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  • Giving a Damn

    Essays in Dialogue with John Haugeland

    Edited by Zed Adams, Jacob Browning ...
    A collection of essays that use John Haugeland's work on intentionality, embodiment, objectivity, and caring to explore contemporary issues in philosophy of mind.In his work, the philosopher John Haugeland (1945–2010) proposed a radical expansion of philosophy's conceptual toolkit, calling for a wider range of resources for understanding the mind, the world, and how they relate. Haugeland argued ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • On the Genealogy of Color

    A Case Study in Historicized Conceptual Analysis

    by Zed Adams ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    In On the Genealogy of Color, Zed Adams argues for a historicized approach to conceptual analysis, by exploring the relevance of the history of color science for contemporary philosophical debates about color realism. Adams contends that two prominent positions in these debates, Cartesian anti-realism and Oxford realism, are both predicated on the assumption that the concept of color is ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

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  • Introduction to Phenomenology

    by Robert Sokolowski ...
    This book presents the major philosophical doctrines of phenomenology in a clear, lively style with an abundance of examples. The book examines such phenomena as perception, pictures, imagination, memory, language, and reference, and shows how human thinking arises from experience. It also studies personal identity as established through time and discusses the nature of philosophy. In addition to ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Philosophy

    by BarCharts,Inc ...
    This guide outlines concepts and principles of philosophy in an easy to understand format. Topics covered in this guide include: metaphysics, mind body problems, language games and much more. ... Read more

    $4.95 USD

  • The View From Nowhere

    by Thomas Nagel ...
    Human beings have the unique ability to view the world in a detached way: We can think about the world in terms that transcend our own experience or interest, and consider the world from a vantage point that is, in Nagel's words, "nowhere in particular". At the same time, each of us is a particular person in a particular place, each with his own "personal" view of the world, a view that we can ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Last Word

    by Thomas Nagel ...
    If there is such a thing as reason, it has to be universal. Reason must reflect objective principles whose validity is independent of our point of view--principles that anyone with enough intelligence ought to be able to recognize as correct. But this generality of reason is what relativists and subjectivists deny in ever-increasing numbers. And such subjectivism is not just an inconsequential ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Pragmatics

    by Stephen C. Levinson ...
    Series series Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
    Those aspects of language use that are crucial to an understanding of language as a system, and especially to an understanding of meaning, are the acknowledged concern of linguistic pragmatics. This textbook provides a lucid and integrative analysis of the central topics in pragmatics - deixis, implicature, presupposition, speech acts, and conversational structure. A central concern of the book is ... Read more

    $78.79 USD

  • Introduction to the Reading of Lacan

    The Unconscious Structured Like a Language

    by Joel Dor ...
    Series series Lacanian Clinical Field
    About this Book..."A major and long overdue addition to the America/English psychoanalytic literature. . . . All major concepts—among them the mirror stage, the Name-of-the-Father, metaphor and metonymy, the phallus, the foreclosure of the subject—are developed in depth."-Nicholas Kouretsas, Harvard Medical School ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Epistemology

    A Contemporary Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge

    by Robert Audi ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
    Epistemology, or “the theory of knowledge,” is concerned with how we know what we know, what justifies us in believing what we believe, and what standards of evidence we should use in seeking truths about the world and human experience. This comprehensive introduction to the field of epistemology explains the concepts and theories central to understanding knowledge. Along with covering the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • LOT 2 : The Language of Thought Revisited

    The Language of Thought Revisited

    by Jerry A. Fodor ...
    Jerry Fodor presents a new development of his famous Language of Thought hypothesis which has since the 1970s been at the centre of interdisciplinary debate about how the mind works. Fodor defends and extends the groundbreaking idea that thinking is couched in a symbolic system realized in the brain. This idea is central to the representational theory of mind which Fodor has established as a key ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Quine

    by Christopher Hookway ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the work of Willard van Orman Quine, the most important and influential American philosopher of the post-war period. An understanding of Quine's work is essential for anyone who wishes to follow contemporary debates in the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind and metaphysics.Hookway traces the development of Quine's work from ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • The Waning of Materialism

    Edited by Robert C. Koons, George Bealer ...
    Twenty-three philosophers examine the doctrine of materialism find it wanting. The case against materialism comprises arguments from conscious experience, from the unity and identity of the person, from intentionality, mental causation, and knowledge. The contributors include leaders in the fields of philosophy of mind, metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology, who respond ably to the most recent ... Read more

    $55.79 USD