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Published in 1998, this book argues that in recent decades, Anglo-American philosophy of language has been captivated by the idea that the key to progress in this area of philosophy lies in investigating the possibility of constructing a theory of meaning.
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Hadley shifts the debate about animal welfare and rights from its current focus upon contentious claims about value and animal mindedness, to the vocabulary people use to express their concern for the suffering and lives of animals.
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Instead of disappointment with language’s sense-making capacities, Balaska argues that Wittgenstein and Lacan can help us find in this... Læs mere
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Through accessible analyses of Merleau-Ponty’s views of linguistic expression and understanding, and by tracing the evolution of these views throughout the... Læs mere
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Classical Chinese is the most comprehensive and authoritative textbook on the language, literature, philosophy, history, and religion of premodern China. Rigorously and... Læs mere
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This volume brings together experts from a wide range of disciplines to define and describe taboo words and language and to investigate the reasons and... Læs mere
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Explores the ways in which nineteenth-century English poets–Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins–responded creatively to the difference between written and spoken language and the ambiguities involved in writing down their own voices and the melodies of their speech.
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Mark Sainsbury presents an original account of how language works when describing mental states, based on a new theory of what is involved in attributing attitudes like thinking,... Læs mere
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Wylie Breckenridge offers a fresh understanding of the character of visual experience by deploying the methods of semantics. He develops a theory of what we mean by... Læs mere
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Are aesthetic judgements simply expressions of personal preference? If two people disagree about the beauty of a painting are both judgements valid or can someone be... Læs mere
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Trenton Merricks presents an original argument for the existence of propositions, and defends an account of their nature. He draws a variety of controversial conclusions, for instance about... Læs mere
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What counts as the same? This simple question forms the core of how we constitute ourselves as groups and as individuals. This book suggests that... Læs mere