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Unity of the Proposition
E-bok, 2008
1846 kr
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Richard Gaskin presents a work in the philosophy of language. He analyses what is distinctive about sentences and the propositions they express—what marks them off from mere lists of words and mere aggregates of word-meanings respectively. Since he identifies the world with all the true and false …
Language, Truth, and Literature
A Defence of Literary Humanism
E-bok, 2013
548 kr
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According to the literary humanist, works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of their production and which is the same for all readers, then and thereafter, not subject to the vagaries of individual readers'' responses. Such works refer to the real world …
The Question of Linguistic Idealism
Inbunden, 2025
1419 kr
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The chapters in this volume address the question to what extent the doctrine of linguistic idealism is coherent and plausible. Linguistic idealism, as defined here, holds that both the existence and the (very general) structure of the world are in some sense dependent on the existence and the …
Language, Truth, and Literature
A Defence of Literary Humanism
Häftad, 2016
650 kr
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According to the literary humanist, works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of their production and which is the same for all readers, then and thereafter, not subject to the vagaries of individual readers' responses. Such works refer to the real world …
The Unity of the Proposition
Inbunden, 2008
2902 kr
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Richard Gaskin presents a work in the philosophy of language. He analyses what is distinctive about sentences and the propositions they express--what marks them off from mere lists of words and mere aggregates of word-meanings respectively. Since he identifies the world with all the true and false …
Experience and the World's Own Language
A Critique of John McDowell's Empiricism
Inbunden, 2006
2123 kr
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John McDowell's 'minimal empiricism' is one of the most influential and widely discussed doctrines in contemporary philosophy. Richard Gaskin subjects it to careful examination and criticism. The doctrine is undermined, he argues, by inadequacies in the way McDowell conceives what he styles the …
Language, Truth, and Literature
A Defence of Literary Humanism
Inbunden, 2013
1894 kr
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According to the literary humanist, works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of their production and which is the same for all readers, then and thereafter, not subject to the vagaries of individual readers' responses. Such works refer to the real world …
Language and World
A Defence of Linguistic Idealism
Häftad, 2022
704 kr
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This book defends a version of linguistic idealism, the thesis that the world is a product of language. In the course of defending this radical thesis, Gaskin addresses a wide range of topics in contemporary metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and syntax theory.Starting from …
Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature
A Philosophical Perspective
Häftad, 2020
843 kr
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This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy. Richard Gaskin argues that tragic literature seeks to offer moral and linguistic redress (compensation) for suffering. Moral redress involves the balancing …
Language and World
A Defence of Linguistic Idealism
Inbunden, 2020
2504 kr
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This book defends a version of linguistic idealism, the thesis that the world is a product of language. In the course of defending this radical thesis, Gaskin addresses a wide range of topics in contemporary metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and syntax theory.Starting from …
Grammar in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy
Inbunden, 2001
2504 kr
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This book is a systematic and historical exploration of the philosophical significance of grammar. In the first half of the twentieth century, and in particular in the writings of Frege, Husserl, Russell, Carnap and Wittgenstein, there was sustained philosophical reflection on the nature of …
Grammar in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy
Häftad, 2006
750 kr
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This book is a systematic and historical exploration of the philosophical significance of grammar. In the first half of the twentieth century, and in particular in the writings of Frege, Husserl, Russell, Carnap and Wittgenstein, there was sustained philosophical reflection on the nature of …
Language and World
A Defence of Linguistic Idealism
E-bok, 2020
831 kr
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This book defends a version of linguistic idealism, the thesis that the world is a product of language. In the course of defending this radical thesis, Gaskin addresses a wide range of topics in contemporary metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and syntax theory. Starting from …
Language and World
A Defence of Linguistic Idealism
E-bok, 2020
813 kr
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This book defends a version of linguistic idealism, the thesis that the world is a product of language. In the course of defending this radical thesis, Gaskin addresses a wide range of topics in contemporary metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and syntax theory. Starting from …
Othello and the Problem of Knowledge
Reading Shakespeare through Wittgenstein
E-bok, 2023
829 kr
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This book analyses the epistemological problems that Shakespeare explores in Othello . In particular, it uses the methods of analytic philosophy, especially the work of the later Wittgenstein, to characterize these problems and the play. Shakespeare’s Othello is often thought to connect with …
Othello and the Problem of Knowledge
Reading Shakespeare through Wittgenstein
E-bok, 2023
829 kr
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This book analyses the epistemological problems that Shakespeare explores in Othello . In particular, it uses the methods of analytic philosophy, especially the work of the later Wittgenstein, to characterize these problems and the play. Shakespeare’s Othello is often thought to connect with …
Othello and the Problem of Knowledge
Reading Shakespeare through Wittgenstein
Inbunden, 2023
2445 kr
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This book analyses the epistemological problems that Shakespeare explores in Othello. In particular, it uses the methods of analytic philosophy, especially the work of the later Wittgenstein, to characterize these problems and the play.Shakespeare’s Othello is often thought to connect with …
Othello and the Problem of Knowledge
Reading Shakespeare through Wittgenstein
Häftad, 2024
726 kr
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This book analyses the epistemological problems that Shakespeare explores in Othello. In particular, it uses the methods of analytic philosophy, especially the work of the later Wittgenstein, to characterize these problems and the play.Shakespeare’s Othello is often thought to connect with …
Grammar in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy
E-bok, 2013
883 kr
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This book is a systematic and historical exploration of the philosophical significance of grammar. In the first half of the twentieth century, and in particular in the writings of Frege, Husserl, Russell, Carnap and Wittgenstein, there was sustained philosophical reflection on the nature of …
Grammar in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy
E-bok, 2013
864 kr
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This book is a systematic and historical exploration of the philosophical significance of grammar. In the first half of the twentieth century, and in particular in the writings of Frege, Husserl, Russell, Carnap and Wittgenstein, there was sustained philosophical reflection on the nature of …
Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature
A Philosophical Perspective
Inbunden, 2018
3146 kr
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This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy. Richard Gaskin argues that tragic literature seeks to offer moral and linguistic redress (compensation) for suffering. Moral redress involves the balancing …
Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature
A Philosophical Perspective
E-bok, 2018
996 kr
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This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy. Richard Gaskin argues that tragic literature seeks to offer moral and linguistic redress (compensation) for suffering. Moral redress involves the balancing …
Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature
A Philosophical Perspective
E-bok, 2018
974 kr
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This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy. Richard Gaskin argues that tragic literature seeks to offer moral and linguistic redress (compensation) for suffering. Moral redress involves the balancing …
Simplicius: On Aristotle Categories 9-15
E-bok, 2014
595 kr
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Aristotle classified the things in the world into ten categories: substance, quantity, quality, relative, etc. Plotinus, the founder of Neoplatonism, attacked the classification, accepting only these first four categories, rejecting the other six, and adding one of this own: change. He preferred …
Simplicius: On Aristotle Categories 9-15
Av Richard Gaskin, Richard Sorabji
Häftad, 2014
556 kr
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Aristotle classified the things in the world into ten categories: substance, quantity, quality, relative, and six others. Plotinus, the founder of Neoplatonism, attacked the classification, accepting only these first four categories, rejecting the other six, and adding one of this own: change. He …
Dido’s Tragedy
A Literary Commentary on Virgil’s Fourth Aeneid
Inbunden, 2025
2674 kr
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Dido’s Tragedy is a literary commentary, highly original in both form and content, on the Latin text of Virgil’s Aeneid, Book 4, which concerns the love affair between Dido and Aeneas and its tragic denouement. A substantial introduction discusses the book’s historical and literary context and …
Sea Battle and the Master Argument
Aristotle and Diodorus Cronus on the Metaphysics of the Future
Inbunden, 1995
2980 kr
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Sea Battle and the Master Argument
Aristotle and Diodorus Cronus on the Metaphysics of the Future
E-bok, 2011
2672 kr
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