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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of 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
