Overview
- First overview in English of the grammatical and philosophical discussions of language in the Western tradition
- Contains all relevant primary texts on philosophy of language from antiquity (500BC) to modernity (mid-19th century)
- Includes a detailed Introduction describing recurring themes and linking these to relevant texts Indispensible research tool for historians of philosophy and contemporary philosophers of language alike?
Part of the book series: Springer Graduate Texts in Philosophy (SGTP, volume 2)
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Table of contents (40 chapters)
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About the editors
Margaret Cameron is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Aristotelian Tradition at the University of Victoria. She completed her PhD at the University of Toronto’s Collaborative Program in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy in 2004. She has published on the history of the philosophy of language in the ancient and medieval traditions in various venues, including The Oxford Handbook to Medieval Philosophy (Oxford, 2013) and Linguistic Content (Oxford, 2015). She is editor of a number of volumes, including Philosophy of Mind in the Early and High Middle Ages (Routledge, forthcoming).
Benjamin Hill:
Benjamin Hill is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at The University of Western Ontario. He earned his PhD at the University of Iowa in 2003. He focuses on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century philosophy and is most interested in contrasting the continuities and discontinuities in philosophical thought, especially epistemological thinking, from Francisco Suarez through John Locke and on to George Berkeley. He is editor (with Henrik Lagerlund) of The Philosophy of Francisco Suarez (Oxford, 2012) and Routledge Companion to Sixteenth Century Philosophy (Routledge, 2015).
Robert Stainton:
Robert Stainton was introduced to both philosophy and linguistics at Glendon College of York University, and continued to study in these areas at MIT, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1993. He was Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science at Carleton University before taking up his current position at the University of Western Ontario, where he is presently Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Graduate Program in Linguistics. He is the editor or co-editor of many books, including Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language and Linguistics (Elsevier, 2010) and Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science (Blackwell, 2006).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sourcebook in the History of Philosophy of Language
Book Subtitle: Primary source texts from the Pre-Socratics to Mill
Editors: Margaret Cameron, Benjamin Hill, Robert J. Stainton
Series Title: Springer Graduate Texts in Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26908-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-26906-1Published: 19 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80040-0Published: 09 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-26908-5Published: 08 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2627-6046
Series E-ISSN: 2627-6054
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 1102
Topics: History of Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Historical Linguistics