Philosophy of language Books
Stanford University Press Language and Relation That There is Language
Book SynopsisDistinguished by its range of material and depth of coverage, this book offers sustained readings of some of the most important (and difficult) statements on language in modern European philosophy. Among its contributions to the literature on the authors treated is the single farthest-reaching interpretation available of Heidegger's On the Way to Language.
£98.60
Stanford University Press On the Origins of Human Emotions A Sociological
Book SynopsisLanguage and culture are often seen as unique characteristics of human beings. This work examines the neurological evolution of our emotional repertoire and implications for current social behaviour and argues that our ability to use a wide array of emotions evolved long before spoken language.Trade Review“Turner’s thesis—the primacy of biologically based emotions as the foundation of human social bonding—is intellectually stimulating, and scholars in many fields not only in the social sciences but also in biology and the humanities, will want to read this book. . . . The writing style is clear and engaging.”—Larry Arnhart, Northern Illinois UniversityTable of ContentsCONTENTS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
£18.89
Univ of Chicago Behalf Northwestern Univ Pres Signs
Book Synopsis“Speech is a way of tearing out a meaning from an undivided whole.” Thus does Maurice Merleau-Ponty describe speech in this collection of his important writings on the philosophy of expression, composed during the last decade of his life.
£32.95
Northwestern University Press Language Beyond Postmodernism Saying and Thinking
Book SynopsisEugene Gendlin's contribution to the theory of language is the focus of this collection of essays Each essay is followed by a comment from Gendlin himself. The work investigates how concepts grow out of experience, and compares Gendlin's work to that of Wittgenstein, Dilthey and Heidegger.
£31.96
Northwestern University Press Retracting the Platonic Text Studies in
Book SynopsisWritten from a continental perspective, these essays reveal dimensions of Platonic texts that remain undiscovered by traditional philosophy. Particular emphasis is placed on interpretations of the Platonic dialogue as a whole, which challenges contemporary philosphical assumptions.
£72.00
Northwestern University Press The Linguistic Dimension of Kants Thought
Book SynopsisWhile the issue of language has become a key fulcrum of continental philosophy since the twentieth century, Immanuel Kant has been overlooked as a thinker whose breadth of insight has helped to spearhead this advance. The Linguistic Dimension of Kantâs Thought remedies this historical gap by gathering new essays by distinguished Kant scholars.
£84.55
Northwestern University Press Kafka and Wittgenstein
Book SynopsisOffers the first ever book-length scholarly examination of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language alongside Franz Kafka’s prose fiction. In groundbreaking readings, Rebecca Schuman argues that although many readers of Kafka are searching for what his texts mean, in this search we are sorely mistaken.
£29.71
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. The Philosophy of A. J. Ayer Volume 21
Book SynopsisThis, the 21st volume in the Library of Living Philosophers, is more than Sir Alfred Ayer''s final word on the philosophical issues that preoccupied him for more than sixty years; the list of contributors is a roll-call of some of the greatest living figures in philosophy, each expertly addressing a key problem arising in Ayer''s work. Most of the critical papers are answered directly and in detail by Sir Alfred-he completed his replies to 21 of the 24 papers before his death. Contributors include: A. J. Ayer, Evandro Agazzi, James Campbell, David S. Clarke, Michael Dummett, Elizabeth Eames, John Foster, Dimitri Ginev, Paul Gochet, Martin Hollis, Ted Honderich, Tscha Hung, Peter Kivy, Arne Naess, D. J. O''Connor, Desiree Park, David Pears, Azarya Polikarov, Hilary Putnam, Francisco Miró, Quesada C., A. Anthony Quinton, Emanuele Riverso, Ernest Sosa, T. L. S. Sprigge, Barry Stroud, and David Wiggins.Table of ContentsMy mental development, A.J. Ayer; varieties of meaning and truth, Evandro Agazzi; Ayer and pragmatism, James Campbell; on judging sufficiency of evidence, David S. Clarke; the metaphysics of verificationism, Michael Dummett; A.J. Ayer's philosophical method, Beth Eames; the construction of the physical world, John Foster; on Sir Alfred Ayer's theory of truth, Paul Gochet; man as a subject for social science, Martin Hollis; causation - one thing just happens after another, Ted Honderich; Ayer and the Vienna circle, Tscha Hung; "Oh Boy! You Too!" - aesthetic emotivism re-examined, Peter Kivy; Ayer on metaphysics - a critical commentary by a kind of metaphysician, Arne Naess; Ayer on free will and determinism, D.J. O'Connor; Ayerian "qualia" and the empiricist heritage, Desiree Park; Ayer's view on meaning-rules, David Pears; remarks on logical empiricism and some of Ayer's achievements - some fifty years later, A. Polikarov and D. Ginev; is it necessary that water is h2o?, Hilary Putnam; Ayer's philosophy of logic and mathematics, Francisco Miro Quesada C.; Ayer and ontology, Anthony Quinton; Ayer's treatment of Russell, Emanuelle Riverso; Ayer on perception and reality, Ernest Sosa; Ayer on other minds, T.L.S. Sprigge; Ayer's Hume, Barry Stroud; Ayer on morality and feeling - from subjectivism to emotivism and back?, David Wiggins.
£40.84
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Roland Barthes on Photography
Book SynopsisNancy Shawcross places Barthes' thought on photography in the context of his developing ideas about semiology, tracking origins, rejections and departures. She shows Barthes' affinities with and distinction from, other theorists of photography.
£48.60
The Catholic University of America Press Language and Human Understanding The Roots of
Book SynopsisPhilosopher, psychologist and linguist are all concerned with natural language. Accordingly, in seeking a unified view, David Braine draws on insights from all these fields, sifting through the discordant schools of linguists. He concludes that one extended logic or “integrated semantic syntax” shapes grammar, but without constricting languages to being of one grammatical type.
£52.88
MP-CUA Catholic Uni of Amer Language and Human Understanding The Roots of
Book SynopsisIn rewriting the philosophy of grammar, Braine restores the dynamic conception of language, reuniting structure and communicative function. Grammar, typically through the verb, gives the sentence its ‘saying’ function, the verb being what brings the sentence to life, giving the sentence’s other elements their role and force.Trade ReviewA tour de force. At nearly 800 pages, it ranges over a vast terrain of issues about the nature of language. Braine presents a sustained analysis and critique of much contemporary philosophy of language…This book's breadth and depth of material covered makes professionals the only appropriate audience." - Choice"This vast, inspiring undertaking is nothing if not utopian. At the same time, it has much to offer anyone who wants more than atomistic analysis, and is prepared to think through what modern linguistics is ultimately about." - Language and History
£29.71
University of Minnesota Press Speech Begins after Death
Book SynopsisSpeech Begins after Death is a transcript of critic Claude Bonnefoy's interview with Michel Foucault in which he reflects on his approach to the written word throughout his life, from his school days to his discovery of the pleasure of writing. Never before published in English, this is one of Foucault's most personal statements about his life and writing.Table of ContentsContentsEditor’s NoteIntroduction: Foucault and Audiography Philippe ArtièresInterview between Michel Foucault and Claude Bonnefoy, 1968Chronologies of Michel Foucault and Claude Bonnefoy
£18.44
Wesleyan University Press Poetic Diction
Book SynopsisBarfield discusses poetry's meaning in terms of both his personal experience and objective standards of criticism.
£22.19
Fordham University Press Documentality
Book SynopsisWritten in an easy, often witty, style Documentality revises Foucault's late concept of the ontology of actuality into the project of an ontological laboratory, thereby reinventing philosophy as a pragmatic activity that is directly applicable to our everyday life.Trade Review"Documentality re-energizes the traditional philosophical debate on realism by contextualizing this problematic within the field of new media and positioning it in the wake of the momentous philosophical contributions of Derrida and Foucault." -- -Alessia Ricciardi Northwestern University "The growth of modern civilization depends to a surprising degree on the power of documents. Law, commerce, science, government all depend on documents to transcend the constraints of pre-modern, face-to-face communication. Yet documents, thus far, have played only a tiny role in the work of social ontologists. Maurizio Ferraris shows in this brilliant new work how documents can be used as a springboard for an entirely new view of the structure of social reality -- in which documents form the very tracks along which the engines of our mental and social lives run." -- -Barry Smith Director of the National Center for Ontological Research (NCOR) "A clear, fast-paced, truly exciting book." -- -Jean-Michel Rabate University of Pennsylvania "The most stimulating feature of the book is not so much that documents allow Ferraris to develop an ontology, but rather that his ontology allows him to understand and to help us to understand what documents are and what society is." -- -Umberto Eco author of The Name of the Rose
£91.80
Fordham University Press Words
Book SynopsisExamines the link between our (implicit) assumptions about language and our understanding of religious phenomena. In particular, focuses on the performative and material specificity of word use in religion.Trade Review"The conversation about the modern, the religious, and the secular is not over, and this volume will push the dialogue in fruitful new directions." -- -S. Brent Plate Hamilton CollegeTable of ContentsIntroduction: 'Any more deathless questions?', Asja Szafraniec and Ernst van den Hemel Part 1: What are words? 'Word as Act: Varieties of Semiotic Ideology in the Interpretation of Religion', Michael Lambek 'The power of words and the performative context', Jacqueline Borsje 'Inscriptional Violence and the Art of Cursing: A Study of Performative Writing', Jan Assmann 'Words and Word-Bodies: Writing the Religious Body', Loriliai Biernacki Part 2 Religious Vocabularies: 'Semantic Differences; or, "Judaism"; "Christianity"', Daniel Boyarin 'The Name God in Blanchot', Jean-Luc Nancy 'Humanism's Cry: On Infinity in Religion, and Absence in Atheism-A Dialogue with Blanchot and Nancy', Laurens ten Kate 'Intuition, Interpellation, Insight: Elements of a Theory of Conversion', Nils F. Schott 'Allowed and forbidden words: Canon and Censorship in "Grunbegriffe", "Critical terms", Encyclopaedias', Christoph Auffarth Part 3: Transmitting and Translating the Implicit 'God lisped: divine accommodation and cracks in Calvin's Scriptural voice', Ernst Van den Hemel 'Rethinking the Implicit: Fragments of the Project on Aggada and Halakhah in W.Benjamin', Sergey Dolgopolski 'What Cannot Be Said: Apophasis and the Discourse of Love', Jean-Luc Marion 'Jean-Luc Marion and the Basic Problems of Phenomenology', Tarek Dika Part 4: Situating Oneself via Language 'A Quarrel with God: Cavell on Wittgenstein and Hegel', Asja Szafraniec 'Thinking about the Secular Body, Pain, and Liberal Politics', Talal Asad 'The Rise of Literal-Mindedness', Peter Burke 'Fiction-based Religion: From Star Wars to Jediism', Markus Altena Davidsen 'Prayer: Addressing the Name', Karmen Mackendrick Part 5 Language and the Foundation of Communities 'The Words of the Martyr. Media, Martyrdom and the Construction of a Community', Pieter Nanninga "Spritual X-ray Vision": the Religio-Political Rhetoric of Abraham Kuyper', Arie L. Molendijk 'Thinking through Religious Nationalism', Roger Friedland and Kenneth B. Moss
£27.90
Fordham University Press Nostalgia When Are We Ever at Home
Book SynopsisThrough a subtle reading of the writings of Homer, Virgil, and Hannah Arendt, Barbara Cassin produces an in-depth analysis, at once scholarly and personal, of nostalgia. Where does nostalgia come from? Where do we truly feel at home? Cassin explores the notion that nostalgia has less to do with place and more to do with language.Trade Review"A rich and moving account of home and homelessness by one of the most important and distinctively original French thinkers of our time." -- -Simon Critchley The New School for Social Research "[La Nostalgie is] an erudite work in which [Cassin] incites us to make good use of this ambiguous, delightful and sometimes dangerous feeling." -L'Express "This precise and beautifully written exploration of the meaning of nostalgia (well served by the translation) is throughout, like all of Barbara Cassin's work, a meditation on languages in their plurality and their equivalence, and on translation. When we fully understand that we do not speak the logos and when we authentically experience that our language is just 'one language among others,' then we are ready to philosophize otherwise, to philosophize between languages, or, in Cassin's words, to 'philosophize in tongues.'" -- - from Souleymane Bachir Diagne's forewordTable of ContentsForeword by Souleymane Bachir Diagne Translator's Note Of Corsican Hospitality Odysseus and the Day of Return Aeneas: From Nostalgia to Exile Arendt: To Have One's Language for a Homeland Notes
£58.65
Fordham University Press Nostalgia When Are We Ever at Home
Book SynopsisThrough a subtle reading of the writings of Homer, Virgil, and Hannah Arendt, Barbara Cassin produces an in-depth analysis, at once scholarly and personal, of nostalgia. Where does nostalgia come from? Where do we truly feel at home? Cassin explores the notion that nostalgia has less to do with place and more to do with language.Trade Review"A rich and moving account of home and homelessness by one of the most important and distinctively original French thinkers of our time." -- -Simon Critchley The New School for Social Research "[La Nostalgie is] an erudite work in which [Cassin] incites us to make good use of this ambiguous, delightful and sometimes dangerous feeling." -L'Express "This precise and beautifully written exploration of the meaning of nostalgia (well served by the translation) is throughout, like all of Barbara Cassin's work, a meditation on languages in their plurality and their equivalence, and on translation. When we fully understand that we do not speak the logos and when we authentically experience that our language is just 'one language among others,' then we are ready to philosophize otherwise, to philosophize between languages, or, in Cassin's words, to 'philosophize in tongues.'" -- - from Souleymane Bachir Diagne's forewordTable of ContentsForeword by Souleymane Bachir Diagne Translator's Note Of Corsican Hospitality Odysseus and the Day of Return Aeneas: From Nostalgia to Exile Arendt: To Have One's Language for a Homeland Notes
£16.14
Fordham University Press Textures of the Ordinary
Book SynopsisHow might we speak of human life amid violence, deprivation, or disease so intrusive as to put the idea of the human into question? How can scholarship and advocacy address new forms of war or the slow, corrosive violence that belie democracy''s promise to mitigate human suffering? To Veena Das, the answers to these question lie not in foundational ideas about human nature but in a close attention to the diverse ways in which the natural and the social mutually absorb each other on a daily basis. Textures of the Ordinary shows how anthropology finds a companionship with philosophy in the exploration of everyday life. Based on two decades of ethnographic work among low-income urban families in India, Das shows how the notion of texture aligns ethnography with the anthropological tone in Wittgenstein and Cavell, as well as in literary texts. Das shows that doing anthropology after Wittgenstein does not consist in taking over a new set of terms such as forms of life,Table of ContentsPreface | xi Introduction | 1 1 Wittgenstein and Anthropology: Anticipations | 29 2 A Politics of the Ordinary: Action, Expression, and Everyday Life | 58 3 Ordinary Ethics: Take One | 96 4 Ethics, Self-Knowledge, and Words Not at Home: The Ephemeral and the Durable | 120 5 Disorders of Desire or Moral Striving? Engaging the Life of the Other | 148 6 Psychiatric Power, Mental Illness, and the Claim to the Real: Foucault in the Slums of Delhi | 173 7 The Boundaries of the “We”: Cruelty, Responsibility, and Forms of Life | 198 8 A Child Disappears: Law in the Courts, Law in the Interstices of Everyday Life | 216 9 Of Mistakes, Errors, and Superstition: Reading Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Frazer | 246 10 Concepts Crisscrossing: Anthropology and Knowledge-Making | 275 11 The Life of Concepts: In the Vicinity of Dying | 307 Acknowledgments | 333 Notes | 337 References | 373 Index | 403
£96.90
University of Hawai'i Press The Chinese Language Fact and Fantasy
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDelightfully engaging ... this book contains a wealth of hard facts about Chinese." —Canadian Journal of Linguistics"DeFrancis's book is first rate. It entertains. It teaches. It demystifies. It counteracts popular ignorance as well as sophisticated (cocktail party) ignorance. Who could ask for anything more? There is no other book like it. ... It is one of a kind, a first, and I would not only buy it but I would recommend it to friends and colleagues, many of whom are visiting China now and are adding 'two-week-expert' ignorance to the two kinds that existed before. This is a book for everyone." —Joshua A. Fishman, research professor of social sciences, Yeshiva University, New York"Professor De Francis has produced a work of great effectiveness that should appeal to a wide-ranging audience. It is at once instructive and entertaining. While being delighted by the flair of his novel approach, the reader will also be led to ponder on some of the most fundamental problems concerning the relations between written languages and spoken languages. Specifically, he will be served a variety of information on the languages of East Asia, not as dry pedantic facts, but as appealing tidbits that whet the intellectual appetite. The expert will find much to reflect on in this book, for Professor DeFrancis takes nothing for granted." —William S.Y. Wang, professor of linguistics, University of California at Berkeley
£22.36
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Ecolinguistics Reader Language Ecology and Environment
£66.49
Shepheard-Walwyn (Publishers) Ltd Language and Truth
Book SynopsisThis book presents a radically different view of language from that found in most modern Western philosophy. Human language is seen as having an innate capacity to reflect the light of consciousness, the primary element of the universe, and evidence is provided to show the extraordinary reflective capacity of the Sanskrit language.Trade Review"The glimpses of the Pani nian system which the book affords are fascinating; and the author's emphasis on the ontological importance of the Indian tradition is apposite and welcome." John Carey. Lead Reviewer of the Sunday Times 20111015 "This book explores the nature of human language, its relation to truth and to the natural laws of the universe. It focuses on truth according to Advaita (non-dualism), and concentrates mostly on the Sanskrit language. Language and truth are intimately connected in Advaita. One reason for this is the Sanskrit language, because the sound and structure of the language itself appear to reflect and convey that truth." Watkins Review. 20111115Table of ContentsPronunciation Guide Introduction 1. Different premises on which language may be founded 2. How many different languages relate to truth? 3. Basic elements of language as evident in Sanskrit 4. Words: their formation and classes 5. Sentences and relationships within them 6. Sound, word and meaning. What is meaning? 7. Paninian grammar: some special features 8. Laws of Sanskrit reflecting Natural Laws? Appendix 1. The credentials of Sanskrit Appendix 2. The extent of Sandhi Bibliography Index
£23.70
East European Monographs Semiotics of Visual Languages
Book SynopsisCriteria and methods of a structural analysis of pictorial language as a way of understanding the semiotic system of the visual arts. This is presented with a discussion of an information-processing model for optical illusions and computer simulations.
£34.86
Imprint Academic On the Shore of Nothingness A Study in Cognitive
Book SynopsisThis book studies how poetic structure transforms verbal imitations of religious experience into concepts. The book investigates how such a conceptual language can convey such non-conceptual experiences as meditation, ecstasy or mystic insights. Briefly, it explores how the poet, by using words, can express the ''ineffable''. It submits to close reading English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Armenian and Hebrew texts, from the Bible, through medieval, renaissance, metaphysical, and baroque poetry, to romantic and symbolistic poetry.
£23.86
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc With Reference to Reference
Book SynopsisPresents a study that systematizes and develops Nelson Goodman's philosophy of language. This title deals with various issues, such as metaphor.Trade ReviewSystematizes and develops in a comprehensive study Nelson Goodman's philosophy of language. The Goodman-Elgin point of view is important and sophisticated, and deals with a number of issues, such as metaphor, ignored by most other theories. --John R. Perry, Stanford University
£33.14
Center for the Study of Language and Information Partiality Truth and Persistence
Book SynopsisIn recent years, semantical partiality has emerged as an important concept in philosophical logic as well as in the study of natural language semantics. This is a study in spatial model theory, the theory of partially defined models.
£25.43
Barfield Press UK History Guilt and Habit
£14.76
Barfield Press UK What Coleridge Thought
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Solutions Books Encounters with Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg Inside Stories of SolutionFocused Brief Therapy 2 Solution Focus Classics
Book SynopsisWhen Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg founded the Brief Family Therapy Center (BFTC) in 1978, they set out on a journey which led both to the development of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) and to a revolutionary influence across the whole psychotherapy field. This book lets you appreciate even more their work, ideas and contribution.Table of ContentsArild Aambo, Oslo, Norway: Keep it clean and simple!Corina Ahlers, Vienna, Austria: Memories of Steve and InsooMarianne and Kaspar Baeschlin, Winterthur, Switzerland: Steve de Shazer and educatorsJanet Beavin Bavelas, Victoria, BC, Canada: Memories of Steve and InsooHans Benniks, Hilversum, The Netherlands: How Steve de Shazer has influenced my life as a therapistUrsula Buhlmann-Stahli, Bern, Switzerland: Encounters for lifeHelene Dellucci, Lyon, France: My encounter with Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim BergKirsten Dierolf, Frankfurt, Germany: Found in translationYvonne Dolan, Chicago, USA: Hope is in the details, good days and bad daysHeinrich Dreesen, Bremen, Germany: A talking shirt and three orangesWolfgang and Marianne Gaiswinkler Roessler, Vienna, Austria: Our learning journeyEvan George, London, UK: "Just a bunch of talk"Wallace J. Gingerich, Cleveland, USA: Observing what worksJoachim Hesse, Euskirchen, Germany: The miracle question as the beginning of a potentially wonderful healingDebbie Hogan, Singapore, Republic of Singapore: A lasting legacySvea van der Hoorn, Cape Town, South Africa: Tragedy excavating to compost-making: A journey that has progressed while reading Minimal Elegance by Steve de ShazerMichael F. Hoyt, San Rafael, California, USA: Remembering Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim BergLuc Isebaert, Bruges, Belgium: Steve in BrugesPeter De Jong, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA: My time with Steve and Insoo in MilwaukeePeter Kaimer, Bamberg, Germany: Markers in rough terrain: Three memories of Steve & InsooEsther Maria Keil, Berlin, Germany: KonsteveziusHarry Korman, Malmo, Sweden: Meeting Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim BergJan Kuipers, Groningen, The Netherlands: Respectful - Patient - Creative - Original - Unique: an encounter with Insoo Kim BergJacek Lelonkiewicz, Lodz, Poland: Miracles, earthquakes and lessonsEve Lipchik, Milwaukee, USA: MemoriesKurt Ludewig, Munster, Germany: The return to useful practice - or 'What I owe to Steve among other things'Alasdair J. Macdonald, Carlisle, UK: Meeting Steve and InsooMark McKergow, London, UK: Steve de Shazer: A different kind of cleverness (...and Paul Gonslaves)Gale Miller, Milwaukee, USA: A guy from Milwaukee: Memories of Steve de ShazerScott. D. Miller, Chicago, USA: Harumph and hard work: Five years with Steve de Shazer and Insoo Berg at BFTCThorana S. Nelson, Utah, USA: MemoriesPlamen Panayotov, Rousse, Bulgaria: Farewell to Insoo and SteveHarvey Ratner, London, UK: Insoo: A woman of many partsGudrun Sickinger, Bremen, Germany: The wonder of the miracle question - you may wonder...Therese Steiner, Embrach, Switzerland: Some memoriesPhilip Streit, Graz, Austria: So dry, so warm, so austere, so emotional - Steve de Shazer's exciting therapyVratislav Strnad, Prague, Czech Republic: Paradigmatic Suspense Summoned up by SFBT with Steve and InsooPeter Sundman, Helsinki, Finland: "Be creative!" - Steve's motto for how to develop solution-focused practicePeter Szabo, Basel, Switzerland: Time with Steve and InsooFrank N. Thomas, Ford Worth, Texas, USA: Recursive memories of Insoo and SteveTerry S. Trepper, Chicago, USA: "We have chairs here"Coert Visser, Utrecht, The Netherlands: "You don't know what a mountain is, do you?"Manfred Vogt, Bremen, Germany: A question of attitudeMichele Weiner-Davis, Boulder, USA: Thoughts of Steve and InsooJohn Wheeler, Newcastle, UK: Memories of Insoo and SteveFerdinand Wolf, Hornstein, Austria: Three episodes with Steve de Shazer: personal and professional Sabine Zehnder Schlapbach, Bern, Switzerland: After 10 years Steve and Insoo are still ever present!Yvonne Dolan, Chicago, USA: Recipes from MilwaukeeAcknowledgements Abbreviations
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Cambridge University Press Temporal Logics
Book SynopsisTemporal Logics are a rich variety of logical systems designed for formalising reasoning about time, and about events and changes in the world over time. This Element aims at providing both a panoramic view and closer looks at temporal logics.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. Temporal reasoning and logics: introduction and a brief historical overview; 2. The variety of models of time; 3. Prior's basic systems of temporal logic; 4. Temporal logics for linear time; 5. Reasoning about non-determinism: models and logics for branching time; 6. The Peircean branching time logic PBTL; 7. The Ockhamist branching time logic OBTL; 8. First-order temporal logics; 9. Variations, extensions, and applications of temporal logics; References.
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Cambridge University Press Logic for Everyone
Book SynopsisA rigorous, yet accessible and entertaining introduction to the field of logic, this book provides students with a unique insight into logic as a living field and how it connects to other fields of inquiry including philosophy, computer science, linguistics, and mathematics. With no background knowledge needed, students are introduced to a critical examination of ''classical logic'', and the technical issues and paradoxes that may be encountered. Each chapter includes key pedagogical features such as marginal notes, definitions, chapter summaries and practice exercises. Arguments are backed up by authentic examples of logic within natural languages and everyday life. The flexible chapter structure allows instructors to tailor their teaching for either a one-semester or two-semester course, according to their students'' needs and knowledge. Online resources include a companion website featuring further readings, class handouts, LaTeX resources, along with an Online Proof Evaluator allowing students to get real-time feedback.
£34.99
Cambridge University Press Relevance Logic
Book SynopsisThis Element aims to dispel misunderstandings on Relevance logics. It contains the first-ever textbook treatment of quantification in relevance logics, as well as an overview of the cutting edge on variable sharing results and a guide to further topics in the field.
£20.58
Cambridge University Press Natural Language Ontology and Semantic Theory
Book SynopsisThis Element gives an introduction to the emerging discipline of natural language ontology. Natural language ontology is an area at the interface of semantics, metaphysics, and philosophy of language that is concerned with which kinds of objects are assumed by our best semantic theories. The Element reviews different strategies for identifying a language''s ontological commitments. It observes that, while languages share a large number of their ontological commitments (such as to individuals, properties, events, and kinds), they differ in other commitments (for example, to degrees). The Element closes by relating different language and theory-specific ontologies, and by pointing out the merits and challenges of identifying inter-category relations within a single ontology.
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Cambridge University Press The Hedonism of Eudoxus of Cnidus
Book SynopsisThis Element puts together the arguments of Plato and Aristotle in favor of the positive value of pleasure and in the direction of hedonism. It sets store for the activities which Eudoxus has been most renowned: mathematics and astronomy.Table of Contents1. Eudoxus: who he?; 2. Two anonymous appearances in Plato; 3. Witness; 4. Addition; 5. Honour; 6. Opposites; 7. Cradle; 8. End; 9. How much did Aristotle accept from Eudoxus?; References.
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Cambridge University Press Translation in Analytic Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis Element aims to introduce the different definitions of translation provided in the history of analytic philosophy. It explores the philosophical-analytic notions used to explain translation from Frege and Wittgenstein onwards. It focuses on translation equivalence, translating into another language, and the analytic philosophy of language.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. From Frege to carnap: translation as paraphrase; 2. Wittgenstein: translation as calculus and translation as a language game; 3. Quine and the thesis of translation indeterminacy; 4. The notion of synonymy and Davidson's theory of radical interpretation; 5. The Principle of Charity and the third dogma of Empiricism; 6. Sellars and the problem of semantic vs. pragmatic equivalence; 7. Grice and the translation of implicit meaning; 8. Kripke's translation test; 9. The translation of explicit meaning in Literalism vs. Contextualism; Conclusion; References.
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Cambridge University Press The Philosophy of Linguistics
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Cambridge University Press Words and Worlds Volume 95
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Cambridge University Press Wittgenstein and Social Epistemology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Philosophy of Language
Book SynopsisThis book offers readers a collection of 50 short chapter entries on topics in the philosophy of language. Each entry addresses a paradox, a longstanding puzzle, or a major theme that has emerged in the field from the last 150 years, tracing overlap with issues in philosophy of mind, cognitive science, ethics, political philosophy, and literature. Each of the 50 entries is written as a piece that can stand on its own, though useful connections to other entries are mentioned throughout the text. Readers can open the book and start with almost any of the entries, following themes of greatest interest to them. Each entry includes recommendations for further reading on the topic. Philosophy of Language: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments is useful as a standalone textbook, or can be supplemented by additional readings that instructors choose. The accessible style makes it suitable for introductory level through intermediate undergraduate courses,Table of ContentsPart I: Big picture questions Part II: Early Analytic Philosophy and Pragmatism Part III: Wittgenstein on Rule-Following and Private Language Part IV: Semantic Paradoxes Part V: Context-Sensitivity Part VI: Speech Acts and Pragmatics Part VII: Lingering Issues About Meaning Part VIII: Naturalism and Externalism
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Translation and Mysticism
Book SynopsisThis book examines how mysticism can tell us about translation and translation can tell us about mysticism, addressing the ancient but ongoing connections between the art of rendering one text in another language and the art of the ineffable.The volume represents the first sustained act of attention to the interdisciplinary crossover of these two fields, taking a Wittgensteinian approach to language, and investigates how mystics and their translators manage to write about what cannot be written about. Three questions are addressed overall: how mysticism can be used to conceptualise translation; the issues that mysticism raises for translation theory and practice; and how mystical texts have been and might be translated. Walter Benjamin's The Translator's Task' is considered in detail as a controversial example of dialogue. Translation examples are given in a range of languages, and six major case studies are provided, including a close reading of Exodus and an analysis of a r
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Metaphysical Grounding
Some of philosophy's biggest questions, both historically and today, are in-virtue-of questions: In virtue of what is an action right or wrong? In virtue of what am I the same person my mother bore? In virtue of what is an artwork beautiful? Philosophers attempt to answer many of these types of in-virtue-of questions, but philosophers are also increasingly focusing on what an in-virtue-of question is in the first place. Many assume, at least as a working hypothesis, that in-virtue-of questions involve a distinctively metaphysical kind of determinative explanation called ground. This Handbook surveys the state of the art on ground as well as its connections and applications to other topics. The central issues of ground are discussed in 37 chapters, all written exclusively for this volume by a wide range of leading experts. The chapters are organized into the following sections:I. HistoryII. Explanation and DeterminationII
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Taylor & Francis Ltd My Philosophical Development
Book SynopsisMy Philosophical Development is Russell''s intellectual autobiography and provides a fascinating insight into the extraordinary energy and philosophical ambition that saw him write over 40 books. As well as offering some fascinating glimpses into the changing nature of his philosophical beliefs, Russell also reflects on the fundamental themes that governed his thinking in later life.Beginning with an account of his decisive turn against the philosophical idealism that was prevalent in Cambridge at the turn of the century, Russell takes us through his engagement with the foundations of mathematics and the writing, with A.N. Whitehead, of Principia Mathematica. Russell also provides important insights into his theory of knowledge and the mind and conscious experience, before finishing with reflections on his work on language, universals and particulars and his theory of truth. An ideal philosophical companion to Russell''s own AutobiograpTrade Review'A work of immense fascination and distinction' - The Observer'Bertrand Russell is not only the most brilliant philosopher of this century; he is also one of the most self-critical. These qualities come out clearly in his philosophical autobiography.' - A.J.AyerTable of ContentsForeword to the Routledge Classics Edition Nicholas Griffin Prefatory note 1. Introductory Outline 2. My Present View of the World 3. First Efforts 4. Excursion into Idealism 5. Revolt into Pluralism 6. Logical Technique in Mathematics 7. Principia Mathematica: Philosophical Aspects 8. Principia Mathematica: Mathematical Aspects 9. The External World 10. The Impact of Wittgenstein 11. Theory of Knowledge 12. Consciousness and Experience 13. Language 14. Universals and Particulars and Names 15. The Definition of 'Truth' 16. Non-Demonstrative Inference 17. The Retreat from Pythagoras 18. Some Replies to Criticism Russell's Philosophy: A Study of its Development Alan Wood. Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Microaggressions and Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to offer a philosophical engagement with microaggressions. It aims to provide an intersectional analysis of microaggressions that cuts across multiple dimensions of oppression and marginalization, and to engage a variety of perspectives that have been sidelined within the discipline of philosophy. The volume gathers a diverse group of contributors: philosophers of color, philosophers with disabilities, philosophers of various nationalities and ethnicities, and philosophers of several gender identities. Their unique frames of analysis articulate both how the concept of microaggressions can be used to clarify and sharpen our understanding of subtler aspects of oppression and how analysis, expansion, and reconceiving the notion of a microaggression can deepen and extend its explanatory power. The essays in the volume seek to defend microaggressions from common critiques and to explain their impact beyond the context of college students. Some of the guiding questiTrade Review"This book provides an important critique of some common conversations about micoaggressions, but it also shows us what more informed and more interesting conversations about them look like." – Stacey Goguen, Northeastern Illinois University, USA"Microaggressions and Philosophy is a bold volume whose contributions span the scope of the structural, the interpersonal, and the scientific. It is essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy that engages with oppression and social justice." – Nora Berenstain, University of Tennessee, USATable of Contents Introduction: Microaggressions and Philosophy Lauren Freeman Sticks and Stones Can Break Your Bones and Words Can Really Hurt You: A Standpoint Epistemological Reply to Critics of the Microaggression Research Program Lauren Freeman and Heather Stewart Microaggressions, Mechanisms, and Harm Cameron Evans and Ron Mallon Psychological Research on Racial Microaggressions: Community Science and Concept Explication Morgan Thompson Taking the Measure of Microaggression: How to Put Boundaries on a Nebulous Concept Regina Rini Escalating Linguistic Violence: From Microaggressions to Hate Speech Emma McClure Outing Foreigners: Accent and Linguistic Microaggressions Saray Ayala-López I Know What Happened to Me: The Epistemic Harms of Microaggression Saba Fatima A Defense of Intentional Microaggressions and Microaggressive Harassment: The Fundamental Attribution Error, Harassment, and Gaslighting of Transgender Athletes Christina Friedlaender & Rachel McKinnon Microaggressions as a Disciplinary Technique for Fat and Potentially Fat Bodies Alison Reiheld The Message in the Microaggression: Epistemic Oppression at the Intersection of Disability and Race Jeanine Weekes Schroer and Zara Bain Racial Methodological Microaggressions: When Good Intersectionality Goes Bad Tempest M. Henning
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Reasons for Logic Logic for Reasons
Book SynopsisReasons for Logic, Logic for Reasons presents a philosophical conception of logiclogical expressivismaccording to which the role of logic is to make explicit reason relations, which are often neither monotonic nor transitive. This conception of logic reveals new and enlightening perspectives on inferential roles, sequent calculi, representation, truthmakers, and many extant logical theories.The book shows how we can understand different metavocabularies as making explicit the same reason relations, namely normative-pragmatic, alethic-representational, logical, and implication-space metavocabularies. This includes a philosophical account of the pragmatic role of reason relations, treatments of nonmonotonic and nontransitive consequence relations in sequent calculi, a correspondence between these sequent calculi and variants of truthmaker theory, and the introduction of a novel kind of formal semantics that interprets sentences by assigning inferential roles to them. The
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Taylor & Francis Ltd What is this thing called Philosophy of Language
Book SynopsisPhilosophy of language explores some of the most abstract yet most fundamental questions in philosophy. The ideas of some of the subject's great founding figures, such as Gottlob Frege, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bertrand Russell, as well as of more recent figures such as Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam, are central to a great many philosophical debates to this day and are widely studied. In this clear and carefully structured introduction to the subject Gary Kemp explains the following key topics: the basic nature of philosophy of language, its concepts and its historical development Fregeâs theory of sense and reference; Russell's theory of definite descriptions Wittgenstein's Tractatus, Ayer, and the Logical Positivists recent perspectives including Kripke, Kaplan, Putnam, Chomsky, Quine and Davidson; arguments concerning translation, necessity, indexicals, rigid designation and natural kinds the pragmatics of language, including speech-acts, presupposition and conversational implicature puzzles surrounding the propositional attitudes (sentences which ascribe beliefs to people) the challenges presented by the later Wittgenstein contemporary directions, including contextualism, fictional objects and the phenomenon of slurs The third edition has been thoroughly revised throughout and includes a new chapter on Noam Chomsky's theory of Universal Grammar. In addition, the concluding chapter on modern directions in philosophy of language has been expanded to two chapters, and which now cover crucial emergent areas of study such as slurs, conceptual engineering and experimental philosophy.Chapter summaries, annotated further reading and a glossary make What is this thing called Philosophy of Language? an indispensable introduction to those teaching philosophy of language and will be particularly useful for students coming to the subject for the first time.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Counterspeech
Book SynopsisThis volume looks at the forms and functions of counterspeech as well as what determines its effectiveness and success from multidisciplinary perspectives. Counterspeech is in line with international human rights and freedom of speech, and it can be a much more powerful tool against dangerous and toxic speech than blocking and censorship.In the face of online hate speech and disinformation, counterspeech is a tremendously important and timely topic. The book uniquely brings together expertise from a variety of disciplines. It explores linguistic, ethical and legal aspects of counterspeech, looks at the functions and effectiveness of counterspeech from anthropological, practical and sociological perspectives and addresses the question of how we can use modern technological advances to make counterspeech a more instantaneous and efficient option to respond to harmful language online. The greatest benefit of counterspeech lies in the ability to reach bystanders and prevent them Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: Approaches to Counterspeech: Linguistics, Philosophy and Interdisciplinarity; 1. Counterspeech Practices in Digital Discourse - An Interactional Approach; 2. The Philosophy of Counter Language; 3. Seeing the Full Picture: The Value of Interdisciplinary Counterspeech Research; Part II: Counterspeech in Context: Media, Culture and the Legal Framework; 4. Counterspeech as Persuasion and Media Effects; 5. Online Hate speech in Video Games Communities: A Counter Project; 6. Reimagining the Current Regulatory Framework to Online Hate Speech: Why Making Way for Alternative Methods is Paramount for Free Speech; Part III: Automation and the Future of Counterspeech; 7. Automating Counterspeech; 8. The Future of Counterspeech: Effective Framing, Targeting, and Evaluation; Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Exophilosophy
Book SynopsisThis volume addresses philosophical questions raised by the possibility of alien life and extraterrestrial intelligence. The different philosophical perspectives and approaches presented across the chapters will provide a foundation for future work on exophilosophy.Interest in space, space exploration, and alien life has never been greater. In popular culture, for example, it has proven a persistent theme in science fiction films (e.g., Star Trek, Star Wars), books (e.g., H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury), and computer games (e.g., Sid Meierâs Alpha Centauri), as well as bestselling ânon- fictionâ books (von DÃnikenâs multimillion-selling Chariots of the Gods?), and hit âdocumentaryâ shows (e.g., Ancient Aliens). There has also been persistent interest in these topics amongst scientists with organizations such as NASA and SETI having an enormous impact on both the scientific and popular imagination. Yet, curiously, the topic has r
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Taylor & Francis Individuals
Book SynopsisSir Peter Strawson (1919â2006) was one of the leading British philosophers of his generation and an influential figure in a golden age for British philosophy between 1950 and 1970.Individuals, his most important book, is a modern philosophical classic. Bold in scope and ambition, it presents Strawsonâs now famous argument for descriptive metaphysics and his repudiation of revisionary metaphysics. Rather than setting out to replace our overall view of the world, in the manner of the great 'revisionary' philosophers of the past, Strawson sets himself the seemingly (but not actually) more modest task of simply describing it. The aim is nothing less than to lay bare the most basic structure of our thoughtâthe most general features of the way in which we think about particular things. A landmark book in the philosophical world and above all analytical philosophy, it remains of vital importance today.This Routledge Classics edition includes a substantial new Foreword by Michelle Montague, setting out some of Strawson's key themes and arguments. Also included is Strawson's essay 'Individuals'. Published thirty-five years after the book itself and until now not widely available, it sees Strawson summarizing and reflecting on some of the key arguments presented in his book of the same name.
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Taylor & Francis Logic and Knowledge
Book SynopsisBertrand Russell's writings on logic, metaphysics, philosophy of language and epistemology are among the most influential of the twentieth century. Logic and Knowledge presents Russell's very best and most important work on these topics in a single volume, which by placing philosophical logic at its core was of monumental importance in shaping the path of analytical philosophy. It includes classics such as 'On Denoting', one of the founding pieces of philosophy of the twentieth century as well as chapters on logical atomism, a term coined by Russell himself to describe his view that the world consists in a plurality of independent entities, which by coming together form facts.Along with other essays on fundamental philosophical problems including the logic of relations, universals and particulars, and propositions, Logic and Knowledge shows why Russell remains one of the most important philosophers of the last century.This Routledge Classics editio
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