Search Results

Mental Files In Perspective - Theory, Development, And Neural Foundations

~~54,08€~~ 48,67€ 10% OFF

free shipping

 This book introduces mental files theory and applies it to the development of perspective taking in early childhood.
ENGLISH

Frege'S Detour - An Essay On Meaning, Reference, And Truth

by John Perry

~~21,19€~~ 16,95€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 John Perry offers a rethinking of Frege's seminal contributions to philosophy of language, which had a dominant influence on the subject in the twentieth century. He argues that Frege's famous doctrine of indirect reference led philosophers on a detour, and he advocates a move to a new framework for understanding reference.
ENGLISH

Frege'S Detour - An Essay On Meaning, Reference, And Truth

by John Perry

~~21,19€~~ 16,95€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 John Perry offers a rethinking of Frege's seminal contributions to philosophy of language, which had a dominant influence on the subject in the twentieth century. He argues that Frege's famous doctrine of indirect reference led philosophers on a detour, and he advocates a move to a new framework for understanding reference.
ENGLISH

Conjoining Meanings - Semantics Without Truth Values

by Paul M. Pietroski

~~74,19€~~ 59,35€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Paul M. Pietroski presents an ambitious new account of human languages as generative procedures that respect substantive constraints. He argues that meanings are neither concepts nor extensions, and sentences do not have truth conditions; meanings are composable instructions for how to access and assemble concepts of a special sort.
ENGLISH

Frege'S Detour - An Essay On Meaning, Reference, And Truth

by John (Emeritus Professor Of Philosophy, Stanford University) Perry

68,95€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 John Perry offers a rethinking of Frege's seminal contributions to philosophy of language, which had a dominant influence on the subject in the twentieth century. He argues that Frege's famous doctrine of indirect reference led philosophers on a detour, and he advocates a move to a new framework for understanding reference.
ENGLISH

Fixing Reference

by Imogen Dickie

~~29,14€~~ 23,31€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Imogen Dickie develops an account of aboutness-fixing for thoughts about ordinary objects, and of reference-fixing for the singular terms we use to express them. She explains how relations to objects including perceptual attention, understanding of proper names, and grasp of descriptions do their aboutness-fixing and thought-enabling work.
ENGLISH

Context

by Robert (Massachusetts Institute Of Technology) Stalnaker

41,90€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Robert Stalnaker explores the contexts in which speech takes place, the ways we represent them, and the roles they play in explaining the interpretation and dynamics of speech. His central thesis is the autonomy of pragmatics: the independence of theory about structure and function of discourse from theory about mechanisms serving those functions.
ENGLISH

The Mirror Of The World - Subjects, Consciousness, And Self-Consciousness

by Christopher (Columbia University) Peacocke

47,30€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Christopher Peacocke presents a new theory of subjects of consciousness, together with a theory of the nature of first person representation. He identifies three sorts of self-consciousness--perspectival, reflective, and interpersonal--and argues that they are key to explaining features of our knowledge, social relations, and emotional lives.
ENGLISH

Assessment Sensitivity - Relative Truth And Its Applications

by John (University Of California, Berkeley) Macfarlane

52,03€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 John MacFarlane explores how we might make sense of the idea that truth is relative. He provides new, satisfying accounts of parts of our thought and talk that have resisted traditional methods of analysis, including what we mean when we talk about what is tasty, what we know, what will happen, what might be the case, and what we ought to do.
ENGLISH

Fixing Reference

by Imogen (University Of Toronto) Dickie

120,32€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Imogen Dickie develops an account of aboutness-fixing for thoughts about ordinary objects, and of reference-fixing for the singular terms we use to express them. She explains how relations to objects including perceptual attention, understanding of proper names, and grasp of descriptions do their aboutness-fixing and thought-enabling work.
ENGLISH

The Inessential Indexical - On The Philosophical Insignificance Of Perspective And The First Person

by Herman (University Of St Andrews) Cappelen e Josh (University Of Texas At Austin) Dever

42,57€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Cappelen and Dever present a forceful challenge to the standard view that perspective, and in particular the perspective of the first person, is a philosophically deep aspect of the world. Their goal is not to show that we need to explain indexical and other perspectival phenomena in different ways, but to show that the entire topic is an illusion.
ENGLISH

Propositional Content

by Peter (University Of Minnesota) Hanks

97,34€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Peter Hanks defends a new theory about the nature of propositional content, according to which the basic bearers of representational properties are particular mental or spoken actions. He explains the unity of propositions and provides new solutions to a long list of puzzles and problems in philosophy of language.
ENGLISH

Context

by Robert Stalnaker

~~29,14€~~ 23,31€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Robert Stalnaker explores the contexts in which speech takes place, the ways we represent them, and the roles they play in explaining the interpretation and dynamics of speech. His central thesis is the autonomy of pragmatics: the independence of theory about structure and function of discourse from theory about mechanisms serving those functions.
ENGLISH

Assessment Sensitivity - Relative Truth And Its Applications

by John Macfarlane

~~35,76€~~ 28,61€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 John MacFarlane explores how we might make sense of the idea that truth is relative. He provides new, satisfying accounts of parts of our thought and talk that have resisted traditional methods of analysis, including what we mean when we talk about what is tasty, what we know, what will happen, what might be the case, and what we ought to do.
ENGLISH

Context

by Robert (Massachusetts Institute Of Technology) Stalnaker

77,06€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Robert Stalnaker explores the contexts in which speech takes place, the ways we represent them, and the roles they play in explaining the interpretation and dynamics of speech. His central thesis is the autonomy of pragmatics: the independence of theory about structure and function of discourse from theory about mechanisms serving those functions.
ENGLISH

Mirror Of The World - Subjects, Consciousness, And Self-Consciousness

by Christopher Peacocke

~~31,79€~~ 25,43€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Christopher Peacocke presents a new theory of subjects of consciousness, together with a theory of the nature of first person representation. He identifies three sorts of self-consciousness--perspectival, reflective, and interpersonal--and argues that they are key to explaining features of our knowledge, social relations, and emotional lives.
ENGLISH

Inessential Indexical - On The Philosophical Insignificance Of Perspective And The First Person

by Herman Cappelen e Josh Dever

~~29,14€~~ 23,31€ 20% OFF + 5% CARD

 Cappelen and Dever present a forceful challenge to the standard view that perspective, and in particular the perspective of the first person, is a philosophically deep aspect of the world. Their goal is not to show that we need to explain indexical and other perspectival phenomena in different ways, but to show that the entire topic is an illusion.
ENGLISH

The Mirror Of The World - Subjects, Consciousness, And Self-Consciousness

by Christopher (Columbia University) Peacocke

106,80€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Christopher Peacocke presents a new theory of subjects of consciousness, together with a theory of the nature of first person representation. He identifies three sorts of self-consciousness--perspectival, reflective, and interpersonal--and argues that they are key to explaining features of our knowledge, social relations, and emotional lives.
ENGLISH

The Inessential Indexical - On The Philosophical Insignificance Of Perspective And The First Person

by Herman (University Of St Andrews) Cappelen e Josh (University Of Texas At Austin) Dever

101,39€ + 10% CARD

free shipping

 Cappelen and Dever present a forceful challenge to the standard view that perspective, and in particular the perspective of the first person, is a philosophically deep aspect of the world. Their goal is not to show that we need to explain indexical and other perspectival phenomena in different ways, but to show that the entire topic is an illusion.
ENGLISH

Propositional Content

by Peter (University Of Minnesota) Hanks

38,51€

free shipping

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 Peter Hanks defends a new theory about the nature of propositional content, according to which the basic bearers of representational properties are particular mental or spoken actions. He explains the unity of propositions and provides new solutions to a long list of puzzles and problems in philosophy of language.
ENGLISH

Frege'S Detour - An Essay On Meaning, Reference, And Truth

by John (Emeritus Professor Of Philosophy, Stanford University) Perry

32,43€

free shipping

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 John Perry offers a rethinking of Frege's seminal contributions to philosophy of language, which had a dominant influence on the subject in the twentieth century. He argues that Frege's famous doctrine of indirect reference led philosophers on a detour, and he advocates a move to a new framework for understanding reference.
ENGLISH

The Anthropological Lens - Rethinking E. E. Evans-Pritchard

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 A highly illustrated book exploring the work of Sir Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard, widely considered the most influential British anthropologist of the 20th century, through the lens of his fieldwork photography. It offers new insight and a major reinterpreatation of Evans-Pritchard's theoretical contributions to the discipline.
ENGLISH

The Testimony Of Sense - Empiricism And The Essay From Hume To Hazlitt

by Tim (University Of Edinburgh) Milnes

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 This book offers a new account of the relationship between empiricism and the essay in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Exploring topics such as trust, testimony, virtue, and language, it offers new perspectives on connections between philosophy and literature, empiricism and transcendentalism, and Enlightenment and Romanticism.
ENGLISH

The Health Of Refugees - Public Health Perspectives From Crisis To Settlement

OUT OF STOCK OR NOT AVAILABLE

 This book traces the health repercussions on individuals and populations from the moment of forced mass movement due to conflict and other disasters, through to the process of resettlement in other countries. These issues are analysed and addressed within the context of other global public health priorities.
Loading results...

View more results