Time, Language, and Ontology - The World From the B-Theoretic Perspective

Informationen zum Autor M. Joshua Mozersky is Associate Professor in, and Head of, the Department of Philosophy at Queen's University. He works primarily on issues in the philosophy of science, ontology, and the philosophy of language. His articles have appeared in numerous journals including Philosophical Studies, Synthese, and International Studies in the Philosophy of Science, and in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Time (OUP, 2011) and A Companion to the Philosophy of Time (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). Klappentext This book brings together an account of the structure of time with an account of our language and thought about time. It is a wide-ranging examination of recent issues in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and the philosophy of science and presents a compelling picture of the relationship of human beings to the spatiotemporal world. Zusammenfassung This book brings together an account of the structure of time with an account of our language and thought about time. It is a wide-ranging examination of recent issues in metaphysics, philosophy of language, and the philosophy of science and presents a compelling picture of the relationship of human beings to the spatiotemporal world.

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• Authors: M. Joshua Mozersky, M. Joshua (Associate Professor and Head Mozersky, Mozersky M. Joshua
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.01.2015
• EAN: 9780198718161
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871816-1
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Oxford Studies of Time in Lang; Oxford Studies of Time in Language and Thought; Oxford Studies of Time in Language and Thought; Oxford Studies of Time in Lang
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy of Mind, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics & pragmatics