Game-Theoretical Semantics: Essays on Semantics by Hintikka, Carlson, Peacocke, Rantala and Saarinen (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 5)

This book is a collection of studies applying game-theoretical concepts and ideas to analysing the semantics of natural language and some formal languages. The bulk of the book consists of several papers by Hintikka, Carlson and Saarinen and discusses several of the central problems of the semantics of natural language. The topics covered are the semantics of natural language quantifiers, conditionals, pronouns and anaphora more generally. Hintikka’s famous essay presenting examples of "branching quantifier structures" in English, as well as one formulating his "any-every thesis", are included. The book also includes Hintikka’s closely argued philosophical discussion of the relationships between the new semantical games with the language games of Wittgenstein. Other papers apply the game-theoretical approach to formal languages including tense logics and tense anaphora (Saarinen), deontic logic and Ross’ paradox (Hintikka), and usual predicate logic (Rantala). The latter amounts to an explication of the "impossible possible" worlds as is shown in Hintikka’s concluding paper. Title ......Page 3 Copyright ......Page 4 Contents ......Page 5 Esa Saarinen / Introduction ......Page 7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ......Page 13 Jaakko Hintikka / Language-Games ......Page 15 Jaakko Hintikka / Quantifiers in Logic and Quantifiers in Natural Languages ......Page 41 Jaakko Hintikka / Quantifiers vs. Quantification Theory ......Page 63 Jaakko Hintikka / Quantifiers in Natural Languages: Some Logical Problems ......Page 95 Christopher Peacocke / Game-Theoretic Semantics, Quantifiers and Truth: Comments on Professor Hintikka's Paper ......Page 133 Jaakko Hintikka / Rejoinder to Peacocke ......Page 149 Jaakko Hintikka and Esa Saarinen / Semantical Games and the Bach-Peters Paradox ......Page 167 Jaakko Hintikka and Lauri Carlson / Conditionals, Generic Quantifiers, and Other Applications of Subgames ......Page 193 Esa Saarinen / Backwards-Looking Operators in Tense Logic and in Natural Language ......Page 229 Esa Saarinen / Intentional Identity Interpreted: A Case Study of the Relations among Quantifiers, Pronouns, and Propositional Attitudes ......Page 259 Jaakko Hintikka / The Ross Paradox as Evidence for the Reality of Semantical Games ......Page 343 Veikko Rantala / Urn Models: A New Kind of Non-Standard Model for First-Order Logic ......Page 361 Jaakko Hintikka / Impossible Possible Worlds Vindicated ......Page 381 INDEX OF NAMES ......Page 395 INDEX OF SUBJECTS ......Page 398