📚 Philosophy of Language

Books with philosophy of language on their catalogue record, first published between 1900 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject philosophy of language in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 311 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The Stuff of Thought	Steven Pinker	2007	12
	Locke's philosophy of language	Walter R. Ott	2003	9
	Language, logic, and God	Frederick Ferré	1961	6
	Semantics	Claudia Maienborn	2011	6
	Frege	Michael A. E. Dummett	1973	5
	Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics	K. Mulligan	1990	5
	Wittgenstein on mind and language	David G. Stern	1995	5
	Reflexive Translation Studies	Silvia Kadiu	2019	5
	Kierkegaard and the Ends of Language	Geoffrey A. Hale	2002	4
	Language, Discourse, and Praxis in Ancient China	Zhenbin Sun	2014	4
	Basic Knowledge and Conditions on Knowledge	Mark McBride	2017	4
	Cuando el verbo se hace carne	Paolo Virno	1900	3
	Leibniz's philosophy of logic and language	Hidé Ishiguro	1972	3
	Linguistic Theories in Dante and the Humanists	Angelo Mazzocco	1993	3
	Derrida & Wittgenstein	Newton Garver	1994	3
	Aristotle's Theory of Language and Meaning	Deborah K. W. Modrak	2000	3
	Hegel: zur Sprache; Beitr age zur Geschichte des europ aischen Sprachdenkens. Festschrift f ur J urgen Trabant zum 60. Geburtstag	Bettina Lindorfer	2002	3
	An introduction to cognitive linguistics	Friedrich Ungerer	2006	3
	Fallacies Arising from Ambiguity	Douglas N. Walton	2010	3
	The Nature of Truth	Maria Jose Frapolli	2012	3
	Inquisitive Semantics	Ivano Ciardelli	2018	3
	Sul soggetto, il linguaggio, lo stile	Sandro Briosi	1984	2
	Rossi-Landi e la filosofia del linguaggio	Augusto Ponzio	1988	2
	Semantische Paradoxien, Typentheorie und ideale Sprache	Rosemarie Rheinwald	1988	2
	The world and language in Wittgenstein's philosophy	Gordon Hunnings	1988	2
	Language as calculus vs. language as universal medium	Martin Kusch	1989	2
	Meaning and truth	Jay L. Garfield	1991	2
	The semiotics of passions	Algirdas Julien Greimas	1992	2
	Langue, langage et stratégies linguistiques chez Heidegger	Serge Botet	1994	2
	Wittgenstein and the Possibility of Discourse	Rush Rhees	1998	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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