The Philosophy and Science of Language

Ryan M. Nefdt , Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is a visiting fellow at the Pittsburgh Center for the Philosophy of Science and has published numerous works in the philosophy of linguistics and language. Carita Klippi , Senior Lecturer in French, Tampere University, Finland. She is a member of the laboratory Histoire des théories linguistiques in Paris, France, and has published on the history of linguistics and historical sociolinguistics. Bart Karstens , Research Fellow at the Rathenau Institute, The Hague, and member of the Vossius Center for the History of Humanities and Sciences at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

1. Introduction; Ryan M. Nefdt, Carita Klippi and Bart Karstens.- Part I. Linguistics and the Formal Sciences.- 2. The Complexities of Syntax; Jaroslav Peregrin.- 3. Negation in Dedekind Orderings and the Logic of Reciprocity; Terence D. Langendoen.- 4. Variations on Abstract Semantic Spaces; Katrin Erk.- 5. Mathematical Transfers in Linguistics: A Dynamic Between Ethos and Formalization as a Process of Scientific Legitimization; Adrien Mathy.- Part II. Linguistics and the Natural Sciences.- 6. Scientific Realism and Linguistics: Two Stories of Scientific Progress; Johannes Woschitz.- 7. Linguistic Change and Biological Evolution; Unni Leino, Kaj Syrjänen, Outi Vesakoski.- 8 Three Models for Linguistics: Newtonian Mechanics, Darwinism, Axiomatics; Esa Itkonen.- Part III. Linguistics and the Cognitive Sciences.- 9. The Role of Language in the Cognitive Sciences; Ryan M. Nefdt.- 10.  Linguistics and Brain Science: (Dis-) connections in Nineteenth Century Aphasiology; Els Effers.- 11. Epistemic Transfer Between Linguistics and Neuroscience: Problems and Prospects; Giosuè Baggio.- Part IV. Linguistics and the Humanities.- 12. Linguistics Meets Hermeneutics: Reading Early Greek Epistemological Texts; Anna Novokhatko.- 13. On the History of Models in American Linguistics; Jacqueline Leon.- 14. Poetics and the life of language: Disciplinary Transfer in the Guise of Metaphor; Carita Klippi.- 15. Linguistics and Philosophy: Break up Song; Kate Stanton.