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Context as Other Minds
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2005; US$ 173.00Givon's new book re-casts pragmatics, and most conspicuously the pragmatics of sociality and communication, in neuro-cognitive, bio-adaptive, evolutionary terms. The fact that context, the core notion of pragmatics, is a framing operation undertaken on the fly through judgements of relevance, has been well known since Aristotle, Kant and Peirce. But... more...
Dialog Theory for Critical Argumentation
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 165.00Because of the need to devise systems for electronic communication on the internet, multi-agent computing is moving to a model of communication as a structured conversation between rational agents. For example, in multi-agent systems, an electronic agent searches around the internet, and collects certain kinds of information by asking questions to... more...
Unfolding Perceptual Continua
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002; US$ 158.00The book analyses the differences between the mathematical interpretation and the phenomenological intuition of the continuum. The basic idea is that the continuity of the experience of space and time originates in phenomenic movement. The problem of consciousness and of the spaces of representation is related to the primary processes of perception.... more...
Washing the Brain ? Metaphor and Hidden Ideology
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2007; US$ 180.00Contemporary metaphor theory has recently begun to address the relation between metaphor, culture and ideology. In this wide-ranging book, Andrew Goatly, using lexical data from his database Metalude , investigates how conceptual metaphor themes construct our thinking and social behaviour in fields as diverse as architecture, engineering, education,... more...
Matter and Sense
Cambridge University Press 1982; US$ 25.00Robinson presents a very forceful critique of the modern forms that materialism has taken. more...
Skepticism in the Modern Age
BRILL 2009; US$ 147.00This book reassesses the role and impact of skepticism in early modern philosophy, revisiting and reinterpreting the positions of some of the main early modern philosophers in relation to this tradition and showing its relevance to others who have not previously been connected to skepticism. more...
Adam Smith and the Virtues of Enlightenment
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 39.00A comprehensive philosophical discussion of Smith's moral and political philosophy. more...
Reason, Spirit and the Sacral in the New Enlightenment
Springer 2010; US$ 109.99Rationality in its various expressions and innumerable applications sustains understanding and our sense of reality. It is traditionally differentiated according to its sources in the soul: in consciousness, in reason, in experience, and in elevation. Such a functional approach, however, leaves us searching for the common foundation harmonizing these... more...
Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 34.00The contribution of rhetoric, sophistry, and pragmatism to postmodernist cultural politics. more...









