Explores the directival theory of meaning for the first time in English Offers a new approach to functional role semantics Contributes a novel combination of distributed and embodied semantics

Autorentext

Pawe Grabarczyk is a Polish philosopher of language and mind, working as an assistant professor at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Lodz and as a post-doc at IT University of Copenhagen. He is the author of several articles on the notion of "meaning", "concept" and Ajdukiewicz's directival theory of meaning. He is the head of the Centre for Philosophical Research, the largest Polish non-governmental philosophical organization and the editor in chief of two journals: HYBRIS and Replay: Polish Journal of Game Studies.

Inhalt

Preface.- Chapter 1. The Directival Theory of Meaning.- Chapter 2. Aims and ambitions of the DTM.- Chapter 3. Troubles ahead.- Chapter 4. The DTM among classic theories.- Chapter 5. Stepping outside the original DTM.- Chapter 6. New Directival Theory of Meaning.- Chapter 7. The nDTM among contemporaries.- Afterword . <p