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  • Wittgenstein and Justice: On the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein for Social and Political Thought by Hanna Fenichel Pitkin

    Wittgenstein and Justice: On the Significance of Ludwig Wittgenstein for Social and Political Thought by Hanna Fenichel Pitkin

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    Hanna Pitkin argues that Wittgenstein's later philosophy offers a revolutionary new conception of language, and hence a new and deeper understanding of ourselves and the world of human institutions and action.About the AuthorHanna Fenichel Pitkin is...
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  • Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment by Robert B. Brandom 9780674543300

    Making It Explicit: Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment by Robert B. Brandom 9780674543300

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    What would something unlike us--a chimpanzee, say, or a computer--have to be able to do to qualify as a possible knower, like us? To answer this question at the very heart of our sense of ourselves, philosophers have long focused on intentionality and...
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  • Documentality: Why It Is Necessary to Leave Traces by Maurizio Ferraris

    Documentality: Why It Is Necessary to Leave Traces by Maurizio Ferraris

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    This books ushers in a new way of talking about social phenomena. It develops an ontology of social objects on the basis of the claim that registration or inscription-the leaving of a trace to be called up later-is what is most fundamental to them. In...
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  • No Professor's Lectures Can Save Us: William James's Pragmatism, Radical Empiricism, and Pluralism by John J. Stuhr 9780197664629

    No Professor's Lectures Can Save Us: William James's Pragmatism, Radical Empiricism, and Pluralism by John J. Stuhr 9780197664629

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    In No Professor's Lectures Can Save Us, John J. Stuhr utilizes the thought of American philosopher and psychologist William James to develop an original world view that addresses both enduring philosophical problems and contemporary cultural issues. ...
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  • Oooooh ... Say it Again: Mastering the Fine Art of Verbal Seduction and Aural Sex by Alan Roger Currie 9781614348856

    Oooooh ... Say it Again: Mastering the Fine Art of Verbal Seduction and Aural Sex by Alan Roger Currie 9781614348856

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614348856Author Alan Roger CurrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Booklocker Inc.,USPublisher Booklocker Inc.,USWeight(grams) 285gDimensions(mm)...
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  • Hyphen by Dr. Pardis Mahdavi

    Hyphen by Dr. Pardis Mahdavi

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    Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. To hyphenate or not to hyphenate has been a central point of controversy since before the imprinting of the first Gutenberg Bible. And yet, the...
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  • The Linguistic Turn: Essays in Philosophical Method by Richard Rorty 9780226725697

    The Linguistic Turn: Essays in Philosophical Method by Richard Rorty 9780226725697

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    The Linguistic Turn provides a rich and representative introduction to the entire historical and doctrinal range of the linguistic philosophy movement. In two retrospective essays titled "Ten Years After" and "Twenty-Five Years After," Rorty shows how...
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  • Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries & Meanings of Language by Daniel Tammet

    Every Word is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries & Meanings of Language by Daniel Tammet

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    'Full of charm and fascination' The Bookseller'Would dazzle any storyteller in love with words and their deepest meanings' Amy Tan, author of Joy Luck Club'A generous book and a beguiling read' Rebecca Gowers* * * * * *From the bestselling author of Born...
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  • Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals by Neil Smith

    Chomsky: Ideas and Ideals by Neil Smith

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    Noam Chomsky continues to be one of the most influential intellectual figures of modern times. His wide-ranging contributions to the fields of linguistics, psychology, philosophy and politics have revolutionised our view of language, the mind and human...
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  • What Kind of Creatures Are We? by Noam Chomsky

    What Kind of Creatures Are We? by Noam Chomsky

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    Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field of cognitive science, and perhaps the most avidly read political theorist and commentator of our time. In these lectures, he...
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  • Cratylus by Plato

    Cratylus by Plato

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    On names, forms, beauty, and lies.Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BC. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is...
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein: Dictating Philosophy: To Francis Skinner - The Wittgenstein-Skinner Papers by Arthur Gibson 9783030360863

    Ludwig Wittgenstein: Dictating Philosophy: To Francis Skinner - The Wittgenstein-Skinner Papers by Arthur Gibson 9783030360863

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    In this volume we witness Wittgenstein in the act of composing and experimenting with his new visions in philosophy. The book includes key explanations of the origin and background of these previously unknown manuscripts. It investigates how...
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  • Constructing the World by David J. Chalmers 9780199608584

    Constructing the World by David J. Chalmers 9780199608584

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    David J. Chalmers constructs a highly ambitious and original picture of the world, from a few basic elements. He develops and extends Rudolf Carnap's attempt to do the same in Der Logische Aufbau Der Welt (1928). Carnap gave a blueprint for describing...
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  • Logos and Life: Essays on Mind, Action, Language and Ethics by Roger Teichmann 9781839980930

    Logos and Life: Essays on Mind, Action, Language and Ethics by Roger Teichmann 9781839980930

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    The essays in Logos and Life, mainly dating from 2014 and later, cover topics in philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, ethics and philosophy of language. There are numerous strands connecting these four areas, which Roger Teichmann highlights: in...
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  • Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought by Noam Chomsky

    Cartesian Linguistics: A Chapter in the History of Rationalist Thought by Noam Chomsky

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    In this extraordinarily original and profound work, Noam Chomsky discusses themes in the study of language and mind since the end of the sixteenth century in order to explain the motivations and methods that underlie his work in linguistics, the science...
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  • Now You're Talking: Human Conversation from the Neanderthals to Artificial Intelligence by Trevor Cox

    Now You're Talking: Human Conversation from the Neanderthals to Artificial Intelligence by Trevor Cox

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    'A lively, intelligent and persuasive history of speech...Expertly and patiently explained' The TimesWhy are human beings the only animals that can speak? And why does it matter?If you've ever felt the shock of listening to a recording of your own voice,...
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  • The Language Hoax by John H. McWhorter

    The Language Hoax by John H. McWhorter

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    Japanese has a term that covers both green and blue. Russian has separate terms for dark and light blue. Does this mean that Russians perceive these colors differently from Japanese people? Does language control and limit the way we think? This...
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  • Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Guide by Terry Pinkard 9780197663134

    Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: A Guide by Terry Pinkard 9780197663134

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    Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit has a long-standing reputation as one of the key books in the history of Western philosophy, but many are unsure just what it is about. Even the words in the title are disputed: What sense of "phenomenology" is being used?...
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  • Propositions: Ontology and Logic by Robert Stalnaker 9780197647035

    Propositions: Ontology and Logic by Robert Stalnaker 9780197647035

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    In the third volume in the Rutgers Lectures in Philosophy series, distinguished philosopher Robert Stalnaker here offers a defense of an ontology of propositions, and of some logical resources for representing them. He offers an austere formulation of a...
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  • Consequences of Language: From Primary to Enhanced Intersubjectivity by N. J. Enfield

    Consequences of Language: From Primary to Enhanced Intersubjectivity by N. J. Enfield

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262544863Author N. J. EnfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd
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  • Word and World: Practice and the Foundations of Language by Patricia Hanna

    Word and World: Practice and the Foundations of Language by Patricia Hanna

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    This important book proposes a new account of the nature of language, founded upon an original interpretation of Wittgenstein. The authors deny the existence of a direct referential relationship between words and things. Rather, the link between language...
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  • Imaginary Languages: Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions by Marina Yaguello

    Imaginary Languages: Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions by Marina Yaguello

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046398Author Marina YaguelloFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd
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  • Debating the A Priori by Paul Boghossian 9780198851707

    Debating the A Priori by Paul Boghossian 9780198851707

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    What kind of knowledge could be obtainable just by thinking? Debating the A Priori presents a series of exchanges between two leading philosophers on how to answer this question. In this extended debate, Boghossian and Williamson contribute alternating...
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  • Language, Cognition, and Human Nature by Steven Pinker 9780190259280

    Language, Cognition, and Human Nature by Steven Pinker 9780190259280

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    Language, Cognition, and Human Nature collects together for the first time much of Steven Pinker's most influential scholarly work on language and cognition. Pinker's seminal research explores the workings of language and its connections to cognition,...
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  • Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Third Edition by George Lakoff

    Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Third Edition by George Lakoff

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    When Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff's classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals and...
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  • Metaphysical Exile: On J.M. Coetzee's Jesus Fictions by Robert Pippin 9780197565940

    Metaphysical Exile: On J.M. Coetzee's Jesus Fictions by Robert Pippin 9780197565940

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    Nobel Prize-winning novelist J.M. Coetzee's "Jesus" fictions constitute a trilogy of novels that have appeared over the last decade. They stand out from his earlier work in their difficulty, and in the central role they accord philosophy--in part through...
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  • A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion by Fay Bound Alberti

    A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion by Fay Bound Alberti

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    Despite 21st-century fears of an 'epidemic' of loneliness, its history has been sorely neglected. A Biography of Loneliness offers a radically new interpretation of loneliness as an emotional language and experience. Using letters and diaries,...
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  • The Good Citizen's Alphabet by Bertrand Russell

    The Good Citizen's Alphabet by Bertrand Russell

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    `E: Erroneous: Capable of being proved true'; `J: Jolly: The downfall of our enemies'; `M: Mystery: What I understand and you don't' . . . Enter the delightful, satirical world of the Good Citizen, according to one of the best-known writers and...
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  • Force, Content and the Unity of the Proposition by Gabriele M. Mras 9780367613136

    Force, Content and the Unity of the Proposition by Gabriele M. Mras 9780367613136

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    This volume advances discussion between critics and defenders of the force-content distinction and opens up new ways of thinking about force and speech acts in relation to the unity problem.The force-content dichotomy has shaped the philosophy of...
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  • Bad Language by Herman Cappelen 9780198839651

    Bad Language by Herman Cappelen 9780198839651

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    When theorizing about language, we tend to assume that speakers are cooperative, honest, helpful, and so on. This, of course, isn't remotely true of a lot of real-world language use. Bad Language is the first textbook to explore non-idealized language...
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  • Philosophy of Language: The Classics Explained by Colin McGinn

    Philosophy of Language: The Classics Explained by Colin McGinn

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262529822Author Colin McGinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 17mm
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  • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: Centenary Edition by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9781785276569

    Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: Centenary Edition by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9781785276569

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785276569Author Ludwig WittgensteinFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g
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  • Suppose and Tell: The Semantics and Heuristics of Conditionals by Timothy Williamson 9780198860662

    Suppose and Tell: The Semantics and Heuristics of Conditionals by Timothy Williamson 9780198860662

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    What does 'if' mean? It is one of the most commonly used words in the English language, in itself a sign to the importance of conditional thinking to human cognitive life. We make conditional statements, ask conditional questions, and issue...
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  • Contra Instrumentalism: A Translation Polemic by Lawrence Venuti

    Contra Instrumentalism: A Translation Polemic by Lawrence Venuti

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    Contra Instrumentalism questions the long-accepted notion that translation reproduces or transfers an invariant contained in or caused by the source text. This "instrumental" model of translation has dominated translation theory and commentary for more...
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  • The Psychoanalysis Of Fire by Gaston Bachelard

    The Psychoanalysis Of Fire by Gaston Bachelard

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807064610Author Gaston BachelardFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 215mm * 139mm *...
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  • Modes of Representation: Content, Communication, and Frege by Richard Kimberly Heck 9780198861591

    Modes of Representation: Content, Communication, and Frege by Richard Kimberly Heck 9780198861591

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    Lois Lane knows that Superman can fly, but she does not know that Clark Kent can fly. How can that be, given that Superman and Clark are one and the same? To answer this question, Frege famously distinguished the reference of a name (the thing it is a...
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  • The Exchange of Words: Speech, Testimony, and Intersubjectivity by Richard Moran 9780190873325

    The Exchange of Words: Speech, Testimony, and Intersubjectivity by Richard Moran 9780190873325

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    The capacity to speak is not only the ability to pronounce words, but the socially-recognized capacity to make one's words count in various ways. We rely on this capacity whenever we tell another person something and expect to be believed, and what we...
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  • Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment: Philosophical Perspectives by Robert Guay 9780190464011

    Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment: Philosophical Perspectives by Robert Guay 9780190464011

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    The gruesome double-murder upon which the novel Crime and Punishment hinges leads its culprit, Raskolnikov, into emotional trauma and obsessive, destructive self-reflection. But Raskolnikov's famous philosophical musings are just part of the full...
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  • On Taking Offence by Emily McTernan 9780197613092

    On Taking Offence by Emily McTernan 9780197613092

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    Someone fails to shake your outstretched hand, puts you down in front of others, or makes a joke in poor taste. Should we take offence? Wouldn't it be better if we didn't? In the face of popular criticism of people taking offence too easily, and the...
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  • Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji: Philosophical Perspectives by James McMullen 9780190654979

    Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji: Philosophical Perspectives by James McMullen 9780190654979

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    Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji is variously read as a work of feminist protest, the world's first psychological novel and even as a post-modern masterpiece. Commonly seen as Japan's greatest literary work, its literary, cultural, and historical...
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