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  • The Inessential Indexical: On the Philosophical Insignificance of Perspective and the First Person

    On the Philosophical Insignificance of Perspective and the First Person

    by Herman Cappelen, Josh Dever ...
    Series series Context And Content
    When we represent the world in language, in thought, or in perception, we often represent it from a perspective. We say and think that the meeting is happening now, that it is hot here, that I am in danger and not you; that the tree looks larger from my perspective than from yours. The Inessential Indexical is an exploration and defense of the view that perspectivality is a philosophically shallow ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Bad Language

    by Herman Cappelen, Josh Dever ...
    Series series Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy of Language
    When theorizing about language, we tend to assume that speakers are cooperative, honest, helpful, and so on. This, of course, isn't remotely true of a lot of real-world language use. Bad Language is the first textbook to explore non-idealized language use, the linguistic behaviour of those who exploit language for malign purposes. Two eminent philosophers of language present a lively and ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Concept of Democracy

    An Essay on Conceptual Amelioration and Abandonment

    by Herman Cappelen ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. If we don't know what the words 'democracy' and 'democratic' mean, then we don't know what democracy is. This book defends a radical view: these words mean nothing and should be ... Read more

    $66.99 CAD

  • Making AI Intelligible

    Philosophical Foundations

    by Herman Cappelen, Josh Dever ...
    Can humans and artificial intelligences share concepts and communicate? Making AI Intelligible shows that philosophical work on the metaphysics of meaning can help answer these questions. Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever use the externalist tradition in philosophy to create models of how AIs and humans can understand each other. In doing so, they illustrate ways in which that philosophical tradition ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Puzzles of Reference

    by Herman Cappelen, Josh Dever ...
    Series series Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy of Language
    It is a fundamental feature of language that words refer to things. Much attention has been devoted to the nature of reference, both in philosophy and in linguistics. Puzzles of Reference is the first book to give a comprehensive accessible survey of the fascinating work on this topic from the 1970s to the present day. Written by two eminent philosophers of language, Puzzles of Reference offers an ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Context and Communication

    by Herman Cappelen, Josh Dever ...
    Series series Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy of Language
    Context and Communication offers an introduction to a central theme in the study of language: the various ways in which what we say (or ask, or think) depends on the context of speech and thought. The period since 1970 has produced a vast literature on this topic, both by philosophers and by linguists. It is one of the areas of philosophy (and linguistics) where most progress has been made over ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Fixing Language

    An Essay on Conceptual Engineering

    by Herman Cappelen ...
    This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International licence Herman Cappelen investigates ways in which language (and other representational devices) can be defective, and how they can be improved. In all parts of philosophy there are ... Read more

    $56.79 CAD

  • Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics

    Edited by Alexis Burgess, Herman Cappelen, David Plunkett ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Conceptual engineering and conceptual ethics are branches of philosophy concerned with questions about how to assess and ameliorate our representational devices (such as concepts and ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology

    Edited by Herman Cappelen, John Hawthorne, Tamar Szabó Gendler ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    This is the most comprehensive book ever published on philosophical methodology. A team of thirty-eight of the world's leading philosophers present original essays on various aspects of how philosophy should be and is done. The first part is devoted to broad traditions and approaches to philosophical methodology (including logical empiricism, phenomenology, and ordinary language philosophy). The ... Read more

    $155.99 CAD

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  • Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly

    by Judith Butler ...
    A Times Higher Education Book of the Week Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions, analyzing what they signify and how. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, Butler extends her theory of performativity to argue that precarity—the destruction of the conditions of livability—has been a galvanizing force ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Philosopher's Toolkit

    A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods

    by Julian Baggini, Peter S. Fosl ...
    The second edition of this popular compendium provides the necessary intellectual equipment to engage with and participate in effective philosophical argument, reading, and reflectionFeatures significantly revised, updated and expanded entries, and an entirely new section drawn from methods in the history of philosophyThis edition has a broad, pluralistic approach--appealing to readers in both ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • 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

    $87.99 CAD