Language

Translated 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 during...

Jose 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 procedures that regulate acceptance and rejection that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788869770128Author Genevieve VaughanFormat PaperbackPage Count 486Imprint Mimesis InternationalPublisher Mimesis International

In this book, renowned philosopher John Perry responds to criticisms of his influential writing on "the essential indexical." He begins by explaining the conclusions of his past articles. He then argues that many criticisms are based on confusions about...

An exploration of secret languages, moving among hermetic artificial tongues as diverse as criminal jargons and divine speech. Dark Tongues constitutes a sustained exploration of a perplexing fact that has never received the attention it deserves...

Mark Richard presents an original picture of meaning according to which a word's meaning is analogous to the biological lineages we call species. His primary thesis is that a word's meaning - in the sense of what one needs to track in order to be a...

Through his innovative study of language, noted Heidegger scholar Lawrence Hatab offers a proto-phenomenological account of the lived world, the "first" world of factical life, where pre-reflective, immediate disclosiveness precedes and makes possible...

Andy Clark is a leading philosopher of cognitive science, whose work has had an extraordinary impact throughout philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and robotics. His monographs have led the way for new research programs in the philosophy of mind and...

H.P. Grice is a distinguished philosopher predominantly known for his influential contributions to the philosophy of language, but that is only one strand in a rich tapestry of ideas bearing on the philosophy of mind, ethics, and metaphysics as well...

This book is a defense of a Chomskyan conception of language against philosophical objectionsthat have been raised against it. It also provides, however, a critical examination of some of the glosses on the theory: the assimilation of it to traditional...

Theorists working on metaethics and the nature of normativity typically study goodness, rightness, what ought to be done, and so on. In their investigations they employ and consider our actual normative concepts. But the actual concepts of goodness,...

Slurs and Expressivity: Semantics and Beyond, edited by Eleonora Orlando and Andres Saab,focuses on the analysis of the expressive aspects of slur-words, namely, those words prima facie related to the conveyance of contemptuous or derogatory feelings for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798520737551Author Huey McNearFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 68g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798573380230Author Ama Fleud-FloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Intersections of Gender and Ethnicity in English Language Learning Texts offers a fresh and relevant interrogation of educational materials for all students, researchers, and educators engaging in critical language study. Drawing on her own extensive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798671036480Author Anchirius de SinistraFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781794201279Author Maurice F StanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 540g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798520706281Author Bob MoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798520588429Author Sybil ShoenFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798520751083Author Clement CorinFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 68g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514353462Author G H NealeFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Slurs and Expressivity: Semantics and Beyond, edited by Eleonora Orlando and Andres Saab,focuses on the analysis of the expressive aspects of slur-words, namely, those words prima facie related to the conveyance of contemptuous or derogatory feelings for...

In Europe, and later in the United States, the revitalization of the philosophy of language emerged from the need to address certain perplexities concerning formal disciplines and to work out certain complexities found within philosophy. In Uruguay,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798573198170Author Ama Fleud-FloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798573184982Author Ama Fleud-FloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793375872Author Geoffrey KlempnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 494g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949966145Author Eric GansFormat HardbackPage Count 154Imprint Spuyten DuyvilPublisher Spuyten DuyvilWeight(grams) 386g

Concept auditing is based on an innovative premise for philosophers: when they address an everyday life conception on the order of knowledge, truth, justice, fairness, beauty, or the like and purport to be dealing with what it involves, then they must...

One's conception of language is central in fields such as linguistics, but less obviously so in fields studying matters other than language. In Language and the Ineffable Louis S. Berger demonstrates the flaws of the received view of language and the...

The common feature of many present-day "new realisms" is a general diagnosis according to which, with Kant, Western philosophy lost any contact with the outside world. In The Untruth of Reality, Jure Simoniti, in contrast, points out the...

Words Underway offers the first full account of the important contributions the Continental tradition has made to the philosophy of language. Carolyn Culbertson examines the vital work of a range of thinkers, including Heidegger, Gadamer, Blanchot, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798520605959Author Lezlie StoffeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798520699767Author Carlos MirafuentesFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

How is it that sounds from the mouth or marks on a page-which by themselves are nothing like things or events in the world-can be so world-disclosive in such an automatic manner? In this fasincating and important book, Lawrence J. Hatab presents a new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798573317021Author Ama Fleud-FloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798573464602Author Ama Fleud-FloydFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 152g

With the recent publication of works from Heidegger's Collected Edition, it has become evident that language occupied a central place in his thought "from early on," as he claimed in his later years. Heidegger's Path to Language takes on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013288067Author Ben BlumsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Expressivism has been dominating much of the metaethical debate of the past three decades. The aim of this book is to address a number of questions that have been neglected in the previous discussion.These primarily concern the psychological commitments...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956005004Author Brad BaumgartnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Spuyten DuyvilPublisher Spuyten DuyvilWeight(grams) 191g