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Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power
PaperbackOriginal price $11.95 - Original price $11.95Original price $11.95$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /One of the great Catholic philosophers of our day reflects on the way language has been abused so that, instead of being a means of communicating...
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An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language: Learn to Hear What's Left Unsaid
HardcoverOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /"This is a book for every thinking person, the perfect antidote to today's culture wars."--Hope Jahren The creators of An Illustrated Book of Bad A...
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Arguing for a Better World: How Philosophy Can Help Us Fight for Social Justice
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Is it sexist to say that “men are trash”? Can white people be victims of racism? Do we bear any individual responsibility for climate change?We’v...
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Barriers to Entailment: Hume's Law and Other Limits on Logical Consequence
HardcoverOriginal price $80.00 - Original price $80.00Original price $80.00$96.99$96.99 - $96.99Current price $96.99| /A barrier to entailment exists if you can't get conclusions of a certain kind from premises of another. One of the most famous barriers in philosop...
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Part passionate memoir, part scientific exploration, a life-changing tale set among a small tribe of Amazonian Indians in Brazil that offers a ri...
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El Arte de tener razon
PaperbackOriginal price $10.95 - Original price $10.95Original price $10.95$12.99$12.99 - $12.99Current price $12.99| /El arte de tener razón es un pequeño tratado escrito por el filósofo alemán Arthur Schopenhauer, basado principalmente en los Tópicos de Aristóte...
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How Language Began: The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A Buzzfeed Gift Guide Selection “Few books on the biological and cultural origin of humanity can be ranked as classics. I believe [this] will be ...
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Imaginary Languages: Myths, Utopias, Fantasies, Illusions, and Linguistic Fictions
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /An exploration of the practice of inventing languages, from speaking in tongues to utopian schemes of universality to the discoveries of modern l...
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Moral Articulation: On the Development of New Moral Concepts
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On the Shoulders of Giants
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A posthumous collection of essays by one of our greatest contemporary thinkers that provides a towering vision of Western culture.In Umberto Eco’...
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Questions
PaperbackOriginal price $8.95 - Original price $8.95Original price $8.95$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /How many questions do we ask each day? Why do we ask them in the first place? Do we always ask because we're trying to learn something? Or are th...
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Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In this spiritual sequel to his influential Reading for the Plot, Peter Brooks examines the dangerously alluring power of storytelling. "There's no...
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Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize — winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French...
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The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In this historic 1971 debate, two of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers discuss whether there is such a thing as innate human natu...
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The Emergence of Word-Meaning in Early China: Normative Models for Words
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Jane Geaney is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Richmond. She is the author of Language as Bodily Practice in Early China: A Chi...
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The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings (1867-1893) / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /... a first-rate edition, which supersedes all other portable Peirces.... all the Peirce most people will ever need." -Louis Menand, The New York...
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The Politics of Language
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /A provocative case for the inherently political nature of language In The Politics of Language, David Beaver and Jason Stanley present a radical ne...
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The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge / Edition 11
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The Secrets of Words
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Thought and Poetry: Essays on Romanticism, Subjectivity, and Truth
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Addressing objective and subjective views of the self and the world in philosophy and poetry, this collection brings together a chronology of Joh...
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Chiron Academic Press - The Original Authoritative Edition)
PaperbackOriginal price $6.63 - Original price $6.63Original price $6.63$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /THE TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS is the only book-length philosophical work published by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in his li...
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Chiron Academic Press - The Original Authoritative Edition)
HardcoverOriginal price $22.57 - Original price $22.57Original price $22.57$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /THE TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS is the only book-length philosophical work published by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein in his li...
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Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Now in paperback, Sandra Laugier's reconsideration of analytic philosophy and ordinary language. Sandra Laugier has long been a key liaison betwe...
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Wolves And Honey: A Hidden History of the Natural World
PaperbackOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Susan Brind Morrow brings her singular sensibility as a classicist and linguist to this strikingly original reflection on the fine but resilient ...
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