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Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel, 1971. In June 22-27,1970, an International Working Symposium on Pragmatics of Natural Languages took place in Jerusalem under the auspices of The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Division of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science. Some thirty philosophers, logicians, linguists, and psychologists from… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1996. The philosophy of mind has always been a staple of the philosophy curriculum. But it has never held a more important place than it does today, with both traditional problems and new topics often sparked by the implications of modern psychology, cognitive science, and computer science. In this concise but comprehensive survey, Jaegwon Kim explores,… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. R. Buckminster Fuller is regarded as one of the most important figures of the 20th century, renowned for his achievements as an inventor, designer, architect, philosopher, mathematician, and dogged individualist. Perhaps best remembered for the Geodesic Dome and the term "Spaceship Earth," his work and his writings have had a profound impact on modern… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1992. Scholarly text demonstrates the central unifying role the collective historical social consciousness plays in Hegel's thought. Hegel can be seen as a potentially moderating influence on his two quarrelsome offspring, Marxism and liberalism. Hegel emerges here as a thinker with relevance for our own time, with lessons for current communitarian critiques of liberalism, the revolutions… Read more about this item

Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1973. In this classic text, the author presents a series of topics which discusses in detail the nature of science, the nature of revolutionary changes in science, the development and structure of Western societies, the nature of the social sciences and their relation to the physical sciences, problems of "underdeveloped countries", the development and structure… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 2002. A book of tremendous influence when it first appeared, A Mind of One's Own reminded readers that the tradition of Western philosophy-- in particular, the ideals of reason and objectivity-- has come down to us from white males, nearly all of whom are demonstrably sexist, even misogynist. In this second edition, the original authors continue… Read more about this item

Lakeville, Connecticut: International Non-Aristotelian Library, 1980. Classic highly acclaimed text presents a detailed and complex compilation of the author's preeminent multidisciplinary work in the field of general semantics, including his theory of humankind: mankind as a time-binding class of life. Korzybski's work held a view that human beings are limited in what they know by the structure of their nervous… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1995. Since Rorty, the crisis of method and interests in philosophy has been at the forefront of metaphilosophy. In this scholarly book, Kai Nielsen, one of the most prominent critics of philosophy-as-usual, examines critically the most important claims made on behalf of philosophy. After rejecting as chimerical the ambitious claims of traditional, especially foundational, epistemology and… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1999. In this scholarly collection, introduced by Jonathan Rée, six eminent scientists and thinkers explore and explain how we can bridge the gap between the values of science and human values. Richard Dawkins, in a powerful critique of cultural relativism, restates the scientists’ belief that there is something almost sacred about nature’s universal truths. Environmental campaigner… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1995. When feminist philosophers first turned their attention to traditional ethical theory, its almost exclusive emphasis upon justice, rights, abstract rationality, and individual autonomy came under special criticism. Women’s experiences seemed to suggest the need for a focus on care, empathetic relations, and the interdependence of persons.The most influential readings of what has become an extremely… Read more about this item

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Scholarly text explores the influence of Hannah Arendt's and Leo Strauss' background in pre-World War II Germany on their perception of American democracy. The contributors analyze how their émigré experience both influenced their American work and also impacted on the formation of the discipline of political science in postwar Germany. Arendt's and Strauss' experiences… Read more about this item

Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1992. In this scholarly highly acclaimed text, Margaret Canovan argues that much of the published work on Arendt has been flawed by serious misunderstandings, arising from a failure to see her work in its proper context. The author shows how such misunderstanding was possible, and offers a fundamental reinterpretation, drawing on Arendt's unpublished as well… Read more about this item

London, U.K.: Hutchinson & CO., Ltd., 1965. Scholarly text presents a detailed study in the political significance of philosophical theories.The thesis of this book is that the hard core of Hobbes's political theory is implied by his philosophical ideas, by his theories of knowledge, mind, and language. Includes new perspectives on the ideas of Bacon, Galileo, Machiavelli, Harvey, Descartes, and… Read more about this item

The Hague, Netherlands: Mouton & Co, 1971. Scholarly text presents semiotic research in social cultures which reveals the basic importance of structure at all levels of genetic, linguistic, and social process. The paradox that structure not only liberates but also imprisons has been familiar to members of many different cultures, and the search for personal release in transcendent states of… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1993. Scholarly highly acclaimed text presents a detailed survey of recent work in cognitive science that has particular relevance to philosophy. Besides providing a valuable review of the most suggestive work in cognitive and social psychology, Goldman demonstrates conclusively that the best work in philosophy in a surprising number of different fields including philosophy of science,… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1990. Scholarly text introduces the technical tools and concepts that are indispensable for advanced work in philosophy. Includes topics covering relations, functions, theory of arithmetic, metatheory of predicate calculus, recursive definitions, first-order theories, Godel's theorem, completeness, metalogic and logical theory, etc. 126 pgs. Illustrated. Publisher's stamp on front endpaper. Dustjacket in mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover.… Read more about this item

Lanham, Maryland: Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, 1987. Scholarly text presents a detailed study of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy of language with an emphasis on his interest in structuralism. Includes topics on Ponty's interest in phenomenology and dialects; the relation of language to perception; relation of words to syntax; the meaning and development of Merleau-Ponty's concept of structure; the triumph of… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1999. Scholarly text explores how the assertion of rights has expanded dramatically since World War II, and presents the historical developments in each of the major categories of rights, including human rights, civil rights, women's rights, patient rights, and animal rights. Text assesses where the proliferation has been legitimate and helpful, cases where it has been… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1994. Scholarly text presents a detailed outline of four major conceptual levels of understanding: imparting visual literacy as a prerequisite for comprehending visual media; creating awareness of the general cognitive consequences of visual literacy; making us alert to visual manipulation; and promoting aesthetic appreciation of the images we see. Taken together, these approaches provide a comprehensive… Read more about this item

Boulder, CO.: Westview Press, 1998. Scholarly text presents the first truly philosophical study of nationalism, whereby the author attempts to make sense of the fact that there are different sorts of nationalism for example, political and cultural and that each concept functions with a different understanding of what a nation is. Gilbert sets out to explore whether there are any… Read more about this item