Category - Philosophy
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Meaning Of Meaning
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The Rediscovery of Meaning, and Other Essays
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The Uses of Pessimism: And the Danger of False Hope
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Dear Fellow Time-Binder: Letters on General Semantics
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The Logical Syntax of Language
PaperbackOriginal price $38.00Original price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Available for the first time in 20 years, here is the Rudolf Carnap's famous "principle of tolerance" by which everyone is free to mix and match ...
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Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers
HardcoverOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /The full story of Frank Ramsey's extraordinary life.When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and...
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Speaker's Meaning
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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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Mind, Language and Society: Philosophy in the Real World
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Disillusionment with psychology is leading more and more people to formal philosophy for clues about how to think about life. But most of us who ...
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Naming and Necessity / Edition 1
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A New History of Western Philosophy
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Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering
PaperbackOriginal price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Only the most naive or tendentious among us would deny the extent and intensity of suffering in the world. Can one hold, consistently with the co...
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Exemplarist Moral Theory
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The Big Typescript: TS 213 / Edition 1
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Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers
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The Secrets of Words
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Semantics, Pragmatics, Philosophy: A Journey Through Meaning
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Modern Chinese Counter-Enlightenment: Affect, Reason, and the Transcultural Lexicon
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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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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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