This Element explores Wittgensteins critique of private language in the Philosophical Investigations, which presents a series of arguments, suggestions, questions, examples and thought-experiments whose purpose is to undermine the temptation to thi...Loe edasi...
In this origin story of humanity, scientific expert Madeleine Beekman makes the case that human language evolved to solve an existential problem for our ancestors: caring for extremely premature infants....Loe edasi...
This striking pocket hardback edition presents Aristotles classic treatise on the art of persuasion, featuring gold cover embossing and gilded page-edges.In ancient Greece, rhetoric was at the centre of public life. Many writer...Loe edasi...
Students of the human sciences – economics, sociology, politics, anthropology, psychology – frequently encounter the names and distinctive theories of philosophers. It is none the less difficult to judge the contribution of such philosophers witho...Loe edasi...
The book aims to deduce stipulative properties of binding conditions by reformulating them through a novel movement theory, under the tenet of the Minimalist Program. Integrating the insights of Abes (2014) pro-movement theory and Higginbothams (19...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009671033)
Sincerity is essential to communication: without a norm of sincerity, we could hardly trust what other people tell us. This Element offers a review of philosophical work on the nature of sincerity and its epistemic value. It puts forward a novel acc...Loe edasi...
Sincerity is essential to communication: without a norm of sincerity, we could hardly trust what other people tell us. This Element offers a review of philosophical work on the nature of sincerity and its epistemic value. It puts forward a novel acc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009513869)
Synthesizes research on language teacher psychology to provide state-of-the-art insights into the topic and identify possible avenues of scholarship. Reflects on practical implications for practitioners, language teacher educators, preservice teache...Loe edasi...
Synthesizes research on language teacher psychology to provide state-of-the-art insights into the topic and identify possible avenues of scholarship. Reflects on practical implications for practitioners, language teacher educators, preservice teache...Loe edasi...
This book features a series of essays by six authors, four of which now classics, in the field of philosophy of language and semiotics, and significantly edited and added to by the volume editor. Collectively, the book provides a powerful sign the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198879640)
This Handbook introduces key issues in the philosophy of linguistics as currently practised. It provides an advanced introduction to some topics in the philosophy of linguistics and offers fresh approaches to new problems in the language sciences....Loe edasi...
Language is a major part of what makes us human. We effortlessly attach meaning to sounds and marks, in themselves meaningless, to convey to one another our beliefs, desires, intentions, and other states of mind. How is this amazing feat possible? ...Loe edasi...
Language is a major part of what makes us human. We effortlessly attach meaning to sounds and marks, in themselves meaningless, to convey to one another our beliefs, desires, intentions, and other states of mind. How is this amazing feat possible? ...Loe edasi...
This volume explores the later life and thought of Charles S. Peirce, a fifteen-year period that spans from 1900 until his death in 1914. It is the first volume devoted to this period of Peirce’s philosophical work. This volu...Loe edasi...
This book draws on an interdisciplinary approach to investigate the impact of codes of ethics as prescribed in translator organizations, proposing alternative ethical pathways grounded in self-care ethics to enhance translators symbolic recognition...Loe edasi...
This book considers Wilfrid Sellars engagement with Kantian philosophyboth theoretical and practicalin his exegetical work in reading Kant as well as in his own systematic development of Kantian philosophy....Loe edasi...
This book offers an innovative defense of Wilfrid Sellars notion of ideal truth. The authors defense of Sellarss notion of truth minimizes problematic commitments while still being recognizably rooted in Sellarss texts....Loe edasi...
This book argues that our success in navigating the social world depends heavily on scripts. Scripts play a central role in our ability to understand social interactions shaped by different contextual factors....Loe edasi...
This volume features new essays on the application, justification and role of naturalism in philosophical inquiry. It serves as an important update on current controversies about naturalism....Loe edasi...
This book aims to reclaim the significance of meaning within the philosophical thinking that has evolved from Descartes and Locke through Kant, Husserl, and Frege, focusing on intentionalitythe minds directedness toward the reality....Loe edasi...
This book offers a self-reflective, critical approach to the study of what is popularly known as polyglossia, charting the gradual but marked process of its commoditization over the last twenty years and offering a counterpoint to mainstream positiv...Loe edasi...
This innovative book offers a systematic conceptual exploration of translation through the lens of time, challenging the traditional notion of translation as mere linguistic transfer and advancing a new research agenda within the philosophy of trans...Loe edasi...
This book concerns the nature and the norms of inquiry. It tackles not only philosophical issues regarding what inquiry is, but also issues regarding how it should and should not be executed....Loe edasi...
This collection brings together perspectives on the interplay of communication, dialogue and responsibility, exploring communicative acts of disruption towards a social environment attuned to short-sighted individualism....Loe edasi...
As a moral phenomenon, promises have long received great amounts of attention in philosophical debates within both normative ethics and metaethics. This book defends a novel trust-based form of non-reductivism about promises and promissory normati...Loe edasi...
