Category Mistakes

Zusatztext excellent, short, clearly focused. Informationen zum Autor Ofra Magidor studied philosophy, mathematics, and computer science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and completed a BPhil (2004) and DPhil (2007) in philosophy at the University of Oxford. Between 2005 and 2007 she was a Junior Research Fellow at Queen's College, Oxford, and since 2007 she has held a tutorial fellowship and CUF lectureship in philosophy at Balliol College and the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on philosophy of logic and language, as well as related issues in metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mathematics. Klappentext Category mistakes are sentences such as 'Green ideas sleep furiously' or 'Saturday is in bed'. They strike us as highly infelicitous but it is hard to explain precisely why this is so. Ofra Magidor explores four approaches to category mistakes in philosophy of language and linguistics, and develops and defends an original, presuppositional account. Zusammenfassung Category mistakes are sentences such as 'Green ideas sleep furiously' or 'Saturday is in bed'. They strike us as highly infelicitous but it is hard to explain precisely why this is so. Ofra Magidor explores four approaches to category mistakes in philosophy of language and linguistics, and develops and defends an original, presuppositional account. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: The Syntactic Approach 3: The meaninglessness view 4: The MBT view 5: The Pragmatic Approach References Index

Product details

• Authors: Ofra Magidor, Ofra (Balliol College Magidor
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2013
• EAN: 9780199572977
• ISBN: 978-0-19-957297-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Oxford Philosophical Monographs; Oxford Philosophical Monograph; Oxford Philosophical Monographs; Oxford Philosophical Monograph
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc