This volume advances discussion between critics and defenders of the force-content distinction and opens up new ways of thinking about force and speech acts in

This volume advances discussion between critics and defenders of the force-content distinction and opens up new ways of thinking about force and speech acts in

Peter Hanks defends a new theory about the nature of propositional content. According to this theory, the basic bearers of representational properties are parti

Richard Gaskin presents a work in the philosophy of language. He analyses what is distinctive about sentences and the propositions they express—what marks the

Opposing a long-standing orthodoxy of the Western philosophical tradition running from ancient Greek thought until the late nineteenth century, Frege argued tha