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  • Quantum Theory and the Flight from Realismby Christopher Norris

    Routledge 2000; US$ 48.95

    A 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 Realismby Christopher Norris

    Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 66.95

    In this book Christopher Norris develops the case for scientific realism by tackling various adversary arguments from a range of anti-realist positions. more...

  • Deconstructionby Christopher Norris

    Routledge 2002; US$ 30.95

    While 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 Epistemologyby Christopher Norris

    Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 115.00

    Norris 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 Meaningby Christopher Norris

    Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 130.00

    In 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 Shareby Christopher Norris

    Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 130.00

    What 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)by Christopher Norris

    Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 41.95

    What 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)by Christopher Norris

    Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 41.95

    This 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)by Christopher Norris

    Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 41.95

    Paul 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 Cogitoby Christopher Norris

    Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 120.00

    Re-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...