Hannah Dawson

Locke, Language and Early-Modern Philosophy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explains why language caused unease to writers such as Montaigne, Bacon, Descartes, Hobbes, and Pascal.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9781107403024
• ISBN-10: 1107403022
• Artikelnr.: 33628302

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Notes on the text
Introduction
Part I. Language in the Trivium: 1. Language in logic
2. Language in grammar
3. Language in rhetoric
Part II. Philosophical Developments of the Problem of Language: 4. The relationships between language, mind and world
5. Semantic instability: a containable threat
6. Under cover of sensible and powerful words
Part III. Locke on Language: 7. Words signify ideas alone
8. Semantic instability: an inherent imperfection
9. A life of their own
10. Locke in the face of language
Bibliographies.