Peter Ludlow: 5 books

Book cover of Living Words

Living Words

Meaning Underdetermination and the Dynamic Lexicon

by Peter Ludlow
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014

Peter Ludlow shows how word meanings are much more dynamic than we might have supposed, and explores how meanings are modulated (changed) even during the course of our everyday conversations. When we engage with communicative partners we build micro-languages on the fly—languages that may be fleeting,...
Book cover of Interperspectival Content
by Peter Ludlow
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2019

Too often today it seems we find ourselves communicating from radically different perspectives on the world and we often despair of communication even being possible. Peter Ludlow argues that perspectival content, or what some call indexical content, is ineliminable and ubiquitous, running through...
Book cover of Il nostro futuro nei mondi virtuali
by Peter Ludlow
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 5, 2010

Dando ormai per assodato che le dimensioni cruciali della nostra esistenza – quella lavorativa, affettiva, sociale, artistica – si sono già trasferite online, non resta che prendere atto delle conseguenze che ne derivano: gran parte della vita pubblica, della realtà sociale e politica odierna,...
Book cover of Our Future in Virtual Worlds
by Peter Ludlow
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010

Nowadays most of crucial aspects of life – business and social life above all – are moving online. According to Peter Ludlow, a professor of philosophy at Northwestern University whose research area includes conceptual issues in cyberspace, there is nothing left to question about that, except for...
Book cover of Nosso Futuro nos Mundos Virtuais
by Peter Ludlow
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: October 5, 2010

Levando em conta todas as coisas que são virtuais, ou pelo menos, parcialmente virtuais, estamos a um passo de perguntar se coisas como os estados poderão ser virtuais também. A resposta é: claro que podem. Não apenas podem ser virtuais, como já são. Não se deve confundir o governo dos Estados...
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