{"product_id":"9789048148561","title":"Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy","description":"\u003ch1\u003eStudies in Linguistics and Philosophy\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003ePeterson, P.L.\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e`Peterson is an authority of a philosophical and linguistic  industry that began in the 1960s with Vendler's work on  nominalization. Natural languages distinguish syntactically and  semantically between various sorts of what might be called `gerundive  entities' - events, processes, states of affairs, propositions,  facts, ... all referred to by sentence nominals of various kinds.  Philosophers have worried for millennia over the ontology of such  things or `things', but until twenty years ago they ignored all the  useful linguistic evidence. Vendler not only began to straighten out  the distinctions, but pursued more specific and more interesting  questions such as that of what entities the causality relation relates  (events? facts?). And that of the objects of knowledge and belief. But  Vendler's work was only a start and Peterson has continued the task  from then until now, both philosophically and linguistically. \u003cem\u003eFact  Proposition Event\u003c\/em\u003e constitutes the state of the art regarding  gerundive entities, defended in meticulous detail. \u003cbr\u003e  Peterson's ontology features just facts, proposition, and events,  carefully distinguished from each other. Among his more specific  achievements are: a nice treatment of the linguist's distinction  between `factive' and nonfactive constructions; a detailed theory of  the subjects and objects of causation, which impinges nicely on action  theory; an interesting argument that fact, proposition, events are  innate ideas in humans; a theory of complex events (with implications  for law and philosophy of law); and an overall picture of syntax and  semantics of causal sentences and action sentences. Though Peterson  does not pursue them here, there are clear and significant  implications for the philosophy of science, in particular for our  understanding of scientific causation, causal explanation and law  likeness.' \u003cbr\u003e  Professor William Lycan, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2010-12-06\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9789048148561\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-94-015-8959-8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 420\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer Netherlands","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44358956122252,"sku":"9789048148561","price":152.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9789048148561.jpg?v=1771509704","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9789048148561","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}