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Philosophy of Language :
Philosophy of language is the study of philosophical issues that arise due to the language based nature of discourse and argument. It is dominated by philosophical analysis, the branch of philosophy that occupies itself with what the structures of language tell us about the concepts we deploy in communicating. Philosophical analysis dates back to the Pre-Socratics , and was first made systematic in Aristotle's Organon, but it was with the revolutionary new developments in mathematical logic inaugurated by Frege that philosophical analysis assumed the central importance in philosophy that it does today.

Analytical philosophy is the school of philosophy which ascribes most importance to the philosophy of language, and it is in analytical philosophy that the so-called `linguistic turn' took place: this is the idea that long standing controversies in philosophy about the nature of the world and of knowledge can be settled by attention to the use of the relevant concepts in language. But even outside analytical philosophy, philosophy of language is important: linguistic issues take centre stage in the philosophical hermeneutics of Heidegger and Gadamer and in Derrida's Deconstruction, in phenomenology issues about privacy best formulated in linguistic terms are of crucial importance, whilst in cognitive science the debate about the nature of concepts revolves about matters of content that originated in the philosophy of language.

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7 web sites matced for Philosophy of Language
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.

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).

Review of Michael Beaney's `Frege: Making Sense'
By Mitchell Green, to appear in Mind.

Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Language
Wide-ranging article by Danielle MacBeth. From the Wilfrid Sellars' archive.

Conditions on Understanding Language
Article by Ernest Lepore. Discusses the nature of language competence.

CogPrints: Philosophy of Language
A large number of online scholarly papers on the subject, from this electronic repository.

Wikipedia - Philosophy of Language
Acknowledges difficulties in defining the field but suggests a focus mainly on questions of meaning and truth.

 
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