thomason / Necessity, Quotation, and Truth: An Indexical Theory ......Page 141
Hans G. Herzberger / Presuppositional Policies ......Page 161
Jerrold J. Katz / The Dilemma between Orthodoxy and Identity ......Page 187
Part III. Pragmatics ......Page 198
Robert C. Stalnaker / Indicative Conditionals ......Page 199
Asa Kasher / Conversational Maxims and Rationality ......Page 217
Hans-Heinrich Lieb / On Relating Pragmatics, Linguistics, and Non-Semiotic Disciplines ......Page 237
Dieter Wunderlich / Towards an Integrated Theory of Grammatical and Pragmatical Meaning ......Page 270
Part IV. Methodological Studies ......Page 297
Noam Chomsky / Problems and Mysteries in the Study of Human Language ......Page 298
L. Jonathan Cohen / How Empirical is Contemporary Logical Empiricism? ......Page 375
Helmut Schnelle / Basic Aspects of the Theory of Grammatical Form ......Page 393
Part V. Language Varieties ......Page 421
Manfred Bierwisch / Social Differentiation of Language Structure ......Page 422
Avishai Margalit / Talking with Children, Piaget Style ......Page 472
Joseph Agassi / Can Adults Become Genuinely Bilingual? ......Page 487
Part VI. Formalizations ......Page 499
Franz von Kutschera / Epistemic Interpretation of Conditionals ......Page 500
Renate Bartsch / The Role of Categorial Syntax in Grammatical Theory ......Page 515
R. M. Martin / On Harris’s Systems of Report and Paraphrase ......Page 552
Dov M. Gabbay / Two-Dimensional Propositional Tense Logics ......Page 580
Part VII. Points of View ......Page 595
Marcelo Dascal / Levels of Meaning and Moral Discourse ......Page 596
Irving M. Copi / A Problem in Plato’s Laws ......Page 635
Roland Posner / Discourse as a Means to Enlightenment ......Page 648
Gershon Weiler / Points of View ......Page 668
Index of names ......Page 682