The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy
ISBN: 9780141018409 / Angielski / Miękka / 663 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stimulating and authoritative, The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy is the ideal reference work for anyone with an interest in the subject. Laid out simply for ease of use and put in straightforward language are definitions of terms from akrasia to zetetic. What do philosophers mean by absolute and prime matter? Is there any link between the gambler's fallacy and the uncertainty principle, or the barber paradox and Occam's razor? These questions and many more are answered in this illuminating dictionary.
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Stimulating and authoritative, The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy is the ideal reference work for anyone with an interest in the subject. Lai...
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Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
ISBN: 9780465018475 / Angielski / Twarda / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 human thought for over thirty years. Now, with his trademark wit and special talent for making complex ideas vivid, he has partnered with Sander to put forth a highly novel perspective on cognition. We are constantly faced with a swirling and intermingling multitude of ill-defined situations. Our brain's job is to try to...
Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas Hofstadter...
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Aboutness
ISBN: 9780691144955 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aboutness has been studied from any number of angles. Brentano made it the defining feature of the mental. Phenomenologists try to pin down the aboutness-features of particular mental states. Materialists sometimes claim to have grounded aboutness in natural regularities. Attempts have even been made, in library science and information theory, to operationalize the notion. But it has played no real role in philosophical semantics. This is surprising; sentences have aboutness-properties if anything does. Aboutness is the first book to examine through a philosophical lens... Aboutness has been studied from any number of angles. Brentano made it the defining feature of the mental. Phenomenologists try to pin down the abo... |
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Mere Possibilities: Metaphysical Foundations of Modal Semantics
ISBN: 9780691147123 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It seems reasonable to believe that there might have existed things other than those that in fact exist, or have existed. But how should we understand such claims? Standard semantic theories exploit the Leibnizian metaphor of a set of all possible worlds: a proposition might or must be true if it is true in some or all possible worlds. The actualist, who believes that nothing exists except what actually exists, prefers to talk of possible states of the world, or of ways that a world might be. But even the actualist still faces the problem of explaining what we are talking about when we... It seems reasonable to believe that there might have existed things other than those that in fact exist, or have existed. But how should we underst... |
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A Wittgensteinian Way with Paradoxes
ISBN: 9780739168967 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Wittgensteinian Way with Paradoxes examines how some of the classic philosophical paradoxes that have so puzzled philosophers over the centuries can be dissolved. Read argues that paradoxes such as the Sorites, Russell's Paradox and the paradoxes of time travel do not, in fact, need to be solved. Rather, using a resolute Wittgensteinian 'therapeutic' method, the book explores how virtually all apparent philosophical paradoxes can be diagnosed and dissolved through examining their conditions of arising; to loosen their grip and therapeutically liberate those philosophers suffering from them...
A Wittgensteinian Way with Paradoxes examines how some of the classic philosophical paradoxes that have so puzzled philosophers over the centuries can...
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Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness: A Critical Theory Approach to Wallace Stevens and Vladimir Nabokov
ISBN: 9780739177518 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book boldly crosses traditional academic boundaries, offering an original, philosophically informed argument about the nature of language, reading and interpreting the poetry of Wallace Stevens and the novels of Vladimir Nabokov. Redeeming Words and the Promise of Happiness is a work both in literary criticism and in philosophy. The approach is strongly influenced by Walter Benjamin's philosophy of language and Theodor Adorno's aesthetic theory, but the other philosophers--notably Plato, Kant, Hegel, Emerson, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein--figure significantly in the reading and...
This book boldly crosses traditional academic boundaries, offering an original, philosophically informed argument about the nature of language, readin...
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Events and Grammar
ISBN: 9780792349402 / Angielski / Twarda / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years, the study of events and their role as implicit arguments of predicates has been at the center of much important work in semantics and the syntax/semantics interface. This volume brings together fourteen original studies by leading scholars in semantics and the syntax/semantics interface, covering a broad spectrum of research into the role of events in grammar. The papers extensively address the following topics, among others: event arguments and thematic argument structure; the role of events in verbal aspectual distinctions; events and the distinction between stage and...
In recent years, the study of events and their role as implicit arguments of predicates has been at the center of much important work in semantics and...
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Varieties of Tone: Frege, Dummett and the Shades of Meaning
ISBN: 9781137263537 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In clear and lively prose that avoids jargon, the author carefully and systematically examines the many kinds of subtly nuanced words or word-pairs of everyday discourse such as 'and'-'but', 'before'-'ere', 'Chinese'-'Chink', and 'sweat'-'perspiration', that have proven resistant to truth-conditional explanations of meaning.
In clear and lively prose that avoids jargon, the author carefully and systematically examines the many kinds of subtly nuanced words or word-pairs of...
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Philosophy of Language: An Introduction
ISBN: 9781441180513 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Philosophy of Language is an accessible yet detailed introduction to the major issues and thinkers in the subject. Thematically structured, Philosophy of Language introduces the work of leading thinkers who Philosophy of Language is an accessible yet detailed introduction to the major issues and thinkers in the subject. Thematically struct... |
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The Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary in Philosophy
ISBN: 9781554810697 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive selection of readings on one of the key issues in the philosophy of language.
A comprehensive selection of readings on one of the key issues in the philosophy of language.
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Denken in Metaphern: Zur Logik Sprachlicher Bilder
ISBN: 9783531118581 / Niemiecki / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Lying at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface
ISBN: 9781614510925 / Angielski / Twarda / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While lying has been a topic in the philosophy of language, there has been a lack of genuine linguistic analysis of lying. Exploring lying at the semantics-pragmatics interface, this book takes a contextualist stand by arguing that untruthful implicatures and presuppositions are part of the total signification of the act of lying. While lying has been a topic in the philosophy of language, there has been a lack of genuine linguistic analysis of lying. Exploring lying at the s... |
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Intensität und Realität
ISBN: 9783110344844 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the dawn of philosophy, the model of substantive difference has stood alongside the model of quantitative difference. Quantitative difference - that is, variance in a single quality according to intensity or quantity - has taken on increasing importance since the early modern and modern eras. This book examines conceptions of difference from ancient times to the present, from Plato to Deleuze. From the dawn of philosophy, the model of substantive difference has stood alongside the model of quantitative difference. Quantitative difference ... |
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Substance and Attribute: Western and Islamic Traditions in Dialogue
ISBN: 9783110328622 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The aim of this volume is to investigate the topic of Substance and Attribute. The way leading to this aim is a dialogue between Islamic and Western Philosophy. Our project is motivated by the observation that the historical roots of Islamic and of Western Philosophy are very similar. Thus some of the articles in this volume are dedicated to the history of philosophy, in Islamic thinking as well as in Western traditions. But the dialogue between Islamic and Western Philosophy is not only an historical issue, it also has systematic relevance for actual philosophical questions. The topic... The aim of this volume is to investigate the topic of Substance and Attribute. The way leading to this aim is a dialogue between Islamic and Wester... |
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Consciousness and Subjectivity
ISBN: 9783110325133 / Angielski / Twarda / 363 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Issues of subjectivity and consciousness are dealt with in very different ways in the analytic tradition and in the idealistic-phenomenological tradition central to continental philosophy. This book brings together analytically inspired philosophers working on the continent with English-speaking philosophers to address specific issues regarding subjectivity and consciousness. The issues range from acquaintance and immediacy in perception and apperception, to the role of agency in bodily 'mine-ness', to self-determination (Selbstbestimmung) through (free) action. Thus involving philosophers... Issues of subjectivity and consciousness are dealt with in very different ways in the analytic tradition and in the idealistic-phenomenological tra... |
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Wittgensteins Philosophie der Mathematik
ISBN: 9783110323870 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This series provides a forum for cutting-edge studies in logic and the modern philosophy of language as well as for publications in the field of analytical metaphysics. This series provides a forum for cutting-edge studies in logic and the modern philosophy of language as well as for publications in the field of an... |
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Language and State: An Inquiry into the Progress of Civilization
ISBN: 9780761862000 / Angielski / Twarda / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book argues that a primitive society is formed on the basis of kinship ties while a civilized society is formed on the basis of linguistic communication. When humans communicate with each other through language, they extend the distance of communication. The extension of communication distance helps expand communities. States are gradually formed. This means that as these communities grow, they become too large to be supported only by the ties of kinship. The use of language and the development of linguistic communication underlies the establishment of governments, the introduction of ...
This book argues that a primitive society is formed on the basis of kinship ties while a civilized society is formed on the basis of linguistic commun...
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Philosophical and Linguistic Analyses of Reference
ISBN: 9783631662649 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of papers that provide philosophical and linguistic analyses of reference. It discusses topics discussed include different types of reference, problems of identity, indexicality, reference fixing and descriptions. It also discuss the approaches proposed by Gottlob Frege, Donald Davidson, and Saul Kripke.
A collection of papers that provide philosophical and linguistic analyses of reference. It discusses topics discussed include different types of refer...
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Philosophy and Grammar: Papers on the Occasion of the Quincentennial of Uppsala University
ISBN: 9789400990142 / Angielski / Miękka / 165 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Among the several dozens of symposia held on the occasion of the quincentennial of U ppsala University, there was included one symposium devoted to the theme of 'Philosophy and Grammar'. A selection of the most important papers delivered at this symposium have been collected in this volume. The papers need no introduction, but the inclusion of two of them in this collection requires a brief comment. First, the paper by von Wright, although not directly concerned with the central topic of the symposium, has been included because it was the terminating speech of the six parallel symposia...
Among the several dozens of symposia held on the occasion of the quincentennial of U ppsala University, there was included one symposium devoted to th...
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The Cogito and Hermeneutics: The Question of the Subject in Ricoeur: The Question of the Subject in Ricoeur
ISBN: 9789401067744 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. by Paul Ricoeur It is already a piece of good fortune to find oneself understood by a reader who is at once demanding and benevolent. It is an even greater fortune to be better understood by another than by one's own self. In effect, when I look back, I am rather struck by the discontinuity among my works, each of which takes on a specific problem and apparently has little more in common with its predecessor than the fact of having left an overflow of unanswered questions behind it as a residue. On the contrary, Domenico Jervolino's interpretation of my works, which extend over more than...
by Paul Ricoeur It is already a piece of good fortune to find oneself understood by a reader who is at once demanding and benevolent. It is an even gr...
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