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Jaroslav Peregrin - logic & philosophy writings


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BOOKS:

Meaning and Structure


Aldershot

Ashgate

2001


In this book (which is a reworked English version of my Czech 'Význam a struktura') I argue that recent and contemporary (post)analytic philosophy, as developed by Quine, Davidson, Sellars and Brandom, is largely structuralistic in the very sense in which structuralism was originally tabled by de Saussure. I reconstruct de Saussure's view of language, link it to modern formal logic and mathematics and reveal close analogies between its constitutive principles and the principles informing the holistic and neopragmatistic view of language put forward by Quine & comp. I also indicate that this view of language is not incompatible with formal approaches to semantics.




Doing Worlds with Words


Kluwer

Dordrecht

1995


In this book I try to throw light on the problem of meaning and critically asses the possibilities and limitations of elucidating the nature of meaning by means of formal logic , model theory and model-theoretical semantics. The main thrust of the book is to show that it is misguided to undestand model theory metaphysically and so to try to base formal semantics on formal metaphysis; I rather urge that model-theoretical tools of analysing language should be seen as means of envisaging a semantically relevant, especially inferential structure of language.




EDITED BOOKS:

Meaning: the Dynamic Turn


Oxford

Elsevier

2003


A collection of essays addressing what can be called the 'dynamic turn' and what has been undergone by many theories of formal semantics of natural language in recent decades. Based on a conference held in Prague in September 2001, the book consists of papers addressing, from various sides, the foundational questions of the dynamic theories of meaning. It includes contributions of writers who are commonly held as authorities concerning the turn, who, however, here concentrate more on the why's than on the how's of dynamic semantics.




Truth and its nature


Kluwer

Dordrecht

1999


The book draws together contributions from analytic philosophers who analyse the concept of truth within the context established by the results of Alfred Tarski. The main focus of the majority of the contributions is on the recent debate between the 'deflationist' denigration of truth and 'inflationists' who insist that truth is a crucially deep and substantial concept.




TRANSLATED BOOKS:

PAPERS:

Inferentialism and the Normativity of Meaning

Philosophia, to appear




Inferentialism and communication: language and the code table problem

Proceedings of LogKCA-10, to appear




Inferentialism and Normativity

M. Beaney (ed.): Oxford Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy, Oxford University Press, Oxford, to appear




The Normative Dimension of Discourse

K. Allan and K. Jasczolt (eds.): Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, to appear




Logic and Natural Selection

Logica Universalis, to appear




Linguistics and Philosophy

R. Kempson, N. Asher & T. Fernando (eds.): Philosophy of Linguistics (Handbook of the Philosophy of Science 14), Elsevier, Amsterdam, Elsevier, Amsterdam, to appear




Creatures of norms as uncanny niche constructors

Proceedings of Knowledge, Value, Evolution, to appear




Deflationism and Inferentialism

J. Boros (ed.): Proceedings of the Pecs conference on the Philosophy of Paul Horwich, to appear




Brandom's Incompatibility Semantics

Philosophical Topics 36, 2010, 99-122




The Enigma of Rules

International Journal of Philosophical Studies 18, 2010, 377-394




Normative Pragmatics

L. Cummings (ed.): The Pragmatics Encyclopedia, Routledge, London, 2010, 297-300




The Myth of Semantic Structure

P. Stalmaszczyk (ed.): Philosophy of Language and Linguistics, vol. I: The Formal Turn, Ontos, Frankfurt, 2010, 183-197




Language, the world and the nature of philosophy

R. E. Auxier and L. E. Hahn (eds.): The Philosophy of Richard Rorty, La Salle (Ill.), Open Court, 2010, 225-245




Two Concepts of Validity and Completeness

Acta Universitatis Carolinae - Philosophica et Historica (Miscellanea Logica) '07, 2010, 23-39




Inferentializing Semantics

Journal of Philosophical Logic 39, 2010, 255-274




Semantics without meaning?

R. Schantz (ed.): Prospects of Meaning, de Gruyter, Berlin, to appear




The use-theory of meaning and the rules of our language games

K. Turner (ed.): Making semantics pragmatic, Elsevier, London, to appear




Inferentialism and Compositionality of Meaning

International Review of Pragmatics 1, 2009, 154-181




Inferentializing Consequence

M. Peliš (ed.): The Logica Yearbook 2008, College Publications, London, 2009, 155-168




Inferentialist Approach to Semantics

Philosophy Compass 3, 2008, 1208-1223




What is *the* logic of inference?

Studia Logica 88, 2008, 263-294




Logic and 'nothing else'

M. Peliš (ed.): The Logica Yearbook 2007, Filosofia, Prague, 2008, 111-118




Gödel, Truth and Proof

Journal of Physics: Conference Series 82, 2007




Logical Rules and the a priori: Good and Bad Questions

J.-Y. Béziau & A. Costa-Leite (ed.): Perspectives on Universal Logic, Polimetrica, Monza, 2007, 111-122




Consequence and Inference

Kolman, V. (ed.): Miscellanea Logica: Truth and Proof, FF UK, Prague, 2006, 1-18




Lesk a bída platonistické koncepce sémantiky

M. Zouhar (ed.): Jazyk z pohĺadu sémantiky, pragmatiky a filozofie vedy (Příloha časopisu ORGANON F), FLÚ SAV, Bratislava, 2006, 38-49




Intersubstitutivity

M. Bílková & O. Tomala (eds.): The Logica Yearbook 2005, Filosofia, Praha, 2006, 149-163




Extensional vs. Intensional Logic

D. Jacquette (ed.): Philosophy of Logic (Handbook of the Philosophy of Science 5), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2006, 831-860




Semantics as Based on Inference

J. van Benthem et al. (eds.): The Age of Alternative Logics, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2006, 25-36




Logica ludus

Nosek, J. (ed.): Hra, věda a filosofie, Filosofia, Praha, 2006, 203-211




Developing Sellars' semantic legacy: meaning as a role

P. Wolf and M. N. Lance (ed.): The Self-Correcting Enterprise, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2006, 257-274




Meaning as an inferential role

Erkenntnis 64, 2006, 1-36




Brandom and Davidson: what do we need to account for thinking and agency

Philosophica 75, 2006, 43-59




Is compositionality an empirical matter?

M. Werning, E. Machery & G. Schurz (eds.): The Compositionality of Meaning and Content, Ontos, Frankfurt, 2005, 135-150




The Nature of Meaning: Brandom vs. Chomsky

Pragmatics and Cognition 13, 2005, 39-57

the whole volume reprinted as P. Stekeler-Weithofer (ed.): The Pragmatics of Making it Explicit, Benjamins, Amsterdam, 2008




The 'Causal Story' and the 'Justificatory Story'

Boros, J. (ed.): Mind in World, Brambauer, Pécs, 2005




Is propositional calculus categorical?

unpublished, 2004




Pragmatismus und Semantik

Fuhrmann, A. and Olsson E. J. (eds.): Pragmatisch denken, Ontos, Frankfurt a M., 2004, 89-108

[in German]




Logic as 'making it explicit'

L. Běhounek (ed.): Logica Yearbook 2003, Praha, Filosofia, 2004




Pragmatism and Semantics

P. Ghirardelli, Jr & J. Zabatiero (ed.): Revista Filosofia Americana, CEFA & FTSA, 2003

[in Portugese]




Other worlds (what is the use of worlds beyond the real one?)

H. Rott & V. Horák (eds.): Possibility and Reality - Metaphysics and Logic, Ontos, Frankfurt a M., 2003




Meaning and Inference

T. Childers and O. Majer (ed.): Logica Yearbook 2002, Praha, Filosofia, 2003, 193-205




Dynamic Semantics with Choice Functions

[Co-authored by von Heusinger, K.]

H. Kamp & B.Partee (eds.): Context-Dependence in the Analysis of Linguistic Meaning, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2002, 255-274




Metaphysics as an Attempt to Eat One's Cake and Have it

U. Mexiner (ed.): Metaphysics in the Post-Metaphysical Age, Wien, öbv & hpt, 2001, 349-357




Absolute and Relative Concepts in Logic

O. Majer (ed.): Logica Yearbook 2000, Praha, Filosofia, 2001, 71-77




Constructions and Concepts

T. Childers & J. Palomäki (eds.): Between Words and Worlds (A Festschrift for Pavel Materna), Filosofia, Praha, 2000, 34-48




The Logic of Anaphora

T. Childers (ed.): The Logica Yearbook 1999, Filosofia, Praha, 2000, 191-205




Variables in Natural Language: Where They Do Come From?

M. Böttner & W.Thümmel (eds.): Variable-free Semantics, Secolo, Osnabrück, 2000, 46-65




Reference and Inference

K. von Heusinger & U.Egli (eds.): Reference and Anaphoric Relations, Kluwer, Dordrecht, 2000, 269-286




'Fregean' Logic and 'Russellian' Logic

Australasian Journal of Philosophy 78, 2000, 557-575




The 'Natural' and the 'Formal'

Journal of Philosophical Logic 29, 2000, 75-101




Zen & the art of (Davidsonian) analytic philosophy

unpublished, 1999

(Czech version appeared in my book 'Filosofie a jazyk')




The Pragmatization of Semantics

K. Turner (ed.): The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface from Different Points of View, Elsevier, North-Hollard, 1999, 419-442




Linguistics and Philosophy

Theoretical Linguistics 25, 1998, 245-264




What does one need when she needs 'higher-order' logic?

Proceedings of LOGICA'96, Filosofia, Praha, 1997




When meaning goes by the board, what about philosophy?

Proceedings of ANALYOMEN 2 vol. 2, de Gruyter, Berlin, 1997, 216-222




Language and its Models

Nordic Journal of Philosophical Logic 2, 1997, 1-23




Structure and Meaning

Semiotica 113, 1997, 71-88




Formal logic and the pursuit of meaning

unpublished, 1996

Czech version appeared in my book 'Filosofie a jazyk'




Topic and Focus in a Formal Framework

B. Partee & P. Sgall (eds.): Discourse and Meaning, Benjamins, Amsterdam, 1996, 235-254




Topic, Focus and the Logic of Language

I. Kohlhof, S. Winkler & H.B. Drubig (eds.): Sprachtheoretische Grundlagen für die Computerlinguistic, IBM Deutschland, Heidelberg, 1995, 49-57




Structural Linguistics and Formal Semantics

E. Hajičová et al. (eds.): Travaux de Circle Linguistique de Prague I, Benjamins, Amsterdam, 1995, 85-97




Topic-focus articulation as generalized quantification

P. Bosch & R. van der Sandt (eds.): Proceedings of Focus and natural language processing, IBM Deutschland, Heidelberg, 1994, 379-387




Interpreting Formal Logic

Erkenntnis 40, 1994, 5-20




Possible Worlds: A Critical Analysis

Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics #59, 1993, 9-21




Is Language a Code?

From the Logical Point of View #2, 1993, 73-79




REVIEWS:

A. Marmor: Social Conventions

Organon F, to appear




J. Wanderer: R. Brandom

ORGANON F 17, 2010, 413-418




B. Weiss: How to Understand Language

Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (http://ndpr.nd.edu/), 2010




Following the Rules of Discourse (R. Kukla and M. Lance: 'Yo' and 'Lo' + J. Heath: Following the Rules)

International Review of Pragmatics 2, 2010, 118-128




W. deVries: Sellars + J. O.Shea: Sellars

Erkenntnis 69, 2008, 131-135




M. Zouhar: Podoby referencie

Filosofický časopis 53, 2005, 320-322




I. Blecha: Fenomenologie a kultura slepé skvrny

Filosofický časopis 52, 2004, 492-499




L. Valenta: Problémy analytické filosofie

Filosofický časopis 51, 2003




R. Brandom: Tales of the Mighty Dead

Erkenntnis 59, 2003, 421-424




P. Kolář: Pravda a fakt

Filosofický časopis 51, 2003, 693-697




P. Vopěnka: Meditace o základech vědy

Filosofický časopis 51, 2003, 509-513




S. Soames: Beyond Rigidity

Journal of Pragmatics 35, 2003, 923-925




S. Neale: Facing Facts

Journal of Pragmatics 35, 2003, 651-655




Hajičová, Partee & Sgall: Topic-Focus Articulation, Tripartite Structures, and Semantic Content

Journal of Pragmatics 34, 2002, 331-334




J. Dejnožka: The Ontology of the Analytic Tradition

Filosofický časopis 49, 2001, 701-706




R. Brandom: Articulating Reasons

Erkenntnis 55, 2001, 121-127




Rorty and his Critics

R. Brandom (ed.): The Philosophers Magazine #14, 2001, 57




A. Crary & R. Read, eds.: The New Wittgenstein

The Philosophers Magazine #13, 2001, 58




P. Horwich: Meaning

Erkenntnis 53, 2000, 415-422




P. Materna: Concepts and Objects

Filosofický časopis 47, 1999, 852-857




J. van Benthem & A.ter Meulen, eds.: Handbook of Logic and Language

Prague Bulletin of Mathematical Linguistics #69, 1998, 51-56




M.N.Lance & J. O'Leary-Hawthorne: The Grammar of Meaning

Erkenntnis 49, 1998, 403-409




WORK IN PROGRESS:

Legal inferentialism and semantic inferentialism





Rules, Society and Evolution





Inferentialism: from logic to language (a book in progress)





Many-valued logic vs. many-valued semantics