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Philosophy of language
Hardback. Challenging the linear view of history which confines or predetermines the outcome of politics, this book argues for an 'untimely' politics, rendering the past problematic and the future unpredictable. Series: Taking on the Political. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 467.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748617661
- ISBN
- 9780748617661
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€ 130.35€ 124.35
€ 130.35
€ 124.35
Paperback. Editor(s): Rorty, Richard. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226725697
- ISBN
- 9780226725697
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€ 40.99€ 31.26
€ 40.99
€ 31.26
Paperback. This volume proposes means of describing, comparing, and interpreting linguistic diversity, both genetic and structural, providing the foundations for a theory of diversity based upon popular science. Num Pages: 358 pages, 5 line drawings, 96 tables, 12 maps. BIC Classification: CFA; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 156 x 227 x 20. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226580579
- ISBN
- 9780226580579
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€ 42.99€ 33.15
€ 42.99
€ 33.15
Hardback. Semantics aims to describe the significance of linguistic expressions in a systematic way. Metasemantics, or foundational semantics, asks how expressions gain their significance in the first place. Ori Simchen presents the first book-length treatment of metasemantics and its relation to the thriving research program of truth-conditional semantics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 223 x 19. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198792147
- ISBN
- 9780198792147
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Condition: New
€ 101.63
€ 101.63
Hardback. Brings together contributions by philosophers, logicians and linguists, offering a variety of interdisciplinary approaches to crucial problems in the contemporary philosophy of language and linguistics. This title includes individual chapters that concentrate on different aspects of the influence of Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein. Editor(s): Stalmaszczyk, Piotr. Series: Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis. Num Pages: 298 pages. BIC Classification: CFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 238 x 21. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Publisher
- De Gruyter
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Digital original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783110342581
- ISBN
- 9783110342581
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Condition: New
€ 275.39
€ 275.39
Hardback. Editor(s): Lynn, Richard John. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; CFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691634999
- ISBN
- 9780691634999
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Condition: New
€ 112.26
€ 112.26
Paperback. James Williams sets out a new process philosophy of signs where signs are processes, not fixed relations. He develops his argument through a formal model and a series of case studies. He engages in dialogue with the philosophies of Deleuze and Whitehead, and in critical discussion with contemporary and historical theories of the sign. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; HPS; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748695010
- ISBN
- 9780748695010
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€ 33.99€ 28.72
€ 33.99
€ 28.72
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 332 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFA; CFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 771.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691638003
- ISBN
- 9780691638003
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€ 172.91
€ 172.91
Paperback. Series: Carl G. Hempel Lecture Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691173658
- ISBN
- 9780691173658
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€ 37.99€ 27.17
€ 37.99
€ 27.17
paperback. Series: AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Series. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; HPCD; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 392.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, U.S.A. United States
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780788501241
- ISBN
- 9780788501241
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Condition: New
€ 82.66
€ 82.66
hardcover. Stefano Predelli defends a semantics of proper names which has simplicity and common sense in its favour: proper names are non-indexical devices of rigid and direct reference. He grounds this view in accounts of the shape and form of names, and of their introduction within language use, and he responds to widespread misconceptions and objections. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: CF; CFA; HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198778158
- ISBN
- 9780198778158
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Condition: New
€ 106.52
€ 106.52
Hardcover. This volume collects Saul Kripke's Locke Lectures, which were delivered in Oxford in 1973. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 320.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199928385
- ISBN
- 9780199928385
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Condition: New
€ 96.55
€ 96.55
Paperback. This book looks at the relationship between the structure of the sentence and the organization of discourse. Experts in the field make use of data from a variety of languages to examine the nature of these relations, where they come from, and how they apply. Editor(s): Gueron, Jacqueline. Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; CFG; CFK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 27. Weight in Grams: 508.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198739425
- ISBN
- 9780198739425
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Condition: New
€ 95.41
€ 95.41
Hardcover. Trenton Merricks presents an original argument for the existence of propositions, and defends an account of their nature. He draws a variety of controversial conclusions, for instance about supervaluationism, the nature of possible worlds, truths about non-existent entities, and whether and how logical consequence depends on modal facts. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; HPJ; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 145 x 210 x 23. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198732563
- ISBN
- 9780198732563
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Condition: New
€ 108.19
€ 108.19
Paperback. Num Pages: 816 pages, 22 line illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; HPM; HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 193 x 233 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1406.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 812
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195335422
- ISBN
- 9780195335422
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€ 206.34
€ 206.34
Paperback. Discusses the reception and influence of the work, which occupies a niche between philosophy and literary studies. Num Pages: 544 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: CFA; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 844.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195131079
- ISBN
- 9780195131079
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Condition: New
€ 85.98
€ 85.98
Hardback. An edition of the recently discovered notebook used in the seventeenth-century by John Wallis to teach language to the 'deaf mute' Alexander Popham, who could not inherit unless he could speak - one of the most famous cases in the history of deaf education. David Cram and Jaap Maat place the work in its personal, social, and scientific contexts. Editor(s): Cram, Dr. David; Maat, Jaap. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 3JD; CFA; CFZ; HBTB; HPC; PDA; PDX. Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199677085
- ISBN
- 9780199677085
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Condition: New
€ 178.20
€ 178.20
Hardback. Francois Recanati has pioneered the 'mental file' framework for thinking about concepts and how we refer to the world in thought and language. He now explores what happens to mental files in a dynamic setting: Recanati argues that communication involves interpersonal dynamic files. Series: Lines of Thought. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; HPM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198790358
- ISBN
- 9780198790358
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€ 95.56
€ 95.56
paperback. Highlights Foucault's life and thought, showing his impact on society. Beginning with a brief biography to set the social and political stage, this VSI then tackles Foucault's thoughts on literature, in particular the avant-garde scene; his philosophical and historical work; and his treatment of knowledge and power in modern society. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 144 pages, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: CFA; HPC; HPS; JFSJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 112 x 8. Weight in Grams: 116. Very good clean copy showing minor age and shelfwear
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford Oxford
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0025592
- ISBN
- 9780192805577
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Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
paperback. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: CFA; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 33. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141980775
- ISBN
- 9780141980775
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.53
€ 14.99
€ 12.53