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  • Mental Fictionalism

    Philosophical Explorations

    Edited by Tamás Demeter, T. Parent, Adam Toon ...
    What are mental states? When we talk about people’s beliefs or desires, are we talking about what is happening inside their heads? If so, might cognitive science show that we are wrong? Might it turn out that mental states do not exist? Mental fictionalism offers a new approach to these longstanding questions about the mind. Its core idea is that mental states are useful fictions. When we talk ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Self-Reflection for the Opaque Mind

    An Essay in Neo-Sellarsian Philosophy

    by T. Parent ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    This volume attempts to solve a grave problem about critical self-reflection. The worry is that we critical thinkers are all in "epistemic bad faith" in light of what psychology tells us. After all, the research shows not merely that we are bad at detecting "ego-threatening" thoughts à la Freud. It also indicates that we are ignorant of even our ordinary thoughts—e.g., reasons for our moral ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • 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

  • Language and Linguistics

    by John Lyons ...
    This 1981 book is a general introduction to linguistics and the study of language, intended particularly for beginning students and readers with no previous knowledge or training in the subject. There is first a general account of the nature of language and of the aims, methods and basic principles of linguistic theory. John Lyons then introduces in turn each of the main sub-fields of linguistics: ... Read more

    $65.59 USD

  • Vocabulary

    Applied Linguistic Perspectives

    by Ronald Carter ...
    Series series Routledge Linguistics Classics
    How do we teach and learn vocabulary? How do words work in literary texts? In this book, Ronald Carter provides the necessary basis for the further study of modern English vocabulary with particular reference to linguistic descriptive frameworks and educational contexts. Vocabulary: Applied Linguistic Perspectives includes an introductory account of linguistic approaches to the analysis of the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Waning of Materialism

    Edited by Robert C. Koons, George Bealer ...
    Twenty-three philosophers examine the doctrine of materialism find it wanting. The case against materialism comprises arguments from conscious experience, from the unity and identity of the person, from intentionality, mental causation, and knowledge. The contributors include leaders in the fields of philosophy of mind, metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology, who respond ably to the most recent ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Foundations in Sociolinguistics

    An ethnographic approach

    Edited by Dell Hymes ...
    Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Thought and Language

    by J. M. Moravcsik ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Language
    Originally published in 1990, this book centres on a certain way of surveying a variety of theories of language, and on outlining a new proposal of meaning within the framework set by the survey. One of the key features of both survey and proposal is the insistence on the need to locate theories of language within a large framework that includes questions about the nature of thought and about ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Formal Languages in Logic

    A Philosophical and Cognitive Analysis

    by Catarina Dutilh Novaes ...
    Formal languages are widely regarded as being above all mathematical objects and as producing a greater level of precision and technical complexity in logical investigations because of this. Yet defining formal languages exclusively in this way offers only a partial and limited explanation of the impact which their use (and the uses of formalisms more generally elsewhere) actually has. In this ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology

    Edited by Paul K. Moser ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Epistemology contains 19 previously unpublished chapters by today's leading figures in the field. These chapters function not only as a survey of key areas, but as original scholarship on a range of vital topics. Written accessibly for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and professional philosophers, the Handbook explains the main ideas and problems of contemporary ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Philosophy of Linguistics

    by Dov M. Gabbay, Paul Thagard, John Woods, Ruth Kempson, Tim Fernando, Nicholas Asher ...
    Series series Handbook of the Philosophy of Science
    Philosophy of Linguistics investigates the foundational concepts and methods of linguistics, the scientific study of human language. This groundbreaking collection, the most thorough treatment of the philosophy of linguistics ever published, brings together philosophers, scientists and historians to map out both the foundational assumptions set during the second half of the last century and the ... Read more

    $211.49 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Epistemology

    Edited by Sven Bernecker, Duncan Pritchard ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy Companions
    Epistemology, the philosophy of knowledge, is at the core of many of the central debates and issues in philosophy, interrogating the notions of truth, objectivity, trust, belief and perception. The Routledge Companion to Epistemology provides a comprehensive and the up-to-date survey of epistemology, charting its history, providing a thorough account of its key thinkers and movements, and ... Read more

    $110.99 USD