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Word And Plan

by John Macfarlane

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 John MacFarlane gives a novel expressivist account of vagueness and explores its implications for semantics, pragmatics, thought, and disagreement.
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Word And Plan

by John Macfarlane

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 John MacFarlane gives a novel expressivist account of vagueness and explores its implications for semantics, pragmatics, thought, and disagreement.
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Beyond Liberalism

by Prabhat Patnaik

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 Liberalism holds that individual freedom can be realized under capitalism. "Classical liberalism" tends to focus on excessive state interference as the primary threat to freedom. More recent theorists, however, recognize that capitalism, left to itself, would be characterized by mass social ills and argue that state intervention is necessary to guarantee individual freedom. This book is a Marxist critique of liberalism. Prabhat Patnaik demonstrates that liberalism and Marxism provide vastly differing accounts of individual freedom and the forces that restrict it. In the Marxist view, people, contrary to appearances, lack real agency under capitalism. Competition coerces individuals to act according to the impersonal logic of capitalism, making them mere instruments of the system. In this way, capitalism creates universal alienation, and true individual freedom is possible only through overcoming it. Patnaik argues that socialism can secure individual agency in both economic and political spheres, though actually existing socialism has failed in this respect. He also considers what a socialist society should look like: not a planned economy but a highly decentralized system in which citizens are directly involved in taking decisions affecting their lives and enjoy fundamental economic rights as well as political ones. Readable yet rigorous, Beyond Liberalism brings together political philosophy and political economy to offer a renewed vision of socialism.
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Representation - The Birth Of Historical Reality From The Death Of The Past

by Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit

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 Franklin Rudolf Ankersmitâ€"the preeminent figure in the philosophy of history todayâ€"offers a deeply original way of understanding the practice of historical writing and a powerful vindication of history as an empirical discipline.
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Representation - The Birth Of Historical Reality From The Death Of The Past

by Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit

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 What makes historical writing distinctive? In Representation, Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit—the preeminent figure in the philosophy of history today—offers a deeply original way of understanding the practice of historical writing and a powerful vindication of history as an empirical discipline. Based on a new reading of the philosophy of G. W. Leibniz, Ankersmit constructs a rigorous framework for understanding the nature of historical argument. Representation argues that while previous states of affairs have left evidence that can be used to formulate true statements, the past itself is irretrievably lost. A condition of historical writing is that the past as such does not exist. Historical texts are best understood as complex signs that mutually criticize one another to compose a historical reality fundamentally distinct from common-sense notions of the past. Representation casts an entirely new light on fundamental concepts such as historical truth, historical debate, and historical rationality. Cogent, forceful, and provocative, this book is the most ambitious work in the philosophy of history in many years.
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Chomsky Notebook

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 Noam Chomsky applies a rational, scientific approach to disciplines as diverse as linguistics, ethics, and politics. His best-known innovations involve a groundbreaking theory of generative grammar, the revolution it initiated in cognitive science, and a radical encounter with political theory and practice. In Chomsky Notebook, Cedric Boeckx and Norbert Hornstein tackle the evolution of Chomsky's linguistic theory. Akeel Bilgrami revisits Chomsky's work on freedom and truth, and Pierre Jacob analyzes his naturalism. Chomsky's own contributions include an interview with Jean Bricmont and an essay each on Edward Said and the natural world. Altogether, these works reveal the penetrating insight of a remarkable intellectual whose thought extends into a number of fields within and outside of academia. For the uninitiated reader and longtime fan, this anthology attests to the power of Chomsky's rationalism and the dexterity of his critical investigations.
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Rawls'S Political Liberalism

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 Leading figures in politics and philosophy revitalize Rawlsâ€™s prescription for a just society.
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Rawls'S Political Liberalism

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 Leading figures in politics and philosophy revitalize Rawlsâ€™s prescription for a just society.
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Action, Art, History - Engagements With Arthur C. Danto

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 Presenting a collection of essays on Arthur C Danto's philosophy, this book describes his theories of art, action, and history, and the depth of his innovation as a philosopher of culture. It explores the importance of Danto's philosophy and criticism for contemporary art, along with his theories of perception, action, and historical knowledge.
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Truth And The Past

by Michael Dummett

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 In Truth and the Past, Dummett, best known as a proponent of antirealism, clarifies his current positions on the metaphysical issue of realism and the philosophy of language. His three John Dewey Lectures were delivered at Columbia University in the spring of 2002. Revised and expanded, the lectures are presented here along with two new essays.
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Philosophical Retrospective - Facts, Values, And Jewish Identity

by Alan Montefiore

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 This is a book on identity which brings to bear Alan Montefiore's subtle and longstanding philosophical preoccupation with the fact-value distinction on his lifelong individual and intellectual struggle with the question of identity.
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Nature And Future Of Philosophy

by Michael Dummett

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 Setting forth a proposal for renewal and reengagement, Dummett begins by describing the nature of philosophical inquiry as it has developed for centuries, especially its exceptional openness and perspective, which has, ironically, led to our present crisis. He discusses philosophy in relation to science, religion, morality, and more.
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Freedom And Neurobiology - Reflections On Free Will, Language, And Political Power

by John Searle

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 Our self-conception derives mostly from our own experience. We believe ourselves to be conscious, rational, social, ethical, language-using, political agents who possess free will. Yet we know we exist in a universe that consists of mindless, meaningless, unfree, nonrational, brute physical particles. How can we resolve the conflict between these two visions? In Freedom and Neurobiology, the philosopher John Searle discusses the possibility of free will within the context of contemporary neurobiology. He begins by explaining the relationship between human reality and the more fundamental reality as described by physics and chemistry. Then he proposes a neurobiological resolution to the problem by demonstrating how various conceptions of free will have different consequences for the neurobiology of consciousness. In the second half of the book, Searle applies his theory of social reality to the problem of political power, explaining the role of language in the formation of our political reality. The institutional structures that organize, empower, and regulate our lives-money, property, marriage, government-consist in the assignment and collective acceptance of certain statuses to objects and people. Whether it is the president of the United States, a twenty-dollar bill, or private property, these entities perform functions as determined by their status in our institutional reality. Searle focuses on the political powers that exist within these systems of status functions and the way in which language constitutes them. Searle argues that consciousness and rationality are crucial to our existence and that they are the result of the biological evolution of our species. He addresses the problem of free will within the context of a neurobiological conception of consciousness and rationality, and he addresses the problem of political power within the context of this analysis. A clear and concise contribution to the free-will debate and the study of cognition, Freedom and Neurobiology is essential reading for students and scholars of the philosophy of mind.
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Naturalism And Normativity

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 Normativity concerns what we ought to think or do and the evaluations we make. For scientific naturalists the moral is reached by reducing the normative to the nonnormative. For orthodox nonnaturalists the moral is found in the transcendent realm of norms. This book challenges both sides of this debate.
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What Kind Of Creatures Are We?

by Noam Chomsky

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Beyond Liberalism

by Prabhat (Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University) Patnaik

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 This book is a Marxist critique of liberalism. Prabhat Patnaik brings together political philosophy and political economy to offer a renewed vision of socialism.
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Beyond Liberalism

by Prabhat (Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University) Patnaik

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 This book is a Marxist critique of liberalism. Prabhat Patnaik brings together political philosophy and political economy to offer a renewed vision of socialism.
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Representation - The Birth Of Historical Reality From The Death Of The Past

by Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit

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 Franklin Rudolf Ankersmitâ€"the preeminent figure in the philosophy of history todayâ€"offers a deeply original way of understanding the practice of historical writing and a powerful vindication of history as an empirical discipline.
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What Kind Of Creatures Are We?

by Noam Chomsky

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 Addressing the most fundamental themes defining our humanity: the uniquely human capacity for language, the nature and limits of the human mind, and the possibilities for the common good in human society and politics.
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Rawls'S Political Liberalism

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 Leading figures in politics and philosophy revitalize Rawlsâ€™s prescription for a just society.
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A Philosophical Retrospective - Facts, Values, And Jewish Identity

by Alan Montefiore

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 This is a book on identity which brings to bear Alan Montefiore's subtle and longstanding philosophical preoccupation with the fact-value distinction on his lifelong individual and intellectual struggle with the question of identity.
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Naturalism And Normativity

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 Normativity concerns what we ought to think or do and the evaluations we make. For scientific naturalists the moral is reached by reducing the normative to the nonnormative. For orthodox nonnaturalists the moral is found in the transcendent realm of norms. This book challenges both sides of this debate.
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Naturalism And Normativity

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 Normativity concerns what we ought to think or do and the evaluations we make. For scientific naturalists the moral is reached by reducing the normative to the nonnormative. For orthodox nonnaturalists the moral is found in the transcendent realm of norms. This book challenges both sides of this debate.
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The Nature And Future Of Philosophy

by Michael Dummett

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