Sourcebook in the History of Philosophy of Language

Margaret Cameron: Margaret Cameron is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Aristotelian Tradition at the University of Victoria. She completed her PhD at the University of Toronto's Collaborative Program in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy in 2004. She has published on the history of the philosophy of language in the ancient and medieval traditions in various venues, including The Oxford Handbook to Medieval Philosophy (Oxford, 2013) and Linguistic Content (Oxford, 2015). She is editor of a number of volumes, including Philosophy of Mind in the Early and High Middle Ages (Routledge, forthcoming). Benjamin Hill:Benjamin Hill is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at The University of Western Ontario. He earned his PhD at the University of Iowa in 2003. He focuses on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century philosophy and is most interested in contrasting the continuities and discontinuities in philosophical thought, especially epistemological thinking, from Francisco Suarez through John Locke and on to George Berkeley. He is editor (with Henrik Lagerlund) of The Philosophy of Francisco Suarez (Oxford, 2012) and Routledge Companion to Sixteenth Century Philosophy (Routledge, 2015). Robert Stainton: Robert Stainton was introduced to both philosophy and linguistics at Glendon College of York University, and continued to study in these areas at MIT, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1993. He was Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science at Carleton University before taking up his current position at the University of Western Ontario, where he is presently Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Graduate Program in Linguistics. He is the editor or co-editor of many books, including Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language and Linguistics (Elsevier, 2010) and Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science (Blackwell, 2006).

1.     Introduction.- 2. Pre-Socratics.- 3. Plato.- 4. Aristotle.- 5. Epicureanism.- 6. Stoics.- 7. Sextus.- 8. Proclus.- 9. Augustine.- 10. Boethius.- 11. Abelard.- 12. Anselm.- 13. Peter of Spain.- 14. Thomas Aquinas.- 15. Roger Bacon.- 16. Modistae.- 17. Peter of Ailly.- 18. William Ockham.- 19. John Buridan.- 20. Lorenzo Valla.- 21. Cajatan.- 22. John of Poinsot.- 23. Montaigne.- 24. Francis Bacon.- 25. Thomas Hobbes.- 26. Arnauld.- 27.Cordemoy.- 28. Locke.- 29. Berkeley.- 30. John Wilkins.- 31. Leibniz.- 32. Condiliac.- 33. Reid.- 34. Adam Smith.- 35. Diderot.- 36. Rousseau.- 37. Herder.- 38. Johann Hamann.- 39. Von Humbolt.- 40. Bolzano.- 41. J.S. Mill.-

"This is a novel and fascinating book, which traces many contemporary issues still haunting philosophers of language today, back to their historical roots. ... for anyone who reads it, it could very well play a role in making that person more aware of the insular and presentist approach in current philosophy of language, which has the potential to have a profound effect on how philosophy of language is currently practiced." (Heidi Savage, Metascience, Vol. 26, 2017)

“This is a novel and fascinating book, which traces many contemporary issues still haunting philosophers of language today, back to their historical roots. … for anyone who reads it, it could very well play a role in making that person more aware of the insular and presentist approach in current philosophy of language, which has the potential to have a profound effect on how philosophy of language is currently practiced.” (Heidi Savage, Metascience, Vol. 26, 2017)