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Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture
This book provides a distinctive account of Edward Said’s critique of modern culture by highlighting the religion-secularism distinction on which... Les mer
Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture
This book provides a distinctive account of Edward Said’s critique of modern culture by highlighting the religion-secularism distinction on which... Les mer
New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind
This book is an outstanding contribution to the philosophical study of language and mind, by one of the most influential thinkers of our time. In a... Les mer
Aristotle in China
In this book, Robert Wardy, a philosopher and classicist, turns his attention to the relation between language and thought. He explores this huge... Les mer
New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind
This book is an outstanding contribution to the philosophical study of language and mind, by one of the most influential thinkers of our time. In a... Les mer
On Clear and Confused Ideas
Written by one of today’s most creative and innovative philosophers, Ruth Garrett Millikan, this book examines basic empirical concepts; how they... Les mer
Politics and Aesthetics in the Arts
This volume brings together new essays from distinguished scholars in a variety of disciplines - philosophy, history, literary studies, art history -... Les mer
Using Japanese
This is a guide to Japanese usage for students who have already acquired the basics of the language and wish to extend their knowledge. Unlike... Les mer
On Clear and Confused Ideas
Written by one of today’s most creative and innovative philosophers, Ruth Garrett Millikan, this book examines basic empirical concepts; how they... Les mer
Using Japanese
This is a guide to Japanese usage for students who have already acquired the basics of the language and wish to extend their knowledge. Unlike... Les mer
Number
Number is the most underestimated of the grammatical categories. It is deceptively simple yet the number system which philosophers, logicians and... Les mer
Philosophy, the Good, the True and the Beautiful
Discussions of value play a central role in contemporary philosophy. This book considers the role of values in truth seeking, in morality, in... Les mer
The Morphology of Chinese
This ground breaking study dispels the common belief that Chinese doesn’t have words but instead has characters. Jerome Packard’s book provides a... Les mer
Number
Number is the most underestimated of the grammatical categories. It is deceptively simple yet the number system which philosophers, logicians and... Les mer
The Critique of Theological Reason
Far from merely reinvigorating relativism, postmodernism has detected and expressed in our time a powerful nihilating process of which truth and... Les mer
Theories of Vagueness
Most expressions in natural language are vague. But what is the best semantic treatment of terms like ‘heap’, ‘red’ and ‘child’? And what... Les mer
The Evolutionary Emergence of Language
Language has no counterpart in the animal world. Unique to Homo sapiens, it appears inseparable from human nature. But how, when and why did it... Les mer
Putting Skeptics in their Place
This book is about the nature of skeptical arguments and their role in philosophical inquiry. John Greco delineates three main theses: that a number... Les mer
Biolinguistics
This book investigates the nature of human language and its importance for the study of the mind. In particular, it examines current work on the... Les mer
Perception, Knowledge and Belief
This collection of essays by eminent philosopher Fred Dretske brings together work on the theory of knowledge and philosophy of mind spanning thirty... Les mer
Changing Valency
This book provides a general perspective on valency-changing mechanisms - passives, antipassives, causatives, applicatives - in the languages of the... Les mer
Perception, Knowledge and Belief
This collection of essays by eminent philosopher Fred Dretske brings together work on the theory of knowledge and philosophy of mind spanning thirty... Les mer
Studies in Contemporary Phrase Structure Grammar
This book explores a wide variety of theoretically central issues in the framework of Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), a major theory of... Les mer
The Classification of Visual Art
This book is an important contribution to the philosophy of art that bridges the disciplines of philosophy and art. It engages with a long-standing... Les mer