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  • Philosophy of Mind

    50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments

    by Torin Alter, Amy Kind, Robert J. Howell ...
    Series series Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought Experiments in Philosophy
    Imaginative cases, or what might be called puzzles and other thought experiments, play a central role in philosophy of mind. The real world also furnishes philosophers with an ample supply of such puzzles.This volume collects 50 of the most important historical and contemporary cases in philosophy of mind and describes their significance. The authors divide them into five sections: consciousness ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Self-Awareness and The Elusive Subject

    by Robert J. Howell ...
    Self-Awareness and The Elusive Subject explores the puzzling fact that we are certain of the existence of a subject of experience despite its being objectively and subjectively elusive. It is objectively elusive in that, like phenomenal states, it cannot be found from the third-person perspective. It is subjectively elusive because it also cannot be found in introspection. On the one hand, then, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • The Great Philosophers: Wittgenstein

    by Peter Hacker ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    This highly accessible account offers an illuminating introduction to Wittgenstein's philosophy of mind and to his conception of philosophy. Combining passages from Wittgenstein's writings with detailed interpretation and commentary, Hacker leads us into a world of philosophical investigation in which 'to smell a rat is ever so much easier than to trap it.'Wittgenstein claimed that the role of ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • 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

    $20.19 USD

  • Figurative Language

    by Eve Sweetser, Barbara Dancygier ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    This lively introduction to figurative language explains a broad range of concepts, including metaphor, metonymy, simile, and blending, and develops new tools for analyzing them. It coherently grounds the linguistic understanding of these concepts in basic cognitive mechanisms such as categorization, frames, mental spaces, and viewpoint; and it fits them into a consistent framework which is ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Seeing Things as They Are

    A Theory of Perception

    by John R. Searle ...
    This book provides a comprehensive account of the intentionality of perceptual experience. With special emphasis on vision Searle explains how the raw phenomenology of perception sets the content and the conditions of satisfaction of experience. The central question concerns the relation between the subjective conscious perceptual field and the objective perceptual field. Everything in the ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Creative Readings: Essays on Seminal Analytic Works

    by Thomas H Ogden ...
    Series series The New Library of Psychoanalysis
    Thomas H. Ogden is the winner of the 2004 International Journal of Psychoanalysis Award for the Most Important Paper of the year and the 2010 Haskell Norman Prize – an international award for "outstanding achievement as a psychoanalytic clinician, teacher and theoretician".Thomas Ogden is internationally recognized as one of the most creative analytic thinkers writing today. In this book he brings ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Significance in Language

    A Theory of Semantics

    by Jim Feist ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Linguistics
    This book offers a unique perspective on meaning in language, broadening the scope of existing understanding of meaning by introducing a comprehensive and cohesive account of meaning that draws on a wide range of linguistic approaches.The volume seeks to build up a complete picture of what meaning is, different types of meaning, and different ways of structuring the same meaning across myriad ... Read more

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  • Saussure For Beginners

    by W. Terrence Gordon ...
    Series series For Beginners
    A concise, accessible introduction to the great linguist who shaped the study of language for the 20th century, Saussure for Beginners puts the challenging ideas of Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) into clear and illuminating terms, focusing on the unifying principles of his teachings and showing how his thoughts on linguistics migrated to anthropology.Ferdinand de Saussure’s work is so powerful ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Philosophy of Mathematics: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Otavio Bueno ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Pre-reflective Consciousness

    Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind

    Edited by Sofia Miguens, Gerhard Preyer, Clara Morando ...
    Pre-reflective Consciousness: Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind delves into the relationship between the current analytical debates on consciousness and the debates that took place within continental philosophy in the twentieth century and in particular around the time of Sartre and within his seminal works.Examining the return of the problem of subjectivity in philosophy of mind and the ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

    Edited by Dirk Geeraerts, Hubert Cuyckens ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics presents a comprehensive overview of the main theoretical concepts and descriptive/theoretical models of Cognitive Linguistics, and covers its various subfields, theoretical as well as applied. The first twenty chapters give readers the opportunity to acquire a thorough knowledge of the fundamental analytic concepts and descriptive models of Cognitive ... Read more

    $64.79 USD