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  • Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett by Terry Pratchett

    Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett by Terry Pratchett

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    'I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.'The most quotable writer of our time, Terry Pratchett's unique brand of wit made him both a bestseller and an enduring,...
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  • Naming and Necessity by Saul A. Kripke

    Naming and Necessity by Saul A. Kripke

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    Naming and Necessity has had a great and increasing influence. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of naming, and of identity. This seminal...
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  • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9780198861379

    Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9780198861379

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    'what can be said at all can be said clearly; and of what one cannot talk, about that one must be silent' Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, first published in German in 1921 and in English translation in 1922, is one of the most...
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  • A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes

    A Lover's Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes

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    'May be the most detailed, painstaking anatomy of desire that we are ever likely to see or need again... An ecstatic celebration of love and language' Washington PostThe language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak. It is a language...
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  • Modal Logic as Metaphysics by Timothy Williamson

    Modal Logic as Metaphysics by Timothy Williamson

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    Are there such things as merely possible people, who would have lived if our ancestors had acted differently? Are there future people, who have not yet been conceived? Questions like those raise deep issues about both the nature of being and its logical...
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  • Language, Truth and Logic by A. J. Ayer

    Language, Truth and Logic by A. J. Ayer

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    If you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are either true by definition (as in maths), or can be verified by direct experience. Ayer rejected metaphysical claims about...
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  • Mereology by A. J. Cotnoir 9780198749004

    Mereology by A. J. Cotnoir 9780198749004

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    Is a whole something more than the sum of its parts? Are there things composed of the same parts? If you divide an object into parts, and divide those parts into smaller parts, will this process ever come to an end? Can something lose parts or gain new...
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  • Philosophy of Language: The Central Topics by Susana Nuccetelli 9780742559776

    Philosophy of Language: The Central Topics by Susana Nuccetelli 9780742559776

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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...
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  • The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker

    The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language by Steven Pinker

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    'Dazzling... Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct...as innate to us as flying is to geese... Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigations'- Independent'A marvellously readable book.....
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  • A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages by J. R. R. Tolkien

    A Secret Vice: Tolkien on Invented Languages by J. R. R. Tolkien

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    First ever critical study of Tolkien's little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin's Game of Thrones. J.R.R. Tolkien's linguistic...
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  • Suppose and Tell: The Semantics and Heuristics of Conditionals by Timothy Williamson

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

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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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  • Debating the A Priori by Paul Boghossian

    Debating the A Priori by Paul Boghossian

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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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  • Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard by Bo Seo 9780008498696

    Good Arguments: How Debate Teaches Us to Listen and Be Heard by Bo Seo 9780008498696

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    'Electrifying ... A user manual for our polarized world' Adam Grant, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Think Again 'Important, compelling and wise' Johann Hari, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Stolen Focus How do you win...
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  • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: The New Translation by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9780241681954

    Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus: The New Translation by Ludwig Wittgenstein 9780241681954

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    One of the greatest philosophical works of all time, in a new translation for the twenty-first century'We could capture the whole sense of the book as follows: what can be said at all can be said clearly; and whatever cannot be said must be left to...
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  • Speaking and Being: How Language Shapes Our Lives by Kubra Gumusay

    Speaking and Being: How Language Shapes Our Lives by Kubra Gumusay

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    A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'I can't stop talking about this book' Jamie Klingler, co-founder #ReclaimTheseStreets 'What a gem. ... Makes you look at the world, and yourself, afresh.' Minna Salami, author of Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist...
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  • The Language Game: How improvisation created language and changed the world by Morten H. Christiansen

    The Language Game: How improvisation created language and changed the world by Morten H. Christiansen

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    'Marvellously clear... playfully persuasive' Richard Dawkins'Full of Fascinating details. A delight to read.' Tim Harford'Highly original and convincing ... a delight to read!' - Daniel EverettWhat is language?Why do we have it?Why does that...
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  • On Taking Offence by Emily McTernan

    On Taking Offence by Emily McTernan

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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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  • Enough Said: What's gone wrong with the language of politics? by Mark Thompson

    Enough Said: What's gone wrong with the language of politics? by Mark Thompson

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    LONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017How do we discuss serious ideas in the age of 24-hour news? What was rhetoric in the past and what should it be now? And what does Islamic State have in common with Donald Trump?We've never had more information or more...
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  • The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy by Thomas Mautner

    The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy by Thomas Mautner

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    'A definitive work...explains clearly and succinctly concepts and theories at the heart of European and American philosophy.' - Brenda AlmondWhat do philosophers mean by 'absolute' and 'akrasia'? What are 'Polish notation' and 'prime matter'? What...
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  • You’re All Talk: why we are what we speak by Rob Drummond 9781914484285

    You’re All Talk: why we are what we speak by Rob Drummond 9781914484285

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    'Telling and compelling' Susie Dent, author of Word Perfect 'Rob Drummond has achieved something very special in this book' David Crystal, author of How Language Works 'Intriguing and engaging' Gyles Brandreth, author of Word Play Why do we have...
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  • Conjoining Meanings: Semantics Without Truth Values by Paul M. Pietroski 9780198812722

    Conjoining Meanings: Semantics Without Truth Values by Paul M. Pietroski 9780198812722

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    Humans naturally acquire languages that connect meanings with pronunciations. Paul M. Pietroski presents an account of these distinctive languages as generative procedures that respect substantive constraints. Children acquire meaningful lexical items...
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  • Seduced by Story by Peter Brooks

    Seduced by Story by Peter Brooks

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376639Author Peter BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc
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  • Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition by Saul A. Kripke 9780631135210

    Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language: An Elementary Exposition by Saul A. Kripke 9780631135210

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    In this book Saul Kripke brings his powerful philosophical intelligence to bear on Wittgenstein's analysis of the notion of following a rule.About the AuthorBorn in Bay Shore, New York, the son of a rabbi (Myer Samuel) and a writer (Dorothy Karp), Saul...
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  • The Evolution of Imagination by Stephen T. Asma

    The Evolution of Imagination by Stephen T. Asma

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    Consider Miles Davis, horn held high, sculpting a powerful musical statement full of tonal patterns, inside jokes, and thrilling climactic phrases all on the fly. Or think of a comedy troupe riffing on a couple of cues from the audience until the whole...
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  • How Language Works by David Crystal

    How Language Works by David Crystal

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    In this fascinating survey of everything from how sounds become speech to how names work, David Crystal answers every question you might ever have had about the nuts and bolts of language in his usual highly illuminating way. Along the way we find out...
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  • Wittgenstein's Remarks on Colour: A Commentary and Interpretation by Andrew Lugg 9781839985324

    Wittgenstein's Remarks on Colour: A Commentary and Interpretation by Andrew Lugg 9781839985324

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    The book is a first detailed discussion of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Remarks on Colour, a compilation of writings on the subject from the last fifteen months of his life. The origin and significance of the remarks are explained along with a remark-by-remark...
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  • Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction by P. H. Matthews

    Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction by P. H. Matthews

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    Linguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are found. Rather than following the conventional organization of many contemporary introductions to the...
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  • Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida 9781421419954

    Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida 9781421419954

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    Jacques Derrida's revolutionary approach to phenomenology, psychoanalysis, structuralism, linguistics, and indeed the entire European tradition of philosophy-called deconstruction-changed the face of criticism. It provoked a questioning of philosophy,...
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  • The Secrets of Words by Noam Chomsky

    The Secrets of Words by Noam Chomsky

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    Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262046718Author Noam ChomskyFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd
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  • Of the Abuse of Words by John Locke

    Of the Abuse of Words by John Locke

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    John Locke was one of the greatest figures of the Enlightenment, whose assertion that reason is the key to knowledge changed the face of philosophy. These writings on thought, ideas, perception, truth and language are some of the most influential in the...
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  • Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary by Marjorie Perloff 9780226660608

    Wittgenstein's Ladder: Poetic Language and the Strangeness of the Ordinary by Marjorie Perloff 9780226660608

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    Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously...
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  • Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored by Jeffrey Boakye

    Black, Listed: Black British Culture Explored by Jeffrey Boakye

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    AFRO-CARIBBEAN. COLOURED. ETHNIC MINORITY. IMMIGRANT. BAME. URBAN. WOKE. FAM. BLACK.These are just some of the terms being wrestled with in Black, Listed, an exploration of twenty-first century Black identity told through a list of insults, insights and...
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  • Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas R. Hofstadter

    Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking by Douglas R. Hofstadter

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    Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new work. Hofstadter has been grappling with the mysteries of...
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  • The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault by Daniele Lorenzini 9780226827452

    The Force of Truth: Critique, Genealogy, and Truth-Telling in Michel Foucault by Daniele Lorenzini 9780226827452

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    A groundbreaking examination of Michel Foucault's history of truth. Many blame Michel Foucault for our post-truth and conspiracy-laden society. In this provocative work, Daniele Lorenzini argues that such criticism fundamentally misunderstands the...
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  • The Politics of Language by David Beaver 9780691181981

    The Politics of Language by David Beaver 9780691181981

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    A provocative case for the inherently political nature of languageIn The Politics of Language, David Beaver and Jason Stanley present a radical new approach to the theory of meaning, offering an account of communication in which political and social...
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  • Speaking Being: Werner Erhard, Martin Heidegger, and a New Possibility of Being Human by Bruce Hyde 9781119549901

    Speaking Being: Werner Erhard, Martin Heidegger, and a New Possibility of Being Human by Bruce Hyde 9781119549901

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    Speaking Being: Werner Erhard, Martin Heidegger, and a New Possibility of Being Human is an unprecedented study of the ideas and methods developed by the thinker Werner Erhard. In this book, those ideas and methods are revealed by presenting in full an...
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  • For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing is Shocking, Rude, and Fun by Rebecca Roache 9780190665067

    For F*ck's Sake: Why Swearing is Shocking, Rude, and Fun by Rebecca Roache 9780190665067

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    Why do we love to swear so much? Why do we get so offended when others do it? With wit and insight, philosopher Rebecca Roache seeks answers to these and other puzzling questions about bad language. When someone swears at you, it can sting. Likewise,...
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  • The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity by Charles Taylor 9780674660205

    The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity by Charles Taylor 9780674660205

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    In seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being, both as individuals and as a society. In his new book setting forth decades of thought, he demonstrates that language is at...
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  • A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel's <i>Phenomenology</i> by Robert B. Brandom

    A Spirit of Trust: A Reading of Hegel's <i>Phenomenology</i> by Robert B. Brandom

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    Forty years in the making, this long-awaited reinterpretation of Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit is a landmark contribution to philosophy by one of the world's best-known and most influential philosophers.In this much-anticipated work, Robert Brandom...
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  • One and Everything by Sam Winston

    One and Everything by Sam Winston

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    From Sam Winston, the co-creator of the Bologna Ragazzi award-winning A Child of Books, comes a thought-provoking celebration of the power of stories and written languages, and the imperative to preserve them.Once there were many stories in the world...
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