Philosophy of language books

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Understanding Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Understanding Wittgenstein's Tractatus

Author: Pasquale Frascolla
ISBN: 9780415591492
Format: Paperback
$96.99

Recognised as one of the most argued over texts in twentieth-century philosophy, the Tractatus is explored in detail...  Read More >>

Lexical Meaning in Context: A Web of Words

Lexical Meaning in Context: A Web of Words

Author: Nicholas Asher (University of Texas, Austin)
ISBN: 9780511793936
Format: Undefined
$435.60

What is a word? In some sense the answer is obvious: words are things dictionaries try to define. This book offers...  Read More >>

In the Name of the Profit Fyg

In the Name of the Profit Fyg

Author: Louise Goueffic
ISBN: 9780986772313
Format: Paperback
$10.56

In the Name of the Profit Fyg is a symbolic representation of how easily language can be manipulated to advantage...  Read More >>

Meaning, Mind, and Matter: Philosophical Essays

Meaning, Mind, and Matter: Philosophical Essays

Author: Ernie Lepore (Rutgers University) ,  Barry Loewer (Rutgers University)
ISBN: 9780199580781
Format: Hardback
$150.95

Ernie Lepore and Barry Loewer present a series of papers on three key ideas of contemporary philosophy: that a theory...  Read More >>

Following the Rules: Practical Reasoning and Deontic Constraint

Following the Rules: Practical Reasoning and Deontic...

Author: Joseph Heath (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9780199768332
Format: Paperback
$102.95

In Following the Rules, Joseph Heath shows how rule-following can be understood as an essential element of rational...  Read More >>

Linguistic Relativities: Language Diversity and Modern Thought

Linguistic Relativities: Language Diversity and Modern...

Author: John Leavitt (Professor, Université de Montréal)
ISBN: 9780511975059
Format: Undefined
$435.60

Does the language you speak influence your thought and world view? This book offers a history of responses to this...  Read More >>

Killing in War

Killing in War

Author: Jeff McMahan (, Rutgers University, New Jersey)
ISBN: 9780199603572
Format: Paperback
$40.95

Jeff McMahan urges us to reject the view, dominant throughout history, that mere participation in an unjust war...  Read More >>

Wittgenstein's Notes on Logic

Wittgenstein's Notes on Logic

Author: Michael Potter (Cambridge University)
ISBN: 9780199596355
Format: Paperback
$87.95

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Language and the Ineffable: A Developmental Perspective and Its Applications

Language and the Ineffable: A Developmental Perspective...

Author: Louis S. Berger
ISBN: 9780739147139
Format: Hardback
$129.95

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Degradation: What the History of Obscenity Tells Us about Hate Speech

Degradation: What the History of Obscenity Tells Us...

Author: Kevin W. Saunders
ISBN: 9780814741443
Format: Hardback
$109.00

Traces the legal trajectory of degradation as it moved from sexual depiction to hateful speech  Read More >>

The Theory of Descriptions: Russell and the Philosophy of Language

The Theory of Descriptions: Russell and the Philosophy...

Author: G. Stevens ,  Kenneth A. Loparo
ISBN: 9781349299362
Format: Paperback
$232.85

The book combines a historical and philosophical study of Russell's theory of descriptions. It defends, develops...  Read More >>

The Concept of Truth

The Concept of Truth

Author: R. Campbell
ISBN: 9781349334247
Format: Paperback
$116.41

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Dictionary of Logic as Applied in the Study of Language: Concepts/Methods/Theories

Dictionary of Logic as Applied in the Study of Language:...

Author: W. Marciszewski
ISBN: 9789048182572
Format: Paperback
$789.36

Each article is divided into numbered sections, the numbers, in boldface type, being addresses to which we refer....  Read More >>

Meaning and Context

Meaning and Context

Author: Luca Baptista ,  Erich Rast
ISBN: 9783034305747
Format: Paperback
$176.47

Suitable for philosophers, linguists, and graduate students of philosophy of language and linguistics, this title...  Read More >>

Logic and Language: Studies dedicated to Professor Rudolf Carnap on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday

Logic and Language: Studies dedicated to Professor Rudolf...

Author: B.H. Kazemier ,  D. Vuysje
ISBN: 9789048183197
Format: Paperback
$311.52

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The Structure and Growth of Scientific Knowledge: A Study in the Methodology of Epistemic Appraisal

The Structure and Growth of Scientific Knowledge: A...

Author: G.L. Pandit
ISBN: 9789048183753
Format: Paperback
$525.36

Professor Pandit, working among the admirable group of philosophers at the University of Delhi, has written a fundamental...  Read More >>

Metaphor and Cognition: An Interactionist Approach

Metaphor and Cognition: An Interactionist Approach

Author: B. Indurkhya
ISBN: 9789048141463
Format: Paperback
$947.76

Many metaphors go beyond pionting to the existing similarities between two objects -- they create the similarities....  Read More >>

Central Banks and Coded Language: Risks and Benefits

Central Banks and Coded Language: Risks and Benefits...

Author: Elke Muchlinski
ISBN: 9781349312672
Format: Paperback
$116.41

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The Dawn of Cognitive Science: Early European Contributors

The Dawn of Cognitive Science: Early European Contributors...

Author: L. Albertazzi
ISBN: 9789048156467
Format: Paperback
$514.80

Current debate in cognitive science, from robotics to analysis of vision, deals with problems like the perception...  Read More >>

The Natural Background of Meaning

The Natural Background of Meaning

Author: A. Denkel
ISBN: 9789048151264
Format: Paperback
$372.24

In The Natural Background to Meaning Denkel argues that meaning in language is an outcome of the evolutionary development...  Read More >>

What is Negation?

What is Negation?

Author: Dov M. Gabbay ,  Heinrich Wansing
ISBN: 9789048151691
Format: Paperback
$683.76

Michael Dunn in Chapter 2 (A Comparative Study of Various Model-theoretic Treatments of Negation: A History of Formal...  Read More >>

Truth and Its Nature (if Any)

Truth and Its Nature (if Any)

Author: J. Peregrin
ISBN: 9789048152803
Format: Paperback
$345.84

This implied that truth (and consequently semantic concepts to which truth appeared to be reducible) proved itself...  Read More >>

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