Authors:Arthur J. Milgram, M. L. Rantala,
Publisher: Open Court
Keywords: |null, vol, cloning
Number of Pages: 277
Published: 1999-01-11
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0812693752
ISBN-13: 9780812693751

This collection of 30 articles by scientists, ethicists, religious leaders, and legal experts explores the benefits and costs of cloning. Topics include: Playing God; Is Cloning the Salvation for Endangered Species? No Need for Marriage; Can You Xerox a Soul?; and A Million Michael Jacksons. A lucid introduction offers readers an essential overview and understanding of the development and process of cloning, and the editors evenhandedly represent all sides of this controversial subject.

Author: Esa. Saarinen
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: semantics, saarinen, studies, linguistics, rantala, philosophy, carlson, theoretical, essays, hintikka, game, peacocke
Number of Pages: 412
Published: 1978-12-31
List price: $170.00
ISBN-10: 9027709181
ISBN-13: 9789027709189

This book is a collection of studies applying game-theoretical concepts and ideas to analysing the semantics of natural language and some formal languages. The bulk of the book consists of several papers by Hintikka, Carlson and Saarinen and discusses several of the central problems of the semantics of natural language. The topics covered are the semantics of natural language quantifiers, conditionals, pronouns and anaphora more generally. Hintikka’s famous essay presenting examples of "branching quantifier structures" in English, as well as one formulating his "any-every thesis", are inclu