Textbooks
The following two books are required for this course as basis for the philosophical discussions and the mathematical background:
- Geoffrey Sampson, Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction, Stanford University Press, 1985.
- Nelson Goodman, Languages of Art, Hackett Publishing Company, 2nd ed., 1976.
Additional reading materials will on course reserve, available online, or handed out in class.
Additional literature
Books
- Jamie I.D. Campbell (ed.), Handbook of mathematical cognition, Psychology Press, 2005.
- Maurice P. Crosland, Historical studies in the language of chemistry, Dover, 1962.
- Emily Grosholz, Representation and productive ambiguity in mathematics and the sciences, Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Jakob Klein, Greek mathematical thought and the origins of algebra, Dover, 1992.
- Israel Scheffler, Symbolic worlds: Art, science, language, ritual, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
- Michel Serfati, La révolution symbolique, Editions Petra, 2005.
Articles
- Stephen R. Anderson, "How many languages are there in the world?", Linguistics Society of America. (pdf)
- Peter Damerow, "The origins of writing as problem of historical
epistemology", Cuneiform Digital Library Journal,
2006:1. (pdf)
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C. S. Peirce, What is a sign?. In vol 2 of The Essential Peirce, edited by the Peirce Edition Project (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998). Full history, and an online text are to be found in Ch. 2 at the Project's website.
- Ionin, Tania and Matushanksy, O. 2006 The composition of complex cardinals. Journal of Semantics: v. 23, pp. 315--360.
- Smith, Jeffrey 1999 English number names in HPSG. In: Lexical and constructional aspects of linguistic explanation (Webelhuth and Koenig eds. 1999, Stanford: CSLI publications), pp. 145--160.