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  • Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language Volume 2

    Edited by Ernest Lepore, David Sosa ...
    Series Book 2 - Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language
    Philosophy of language has been at the center of philosophical research at least since the start of the 20th century. Since that 'linguistic turn' much of the most important work in philosophy has related to language. But until now there has been no regular forum for outstanding original work in this area. That is what Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language offers. Anyone wanting to know what's ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Qualia and Mental Causation in a Physical World

    Themes from the Philosophy of Jaegwon Kim

    Edited by Terence Horgan, Marcelo Sabates, David Sosa ...
    How does mind fit into nature? Philosophy has long been concerned with this question. No contemporary philosopher has done more to clarify it than Jaegwon Kim, a distinguished analytic philosopher specializing in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. With new contributions from an outstanding line-up of eminent scholars, this volume focuses on issues raised in Kim's work. The chapters cluster around ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Bad Words

    Philosophical Perspectives on Slurs

    Edited by David Sosa ...
    Series series Engaging Philosophy
    What makes a word bad? Bad Words is a philosophical examination of slurs and other derogatory and problematic language, by some of the leading contributors to the field. Slurs are an interesting case for the philosophy of language. On the one hand, they seem to be meaningful in something like the way many other expressions are meaningful - different slurs might seem in some way to refer to ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language Volume 3

    Edited by Ernest Lepore, David Sosa ...
    Series Book 3 - Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language
    Philosophy of language has been at the center of philosophical research at least since the start of the 20th century. Since that 'linguistic turn' much of the most important work in philosophy has related to language. But until now there has been no regular forum for outstanding original work in this area. That is what Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language offers. Anyone wanting to know what's ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • Philosophy of Language

    by Scott Soames ...
    Series series Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy
    In this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field--its principal achievements, its most pressing current questions, and its most promising future directions. In addition to explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical framework for the study of language, Scott Soames investigates foundational concepts--such ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Pragmatics

    by Stephen C. Levinson ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Those aspects of language use that are crucial to an understanding of language as a system, and especially to an understanding of meaning, are the acknowledged concern of linguistic pragmatics. This textbook provides a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure. A central concern of the book is ... Read more

    $78.79 USD

  • LOT 2 : The Language of Thought Revisited

    The Language of Thought Revisited

    by Jerry A. Fodor ...
    Jerry Fodor presents a new development of his famous Language of Thought hypothesis which has since the 1970s been at the centre of interdisciplinary debate about how the mind works. Fodor defends and extends the groundbreaking idea that thinking is couched in a symbolic system realized in the brain. This idea is central to the representational theory of mind which Fodor has established as a key ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Knowledge, Thought, and the Case for Dualism

    by Richard Fumerton ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
    The relationship between mind and matter, mental states and physical states, has occupied the attention of philosophers for thousands of years. Richard Fumerton's primary concern is the knowledge argument for dualism - an argument that proceeds from the idea that we can know truths about our existence and our mental states without knowing any truths about the physical world. This view has come ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • A Companion to the Philosophy of Language

    Edited by Bob Hale, Crispin Wright, Alexander Miller ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
    “Providing up-to-date, in-depth coverage of the central question, and written and edited by some of the foremost practitioners in the field, this timely new edition will no doubt be a go-to reference for anyone with a serious interest in the philosophy of language.”Kathrin Glüer-Pagin, Stockholm UniversityNow published in two volumes, the second edition of the best-selling Companion to the ... Read more

    $329.00 USD

  • Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language

    Edited by Gillian Russell, Delia Graff Fara ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy Companions
    Philosophy of language is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature of meaning, the relationship of language to reality, and the ways in which we use, learn, and understand language.The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language provides a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the field, charting its key ideas and movements, and addressing contemporary research and enduring questions ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • The Phenomenal Basis of Intentionality

    by Angela Mendelovici ...
    Series series Philosophy of Mind Series
    Intentionality is the mind's ability to be "of," "about," or "directed" at things, or to "say" something. For example, a thought might "say" that grass is green or that Santa Claus is jolly, and a visual experience might be "of" a blue cup. While the existence of the phenomenon of intentionality is manifestly obvious, how exactly the mind gets to be "directed" at things, which may not even exist, ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

  • New Waves in Truth

    Edited by C. Wright, N. Pedersen ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    What is truth? Philosophers are interested in a range of issues involving the concept of truth beginning with what sorts of things can be true. This is a collection of eighteen new and original research papers on truth and other alethic phenomena by twenty of the most promising young scholars working on truth today. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD