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Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realism
Routledge 2000; US$ 48.95A critical introduction to the long-standing debate concerning the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics, and the problems the field has posed for physicists and philosophers from Einstein to the present. more...
Philosophy of Language and the Challenge to Scientific Realism
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 66.95In this book Christopher Norris develops the case for scientific realism by tackling various adversary arguments from a range of anti-realist positions. more...
Deconstruction
Routledge 2002; US$ 30.95While in no way oversimplifying its complexity or glossing over the challenges it presents, Norris's book sets out to make deconstruction more accessible to the open-minded reader. more...
Language, Logic and Epistemology
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 115.00Norris presents a series of closely linked chapters on recent developments in epistemology, philosophy of language, cognitive science, literary theory, musicology and other related fields. While to this extent adopting an interdisciplinary approach, Norris also very forcefully challenges the view that the academic 'disciplines' as we know them are... more...
On Truth and Meaning
Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 130.00In this new book Christopher Norris explores a range of contiguous issues in epistemology, ethics, and philosophy of mind, language, and logic. In a series of closely argued chapters Norris draws out the two chief kinds of deficit; normative and causal-explanatory that have characterised much recent work in the analytic line of descent. He pinpoints... more...
Platonism, Music and the Listener's Share
Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 130.00What is a musical work? What are its identity-conditions and the standards (if any) that they set for a competent, intelligent, and musically perceptive act of performance or audition? Should the work-concept henceforth be dissolved as some New Musicologists would have it into the various, ever-changing socio-cultural or ideological contexts that make... more...
The Deconstructive Turn (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 41.95What might be the outcome for philosophy if its texts were subjected to the powerful techniques of rhetorical close-reading developed by current deconstructionist literary critics? When first published in 1983, Christopher Norris? book was the first to explore such questions in the context of modern analytic and linguistic philosophy, opening up a... more...
Contest of Faculties (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 41.95This Routledge Revival , first published in 1985, gives detailed attention to the bearing of literary theory on questions of truth, meaning and reference. On the one hand, deconstruction brings a vigilant awareness of the figural and narrative tropes that make up the discourse of philosophic reason. On the other it insists that argumentative rigour... more...
Paul de Man (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 41.95Paul de Man - literary critic, literary philosopher, "American deconstructionist" - changed the landscape of criticism through his rigorous theories and writings. Upon its original publication in 1988, Christopher Norris' book was the first full-length introduction to de Man, a reading that offers a much-needed corrective to the pattern of extreme... more...
Re-Thinking the Cogito
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 120.00Re-Thinking the Cogito seeks to combine a strongly naturalistic with a distinctively rationalist perspective on some nowadays much-discussed issues in philosophy of mind. Against the common view that they involve downright incompatible conceptions of mind, knowledge and ethics it seeks to unite a naturalism that draws on recent advances in neurophysiology... more...









