Språkfilosofi

Detta är en nyöversättning (2021) av ett av de mest inflytelserika verken i modern filosofi. Filosofiska undersökningar utkom postumt 1953, och är den viktigaste framställningen av Ludwig Wittgensteins sena filosofi, där han bland annat introducer...

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Electrifying A user manual for our polarized world Adam Grant, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Think Again Important, compelling and wise Johann Hari, Sunday Times-bestselling author of Stolen Focus How do you win an argument? How do you d...

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Ludwig Wittgensteins Tractatus hör till de mest gåtfulla verk som skrivits. Den har lockat människor både utanför och innanför filosofin att försöka tolka de ibland ganska dunkla raderna i denna klassiker. Trots att boken skrevs för snart hundra å...

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In this textbook, Michael Morris offers a critical introduction to the central issues of the philosophy of language. Each chapter focusses on one or two texts which have had a seminal influence on work in the subject, and uses these as a way of ap...

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Ludwig Wittgenstein’s influential Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus  explores the assumption that it is philosophy’s task to ‘sanitize’ language. Therefore, it is necessary for philosophy to develop an artificial language...

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Why should we learn more than one language? Can it change the way we think? Does it have the power to transform how we see the world? You may think you speak only one language. In fact, your mind is interpreting multiple codes of communication. So...

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Everything is getting more complex. It is easy to be overwhelmed by the amount of information we encounter each day. Whether at work, at school, or in our personal endeavors, there's a deepening (and inescapable) need for people to work with and u...

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Walter Benjamin (1892?1840) var en djupt originell litteratur- och kulturkritiker. Han var forskare, översättare, samlare och flanör och skrev banbrytande texter om bland annat den moderna urbana tillvaron ("Paris - 1800-talets huvudstad"...

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This textbook/software package covers first-order language in a method appropriate for a wide range of courses, from first logic courses for undergraduates (philosophy, mathematics, and computer science) to a first graduate logic course. The accom...

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'Dazzling... Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct...as innate to us as flying is to geese... Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigations' - Independent 'A mar...

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Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, this profoundly original work explores the nature of physical suffering. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on tort...

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Adamsom offers a lively and accessible tour through 600 years of intellectual history, offering a feast of new ideas in every area of philosophy. He introduces us to some of the greatest thinkers of the Western tradition including Abelard, Anselm,...

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First ever critical study of Tolkiens little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martins Game of Thrones. J.R.R. Tolkiens linguistic invention was a fundamental part of hi...

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This book examines the question of whether languages can differ in grammatical complexity and, if so, how relative complexity differences might be measured. Chapters approach the question from the point of view of formal grammatical theory, psycho...

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Naming and Necessity has had a great and increasing influence. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of naming, and of identity. This se...

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The phenomenon of multimodality is central to our everyday interaction. 'Hybrid' modes of communication that combine traditional uses of language with imagery, tagging, hashtags and voice-recognition tools have become the norm. Bringing together c...

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Deconstruction and pragmatism constitute two of the major intellectual influences on the contemporary theoretical scene; influences personified in the work of Jacques Derrida and Richard Rorty. Both Rortian pragmatism, which draws the consequences...

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Jacques Derrida's revolutionary approach to phenomenology, psychoanalysis, structuralism, linguistics, and indeed the entire European tradition of philosophy-called deconstruction-changed the face of criticism. It provoked a questioning of ph...

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In Watching TV with a Linguist, Fgersten challenges the conventional view of television as lowbrow entertainment devoid of intellectual activity. Rather, she champions the use of fictional television to learn about linguistics and at the same time...

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Over the past twenty-five years, Bruno Latour has developed a research protocol different from the actor-network theory with which his name is now associateda research protocol that follows the different types of connectors that provide specific t...

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Forty years in the making, this long-awaited reinterpretation of Hegels The Phenomenology of Spirit is a landmark contribution to philosophy by one of the worlds best-known and most influential philosophers. In this much-anticipated work, Robert B...

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Introduces original and radical ideas which amount to a revision of some important aspects of psychoanalytic metapsychology, and extensions of several others. Considers concepts including the void, exile and nothingness and considers how developme...

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The idea that there once existed a language which perfectly and unambiguously expressed the essence of all possible things and concepts has occupied the minds of philosophers, theologians, mystics and others for at least two millennia. This is an ...

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The definitive reference work for this diverse and fertile field: an outstanding international team contribute 41 new essays covering topics from the nature of language to meaning, truth, and reference, and the interfaces of philosophy of language...

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Philosophy of language is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature of meaning, the relationship of language to reality, and the ways in which we use, learn, and understand language. The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language provid...

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Hanna Pitkin argues that Wittgenstein's later philosophy offers a revolutionary new conception of language, and hence a new and deeper understanding of ourselves and the world of human institutions and action.

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How might we speak of human life amid violence, deprivation, or disease so intrusive as to put the idea of the human into question? How can scholarship and advocacy address new forms of war or the slow, corrosive violence that belie democracy&apos...

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As the foundation of our rationality, logic has traditionally been considered fixed, stable and constant. This conception of the discipline has been challenged recently by the plurality of logics and in this book, Pavel Arazim extends the debate t...

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The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy examines Hegel within his broader historical and philosophical contexts. Covering all major aspects of Hegel's philosophy, the volume provides an introduction to his logic, epistem...

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