Overview :"We have been given a powerful and often uplifting vision of what it is to be truly human." --John Cottingham, The Tablet In seminal works r... Read More
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Overview :A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year A major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal, ex... Read More
Overview :Speaking Being: Werner Erhard, Martin Heidegger, and a New Possibility of Being Human is an unprecedented study of the ideas and methods dev... Read More
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Overview :An argument that what is usually dismissed as the "mystical shell" of Hegel's thought--the concept of absolute knowledge--is actually its mo... Read More
Overview :In his early lecture courses, Martin Heidegger exhibited an abiding interest in human life. He believed that human life has philosophical im... Read More
Overview :The award-winning and world's most popular bilingual book of Afghan Proverbs in English and Dari. Beautifully illustrated by Afghan high sch... Read More
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Overview :A fresh and fascinating look at the philosophies, politics, and intellectual legacy of one of the twentieth century's most influential and c... Read More
Overview :Scientific/metaphysical realities of pictorial images (Hieroglyphs) as the ultimate medium for the human consciousness that interpret, proce... Read More
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Overview :The proposal of a semantics for quotations using explanatory notions drawn from philosophical theories of pictures. In Quotations as Pictur... Read More
Overview :Bringing varied perspectives on problems related to reference from philosophers of language and linguists, this edited collection initiates ... Read More
Overview :Now in paperback, Sandra Laugier's reconsideration of analytic philosophy and ordinary language. Sandra Laugier has long been a key liaison... Read More
Overview :Natural languages are riddled with context-sensitivity. One and the same string of words can express many different meanings on occasion of ... Read More
Overview :Wittgenstein and the Possibility of Meaning develops a new, non-reductionist, response to the sceptical argument about meaning famously deve... Read More
Overview :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,... Read More