Full Description
This book highlights the legacy of the Lvov-Warsaw School in broadly understood contemporary philosophy of language. Fundamental methodological issues, important topics in syntax, semantics and pragmatics (such as modern Categorial Grammar, theories of truth, game-theoretical semantics, and argumentation theory) are tracked down to their origins in the Lvov-Warsaw School, and - the other way round - modern renderings of the ideas expressed by Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Tadeusz Kotarbiński, Stanisław Leśniewski, Jan Łukasiewicz, Alfred Tarski, Kazimierz Twardowski, and other members of the School are presented. Among contributors there are philosophers, logicians, formal linguists and other specialists from France, Italy, Poland, and Spain.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
The Lvov-Warsaw School and Contemporary Philosophy of Language
Piotr Stalmaszczyk and Mieszko Tałasiewicz
1 Good Work in Philosophy
Jacek Jadacki
2 Truth and Proofs. From Tarski's Convention T to Game Theory 35
Christian Bassac and Joan Busquets
3 On Tarski's Theory of Truth
Luis Fernández Moreno
4 Relation between Logic and Linguistics according to the Lvov-Warsaw School
Anna Brożek
5 An Unorthodox Viewpoint on Natural Language Syntax and Its Relations to the Lvov-Warsaw School
Giovanni Gobber
6 On the Difficulty of Using Philosophical Theories to Develop a Semantics
The Case of Ajdukiewicz
Béatrice Godart-Wendling
7 Strawson's Philosophy of Language and Ajdukiewicz's Categorial Grammar
Mieszko Tałasiewicz
8 Normativity in the Directival Theory of Meaning
Paweł Grabarczyk
9 Verbal Issue or Deep Flaw?
On Categories of Meaning, Content, and Connotation in the Lvov-Warsaw School
Marcin Będkowski
10 Polish Roots of Some Solutions to the Sorites Paradox
Joanna Odrowąż-Sypniewska
11 Meaning and Mimicking
Parataxis in Kotarbiński and Davidson
Janusz Maciaszek
12 The Classifications of Reasoning of Łukasiewicz and Ajdukiewicz as a Foundation for Systematising Argument Patterns
Michał Araszkiewicz and Marcin Koszowy
Subject Index
Name Index
