Philosophy of language books

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Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language

Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with...

Author: Daniel Tammet
ISBN: 9781478991274
Format: Audio
$203.25

This book explores the way communication shapes reality. From the art of translation to the lyricism of sign language,...  Read More >>

Choosing Normative Concepts

Choosing Normative Concepts

Author: Matti Eklund (Uppsala University)
ISBN: 9780191787331
Format: Undefined
$161.04

Theorists working on metaethics and the nature of normativity typically study goodness, rightness, what ought to...  Read More >>

The Philosophical Imagination: Selected Essays

The Philosophical Imagination: Selected Essays

Author: Richard Moran (, Harvard)
ISBN: 9780190633776
Format: Hardback
$156.95

The Philosophical Imagination is a collection of essays ranging over a wide range of philosophical themes: from...  Read More >>

Partiality and Underspecification in Information, Languages, and Knowledge

Partiality and Underspecification in Information, Languages,...

Author: Gemma Bel-Enguix ,  M. Dolores Jimenez-Lopez
ISBN: 9781443879477
Format: Hardback
$311.39

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of technological developments that incorporate processing of human...  Read More >>

Linguistics and Philosophy: An Essay on the Philosophical Constants of Language

Linguistics and Philosophy: An Essay on the Philosophical...

Author: Etienne Gilson ,  John Lyon
ISBN: 9780268160531
Format: Paperback
$105.60

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Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition: Reflections on Nihilism, Information and Art

Lyotard and the Inhuman Condition: Reflections on Nihilism,...

Author: Ashley Woodward
ISBN: 9781474425803
Format: Hardback
$62.07

Ashley Woodward demonstrates what a new generation of scholars are just discovering: that Lyotard's incisive work...  Read More >>

Linguistics and Aphasia: Psycholinguistic and Pragmatic Aspects of Intervention

Linguistics and Aphasia: Psycholinguistic and Pragmatic...

Author: Ruth Lesser ,  Lesley Milroy
ISBN: 9781138457645
Format: Hardback
$378.00

Part of the ""Language in Social Life"" series, this text examines linguistics and aphasia and the psycholinguistic...  Read More >>

The Non-Reificatory Approach to Belief

The Non-Reificatory Approach to Belief

Author: Richard Floyd
ISBN: 9783319598727
Format: Hardback
$263.97

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The Importance of Being Funny: Why We Need More Jokes in Our Lives

The Importance of Being Funny: Why We Need More Jokes...

Author: Al Gini
ISBN: 9781442281769
Format: Hardback
$40.99

As the late, great stand-up comic Joan Rivers put it: ‘If you can laugh at it, you can live with it!’ This book...  Read More >>

Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with Language

Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with...

Author: Daniel Tammet
ISBN: 9781478991304
Format: Audio
$92.40

This book explores the way communication shapes reality. From the art of translation to the lyricism of sign language,...  Read More >>

What Is Rhetoric?

What Is Rhetoric?

Author: Michel Meyer (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
ISBN: 9780191841569
Format: Undefined
$121.31

This book offers a new approach to the principles and functioning of rhetoric. In everyday life, we often debate...  Read More >>

The Inner Voice in Gadamer's Hermeneutics: Mediating Between Modes of Cognition in the Humanities and Sciences

The Inner Voice in Gadamer's Hermeneutics: Mediating...

Author: Andrew Fuyarchuk
ISBN: 9781498547055
Format: Hardback
$238.00

This book addresses the alleged divide between the humanities and sciences. Rather than bridging the divide from...  Read More >>

'And': Conjunction Reduction Redux

'And': Conjunction Reduction Redux

Author: Barry Schein (Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern California)
ISBN: 9780262035637
Format: Hardback
$150.00

A bold argument that “and” always means “&,” the truth-functional sentential connective.  Read More >>

Wisdom & Metaphor

Wisdom & Metaphor

Author: Jan Zwicky
ISBN: 9781550595659
Format: Hardback
$77.63

"In the foreword to Wisdom & Metaphor, Jan Zwicky observes that ""those who think metaphorically are enabled to...  Read More >>

Lyric Philosophy

Lyric Philosophy

Author: Jan Zwicky
ISBN: 9781550595604
Format: Hardback
$122.91

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Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language: Volume II

Handbook of Quantifiers in Natural Language: Volume...

Author: Denis Paperno ,  Edward L. Keenan
ISBN: 9783319443287
Format: Hardback
$724.47

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Filosofia Oculta II: la magia celeste

Filosofia Oculta II: la magia celeste

Author: Francisco Gijon ,  Gloria Lopez de Los Santos
ISBN: 9781974339136
Format: Paperback
$47.26

Enrique Cornelio Agrippa fue un nigromante, astrologo, alquimista, filosofo y galeno que vivio a caballo entre los...  Read More >>

Natural Language and Possible Minds: How Language Uncovers the Cognitive Landscape of Nature

Natural Language and Possible Minds: How Language Uncovers...

Author: Prakash Mondal
ISBN: 9789004316652
Format: Paperback
$200.64

Natural Language and Possible Minds: How Language Uncovers the Cognitive Landscape of Nature examines the intrinsic...  Read More >>

Binomials in the History of English: Fixed and Flexible

Binomials in the History of English: Fixed and Flexible...

Author: Joanna Kopaczyk (University of Edinburgh) ,  Hans Sauer
ISBN: 9781107118478
Format: Hardback
$305.33

This book is aimed at linguists and students interested in the history of English, especially from a genre-oriented...  Read More >>

Rethinking Whitehead s Symbolism: Thought, Language, Culture

Rethinking Whitehead s Symbolism: Thought, Language,...

Author: Roland Faber ,  Jeffrey A. Bell
ISBN: 9781474429566
Format: Hardback
$232.88

11 essays by leading Whitehead scholars re-examinae Whitehead's Barbour-Page lectures, published as the book Symbolism:...  Read More >>

Isn’t that Clever: A Philosophical Account of Humor and Comedy

Isn’t that Clever: A Philosophical Account of Humor...

Author: Steven Gimbel
ISBN: 9781138082151
Format: Hardback
$242.00

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Understanding Predication

Understanding Predication

Author: Piotr Stalmaszczyk ,  Piotr Stalmaszczyk
ISBN: 9783631675410
Format: Hardback
$133.64

This book investigates the linguistic status of predication. The topics discussed include minimalist accounts of...  Read More >>

Moore's Paradox: A Critique of Representationalism

Moore's Paradox: A Critique of Representationalism

Author: Ulla Schmid
ISBN: 9783110554687
Format: Paperback
$29.08

The word belief is widely assumed to designate a special class of mental states, the attitude of representing something...  Read More >>

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