The philosophy of language since Frege has emphasized propositions and declarative sentences, but it is clear that questions and interrogative sentences are just as important. Scientific investigation and explanation proceed in part through the posing and answering of questions, and human-computer interaction is often structured in terms of queries and answers. After going over some preliminaries we will focus on three lines of work on questions: one located at the intersection of philosophy of language and formal semantics, focusing on the semantics of what Belnap and Steel (1976) call elementary questions; a second located at the intersection of philosophy of language and philosophy of science, focusing on why-questions and the notion of ...
Emerging from the Brentano-Husserl tradition, this volume charts new ground in the conceptual discou...
Philosophy of language explores some of the most abstract yet most fundamental questions in philosop...
For the purpose of this chapter, philosophy will be seen as the study of the beliefs that we have ab...
In this paper I discuss the role that question contents should play in an overall account of languag...
Questions are everywhere and the ubiquitous activities of asking and answering, as most human activi...
In the logical, philosophical and linguistic literature, a number of theoretical frame-works have be...
In this chapter we give an overview of the research area which studies the meaning of questions. We ...
An objective of classical analytical philosophy was to define a philosopher proposition via modern l...
Recent interest in logics for questions and commands has been prompted partly by a recognition that ...
This paper explores the relation between interrogative, a category of grammatical form, and question...
This dissertation pursues two tightly interwoven goals: to bring out the relevance of questions for ...
This diploma thesis aims to examine the philosophical essence of questioning. My task was to present...
There is an age-old tradition in linguistics and philosophy to identify the meaning of a entence wit...
I sketch a semantic interpretation of questions in first-order logic. Questions are interpreted as p...
The author clarifies some misunderstandings about thefunctionof Linguistic Philosophy and t hen atte...
Emerging from the Brentano-Husserl tradition, this volume charts new ground in the conceptual discou...
Philosophy of language explores some of the most abstract yet most fundamental questions in philosop...
For the purpose of this chapter, philosophy will be seen as the study of the beliefs that we have ab...
In this paper I discuss the role that question contents should play in an overall account of languag...
Questions are everywhere and the ubiquitous activities of asking and answering, as most human activi...
In the logical, philosophical and linguistic literature, a number of theoretical frame-works have be...
In this chapter we give an overview of the research area which studies the meaning of questions. We ...
An objective of classical analytical philosophy was to define a philosopher proposition via modern l...
Recent interest in logics for questions and commands has been prompted partly by a recognition that ...
This paper explores the relation between interrogative, a category of grammatical form, and question...
This dissertation pursues two tightly interwoven goals: to bring out the relevance of questions for ...
This diploma thesis aims to examine the philosophical essence of questioning. My task was to present...
There is an age-old tradition in linguistics and philosophy to identify the meaning of a entence wit...
I sketch a semantic interpretation of questions in first-order logic. Questions are interpreted as p...
The author clarifies some misunderstandings about thefunctionof Linguistic Philosophy and t hen atte...
Emerging from the Brentano-Husserl tradition, this volume charts new ground in the conceptual discou...
Philosophy of language explores some of the most abstract yet most fundamental questions in philosop...
For the purpose of this chapter, philosophy will be seen as the study of the beliefs that we have ab...