Philosophy of language

This book looks at how language has evolved around the globe from ancestral proto-languages to our recognisable modern tongues.

The Origins of Self explores the role that selfhood plays in defining human society, and each human individual in that society.

The teachings, style and impact of the Qur'an have always been matters of controversy, among both Muslims and non-Muslims.

Sharia has been a source of misunderstanding and misconception in both the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds.

The teachings, style and impact of the Qur'an have always been matters of controversy, among both Muslims and non-Muslims.

What is the nature of the Qur'an?

How do people understand the Quran to be divine revelation?

The concept of language is an elusive one, and the concept of mind even more so.

Navigating a diversity of religious myths and worldviews in both conventional and nuanced secular ways, this edited volume explores transdisciplinary common knowledge and global citizenship ideology through the lens of spirituality, depth hermeneutics, and multimodality.

A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR'I can't stop talking about this book' Jamie Klingler, co-founder #ReclaimTheseStreets'What a gem.

Due to the long presence of Muslims in Islamic territories (Al-Andalus and Granada) and of Muslims minorities in the Christians parts, the Iberian Peninsula provides a fertile soil for the study of the Qur'an and Qur'an translations made by both Muslims and Christians.

How do designers navigate the ethical discursive territories of design thinking and practice when the same common terms they consistently use across the different design ethics paradigms-like fair, right, good-convey different meanings?

The first book to examine the controversial Qur'anic phrase which divides Christianity and Islam.

Iconoclastic and fiercely rational, the European Enlightenment witnessed the birth of modern Western society and thought.

A new edition of one of the world's most important and influential booksThe Koran, the holy scripture of Islam, is the record of Muhammad's oral teaching delivered between the years immediately preceding the Hegira in AD 622 and the Prophet's death in AD 632.

Solomon and the Ant, using the Bible as a dialogue partner, examines stories from the Qur'an, their drama, characters, and meaning.

A theory of human origins that is one-half Charles Darwin and one-half Cain and Abel is bound to entail a lot of rethinking of traditional themes.

Modos de describir el derecho consiste en un análisis de los actos de habla por medio de los cuales se intenta describir el derecho.

From the winds of Mars to a babys first laugh, a prolific philosopher-composer reflects on the profound imperative of sound in everyday life.

In An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth, Bertrand Russell returns to philosophy after a long period of writing about education, religion and marriage.

In a world of increasingly strident identity politics, a theological approach, claiming no more than the outworking of subjectivist sentiment, offers no remedy.

The theme of prophets and prophecy is a central area of theological research and discussion in both Christianity and Islam.

This book concerns itself with the origin of speech and language, takes the reader through the steps of dialectic (how to reason) and rhetoric (how to persuade), examines the importance of stories and symbols and the role of thinking, and highlights the necessity of silence and the practice of meditation.

It is of great importance for this author to make it a matter of record that this material is not being published under the umbrella of the Moorish Science Temple of America or any member, representative, or officials operating under the M.

Scribbles of Realisation is a collection of short writings which focus on matters of faith and understanding one's self in life.

This work was originally written as a PhD thesis at University of Southampton.

Reasons for Logic, Logic for Reasons presents a philosophical conception of logic-"e;logical expressivism"e;-according to which the role of logic is to make explicit reason relations, which are often neither monotonic nor transitive.

Xing Lu examines language, art, persuasion, and argumentation in ancient China and offers a detailed and authentic account of ancient Chinese rhetorical theories and practices within the society's philosophical, political, cultural, and linguistic contexts.

This book addresses questions that have concerned rhetoricians, literary theorists, and philosophers since the time of the pre-Socratics and the Sophists: How do people come to believe and to act on the basis of communicative experiences?

Understanding Jennifer Egan is the first book-length study of the novelist, short-story writer, and journalist best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad.

A few years ago globalism seemed to be both a known and inexorable phenomenon.

To construct a comprehensive theory of information, meaning and intentionality, the book develops a naturalistic perspective based on Peircean biosemiotics.

This book deals with the complicated realm of metaphor, an enigma deeply embedded in language and cognition.

This volume explores the connections between John McDowell's philosophy and the hermeneutic tradition.

Language Lost and Found takes as its starting-point Iris Murdoch's claim that "e;we have suffered a general loss of concepts.

An important work by 20-century philosopher Hans Blumenberg, here translated into English for the first time, The Laughter of the Thracian Woman describes the reception history of an anecdote best known from Plato's Theaetetus dialogue: while focused on observing the stars, the early astronomer and proto-philosopher Thales of Miletus fails to see a well directly in his path and tumbles down.

Language Lost and Found takes as its starting-point Iris Murdoch's claim that "e;we have suffered a general loss of concepts.

An important work by 20-century philosopher Hans Blumenberg, here translated into English for the first time, The Laughter of the Thracian Woman describes the reception history of an anecdote best known from Plato's Theaetetus dialogue: while focused on observing the stars, the early astronomer and proto-philosopher Thales of Miletus fails to see a well directly in his path and tumbles down.

In recent generations, the Muslim and Arab world has been suffused with publications on the subject of the People of Israel, its Torah, and this people's affinity to the Land of Israel.

In this ground-breaking Australian book, a diverse group of international writers, scholars and commentators shed light on some of the most pressing human rights and public policy challenges of our time.