Freedom and Resentment and Other Essays

By P.F. Strawson

By the time of his death in 2006, Sir Peter Strawson was regarded as one of the world's most distinguished philosophers. First published thirty years...

Published April 14th 2008 by Routledge.

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Scepticism and Naturalism: Some Varieties

By P.F. Strawson

By the time of his death in 2006, Sir Peter Strawson was regarded as one of the world's most distinguished philosophers. Unavailable for many years,...

Published April 14th 2008 by Routledge.

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Philosophy of Language

a Contemporary Introduction

By William Lycan

Philosophy of Language: a Contemporary Introduction introduces the student to the main issues and theories in twentieth-century philosophy of language, focusing specifically on linguistic phenomena....

Published April 8th 2008 by Routledge.

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Philosophy and the Vision of Language

By Paul M. Livingston

Philosophy and the Vision of Language explores the history and enduring significance of the twentieth-century turn to language as a specific object of investigation and...

Published March 19th 2008 by Routledge.

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Challenging Moral Particularism

Edited by Matjaž Potrc, Vojko Strahovnik, Mark Lance

Particularism is a justly popular ‘cutting-edge’ topic in contemporary ethics across the world. Many moral philosophers do not, in fact, support particularism (instead defending "generalist"...

Published March 18th 2008 by Routledge.

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Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy

By Heather Dyke

This book is an investigation into metaphysics: its aims, scope, methodology and practice. Dyke argues that metaphysics should take itself to be concerned with investigating...

Published October 30th 2007 by Routledge.

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Philosophy of Language

By Alex Miller

This engaging and accessible introduction to the philosophy of language provides an important guide to one of the liveliest and most challenging areas of study...

Published September 7th 2007 by Routledge.

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Truth and Speech Acts

Studies in the Philosophy of Language

Edited by Dirk Greimann, Geo Siegwart

Whereas the relationship between truth and propositional content has already been intensively investigated, there are only very few studies devoted to the task of illuminating...

Published June 22nd 2007 by Routledge.

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The Devil in Modern Philosophy

By Earnest Gellner

The essays in this volume gather together Gellner's thinking on the connection between philosophy and life and they approach the topic from a number of...

Published February 15th 2007 by Routledge.

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Understanding Wittgenstein's Tractatus

By Pasquale Frascolla

Understanding Wittgenstein's Tractatus provides an accessible and yet novel discussion of all the major themes of the Tractatus.

The book starts by setting out the history...

Published November 16th 2006 by Routledge.

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