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What Is Meaning? by Scott Soames
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $49.75The tradition descending from Frege and Russell has typically treated theories of meaning either as theories of meanings (propositions expressed), or as theories of truth conditions. However,... -
Philosophy of Language by Scott Soames
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $72.14In this book, one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field - its principal achievements, its most pressing current questions, and its most promising... -
Philosophy of Language by Scott Soames 9780691155975
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $44.94A masterful overview of the philosophy of language from one of its most important thinkersIn this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the... -
Understanding Truth by Scott Soames 9780195111514
Booksplease Price: $97.88Scott Soames illuminates the notion of truth and the role it plays in our ordinary thought, as well as in our logical, philosophical, and scientific theories. The main questions investigated include... -
Understanding Truth by Scott Soames 9780195123357
RRP: $92.38Booksplease Price: $64.13In this book, Scott Soames illuminates the notion of truth and the role it plays in our ordinary thought, as well as in our logical, philosophical, and scientific theories. The main questions... -
Rethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning by Scott Soames
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94In this book, Scott Soames argues that the revolution in the study of language and mind that has taken place since the late nineteenth century must be rethought. The central insight in the reigning... -
Syntactic Argumentation and the Structure of English by Scott Soames
RRP: $71.40Booksplease Price: $68.99Syntactic Argumentation and the Structure of English (SASE) presents the major theoretical developments in generative syntax and the empirical arguments motivating them. Beautifully and lucidly... -
Rethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning Scott Soames 9780691160450
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $72.14In this book, Scott Soames argues that the revolution in the study of language and mind that has taken place since the late nineteenth century must be rethought. The central insight in the reigning... -
Reference and Description: The Case against Two-Dimensionalism by Scott Soames
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $68.92In this book, Scott Soames defends the revolution in philosophy led by Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam, and David Kaplan against attack from those wishing to revive descriptivism in the philosophy of... -
The World Philosophy Made: From Plato to the Digital Age by Scott Soames
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $36.41How philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live inPhilosophical investigation is the root of all human knowledge. Developing new concepts, reinterpreting old truths, and... -
The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Volume 2: A New Vision by Scott Soames 9780691160030
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $113.72An in-depth history of the linguistic turn in analytic philosophy, from a leading philosopher of language This is the second of five volumes of a definitive history of analytic philosophy from the... -
Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1: The Dawn of Analysis by Scott Soames
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $77.55This is a major, wide-ranging history of analytic philosophy since 1900, told by one of the tradition's leading contemporary figures. The first volume takes the story from 1900 to mid-century. The... -
The World Philosophy Made: From Plato to the Digital Age by Scott Soames 9780691176925
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $45.57How philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live in Philosophical investigation is the root of all human knowledge. Developing new concepts, reinterpreting old truths, and... -
The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Volume 3: The Struggle for Modality Scott Soames 9780691160047
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $92.93An in-depth history of modal logic in analytic philosophy, from a leading philosopher of languageThis is the third of five volumes of a definitive history of analytic philosophy from the invention of... -
Analytic Philosophy in America: And Other Historical and Contemporary Essays by Scott Soames 9780691176406
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $56.76In this collection of recent and unpublished essays, leading analytic philosopher Scott Soames traces milestones in his field from its beginnings in Britain and Germany in the late nineteenth and... -
Philosophical Essays, Volume 2: The Philosophical Significance of Language by Scott Soames 9780691136837
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $101.58The two volumes of Philosophical Essays bring together the most important essays written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of language. Scott Soames has selected thirty-one essays spanning... -
Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity by Scott Soames 9780195145298
RRP: $97.63Booksplease Price: $67.22In this fascinating work, Scott Soames offers a new conception of the relationship between linguistic meaning and assertions made by utterances. He gives meanings of proper names and natural kind... -
Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 2: The Age of Meaning by Scott Soames
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $88.16This is a major, wide-ranging history of analytic philosophy since 1900, told by one of the tradition's leading contemporary figures. The first volume takes the story from 1900 to mid-century. The... -
Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity by Scott Soames 9780195145281
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $127.43In this fascinating work, Scott Soames offers a new conception of the relationship between linguistic meaning and assertions made by utterances. He gives meanings of proper names and natural kind... -
Philosophical Essays, Volume 1: Natural Language: What It Means and How We Use It by Scott Soames 9780691136813
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $101.58The two volumes of Philosophical Essays bring together the most important essays written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of language. Scott Soames has selected thirty-one essays spanning... -
Bertrand Russell and the Nature of Propositions: A History and Defence of the Multiple Relation Theory of Judgement by Samuel Lebens
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $90.47Bertrand Russell and the Nature of Propositions offers the first book-length defence of the Multiple Relation Theory of Judgement (MRTJ). Although the theory was much maligned by Wittgenstein and... -
Epistemic Angst: Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing by Duncan Pritchard 9780691167237
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $68.92Epistemic Angst offers a completely new solution to the ancient philosophical problem of radical skepticism--the challenge of explaining how it is possible to have knowledge of a world external to us... -
Epistemic Angst: Radical Skepticism and the Groundlessness of Our Believing by Duncan Pritchard 9780691183435
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94Epistemic Angst offers a completely new solution to the ancient philosophical problem of radical skepticism-the challenge of explaining how it is possible to have knowledge of a world external to us... -
Philosophical Logic by John P. Burgess
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $44.94Philosophical Logic is a clear and concise critical survey of nonclassical logics of philosophical interest written by one of the world's leading authorities on the subject. After giving an overview... -
New Thinking about Propositions by Jeffrey C. King
Booksplease Price: $87.30Philosophy (especially philosophy of language and philosophy of mind), science (especially linguistics and cognitive science), and common sense all sometimes make reference to... -
Meaning by Mark Richard
RRP: $233.00Booksplease Price: $208.87Meaning brings together some of the most significant philosophical work on linguistic representation and understanding, presenting canonical essays on core questions in the philosophy of language... -
New Thinking about Propositions by Jeffrey C. King 9780199693764
Booksplease Price: $207.75Philosophy (especially philosophy of language and philosophy of mind), science (especially linguistics and cognitive science), and common sense all sometimes make reference to... -
Content and Modality: Themes from the Philosophy of Robert Stalnaker by Judith Thomson 9780199282807
RRP: $304.50Booksplease Price: $209.43Eleven distinguished philosophers have contributed specially written essays on a set of topics much debated in recent years, including physicalism, qualia, semantic competence, conditionals,... -
Semantics versus Pragmatics by Zoltan Gendler Szabo 9780199251513
Booksplease Price: $205.95Leading scholars in the philosophy of language and theoretical linguistics present brand-new papers on a major topic at the intersection of the two fields, the distinction between semantics and... -
Kripke's Wittgenstein: Meaning, Rules and Scepticism Ali Hossein Khani 9781839990151
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $161.89This book offers a comprehensive examination of Kripke's influential reading of the later Wittgenstein presented in Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language (1982), together with the principal... -
The Greatest Possible Being by Jeff Speaks 9780198826811
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $90.22What can we know about God by reason alone? Philosophical theology is the attempt to obtain such knowledge. An ancient tradition, which is perhaps more influential now than ever, tries to derive the... -
Kripke John P. Burgess (Princeton University) 9780745652856
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $35.76Saul Kripke has been a major influence on analytic philosophy and allied fields for a half-century and more. His early masterpiece, Naming and Necessity, reversed the pattern of two centuries of... -
Philosophical Foundations of Language in the Law by Andrei Marmor 9780199673704
Booksplease Price: $108.84This collection brings together the best contemporary philosophical work in the area of intersection between philosophy of language and the law. Some of the contributors are philosophers of language... -
Kripke John P. Burgess (Princeton University) 9780745652849
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $103.01Saul Kripke has been a major influence on analytic philosophy and allied fields for a half-century and more. His early masterpiece, Naming and Necessity, reversed the pattern of two centuries of... -
Impassioned Belief by Michael Ridge 9780198748007
Booksplease Price: $78.86Impassioned Belief presents an original expressivist theory of normative judgments. According to his Ecumenical Expressivism normative judgements are hybrid states partly constituted by ordinary... -
Memphis Under the Ptolemies: Second Edition by Dorothy J. Thompson
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $72.14Drawing on archaeological findings and an unusual combination of Greek and Egyptian evidence, Dorothy Thompson examines the economic life and multicultural society of the ancient Egyptian city of... -
Lonergan, Meaning and Method: Philosophical Essays by Andrew Beards 9781501341243
Booksplease Price: $79.40Bernard Lonergan (1904-84) is acknowledged as one of the most significant philosopher-theologians of the 20th century. Lonergan, Meaning and Method in many ways complements Andrew Beards' previous... -
Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language Gillian Russell 9781138776180
RRP: $146.98Booksplease Price: $138.45Philosophy of language is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature of meaning, the relationship of language to reality, and the ways in which we use, learn, and understand language. The...