The Philosophy and Science of Language

1. Introduction; Ryan M. Nefdt, Carita Klippi and Bart Karstens.- Part I. Linguistics and the Formal Sciences.- 2. The Complexities of Syntax; Jaroslav Peregrin.- 3. Negation in Dedekind Orderings and the Logic of Reciprocity; Terence D. Langendoen.- 4. Variations on Abstract Semantic Spaces; Katrin Erk.- 5. Mathematical Transfers in Linguistics: A Dynamic Between Ethos and Formalization as a Process of Scientific Legitimization; Adrien Mathy.- Part II. Linguistics and the Natural Sciences.- 6. Scientific Realism and Linguistics: Two Stories of Scientific Progress; Johannes Woschitz.- 7. Linguistic Change and Biological Evolution; Unni Leino, Kaj Syrjänen, Outi Vesakoski.- 8 Three Models for Linguistics: Newtonian Mechanics, Darwinism, Axiomatics; Esa Itkonen.- Part III. Linguistics and the Cognitive Sciences.- 9. The Role of Language in the Cognitive Sciences; Ryan M. Nefdt.- 10.  Linguistics and Brain Science: (Dis-) connections in Nineteenth Century Aphasiology; Els Effers.- 11. Epistemic Transfer Between Linguistics and Neuroscience: Problems and Prospects; Giosuè Baggio.- Part IV. Linguistics and the Humanities.- 12. Linguistics Meets Hermeneutics: Reading Early Greek Epistemological Texts; Anna Novokhatko.- 13. On the History of Models in American Linguistics; Jacqueline Leon.- 14. Poetics and the life of language: Disciplinary Transfer in the Guise of Metaphor; Carita Klippi.- 15. Linguistics and Philosophy: Break up Song; Kate Stanton.

Ryan M. Nefdt, Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is a visiting fellow at the Pittsburgh Center for the Philosophy of Science and has published numerous works in the philosophy of linguistics and language.
Carita Klippi, Senior Lecturer in French, Tampere University, Finland. She is a member of the laboratory Histoire des théories linguistiques in Paris, France, and has published on the history of linguistics and historical sociolinguistics.


Bart Karstens, Research Fellow at the Rathenau Institute, The Hague, and member of the Vossius Center for the History of Humanities and Sciences at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.