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“dr david tan”

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  • Communication and Legal Interpretation

    by Dr David Tan ...
    Is reading a statute or constitutional provision the same act as reading an email or a text message? This book analyses and develops legal communicative theories which answer in the affirmative – language, not morality or fairness, is the primary consideration for legal interpretation.According to these theories, the aim of legal interpretation is to focus on what was communicated through language ... Read more

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  • Informal Logic

    A Pragmatic Approach

    by Douglas Walton ...
    Second edition of the introductory guidebook to the basic principles of constructing sound arguments and criticising bad ones. Non-technical in approach, it is based on 186 examples, which Douglas Walton, a leading authority in the field of informal logic, discusses and evaluates in clear, illustrative detail. Walton explains how errors, fallacies, and other key failures of argument occur. He ... Read more

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  • Chomsky

    Language, Mind and Politics

    by James McGilvray ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    Noam Chomsky has made major contributions to three fields: political history and analysis, linguistics, and the philosophies of mind, language, and human nature. In this thoroughly revised and updated volume, James McGilvray provides a critical introduction to Chomsky's work in these three key areas and assesses their continuing importance and relevance for today.In an incisive and comprehensive ... Read more

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  • Expressivism, Pragmatism and Representationalism

    by Huw Price, Simon Blackburn, Robert Brandom, Paul Horwich, Michael Williams ...
    Pragmatists have traditionally been enemies of representationalism but friends of naturalism, when naturalism is understood to pertain to human subjects, in the sense of Hume and Nietzsche. In this volume Huw Price presents his distinctive version of this traditional combination, as delivered in his René Descartes Lectures at Tilburg University in 2008. Price contrasts his view with other ... Read more

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  • Methods of Argumentation

    by Douglas Walton ...
    Argumentation, which can be abstractly defined as the interaction of different arguments for and against some conclusion, is an important skill to learn for everyday life, law, science, politics and business. The best way to learn it is to try it out on real instances of arguments found in everyday conversational exchanges and legal argumentation. The introductory chapter of this book gives a ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Philosophical Foundations of Language in the Law

    Edited by Andrei Marmor, Scott Soames ...
    Series series Philosophical Foundations of Law
    This collection brings together the best contemporary philosophical work in the area of intersection between philosophy of language and the law. Some of the contributors are philosophers of language who are interested in applying advances in philosophy of language to legal issues, and some of the participants are philosophers of law who are interested in applying insights and theories from ... Read more

    $46.39 CAD

  • Set-Theoretic Methods for the Social Sciences

    A Guide to Qualitative Comparative Analysis

    by Carsten Q. Schneider, Claudius Wagemann ...
    Series series Strategies for Social Inquiry
    Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and other set-theoretic methods distinguish themselves from other approaches to the study of social phenomena by using sets and the search for set relations. In virtually all social science fields, statements about social phenomena can be framed in terms of set relations, and using set-theoretic methods to investigate these statements is therefore highly ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Metaethics

    An Introduction

    by Alexander Miller ...
    This new edition of Alexander Miller’s highly readable introduction to contemporary metaethics provides a critical overview of the main arguments and themes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century contemporary metaethics. Miller traces the development of contemporary debates in metaethics from their beginnings in the work of G. E. Moore up to the most recent arguments between naturalism and non ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Authority in Language

    Investigating Standard English

    by James Milroy, Lesley Milroy ...
    Series series Routledge Linguistics Classics
    Authority in Language explores the perennially topical and controversial notion of correct and incorrect language.James and Lesley Milroy cover the long-running debate over the teaching of Standard English in Britain and compare the language ideologies in Britain and the USA, involving a discussion of the English-Only movement and the Ebonics controversy. They consider the historical process of ... Read more

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  • The Ant Trap

    Rebuilding the Foundations of the Social Sciences

    by Brian Epstein ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Science
    We live in a world of crowds and corporations, artworks and artifacts, legislatures and languages, money and markets. These are all social objects - they are made, at least in part, by people and by communities. But what exactly are these things? How are they made, and what is the role of people in making them? In The Ant Trap, Brian Epstein rewrites our understanding of the nature of the social ... Read more

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  • Foundations in Sociolinguistics

    An ethnographic approach

    Edited by Dell Hymes ...
    Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Argumentation Schemes for Presumptive Reasoning

    by Douglas Walton ...
    Recent concerns with the evaluation of argumentation in informal logic and speech communication center around nondemonstrative arguments that lead to tentative or defeasible conclusions based on a balance of considerations. Such arguments do not appear to have structures of the kind traditionally identified with deductive and inductive reasoning, but are extremely common and are often called ... Read more

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