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This book studies the origins of language. It presents language as the product of a unique non-linguistic cognitive feature (i.e. metacognition) that emerged late in human evolution. Within this framework, the author lays special emphasis on the tight...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649198914Author Kaustav SanyalFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Notion PressPublisher Notion PressWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798573756943Author Ama Fleud-FloydFormat 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 9798520723714Author Odell EsshakiFormat 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 9781885881458Author Ruth KatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Israel Academic PressPublisher Israel Academic PressWeight(grams) 152g

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...

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This collection of classic and contemporary essays in philosophy of language offers a concise introduction to the field for students in graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses. It contains some of the most important basic sources in philosophy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505612837Author Ellis D CooperFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

When we use language, we presuppose many different things. Context is another name for these presuppositions. But it also can be the name of all these different presuppositions ordered in a certain way. This study of context focuses on the differences...

Sarah A. Mattice explores contemporary philosophical activity and the way in which one aspect of language-metaphor-gives shape and boundary to the landscape of the discipline. The book examines metaphors of combat, play, and aesthetic experience and...

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...

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 9781541358256Author Kenneth AndradeFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781519183972Author Edited by Paul F KisakFormat PaperbackImprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Sarah A. Mattice explores contemporary philosophical activity and the way in which one aspect of language-metaphor-gives shape and boundary to the landscape of the discipline. The book examines metaphors of combat, play, and aesthetic experience and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781470196967Author Rinaldo PillaFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Open Compositionality: Towards a New Methodology of Language argues that natural languages, like English and Spanish, are not only systems of representation useful for communication but also, and most importantly, highly interactive cognitive capacities...

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Ernst Cassirer and the Autonomy of Language examines the central arguments in Cassirer's first volume of the Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. Gregory Moss demonstrates both how Cassirer defends language as an autonomous cultural form and how he borrows the...

Invisible Language: Its Incalcuable Significance for Philosophy reveals that although the use of language is visible or audible, the medium employed boasts neither of these attributes. Garth L. Hallet suggests that from Plato until now, the intangibility...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788869773037Author Daniel DohrnFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Mimesis InternationalPublisher Mimesis International

The 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998531861Author Sean BrauneFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645434477Author Emily Constance JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Dunwich HousePublisher Dunwich HouseWeight(grams) 95g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985643577Author Jim BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Jim BoydPublisher Jim BoydWeight(grams) 231g

First published in 1990, Philosophers’ Poets is a collection of case studies of philosophers’ readings of poets and other distinctive writers. There are those, for example, who find in literary examples ways of exploring the concrete significance of...

A major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal, exploring the Romantic poetics central to his theory of language. The Language Animal, Charles Taylor's 2016 account of human linguistic capacity, was a revelation,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985643584Author Jim BoydFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Jim BoydPublisher Jim BoydWeight(grams) 227g

A classic volume by a noted philosopher, available again. John William Miller (1895-1978) taught at Williams College, where from 1945 to 1960 he was Mark Hopkins Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy. His extraordinary teaching is described in...

At 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 explanation. Maria Balaska examines two such cases: wonder...

A new form of philosophizing known as ordinary language philosophy took root in England after the Second World War, promising a fresh start and a way out of long-standing dead-end philosophical debates. Pioneered by Wittgenstein, Austin, and others, OLP...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538153543Author Paul MageeFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035813520Author Danny OceansFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

This volume combines Rousseau's essay on the origin of diverse languages with Herder's essay on the genesis of the faculty of speech. Rousseau's essay is important to semiotics and critical theory, as it plays a central role in Jacques Derrida's book Of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782406074250Author Helene Barthelmebs-RaguinFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Classiques GarnierPublisher Classiques GarnierWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785279270Author David CockburnFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 153g

"Hey, that was kind of racist." "I'm not a racist! I have Black friends." This exchange highlights a problem with how people in the United States tend to talk about racially tricky situations. As Racist, Not Racist, Antiracist:...

In Speaking of Silence in Heidegger, Wanda Torres Gregory critically analyzes Heidegger's thoughts on silence. Arguing that silence about silence is a guiding principle in his sparse and often reticent words, Torres Gregory sets out to decipher their...