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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “p kotatko”
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  • Frege: Sense and Reference One Hundred Years Later

    Edited by John Biro, P. Kotatko ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Gottlob Frege's Ü**ber Sinn und Bedeutung (`On Sense and Reference'), has come to be seen, in the century since its publication in 1892, as one of the seminal texts of analytic philosophy. It, along with the rest of Frege's writings on logic and mathematics, came to mark out a whole new domain of inquiry. This volume bears witness to the continuing importance and influence of that agenda. It ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • The Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts

    by Dr Jiri Koten, Dr Emily Troscianko, Dr Thomas Pavel, Dr Martin Pokorny, Dr Fredrik Stjernberg, Professor Werner Wolf, Professor Karel Thein, Professor Enrico Terrone, Professor Marco Caracciolo, Professor Petr Kotatko ...
    The notion of aesthetic illusion relates to a number of art forms and media. Defined as a pleasurable mental state that emerges during the reception of texts and artefacts, it amounts to the reader's or viewer's sense of having entered the represented world while at the same time keeping a distance from it. Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts is an in-depth study of the main questions ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy

    Edited by Frederick C. Beiser ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy examines Hegel within his broader historical and philosophical contexts. Covering all major aspects of Hegel's philosophy, the volume provides an introduction to his logic, epistemology, philosophy of mind, social and political philosophy, philosophy of nature and aesthetics. It includes essays by an internationally recognised team ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Frege on Absolute and Relative Truth

    An Introduction to the Practice of Interpreting Philosophical Texts

    by U. Pardey ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book has two objectives: to be a contribution to the understanding of Frege's theory of truth – especially a defence of his notorious critique of the correspondence theory - and to be an introduction to the practice of interpreting philosophical texts. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Logical Form

    Between Logic and Natural Language

    by Andrea Iacona ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Logical form has always been a prime concern for philosophers belonging to the analytic tradition. For at least one century, the study of logical form has been widely adopted as a method of investigation, relying on its capacity to reveal the structure of thoughts or the constitution of facts. This book focuses on the very idea of logical form, which is directly relevant to any principled ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Nonconformity

    Writing on Writing

    by Nelson Algren, C.S. O'Brien, Dan Simon ...
    The struggle to write with deep emotion is the subject of this extraordinary book, the previously unpublished credo of one of America's greatest 20th-century writers."You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich," writes Nelson Algren in his only longer work of nonfiction, adding: "A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from ... Read more

    $11.59 CAD

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  • Action and Existence

    A Case For Agent Causation

    by J. Swindal ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Since the pioneering work of Donald Davidson on action, many philosophers have taken critical stances on his causal account. This book criticizes Davidson's event-causal view of action, and offers instead an agent causal view both to describe what an action is and to set a framework for how actions are explained. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • The Logic of Metaphor

    Analogous Parts of Possible Worlds

    by Eric Steinhart ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Metaphors and Logic Metaphors are among the most vigorous offspring of the creative mind; but their vitality springs from the fact that they are logical organisms in the ecology of l- guage. I aim to use logical techniques to analyze the meanings of metaphors. My goal here is to show how contemporary formal semantics can be extended to handle metaphorical utterances. What distinguishes this work ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Unifying the Philosophy of Truth

    Edited by José Martínez Fernández, Henri Galinon, Theodora Achourioti, Kentaro Fujimoto ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This anthology of the very latest research on truth features the work of recognized luminaries in the field, put together following a rigorous refereeing process. Along with an introduction outlining the central issues in the field, it provides a unique and unrivaled view of contemporary work on the nature of truth, with papers selected from key conferences in 2011 such as Truth Be Told (Amsterdam ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Phenomenology of the Visual Arts (even the frame)

    by Paul Crowther ...
    Why are the visual arts so important and what is it that makes their forms significant? Countering recent interpretations of meaning that understand visual artworks on the model of literary texts, Crowther formulates a theory of the visual arts based on what their creation achieves both cognitively and aesthetically. He develops a phenomenology that emphasizes how visual art gives unique aesthetic ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Victor Dudman's Grammar and Semantics

    by J. Curthoys, V. Dudman ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Victor Dudman's revolutionary English Grammar brings grammar and logic together by conceiving grammar as 'the necessary preliminary to logic'. The focus, for logicians, is the discussion of 'conditionals'; for grammarians it is the concise and accurate explanation of the infamous English modals. ... Read more

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  • Aesthetics

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Charles Taliaferro ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Explaining what art is and what’s not art.What is art? Why do we find some things beautiful but not others? Is it wrong to share MP3s? These are just some of the questions explored by aesthetics, the philosophy of art. In this sweeping introduction, Charles Taliaferro skilfully guides us through different theories of art and beauty, tackling issues such as who owns art and what happens when art ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD