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1	Philosophical Investigations: The German Text, with a Revised English Translation more books like this by Ludwig Wittgenstein, G E M Anscombe add to wishlist Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations presents his own distillation of two decades of intense work on the philosophies of mind, language and meaning. When first published in 1953, it immediately entered the center of philosophical debate, and achieved a classic status it has retained ever since. This revised German-English edition is ... see all copies from $20.15! new only from $22.46! \| first editions
2	A rhetoric of motives more books like this by Kenneth Burke add to wishlist As critic, Kenneth Burke's preoccupations were at the beginning purely aesthetic and literary; but after "Counter-Statement" (1931), he began to discriminate a 'rhetorical' or persuasive component in literature, and thereupon became a philosopher of language and human conduct. In "A Grammar of Motives" (1945) and "A Rhetoric of Motives" (1950), ... see all copies from $12.99! new only from $33.54! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Tractatus Logico Philosophicus more books like this by Ludwig Wittgenstein add to wishlist In his proposal of the solution to most philosophic problems by means of a critical method of linguistic analysis, Wittgenstein sets the stage for the development of logical positivism. Introduction by Bertrand Russell. see all copies from $3.70! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Philosophical investigations more books like this by Ludwig Wittgenstein add to wishlist Incorporating significant editorial changes from earlier editions, the fourth edition of Ludwig Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations" is the definitive en face German-English version of the most important work of 20th-century philosophy. The extensively revised English translation incorporates many hundreds of changes to Anscombe's ... see all copies from $13.99! new only from $21.84! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language more books like this by John R Searle add to wishlist Written in an outstandingly clear and lively style, it provokes its readers to rethink issues they may have regarded as long since settled. see all copies from $14.81! new only from $32.01! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Word and object. more books like this by W. V. Quine add to wishlist Language consists of dispositions, socially instilled, to respond observably to socially observable stimuli. Such is the point of view from which a noted philosopher and logician examines the notion of meaning and the linguistic mechanisms of objective reference. In the course of the discussion, Professor Quine pinpoints the difficulties involved ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $24.38! \| first editions
7	Logic, Language, and Meaning, Volume 1: Introduction to Logic more books like this by L T F Gamut, Babette Greiner (Translator), Michael Morreau (Translator) add to wishlist The Dutch not only have what must be the greatest number of linguists per capita in the world, they also have a very long and rich tradition of combining linguistics, logic, and philosophy of language. So it should not be a surprise that it is an interdisciplinary collaboration of Dutch scholars that has produced the first comprehensive ... see all copies from $5.56! new only from $23.49! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Ontological Relativity: And Other Essays more books like this by Professor W V Quine add to wishlist Intended to clarify the meaning of the philosophical doctrines propounded by W. V. Quine in "Word and Objects," the essays included herein are intimately related and concern themselves with three philosophical preoccupations: the nature of meaning, the meaning of existence and the nature of natural knowledge. see all copies from $6.59! new only from $35.65! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The measurement of meaning more books like this by Charles Egerton Osgood add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $38.65!
10	Meaning and Grammar, 2nd Edition: An Introduction to Semantics more books like this by Gennaro Chierchia, Sally McConnell-Ginet add to wishlist This self-contained introduction to natural language semantics addresses the major theoretical questions in the field. The authors introduce the systematic study of linguistic meaning through a sequence of formal tools and their linguistic applications. Starting with propositional connectives and truth conditions, the book moves to quantification ... see all copies from $14.57! new only from $53.00!
11 view cover	Semantic Theory more books like this by Ruth M Kempson add to wishlist Semantics is a bridge discipline between linguistics and philosophy; but linguistics student are rarely able to reach that bridge, let alone cross it to inspect and assess the activity on the other side. Professor Kempson's textbook seeks particularly to encourage such exchanges. She deals with the standard linguistic topics like componential ... see all copies from $12.37! new only from $35.00! \| SVS
12 view cover	Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations more books like this by Marie McGinn, Ludwig Wittgenstein add to wishlist The Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks painlessly introduce students to the classic works of philosophy. Each GuideBook considers a major philosopher and a key area of their philosophy by focusing on an important text - situating the philosopher and the work in an historical context, considering the text in question and assessing the philosopher's ... see all copies from $6.60! new only from $15.95! \| SVS
13 view cover	Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic more books like this by Rudolf Carnap add to wishlist This book is valuable as expounding in full a theory of meaning that has its roots in the work of Frege and has been of the widest influence...The chief virtue of the book is its systematic character. From Frege to Quine most philosophical logicians have restricted themselves by piecemeal and local assaults on the problems involved. The book is ... see all copies from $5.47! new only from $29.02! \| first editions \| SVS
14	Linguistic Turn: Recent Essays in Philosophical Method more books like this by Richard Rorty add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00! new only from $16.00!
15 view cover	What Is Thought? more books like this by Eric B Baum add to wishlist This book moves towards a computational explanation of thought: an argument that underlying mind is a complex but compact program that corresponds to the underlying complex structure of the world. In "What Is Thought?" Eric Baum proposes a computational explanation of thought. Just as Erwin Schrodinger in his classic 1944 work "What Is Life?" ... see all copies from $4.78! new only from $4.78! \| SVS
16	Thinking, language, and experience more books like this by Hector-Neri Castañeda add to wishlist see all copies from $2.00! new only from $3.80! \| first editions
17 view cover	Philosophical remarks more books like this by Ludwig Wittgenstein add to wishlist When in May 1930, the Council of Trinity College, Cambridge, had to decide whether to renew Wittgenstein's research grant, it turned to Bertrand Russell for an assessment of the work Wittgenstein had been doing over the past year. His verdict: "The theories contained in this new work... are novel, very original and indubitably important. Whether ... see all copies from $12.50! new only from $30.00! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Logic of sense more books like this by Professor Gilles Deleuze add to wishlist Since its first publication, Logic of Sense has become a famous work of philosophical criticism, Working from Stoic philosophy to Lewis Carroll's literary and logical paradoxes and on to psychoanalysis, Deleuze seeks to determine the status of meaning and meaninglessness. Deleuze's exploration takes the reader through a series of inquiries with ... see all copies from $11.50! new only from $20.42! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Formal Semantics more books like this by Ronnie Cann, S R Anderson (Editor), J Bresnan (Editor) add to wishlist This book provides a clear and accessible introduction to formal, and especially Montague, semantics within a linguistic framework. It presupposes no previous background in logic, but takes the student step-by-step from simple predicate/argument structures and their interpretation through to Montague's intentional logic. It covers all the major ... see all copies from $37.95! new only from $43.78! \| SVS
20 view cover	The Rhetoric of Religion more books like this by Kenneth Burke add to wishlist see all copies from $13.50! new only from $26.71! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Meaning and Mental Representation more books like this by Umberto Eco (Editor), Patrizia Violi (Editor), Marco Santambrogio (Editor) add to wishlist This is an important collection of original essays by well-known scholars debating the questions of logical versus psychologically-based interpretations of language. see all copies from $3.12! new only from $16.80! \| SVS
22	Philosophy of language more books like this by William P. Alston add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
23 view cover	Semiosis in the Postmodern Age more books like this by Floyd Merrell add to wishlist Merrell's specific focus in this interdisciplinary study is the modernism/postmodernism dichotomy and Peirce's precocious realization that the world does not lend itself to the simplistic binarism of modernist thought. In Merrell's examination of postmodern phenomena, the reader is taken through various facets of the cognitive sciences, philosophy ... see all copies from $26.45! new only from $50.98!
24 view cover	Thought and World: An Austere Portrayal of Truth, Reference, and Semantic Correspondence more books like this by Christopher S Hill, Ernest Sosa (Editor), Jonathan Dancy (Editor) add to wishlist There is an important family of semantic notions that we apply to thoughts and to the conceptual constituents of thoughts - as when we say that the thought that the Universe is expanding is true. Thought and World presents a theory of the content of such notions. The theory is largely deflationary in spirit, in the sense that it represents a broad ... see all copies from $2.32! new only from $2.32! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Teleosemantics more books like this by Professor Graham MacDonald (Editor), David Papineau (Editor) add to wishlist "Teleosemantics" seeks to explain meaning and other intentional phenomena in terms of their function in the life of the species. This volume of new essays from an impressive line-up of well-known contributors offers a valuable summary of the current state of the teleosemantics debate. see all copies from $9.00! new only from $14.86! \| first editions \| SVS

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