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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Changing Valency
This book provides a general perspective on valency-changing mechanisms - passives, antipassives, causatives, applicatives - in the languages of the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ulysses Unbound
Common sense suggests that it is always preferable to have more options than fewer, and better to have more knowledge than less. This provocative...
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Transformations of Mind
The book offers a conception of philosophy as a form of self-enquiry which begins not in reflection, but in silence and meditation, conceived as...
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An Independent Study Guide to Reading Latin
Reading Latin, written by Peter V. Jones and Keith C. Sidwell and published by Cambridge University Press in 1986, is a Latin course designed to help...
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Tone Sandhi
Matthew Chen’s study offers a most comprehensive analysis of the rich and complex patterns of tone used in Chinese languages. Chinese has a wide...
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Transformations of Mind
The book offers a conception of philosophy as a form of self-enquiry which begins not in reflection, but in silence and meditation, conceived as...
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Virgil on the Nature of Things
The Georgics has for many years been a source of fierce controversy among scholars of Latin literature. Is the work optimistic or pessimistic, pro-...
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Plato and the Hero
Plato’s thinking on courage, manliness and heroism is both profound and central to his work, but these areas of his thought remain under-explored....
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Modern American Drama, 1945–2000
In this new edition of the widely-acclaimed Modern American Drama, Christopher Bigsby completes his survey of postwar and contemporary theatre and...
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Voltaire: Treatise on Tolerance
Voltaire is widely known as the author of a literary masterpiece, Candide, while his reputation as a thinker rests largely on his Philosophical...
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Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato
This book explores the dynamic relationship between myth and philosophy in the Presocratics, the Sophists, and in Plato - a relationship which is...
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Modern American Drama, 1945–2000
In this new edition of the widely-acclaimed Modern American Drama, Christopher Bigsby completes his survey of postwar and contemporary theatre and...
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Voltaire: Treatise on Tolerance
Voltaire is widely known as the author of a literary masterpiece, Candide, while his reputation as a thinker rests largely on his Philosophical...
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The Classical Plot and the Invention of Western Narrative
From Homer to Hollywood, the western storytelling tradition has canonised a distinctive set of narrative values characterised by tight economy and...
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Chicano Drama
This is the first book since Jorge Huerta’s earlier study Chicano Theater: Themes and Forms to explore the diversity and energy of Chicano theatre....
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Foundations of Natural Right
In the history of philosophy, Fichte’s thought marks a crucial transitional stage between Kant and post-Kantian philosophy. Fichte radicalized...
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