Resources
Start with the primary texts.
At the outset the site will offer primary sources already in the public domain and digital tools for research in the field. The list below is a starting point.
Collections
Sourcebook in the History of Philosophy of Language, ed. Margaret Cameron, Benjamin Hill and Robert Stainton (Springer, 2017). Primary sources in English translation, from the Ancient Greeks into the nineteenth century.
Linguistic Content: New Essays on the History of Philosophy of Language, ed. Margaret Cameron and Robert Stainton (Oxford University Press, 2015).
Primary texts the project works with
- Plato, Cratylus: the correctness of names, and the roles of convention and nature.
- Aristotle, De Interpretatione: words as signs of mental representations.
- Augustine, De Magistro: signs and teaching.
- William of Ockham, Summa Logicae: mental language and the semantics of terms.
- Arnauld and Nicole, Port-Royal Logic, and Arnauld and Lancelot, Port-Royal Grammar: Cartesian theories of language.
- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book III: words and ideas.
- J. G. Herder, Treatise on the Origin of Language: language and thought in the German Enlightenment.
Placeholder: links to public-domain editions, digital research tools, and a fuller annotated bibliography to be added with the team’s input.
HOWPOL, Western University, London, Ontario · Benjamin Hill bhill28@uwo.ca · Robert Stainton rstainto@uwo.ca
