Language in Focus: Foundations, Methods and Systems: Essays in Memory of Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science)

Yehoshua Bar-Hillel was pleased that there would be a Festschrift for his 60th birthday, and we are glad he knew of this book and its Table of Contents. We know he liked Asa Kasher’s care in gathering a volume of scientific contributions. Science was even better than sincere praise. Best of all, some of these essays criticize Bar-Hillel’s work. He would have liked that. Cover ......Page 1 Preface ......Page 7 Table of contents ......Page 9 Introduction ......Page 11 Homage to Yehoshua Bar-Hillel / Noam Chomsky, Carl G. Hempel, Sidney Morgenbesser, Ernest Nagel, W. V. Quine ......Page 12 Scientific works of Yehoshua Bar-Hillel ......Page 18 Part I. Reference and Predication ......Page 28 Alfred J. Ayer / Identity and Reference ......Page 29 P. T. Geach / Back-Reference ......Page 51 Fred Sommers / On Predication and Logical Syntax ......Page 66 Eric Walther and Eddy M. Zemach / Substance Logic ......Page 79 M. Glouberman / Prime Matter, Predication, and the Semantics of Feature-Placing ......Page 99 Part II. Truth and Meaning ......Page 129 Jaakko Hintikka / A counterexample to Tarski-Type Truth-Definitions as Applied to Natural Languages ......Page 130 Robert L. Martin and Peter W. Woodruff / On Representing ‘True-in-L’ in L ......Page 136 Richmond H. Thomason / Necessity, Quotation, and Truth: An Indexical Theory ......Page 141 Hans G. Herzberger / Presuppositional Policies ......Page 161 Jerrold J. Katz / The Dilemma between Orthodoxy and Identity ......Page 187 Part III. Pragmatics ......Page 198 Robert C. Stalnaker / Indicative Conditionals ......Page 199 Asa Kasher / Conversational Maxims and Rationality ......Page 217 Hans-Heinrich Lieb / On Relating Pragmatics, Linguistics, and Non-Semiotic Disciplines ......Page 237 Dieter Wunderlich / Towards an Integrated Theory of Grammatical and Pragmatical Meaning ......Page 270 Part IV. Methodological Studies ......Page 297 Noam Chomsky / Problems and Mysteries in the Study of Human Language ......Page 298 L. Jonathan Cohen / How Empirical is Contemporary Logical Empiricism? ......Page 375 Helmut Schnelle / Basic Aspects of the Theory of Grammatical Form ......Page 393 Part V. Language Varieties ......Page 421 Manfred Bierwisch / Social Differentiation of Language Structure ......Page 422 Avishai Margalit / Talking with Children, Piaget Style ......Page 472 Joseph Agassi / Can Adults Become Genuinely Bilingual? ......Page 487 Part VI. Formalizations ......Page 499 Franz von Kutschera / Epistemic Interpretation of Conditionals ......Page 500 Renate Bartsch / The Role of Categorial Syntax in Grammatical Theory ......Page 515 R. M. Martin / On Harris’s Systems of Report and Paraphrase ......Page 552 Dov M. Gabbay / Two-Dimensional Propositional Tense Logics ......Page 580 Part VII. Points of View ......Page 595 Marcelo Dascal / Levels of Meaning and Moral Discourse ......Page 596 Irving M. Copi / A Problem in Plato’s Laws ......Page 635 Roland Posner / Discourse as a Means to Enlightenment ......Page 648 Gershon Weiler / Points of View ......Page 668 Index of names ......Page 682 Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (1915-1975) was one of the leading intellectuals of Israel and of the world. His work ranged over mathematics, applied logic, communication theory, analytic philosophy, philosophy of science, and linguistics. Creative, patient, attentive, and critical, Bar-Hillel was a superb philosopher. In addition, how humane he was may be learned from the memorial tributes to him which initiate this volume. Bar-Hillel was born in Vienna, and came to Israel, then Palestine, in 1933. He took his M. A. (1938) and Ph. D. (1949) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where his subsequent career continued, as Research Fellow (1949-53), Senior Lecturer in Philosophy (1953-58), Associate Professor of Philosophy (1958-61), and Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Sci­ ence (1961-75). He was often abroad as visiting professor (Berkeley, 1960- 61; Michigan, 1965; La Jolla, 1966-67; Konstanz, 1971; Berlin, 1972), or as a research scholar, notably at the M. lT. Research Laboratory for Elec­ tronics during the early 1950's. Bar-Hillel was the Secretary and guiding spirit of the Organizing Committee for the 3rd International Congress for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, held in Jerusalem in 1964. During 1966-68, he was President of the Division of Logic, Method ology and Philosophy of SCience of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, and in 1967 President of the International Union. From 1963 he was a Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Yehoshua Bar-Hillel (1915-1975) was one of the leading intellectuals of Israel and of the world. His work ranged over mathematics, applied logic, communication theory, analytic philosophy, philosophy of science, and linguistics. Creative, patient, attentive, and critical, Bar-Hillel was a superb philosopher. In addition, how humane he was may be learned from the memorial tributes to him which initiate this volume. Bar-Hillel was born in Vienna, and came to Israel, then Palestine, in 1933. He took his M.A. (1938) and Ph. D. (1949) at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where his subsequent career continued, as Research Fellow (1949-53), Senior Lecturer in Philosophy (1953-58), Associate Professor of Philosophy (1958-61), and Professor of Logic and Philosophy of SciƯ ence (1961-75). He was often abroad as visiting professor (Berkeley, 1960- 61; Michigan, 1965; La Jolla, 1966-67; Konstanz, 1971; Berlin, 1972), or as a research scholar, notably at the M. lT. Research Laboratory for ElecƯ tronics during the early 1950's. Bar-Hillel was the Secretary and guiding spirit of the Organizing Committee for the 3rd International Congress for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, held in Jerusalem in 1964. During 1966-68, he was President of the Division of Logic, Method ology and Philosophy of SCience of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science, and in 1967 President of the International Union. From 1963 he was a Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities