This volume features essays about and by Paul Benacerraf, whose ideas have circulated in the philosophical community since the early nineteen sixties, shaping key areas in the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of logic, and epistemology.
This book considers Wilfrid Sellars' engagement with Kantian philosophy-both theoretical and practical-in his exegetical work in reading Kant as well as in his own systematic development of Kantian philosophy.
This book explores the relation between language and our senses and emotions, taking readers into domains as diverse as wine-tasting, marriage guidance counselling, medical training and face recognition.
Through analysis of the Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad, which pledge protection to diverse faith communities, this book makes a profoundly important contribution to research on early Islam by determining the Covenants' historicity and textual accuracy.
A many-faceted exploration of spoken eloquence: how it works, how it has evolved, and how to tap its remarkable power We all know eloquence when we hear it.
This book develops a theory of enriched meanings for natural language interpretation that uses the concept of monads and related ideas from category theory, a branch of mathematics that has been influential in theoretical computer science and elsewhere.
In this text, first published in 1993, Barrow decisively rejects the traditional assumption that intelligence has no educational significance and contends instead that intelligence is developed by the enlargement of understanding.
impossible triangle, after apprehension of the perceptively given mode of being of that 'object', the visual system assumes that all three sides touch on all three sides, whereas this happens on only one side.
This popular introduction by a well-known Islamic scholar has been updated and expanded, offering a balanced portrayal of the Qur an and its place in historic and contemporary Muslim society.
With a Foreword by Lars Vinx, this book is the first complete English translation of the Italian jurist, Emilio Betti's classic work Die Hermeneutik als allgemeine Methodik der Geisteswissenschaften, originally published in 1962.
An examination of the role of ostension—the bodily manifestation of intention—-in word learning, and an investigation of the philosophical puzzles it poses.
What might be the outcome for philosophy if its texts were subjected to the powerful techniques of rhetorical close-reading developed by current deconstructionist literary critics?
La publicación responde al concepto «scripta» del autor, pues destaca la obra filosófico-literaria escrita en la revista Cultura de Guatemala y Estudios Teológicos; asimismo, la segunda sección ofrece la producción reciente en inglés y español, donde se destaca los nuevos juegos de poder en las relaciones mundiales.
Too often today it seems we find ourselves communicating from radically different perspectives on the world and we often despair of communication even being possible.
In exemplarischen Einzelanalysen zeigt der Autor, daß die versepischen Texte Christoph Martin Wielands aus verschiedenen Phasen seines Schaffens als Beiträge zur literarischen Aufklärung zu verstehen sind.
This volume investigates Eric Weil's innovative conceptualization of the place of violence in the philosophical tradition with a focus on violence's relationship to language and to discourse.
Mit der Frage nach dem Verhältnis von Offenbarung und Sprache, dem sprachlichen Offenbarwerden eines Geheimnis bleibenden Gottes, ist das Leitmotiv dieser Publikation benannt.
Le present volume reunit les contributions d'un colloque sur la pensee semiotique et linguistique des Ideologues qui s'est tenu a Berlin du 3 au 5 octobre 1983.
The book analyzes extensively al-Zamakhshari's tafsir al Kashshaf within the framework of the Mu'tazilites' five principles: (usul al-khamsa) of their theology.
One of the most important problems of modern philosophy concerns the place of the mind -- and, in particular, of consciousness, meaning, and intentionality -- in a physical universe.
