Products In Philosophy of language (Total Products 49, Showing: 1 -> 20)
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Have you have ever felt at a disadvantage when joining in a conversation on a subject that you aren't confident about? If yes, this new book series is...
Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, this profoundly original work explores the nature of physical suffering. Elaine Scarry bases he...
How propaganda undermines democracy and why we need to pay attentionOur democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media,...
'Some part of me believed I would become a more complete person if I spoke Irish, more in tune with my roots, my identity, my very being.'?
'I was o...
Analytic Philosophy: An Interpretive History explores the ways interpretation (of key figures, factions, texts, etc.) shaped the analytic tradition, ...
Killing a person is in general among the most seriously wrongful forms of action, yet most of us accept that it can be permissible to kill people on a...
Virno's meditation on speech as an intrinsically political practice mediating between biological invariants and changing historical determinations.Ori...
This book looks at how language has evolved around the globe from ancestral proto-languages to our recognisable modern tongues. It demonstrates how la...
At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excell...
In Hayes' book ... she joins the dots between these differing beliefs to help us cultivate a richer shared vocabulary of happiness, and unravels the ...
Der russische Gelehrte Wladimir Admoni (1909-1993) wurde nach dem Erscheinen der ersten Auflage seines Buches »Der deutsche Sprachbau&« im ...
V. N. Volosinov's important work, first published in Russian in 1929, had to wait a generation for recognition. This first paperback edition of the En...
Consider Miles Davis, horn held high, sculpting a powerful musical statement full of tonal patterns, inside jokes, and thrilling climactic phrases-all...
This is a work in Kantian conceptual geography. It explores issues in analytic epistemology, philosophy of language, and metaphysics in particular by ...
T. M. Scanlon offers a qualified defense of normative cognitivism-the view that there are irreducibly normative truths about reasons for action. He re...
'Stuffed with entertaining detail ... Horrible Words is lively, provocative, witty and enlightening' The TimesNothing inflames the language purists li...
The Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us uniquely human. In this compelling book, Michael Corballis argue...
A biography of two troublesome words.Isn't it ironic? Or is it? Never mind, I'm just being sarcastic (or am I?). Irony and sarcasm are two of the most...
We perceive color everywhere and on everything that we encounter in daily life. Color science has progressed to the point where a great deal is known ...
In the blink of an eye, I can redirect my thought from London to Austin, from apples to unicorns, from former president Obama to the mythical flying h...