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  • Wollheim, Wittgenstein, and Pictorial Representation

    Seeing-as and Seeing-in

    Edited by Gary Kemp, Gabriele Mras ...
    Pictorial representation is one of the core questions in aesthetics and philosophy of art. What is a picture? How do pictures represent things? This collection of specially commissioned chapters examines the influential thesis that the core of pictorial representation is not resemblance but 'seeing-in', in particular as found in the work of Richard Wollheim.We can see a passing cloud as a rabbit, ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Force, Content and the Unity of the Proposition

    Edited by Gabriele M. Mras, Michael Schmitz ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    This volume advances discussion between critics and defenders of the force-content distinction and opens up new ways of thinking about force and speech acts in relation to the unity problem.The force-content dichotomy has shaped the philosophy of language and mind since the time of Frege and Russell. Isn’t it obvious that, for example, the clauses of a conditional are not asserted and must ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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  • Philosophy of Language

    by Scott Soames ...
    Series series Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy
    In this book one of the world's foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field--its principal achievements, its most pressing current questions, and its most promising future directions. In addition to explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creating a theoretical framework for the study of language, Scott Soames investigates foundational concepts--such ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Godel's Proof

    by Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    'Nagel and Newman accomplish the wondrous task of clarifying the argumentative outline of Kurt Godel's celebrated logic bomb.' – The GuardianIn 1931 the mathematical logician Kurt Godel published a revolutionary paper that challenged certain basic assumptions underpinning mathematics and logic. A colleague of physicist Albert Einstein, his theorem proved that mathematics was partly based on ... Read more

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  • Meaning and Necessity - A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic

    by Rudolf Carnap ...
    The main purpose of this book is the development of a new method for the semantical analysis of meaning, that is, a new method for analyzing and describing the meanings of linguistic expressions. This method, called the method of extension and intension, is developed by modifying and extending certain customary concepts, especially those of class and property. The method will be contrasted with ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations

    A Critical Guide

    Edited by Arif Ahmed ...
    Series series Cambridge Critical Guides
    Published in 1953, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations had a deeply unsettling effect upon our most basic philosophical ideas concerning thought, sensation and language. Its claim that philosophical questions of meaning necessitate a close analysis of the way we use language continues to influence Anglo-American philosophy today. However, its compressed and dialogic prose is not always ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's Being and Time

    Edited by Mark A. Wrathall ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's 'Being and Time' contains seventeen chapters by leading scholars of Heidegger. It is a useful reference work for beginning students, but also explores the central themes of Being and Time with a depth that will be of interest to scholars. The Companion begins with a section-by-section overview of Being and Time and a chapter reviewing the genesis of this ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Four Phenomenological Philosophers

    Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty

    by Christopher Macann ...
    Macann guides the student through the major texts of the four great thinkers of the phenomenological movement. ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Paradoxes

    by Roy T. Cook ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Philosophy
    Paradoxes are arguments that lead from apparently true premises, via apparently uncontroversial reasoning, to a false or even contradictory conclusion. Paradoxes threaten our basic understanding of central concepts such as space, time, motion, infinity, truth, knowledge, and belief.In this volume Roy T Cook provides a sophisticated, yet accessible and entertaining, introduction to the study of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Thought and Language

    by J. M. Moravcsik ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Language
    Originally published in 1990, this book centres on a certain way of surveying a variety of theories of language, and on outlining a new proposal of meaning within the framework set by the survey. One of the key features of both survey and proposal is the insistence on the need to locate theories of language within a large framework that includes questions about the nature of thought and about ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Topics in Commutative Ring Theory

    by John J. Watkins ...
    Topics in Commutative Ring Theory is a textbook for advanced undergraduate students as well as graduate students and mathematicians seeking an accessible introduction to this fascinating area of abstract algebra.Commutative ring theory arose more than a century ago to address questions in geometry and number theory. A commutative ring is a set-such as the integers, complex numbers, or polynomials ... Read more

    $135.99 CAD

  • Metaphor and Continental Philosophy

    From Kant to Derrida

    by Clive Cazeaux ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
    Over the last few decades there has been a phenomenal growth of interest in metaphor as a device which extends or revises our perception of the world. Clive Cazeaux examines the relationship between metaphor, art and science, against the backdrop of modern European philosophy and, in particular, the work of Kant, Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty. He contextualizes recent theories of the cognitive ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD