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- From: cpshelle@logos.uwaterloo.ca (cameron shelley)
- Subject: Re: RFD: sci.philosophy.language
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:02:19 GMT
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- Rick.Horowitz@launchpad.unc.edu (Rick Horowitz) writes:
- [...]
- > The proposal is to create a group with the following parameters:
- >
- > Name of group: sci.philosophy.language
- > Mode: unmoderated
- >
- > Charter:
- >
- > Inasmuch as there exist groups like sci.philosophy.tech,
- > talk.philosophy.misc, and comp.ai.philosophy which discuss various
- > issues not directly relating to philosophy of language, and inasmuch
- > as philosophy of language is an important and viable specialization
- > within philosophy, I propose the creation of a group for facilitating
- > discussion in this area. Topics for discussion will include
- > (minimally) discussions of interest for philosophy of language,
- > philosophy of linguistics, theories of meaning and truth, reference,
- > pragmatics, speech act theory, intensional semantics, (to some extent)
- > language of thought, theories of names, demonstratives, works (past
- > and current) in such topics, etc.---all the issues that could be part
- > of a serious study of philosophy of language.
-
- I'd be very interested in such a group, having just completed a thesis
- in speech act theory. It would be nice to have a forum for discussion
- of the philosphy of language in general.
-
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