Lvov-Warsaw School and Contemporary Philosophy of Language

Piotr Stalmaszczyk is professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Lodz (PhD in 1991). His research is concerned with philosophy of language and linguistics. Recent publications include the edited volume Philosophical Insights into Pragmatics (De Gruyter 2019), and two edited volumes on predication theory (both with Peter Lang, 2017). In 2017, he was elected president of the Polish Linguistics Association.Mieszko Tałasiewicz is professor of philosophy at the University of Warsaw (PhD in 1999). He works in the fields of philosophy of language (categorial grammar, subject and predicate, truthmaking, intentionality), experimental philosophy and metaphilosophy. He is the author of Philosophy of Syntax. Foundational Topics (Springer 2010).

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionThe Lvov-Warsaw School and Contemporary Philosophy of LanguagePiotr Stalmaszczyk and Mieszko Tałasiewicz1 Good Work in PhilosophyJacek Jadacki2 Truth and Proofs. From Tarski’s Convention T to Game Theory 35Christian Bassac and Joan Busquets3 On Tarski’s Theory of TruthLuis Fernández Moreno4 Relation between Logic and Linguistics according to the Lvov-Warsaw SchoolAnna Brożek5 An Unorthodox Viewpoint on Natural Language Syntax and Its Relations to the Lvov-Warsaw SchoolGiovanni Gobber6 On the Difficulty of Using Philosophical Theories to Develop a SemanticsThe Case of AjdukiewiczBéatrice Godart-Wendling7 Strawson’s Philosophy of Language and Ajdukiewicz’s Categorial GrammarMieszko Tałasiewicz8 Normativity in the Directival Theory of MeaningPaweł Grabarczyk9 Verbal Issue or Deep Flaw?On Categories of Meaning, Content, and Connotation in the Lvov-Warsaw SchoolMarcin Będkowski10 Polish Roots of Some Solutions to the Sorites ParadoxJoanna Odrowąż-Sypniewska11 Meaning and MimickingParataxis in Kotarbiński and DavidsonJanusz Maciaszek12 The Classifications of Reasoning of Łukasiewicz and Ajdukiewicz as a Foundation for Systematising Argument PatternsMichał Araszkiewicz and Marcin KoszowySubject IndexName Index