Authors:John Hawthorne, Dean W. Zimmerman,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: philosophical, perspectives, volume, annual, linguistics, language
Number of Pages: 536
Published: 2003-12-30
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 1405116730
ISBN-13: 9781405116732

Philosophical Perspectives Volume 17, Language and Philosophical Linguistics, contains over 20 articles from leading philosophers of language and linguists.

Author: Paulette Dieterlen
Publisher: Rodopi
Keywords: philosophical, studies, rodopi, approach, poverty
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2005-04-01
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 9042019751
ISBN-13: 9789042019751

In Poverty: a philosophical approach, the author studies various philosophical issues concerning poverty in the Program for Education, Health and Food (PROGRESA) that was in effect in Mexico, from 1997 to 2002, and shows how theoretical discussion is necessary to clarify some ideas concerning the application of a social policy. Poverty is one of the main problems concerning economics, political philosophy, and ethics. It is an ethical problem because of its relationship with self-esteem. Since poverty is intimately related to social policies, the philosophy of poverty must consider the dis

Author: Raimo Tuomela
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: philosophical, series, studies, study, cooperation
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2000-02-16
List price: $249.00
ISBN-10: 0792362012
ISBN-13: 9780792362012

In Cooperation, A Philosophical Study, Tuomela offers the first comprehensive philosophical theory of cooperation. He builds on such notions a collective and joint goals, mutual beliefs, collective commitments, acting together and acting collectively. The book analyzes the varieties of cooperation, making use of the crucial distinction between group-mode and individual-mode cooperation. The former is based on collective goals and collective commitments, the latter on private goals and commitments. The book discusses the attitudes and the kinds of practical reasoning that cooperation r

Author: Donald Gillies
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: philosophical, science, issues, probability, theories
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2000-10-18
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 041518276X
ISBN-13: 9780415182768

This book presents a comprehensive and systematic account of the various philosophical theories of probability and explains how they are related. It covers the classical, logical, subjective, frequency, and propensity views. Donald Gillies even provides a new theory of probability -the intersubjective-a development of the subjective theory.

Author: J. Angelo Corlett
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: philosophical, series, studies, analysis, terrorism
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2003-10-31
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 1402016956
ISBN-13: 9781402016950

What is terrorism? Can it ever be the right thing to do? Who is really responsible for terrorism? Should governments never negotiate with terrorists? And how can terrorism be stopped? Terrorism: A Philosophical Analysis is a unique book on terrorism that openly, rationally and passionately delves into what underlies terrorism, what in some cases justifies it on ethical grounds, and how terrorism might be dealt with successfully. Rather than assuming from the start a particular point of view about terrorism, this book uniquely engages the reader in a series of critical discussions that

Author: Scott Soames
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: philosophical, language, significance, volume, essays
Number of Pages: 477
Published: 2009-03-09
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 0691136831
ISBN-13: 9780691136837

The two volumes of Philosophical Essays bring together the most important essays written by one of the world’s foremost philosophers of language. Scott Soames has selected thirty-one essays spanning nearly three decades of thinking about linguistic meaning and the philosophical significance of language. A judicious collection of old and new, these volumes include sixteen essays published in the 1980s and 1990s, nine published since 2000, and six new essays. The essays in Volume 1 investigate what linguistic meaning is; how the meaning of a sentence is related to the use we make of it; wh

Author: Lawrie Reznek
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: philosophical, science, issues, psychiatry, defence
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1991-04-12
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0415035937
ISBN-13: 9780415035934

Psychiatry is plagued with philosophical questions. What is mental illness? Is it different from a brain disease? Is there any objective way of determining whether behaviors such as criminal activity are mental illnesses? Should we explain ``abnormal’’ behavior by reference to psychological forces, learning processes, social factors, or disease processes?The Philosophical Defence of Psychiatry aspires to answer these and other questions. Divided broadly into two halves, the first analyzes the arguments of psychiatry’s critics and covers the philosophical ideas of such thinker