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Contemporary Pragmatism, 3:01 (Single Issue)
Editions Rodopi 2006; US$ 51.80Contents: Joseph MARGOLIS: Pragmatism's New Options Guy AXTELL: The Present Dilemma in Philosophy Sam PAGE: Unconditional Truth in Practice Gregory L. REECE: Language Games, Forms of Life and Conceptual Schemes: Wittgenstein, Davidson, and Religious Belief Lee A. MCBRIDE: Collectivistic Individualism: Dewey and MacIntyre Ronald A. KUIPERS: Stout... more...
Contemporary Pragmatism, 6:01 / June 2009
Editions Rodopi 2009; US$ 56.00Contents Symposium on Richard Rorty Kai NIELSEN: Pragmatism as Atheoreticism: Richard Rorty Chandra KUMAR: Foucault and Rorty on Truth and Ideology: A Pragmatist View from the Left Chase B. WRENN: Pragmatism, Inquiry, and Truth Christopher VOPARIL: On the Idea of Philosophy as Bildungsroman: Rorty and his Critics Articles Eugene HALTON: Peircean Animism... more...
Empiricists: A Guide for the Perplexed
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 95.00Empiricism is one of the most widely discussed topics in philosophy. Students regularly encounter the well known opposition between rationalism and empiricism – the clash between reason and experience as sources of knowledge and ideas – at an early stage in their studies. The Empiricists: A Guide for the Perplexed offers a clear and thorough... more...
Badiou's 'Being and Event'
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 95.00Alain Badiou’s Being and Event is the most original and significant work of French philosophy to have appeared in recent decades. It is the magnum opus of a thinker who is widely considered to have re-shaped the character and set new terms for the future development of philosophy in France and elsewhere. This book has been written very much with... more...
Philosophie als Verdeutlichung
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 168.00For more than four decades Josef Simon has given important impulses to philosophy which have attracted much international attention. Often unconventional in presentation, his works on Kant, Hegel and Nietzsche, on the philosophy of language and signs but also on practical philosophy have repeatedly made fundamental questions of philosophy appear in... more...
Handlungstheoretische Semantik
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 98.00There is a long tradition in the philosophy of explaining the concept of ?meaning? in terms of reference of the thing that our sign signifies. At the latest since Wittgenstein, ?meaning? has been explained with the formula ?meaning=use,? where one distinguishes between how one uses something and for what purpose one uses something. The author shows... more...
Critical Thinking Unleashed
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2009; US$ 48.99Demonstrating the practical relevance and import of many historically significant philosophers (e.g. Socrates, Aristotle, Epictetus, Hume, Kant, Mill, Sartre, and Nietzsche), Critical Thinking Unleashed presents a practical, non-technical, and comprehensive approach to critical thinking. In contrast to other treatments of practical reasoning, Elliot... 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...
Caging the Beast
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2003; US$ 135.00A major obstacle for materialist theories of the mind is the problem of sensory consciousness. How could a physical brain produce conscious sensory states that exhibit the rich and luxurious qualities of red velvet, a Mozart concerto or fresh-brewed coffee? Caging the Beast: A Theory of Sensory Consciousness offers to explain what these conscious... more...









