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  • Philosophy of Language: The Basics

    par Ethan Nowak ...
    Collections series The Basics
    This book provides beginners with a sense of the questions and methods that make up the philosophy of language. The first four chapters develop the idea that language is a system that allows us to exchange information with each other, and the second four chapters explore the idea that language is a tool we can use to perform actions, like promising, insulting, and socially positioning ourselves ... En savoir plus

    $40.99 CAD

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  • Philosophy

    par 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. ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

  • Understanding Kant: Concepts and Intuitions

    Understanding Philosophy, #4

    par Hercules Bantas ...
    Collections Livre 4 - Understanding Philosophy
    This guide examines Kant's theory of knowledge, specifically his arguments for separating human thought into concepts and intuitions. Based on the Critique of Pure Reason, this guide covers his critique of empirical and rational thought, and explains key concepts such as a priori judgements, analytic and synthetic judgements, and the difference between pure and empirical concepts. ... En savoir plus

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  • The Last Word

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • Informal Logic

    A Pragmatic Approach

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Critical Thinking Toolkit

    par Galen A. Foresman, Peter S. Fosl, Jamie C. Watson ...
    The Critical Thinking Toolkit is a comprehensive compendium that equips readers with the essential knowledge and methods for clear, analytical, logical thinking and critique in a range of scholarly contexts and everyday situations.Takes an expansive approach to critical thinking by exploring concepts from other disciplines, including evidence and justification from philosophy, cognitive biases and ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Freedom and Neurobiology

    Reflections on Free Will, Language, and Political Power

    par John Searle ...
    Collections series Columbia Themes in Philosophy
    Our self-conception derives mostly from our own experience. We believe ourselves to be conscious, rational, social, ethical, language-using, political agents who possess free will. Yet we know we exist in a universe that consists of mindless, meaningless, unfree, nonrational, brute physical particles. How can we resolve the conflict between these two visions?In Freedom and Neurobiology, the ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • As If

    Idealization and Ideals

    par Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    “Appiah is a writer and thinker of remarkable range… [He] has packed into this short book an impressive amount of original reflection… A rich and illuminating book.”—Thomas Nagel, New York Review of BooksIdealization is a fundamental feature of human thought. We build simplified models to make sense of the world, and life is a constant adjustment between the models we make and the realities we ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Informal Logical Fallacies

    A Brief Guide

    par Jacob E. Van Vleet ...
    Critical thinking is now needed more than ever. This accessible and engaging book provides the necessary tools to question and challenge the discourse that surrounds us -- whether in the media, the classroom, or everyday conversation. Additionally, it offers readers a deeper understanding of the foundations of analytical thought.Informal Logical Fallacies: A Brief Guide is a systematic and concise ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Linguistics Wars

    Chomsky, Lakoff, and the Battle over Deep Structure

    par Randy Allen Harris ...
    An updated and expanded history of the field of linguistics from the 1950s to the current day The Linguistics Wars tells the tumultuous history of language and cognition studies from the rise of Noam Chomsky's Transformational Grammar to the current day. Focusing on the rupture that split the field between Chomsky's structuralist vision and George Lakoff's meaning-driven theories, Randy Allen ... En savoir plus

    $50.99 CAD

  • Empty Ideas

    A Critique of Analytic Philosophy

    par Peter Unger ...
    Peter Unger's provocative new book poses a serious challenge to contemporary analytic philosophy, arguing that to its detriment it focuses the predominance of its energy on "empty ideas." In the mid-twentieth century, philosophers generally agreed that, by contrast with science, philosophy should offer no substantial thoughts about the general nature of concrete reality. Leading philosophers were ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Linguistics Wars

    par Randy Allen Harris ...
    When it was first published in 1957, Noam Chomsky's Syntactic Structure seemed to be just a logical expansion of the reigning approach to linguistics. Soon, however, there was talk from Chomsky and his associates about plumbing mental structure; then there was a new phonology; and then there was a new set of goals for the field, cutting it off completely from its anthropological roots and hitching ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD