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Language in Focus: Foundations, Methods and Systems

Essays in Memory of Yehoshua Bar-Hillel

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  1. Asa Kasher

    1. Tel-Aviv University, Israel

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Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 43)

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Table of contents (28 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXVIII
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  2. Reference and Predication

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Identity and Reference

      • Alfred J. Ayer
      Pages 3-24

    3. Back-Reference

      • P. T. Geach
      Pages 25-39

    4. On Predication and Logical Syntax

      • Fred Sommers
      Pages 41-53

    5. Substance Logic

      • Eric Walther, Eddy M. Zemach
      Pages 55-74

    6. Prime Matter, Predication, and the Semantics of Feature-Placing

      • M. Glouberman
      Pages 75-104

  3. Truth and Meaning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. A Counterexample to Tarski-Type Truth-Definitions as Applied to Natural Languages

      • Jaakko Hintikka
      Pages 107-112

    3. On Representing ‘True-in-L’ in L

      • Robert L. Martin, Peter W. Woodruff
      Pages 113-117

    4. Necessity, Quotation, and Truth: An Indexical Theory

      • Richmond H. Thomason
      Pages 119-138

    5. Presuppositional Policies

      • Hans G. Herzberger
      Pages 139-164

    6. The Dilemma Between Orthodoxy and Identity

      • Jerrold J. Katz
      Pages 165-175

  4. Pragmatics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 177-177
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    2. Indicative Conditionals

      • Robert C. Stalnaker
      Pages 179-196

    3. Conversational Maxims and Rationality

      • Asa Kasher
      Pages 197-216

    4. On Relating Pragmatics, Linguistics, and Non-Semiotic Disciplines

      • Hans-Heinrich Lieb
      Pages 217-249

    5. Towards an Integrated Theory of Grammatical and Pragmatical Meaning

      • Dieter Wunderlich
      Pages 251-277

  5. Methodological Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 279-279
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    2. Problems and Mysteries in the Study of Human Language

      • Noam Chomsky
      Pages 281-357
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About this book

Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (1915-1975) was one of the leading intellectuals of Israel and of the world. His work ranged over mathematics, applied logic, communication theory, analytic philosophy, philosophy of science, and linguistics. Creative, patient, attentive, and critical, Bar-Hillel was a superb philosopher. In addition, how humane he was may be learned from the memorial tributes to him which initiate this volume. Bar-Hillel was born in Vienna, and came to Israel, then Palestine, in 1933. He took his M. A. (1938) and Ph. D. (1949) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where his subsequent career continued, as Research Fellow (1949-53), Senior Lecturer in Philosophy (1953-58), Associate Professor of Philosophy (1958-61), and Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Sci­ ence (1961-75). He was often abroad as visiting professor (Berkeley, 1960- 61; Michigan, 1965; La Jolla, 1966-67; Konstanz, 1971; Berlin, 1972), or as a research scholar, notably at the M. lT. Research Laboratory for Elec­ tronics during the early 1950's. Bar-Hillel was the Secretary and guiding spirit of the Organizing Committee for the 3rd International Congress for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, held in Jerusalem in 1964. During 1966-68, he was President of the Division of Logic, Method ology and Philosophy of SCience of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, and in 1967 President of the International Union. From 1963 he was a Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Tel-Aviv University, Israel

    Asa Kasher

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Language in Focus: Foundations, Methods and Systems

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Memory of Yehoshua Bar-Hillel

  • Editors: Asa Kasher

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1876-0

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1976

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0644-7Published: 31 December 1975

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0645-4Published: 31 December 1975

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-1876-0Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 685

  • Topics: Philosophy of Language

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