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Télécharger le livre :  Language and Time
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Language and Time


Quentin Smith


This book offers a defense of the tensed theory of time, a critique of the New Theory of Reference, and an argument that simultaneity is absolute. Although Smith rejects ordinary language philosophy, he shows how it is possible to argue from the nature of language to...

Parution : 2002-08-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Realism Regained
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Realism Regained


Robert C. Koons


In this wide-ranging philosophical work, Koons takes on two powerful dogmas--anti-realism and materialism.In doing so, Koons develops an elegant metaphysical system that accounts for such phenomena as information, mental representation, our knowledge of logic,...

Parution : 2000-11-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Causing Actions
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Causing Actions


Paul M. Pietroski


Thoughts often cause deeds. Actions are done for reasons. But do actions and their mental causes also have descriptions that do not involve reasons? Various considerations can make it seem that human mental events must be biochemical events. Paul Pietroski, however,...

Parution : 2000-03-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Wittgenstein, Empiricism, and Language
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Wittgenstein, Empiricism, and Language


John W. Cook


This provocative study exposes the ways in which Wittgenstein's philosophical views have been misunderstood, including the failure to recognize the reductionist character of Wittgenstein's work. Author John Cook provides well-documented proof that Wittgenstein did not...

Parution : 1999-11-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding Truth
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Understanding Truth


Scott Soames


In this book, Scott Soames illuminates the notion of truth and the role it plays in our ordinary thought, as well as in our logical, philosophical, and scientific theories. Part I addresses crucial background issues, including the identification of the bearers of truth,...

Parution : 1998-12-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Causation and Persistence
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Causation and Persistence


Douglas Ehring


Ehring shows the inadequacy of received theories of causation, and, introducing conceptual devices of his own, provides a wholly new account of causation as the persistence over time of individual properties, or "tropes."

Parution : 1997-02-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Essays in Quasi-Realism
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Essays in Quasi-Realism


Simon Blackburn


This volume collects some influential essays in which Simon Blackburn, one of our leading philosophers, explores one of the most profound and fertile of philosophical problems: the way in which our judgments relate to the world.This debate has centered on realism, or...

Parution : 1993-06-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Dividing Reality
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Dividing Reality


Eli Hirsch


The central question in this book is why it seems reasonable for the words of our language to divide up the world in ordinary ways rather than other imaginable ways. Hirsch calls this the division problem. His book aims to bring this problem into sharp focus, to...

Parution : 1993-04-29
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Télécharger le livre :  The Nature of All Being
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The Nature of All Being


Raymond Bradley


In this comprehensive study of Wittgenstein's modal theorizing, Bradley offers a radical reinterpretation of Wittgenstein's early thought and presents both an interpretive and a philosophical thesis. A unique feature of Bradley's analysis is his reliance on...

Parution : 1992-03-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Otherworld Journeys
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Otherworld Journeys


Carol Zaleski


Dozens of books, articles, television shows, and films relating "near-death" experiences have appeared in the past decade. People who have survived a close brush with death reveal their extraordinary visions and ecstatic feelings at the moment they died, describing...

Parution : 1988-11-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Otherworld Journeys
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Otherworld Journeys


Carol Zaleski


Dozens of books, articles, television shows, and films relating "near-death" experiences have appeared in the past decade. People who have survived a close brush with death reveal their extraordinary visions and ecstatic feelings at the moment they died, describing...

Parution : 1988-11-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Liar
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The Liar


Jon Barwise , John Etchemendy


Bringing together powerful new tools from set theory and the philosophy of language, this book proposes a solution to one of the few unresolved paradoxes from antiquity, the Paradox of the Liar. Treating truth as a property of propositions, not sentences, the authors...

Parution : 1987-06-25
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