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Cratylus by Plato 9780872204164
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.63"It is. . . remarkable that Reeve's is the first new English translation since Fowler's Loeb edition of 1926. Fortunately, Reeve has done an excellent job. His version is not slavishly literal but is... -
The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy by Professor of Philosophy Bret W Davis 9780197650585
Booksplease Price: £41.15Japanese philosophy is now a flourishing field with thriving societies, journals, and conferences dedicated to it around the world, made possible by an ever-increasing library of translations, books,... -
The A-Z of Positive Thinking: A new vocabulary to change your life by Neil James Tuson
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.46It's fun: try playing with positive words when writing to friends and colleagues; enhance your CV with words which jump off the page and inspire confidence; above stimulate good energy in your life... -
Words And Rules Prof Steven Pinker 9780753810255
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88One of the world's science superstars presents a brilliantly illuminating, entertaining and cutting-edge account of how language actually works.How does language work? How do children learn their... -
Do Numbers Exist?: A Debate about Abstract Objects by Peter van Inwagen 9780367442767
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £28.64In Do Numbers Exist? Peter van Inwagen and William Lane Craig take opposite sides on whether there are abstract objects, such as numbers and properties. Craig argues that there are no abstract... -
200 Words to Help You Talk About Philosophy Anja Steinbauer 9781786276940
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.40Have you have ever felt at a disadvantage when joining in a conversation on a subject that you aren't confident about? If yes, this new book series is for you. Each book features definitions of two... -
Wittgenstein's Antiphilosophy by Alain Badiou
Booksplease Price: £16.67Alain Badiou takes on the standard bearer of the "linguistic turn" in modern philosophy and anatomizes the "antiphilosophy" of Ludwig Wittgenstein. In the course of his interrogation of... -
Rhetoric and the Arts of Design David S. Kaufer 9780805821468
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49The design arts -- from the design of buildings and machines to software and interfaces -- are associated with types of knowledge and performance thought to be structured, modular, and systematic... -
Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies After Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell by Toril Moi
Booksplease Price: £29.49This radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and extended by Stanley Cavell to transform literary... -
The Great Riddle: Wittgenstein and Nonsense, Theology and Philosophy by Stephen Mulhall 9780198801627
Booksplease Price: £31.52Can we talk meaningfully about God? The theological movement known as Grammatical Thomism affirms that religious language is nonsensical, because the reality of God is beyond our capacity for... -
Wittgenstein's Whewell's Court Lectures: Cambridge, 1938 - 1941, From the Notes by Yorick Smythies by Volker Munz
RRP: £85.95Booksplease Price: £76.32Wittgenstein's Whewell's Court Lectures contains previously unpublished notes from lectures given by Ludwig Wittgenstein between 1938 and 1941. The volume offers new insight into the development of... -
More Than Cool Reason: Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor by George Lakoff
Booksplease Price: £26.68"The authors restore metaphor to our lives by showing us that it's never gone away. We've merely been taught to talk as if it had: as though weather maps were more 'real' than the breath of autumn;... -
Animal Languages: The secret conversations of the living world by Eva Meijer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A rich compendium of incidents, anecdotes and studies illustrating the linguistic abilities of animals . . . a rewarding book' Sunday TimesDolphins and parrots call each other by their names. Fork... -
The Truth About Language: What it is and Where it Came from by Michael C. Corballis
Booksplease Price: £26.00Evolutionary science has long viewed language as, basically, a fortunate accident a crossing of wires that happened to be extraordinarily useful, setting humans apart from other animals and onto a... -
Jam Tomorrow?: Why time really matters in economics by Charles Crowson 9781915635624
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.04Over 100 years ago, Einstein changed the way we understood time from being a fixed measurement to a relative one which, rather than being 'correct' as it had been before, was now 'proper' to the body... -
Shifting Concepts: The Philosophy and Psychology of Conceptual Variability by Teresa Marques 9780198803331
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £75.14Concepts stand at the centre of human cognition. We use concepts in categorizing objects and events in the world, in reasoning and action, and in social interaction. It is therefore not surprising... -
Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language by Daniel Heller-Roazen
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2005. 2005.Book InformationISBN 9781890951504Author Daniel Heller-R -
Truth in Virtue of Meaning: A Defence of the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction by Gillian Russell 9780199232192
Booksplease Price: £127.43The analytic/synthetic distinction looks simple. It is a distinction between two different kinds of sentence. Synthetic sentences are true in part because of the way the world is, and in part because... -
Imaginary Languages: Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions by Marina Yaguello 9780262547154
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £18.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547154Author Marina YaguelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
Beyond the Limits of Thought: New edition by Graham Priest 9780199244218
Booksplease Price: £55.68Graham Priest presents a new, expanded edition of his highly original exploration of the nature and limits of thought. Drawing on recent developments in the field of logic, Priest shows that the... -
Anxiety and Wonder: On Being Human by Dr Maria Balaska 9781350302938
Booksplease Price: £24.60At times, we find ourselves unexpectedly immersed in a mood that lacks any clear object or identifiable cause. These uncanny moments tend to be hastily dismissed as inconsequential, left without... -
Seduced by Story by Peter Brooks
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £11.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376639Author Peter BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint < -
Discourse and Language Education by Evelyn Hatch 9780521426053
RRP: £42.78Booksplease Price: £40.82Discourse and Language Education offers a practical, accessible discussion of discourse analysis. Discourse analysis describes how such communication is structured, so that it is socially... -
Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment: Philosophical Perspectives by Robert Guay 9780190464028
RRP: £27.49Booksplease Price: £26.26The 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... -
The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings (1867-1893) by Charles S. Peirce
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66" . . . a first-rate edition, which supersedes all other portable Peirces. . . . all the Peirce most people will ever need." -Louis Menand, The New York Review of Books"The Monist essays are included... -
Propositions by Trenton Merricks 9780198732563
Booksplease Price: £81.83Propositions has two main goals. The first is to show that there are propositions. The second is to defend an account of their nature. While pursuing these goals, Trenton Merricks draws a variety of... -
Pidginization as Curatorial Method: Messing with Languages and Praxes of Curating by Bonaventure Soh Beje Ndikung 9781915609083
Booksplease Price: £11.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915609083Author Bonaventure Soh Beje NdikungFormat PaperbackPage Count 6 -
Only Imagine: Fiction, Interpretation and Imagination by Kathleen Stock 9780198849766
Booksplease Price: £28.50Only Imagine offers a theory of fictional content or, as it is sometimes known, 'fictional truth'. The theory of fictional content Kathleen Stock argues for is known as 'extreme intentionalism';... -
Major Works: Selected Philosophical Writings by Ludwig Wittgenstein
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061550249Author Ludwig WittgensteinImprint -
Poetic Diction by Owen Barfield
Booksplease Price: £22.81Poetic Diction, first published in 1928, begins by asking why we call a given grouping of words "poetry" and why these arouse "aesthetic imagination" and produce pleasure in a receptive reader... -
Zarbul Masalha: 151 Afghan Dari Proverbs (Third Edition) by David H Petraeus
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £17.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986238604Author David H PetraeusFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint
Pragmatist Semantics: A Use-Based Approach to Linguistic Representation by Prof José L. Zalabardo 9780192874757
Booksplease Price: £69.75Jose L. Zalabardo defends a pragmatist account of what grounds the meaning of central semantic discourses-ascriptions of truth, of propositional attitudes, and of meanings. He argues that it is the...
A Biography of Loneliness: The History of an Emotion by Fay Bound Alberti
RRP: £27.49Booksplease Price: £22.52Despite 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...
Here and There: Sites of Philosophy by Stanley Cavell
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £22.02The first posthumous collection from the writings of Stanley Cavell, shedding new light on the distinctive vision and intellectual trajectory of an influential American philosopher.For Stanley...
Deep Thought: 42 Fantastic Quotes That Define Philosophy by Gary Cox 9781350066588
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.08Gary Cox guides us through 42 of the most misunderstood, misquoted, provocative and significant quotes in the history of philosophy providing a witty and compelling commentary along the way. This...
The Dash-The Other Side of Absolute Knowing by Rebecca Comay 9780262535359
Booksplease Price: £28.09An argument that what is usually dismissed as the "mystical shell" of Hegel's thought-the concept of absolute knowledge-is actually its most "rational kernel." This book sets out from a...
Dangerous Jokes: How Racism and Sexism Weaponize Humor by Claire Horisk 9780197691496
Booksplease Price: £30.48People often get away with belittling others if they frame their speech as jokes-speech that would be condemned if stated seriously. "It's just a joke," they say. But what is different or special...
Nonideal Theory and Content Externalism by Jeff Engelhardt 9780197754207
Booksplease Price: £25.19This book charges that just about every philosophical theory of mind or language developed over the past 50 years in the West is systematically inaccurate. Systemic oppression has influenced the...
The Essential Peirce, Volume 2: Selected Philosophical Writings (1893-1913) by Peirce Edition Project
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Praise for Volume 1:" . . . a first-rate edition, which supersedes all other portable Peirces. . . . all the Peirce most people will ever need." -Louis Menand, The New York Review of BooksVolume 2 of...
Pragmatics in English: An Introduction by Kate Scott
Booksplease Price: £28.58Pragmatics - the study of language in context, and of how we understand what other people say - is a core subject in English language, linguistics, and communication studies. This textbook introduces...