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Contra Instrumentalism: A Translation Polemic by Lawrence Venuti
RRP: $28.37$24.24Contra 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... -
The Psychoanalysis Of Fire by Gaston Bachelard
RRP: $27.09$19.30Apologies 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 *... -
Modes of Representation: Content, Communication, and Frege by Richard Kimberly Heck 9780198861591
RRP: $132.87$120.72Lois 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... -
Dangerous Jokes: How Racism and Sexism Weaponize Humor by Claire Horisk 9780197691496
RRP: $33.53$28.37People 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 about joking? And if jokes about lawyers and politicians... -
The Exchange of Words: Speech, Testimony, and Intersubjectivity by Richard Moran 9780190873325
RRP: $141.90$128.24The 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... -
Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment: Philosophical Perspectives by Robert Guay 9780190464011
RRP: $117.39$106.40The 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... -
Between Logic and the World: An Integrated Theory of Generics by Bernhard Nickel 9780199640003
RRP: $100.62$94.53Between Logic and the World presents a theory of generic sentences and the kind-directed modes of thought they express. The theory closely integrates compositional semantics with metaphysics to solve the problem that generics pose: what do generics mean?... -
Epistemic Contextualism: A Defense by Peter Baumann 9780198754312
RRP: $100.62$94.53Peter Baumann develops and defends a distinctive version of epistemic contextualism, the view that the truth conditions or the meaning of knowledge attributions of the form "S knows that p" can vary with the context of the attributor. The first... -
On Taking Offence by Emily McTernan 9780197613092
RRP: $91.59$83.39Someone 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... -
Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji: Philosophical Perspectives by James McMullen 9780190654979
RRP: $117.39$106.40Murasaki 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... -
Nonideal Theory and Content Externalism by Jeff Engelhardt 9780197754207
RRP: $29.66$26.83This 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 processes that theories of mind or language purport to... -
Consciousness and Meaning: Selected Essays by Brian Loar 9780199673353
RRP: $105.78$96.56One of the most important problems of modern philosophy concerns the place of the mind - and, in particular, of consciousness, meaning, and intentionality - in a physical universe. Brian Loar was a major contributor to the discussion of this problem for... -
Semantics, Metasemantics, Aboutness by Ori Simchen 9780198792147
RRP: $86.43$77.83Semantics aims to describe the significance (or meaning) of linguistic expressions in a systematic way. Metasemantics, or foundational semantics, asks how expressions gain their significance in the first place - what makes it the case that expressions... -
Interperspectival Content by Peter Ludlow 9780192897589
RRP: $25.79$23.49Too often today it seems we find ourselves communicating from radically different perspectives on the world and we often despair of communication even being possible. Peter Ludlow argues that perspectival content, or what some call indexical content, is... -
Essays on Speech Acts and Other Topics in Pragmatics by Marina Sbisà 9780192844125
RRP: $116.10$105.24This book collects seventeen essays published between 1984 and 2020, in which Marina Sbisà develops her distinctive approach to speech acts and related pragmatic phenomena. Drawing inspiration from the work of J. L. Austin, the essays examine the... -
Linguistic Luck: Safeguards and threats to linguistic communication by Abrol Fairweather 9780192845450
RRP: $92.88$85.05Despite the considerable attention the topic of luck has received in ethics and epistemology, very little has been published in the philosophical literature overtly on linguistic luck. The essays collected here provide the first sustained examination of... -
The Middle Included: Logos in Aristotle by Ömer Aygün
RRP: $45.09$37.13The Middle Included is a systematic exploration of the meanings of logos throughout Aristotle’s work. It claims that the basic meaning is “gathering,” in the sense of a relation that holds its terms together without isolating them or collapsing one to... -
Roads to Reference: An Essay on Reference Fixing in Natural Language by Mario Gomez-Torrente
RRP: $92.88$84.53How is it that words come to stand for the things they stand for? Is the thing that a word stands for - its reference - fully identified or described by conventions known to the users of the word? Or is there a more roundabout relation between the... -
Language, World, and Limits: Essays in the Philosophy of Language and Metaphysics by A.W. Moore
RRP: $101.91$93.11These essays by A.W. Moore are all concerned with the business of representing how things are - its nature, its scope, and its limits. The essays in Part One deal with linguistic representation and discuss topics such as rules of representation and their... -
Wittgenstein and Marx: Language, Mind and Society by Felice Cimatti
RRP: $19.34$16.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788869773808Author Felice CimattiFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Mimesis InternationalPublisher Mimesis InternationalWeight(grams) 140g -
Singular Thought and Mental Files by Rachel Goodman
RRP: $95.46$86.83The notion of singular (or de re) thought has become central in philosophy of mind and language, yet there is still little consensus concerning the best way to think about the nature of singular thought. Coinciding with recognition of the need for more... -
Cannons and Codes: Law, Literature, and America's Wars by Alison L. LaCroix
RRP: $78.69$71.49It can be said that western literature begins with a war story, the Iliad; and that this is true too of many non-Western literary traditions, such as the Mahabharata. And yet, though a profoundly human subject, war often appears to be by definition... -
Conversational Pressure: Normativity in Speech Exchanges by Sanford C. Goldberg
RRP: $89.01$81.09In the course of conversation, we exert implicit pressures on both ourselves and others. These forms of conversational pressure are many and far from uniform, so much so that it is unclear whether they constitute a single cohesive class. In this book... -
Deontic Modality by Nate Charlow
RRP: $121.26$110.36An extraordinary amount of recent work by philosophers of language, meta-ethicists, and semanticists has focused on the meaning and function of language expressing concepts having to do with what is allowed, forbidden, required, or obligatory, in view of... -
The A-Z of Positive Thinking: A new vocabulary to change your life by Neil James Tuson
RRP: $10.31$7.59It'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 by the very words you choose to use. In an average... -
Deep Thought: 42 Fantastic Quotes That Define Philosophy by Gary Cox 9781350066588
RRP: $16.76$12.31Gary 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 entertaining and illuminating collection of quotes doesn't... -
The Oxford Handbook of Elizabeth Anscombe by Lecturer in Philosophy Roger Teichmann
RRP: $125.13$114.59Elizabeth Anscombe is now recognised as one of the most important philosophers of the second half of the 20th century. She left a large corpus of work, wide-ranging in content, always original and bold. Her monograph Intention, published in 1957, is a... -
Context and Communication by Herman Cappelen
RRP: $30.95$28.86Context and Communication offers an introduction to a central theme in the study of language: the various ways in which what we say (or ask, or think) depends on the context of speech and thought. The period since 1970 has produced a vast literature on... -
El Arte de Tener Razon by Arthur Schopenhauer
RRP: $14.13$10.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788441427006Author Arthur SchopenhauerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Edaf AntillasPublisher Edaf AntillasWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 206mm *... -
Decoding Chomsky: Science and Revolutionary Politics by Chris Knight
RRP: $21.92$21.49A fresh and fascinating look at the philosophies, politics, and intellectual legacy of one of the twentieth century's most influential and controversial minds Occupying a pivotal position in postwar thought, Noam Chomsky is both the founder of modern... -
Deep Thought: 42 Fantastic Quotes That Define Philosophy by Gary Cox
RRP: $38.70$28.88Gary 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 entertaining and illuminating collection of quotes doesn't... -
Language and Process: Words, Whitehead and the World by Senior Lecturer in Sociology Michael Halewood
RRP: $27.08$22.18Do we really know how words actually refer to things, how they describe the world? These questions are not limited to the study of language. They quickly lead to important debates about the character of existence and subjectivity, and they are also... -
A Process Philosophy of Signs by James Williams
RRP: $30.95$25.17James Williams sets out a new process philosophy of signs where signs are processes, not fixed relations. He develops his argument through a formal model and a series of case studies in art, science, technology, politics and nature. He engages in... -
No One's Ways: An Essay on Infinite Naming by Daniel Heller-Roazen
RRP: $38.70$29.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935408888Author Daniel Heller-RoazenFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books -
Philosophy of Language: The Key Thinkers by Barry Lee
RRP: $32.24$28.29Playing a key role in our lives, as a vehicle for our thoughts and a powerful medium of communication, language is at the centre of philosophical investigation. The fifteen specially commissioned essays in this book introduce and explore the ideas of... -
The Fall of Language: Benjamin and Wittgenstein on Meaning by Alexander Stern
RRP: $54.12$43.06In the most comprehensive account to date of Walter Benjamin's philosophy of language, Alexander Stern explores the nature of meaning by putting Benjamin in dialogue with Wittgenstein.Known largely for his essays on culture, aesthetics, and literature,... -
Wittgenstein's Whewell's Court Lectures: Cambridge, 1938 - 1941, From the Notes by Yorick Smythies by Volker Munz
RRP: $110.88$96.84Wittgenstein'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 Wittgenstein's thought and includes some of the finest... -
Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment: Philosophical Perspectives by Robert Guay 9780190464028
RRP: $31.59$26.81The 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... -
Time's Lie: The Narrativisation of Life by Leo Cookman 9781789043396
RRP: $12.89$11.08Why are facts and statistics disparaged and dismissed, now more than ever? Why do people trust 'fake news'? If we have 'had enough of experts' who should we listen to? Rather than the possible collapse of modern society, could this be an opportunity to... -
Wittgenstein's Family Letters: Corresponding with Ludwig by Brian McGuinness
RRP: $28.37$21.12Translated into English for the first time, the letters collected here bring to life one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein. In letters written over forty years, we see how his ideas and relationships developed...