LIBROS DEL AUTOR: scott soames

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  • Rethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning
    Scott Soames
    In this book, Scott Soames argues that the revolution in the study of language and mind that has taken place since the late nineteenth century must be rethought. The central insight in the reigning tradition is that propositions are representational. To know the meaning of a sentence or the content of a belief requires knowing which things it represents as being which ways, and...
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    43,30 €

  • Analytic Philosophy in America
    Scott Soames
    In this collection of recent and unpublished essays, leading analytic philosopher Scott Soames traces milestones in his field from its beginnings in Britain and Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, through its subsequent growth in the United States, up to its present as the world’s most vigorous philosophical tradition. The central essay chronicles how an...
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    45,55 €

  • What Is Meaning?
    Scott Soames
    The tradition descending from Frege and Russell has typically treated theories of meaning either as theories of meanings (propositions expressed), or as theories of truth conditions. However, propositions of the classical sort don’t exist, and truth conditions can’t provide all the information required by a theory of meaning. In this book, one of the world’s leading philosopher...
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    36,75 €

  • Philosophy of Language
    Scott Soames
    A masterful overview of the philosophy of language from one of its most important thinkersIn this book one of the world’s foremost philosophers of language presents his unifying vision of the field-its principal achievements, its most pressing current questions, and its most promising future directions. In addition to explaining the progress philosophers have made toward creati...
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    35,15 €

  • Philosophical Essays, Volume 2
    Scott Soames
    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...
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    85,27 €

  • Philosophical Essays, Volume 1
    Scott Soames
    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...
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    85,39 €

  • Reference and Description
    Scott Soames
    In this book, Scott Soames defends the revolution in philosophy led by Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam, and David Kaplan against attack from those wishing to revive descriptivism in the philosophy of language, internalism in the philosophy of mind, and conceptualism in the foundations of modality. Soames explains how, in the last twenty-five years, this attack on the anti-descriptiv...
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    53,80 €

  • Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 2
    Scott Soames
    This is a major, wide-ranging history of analytic philosophy since 1900, told by one of the tradition’s leading contemporary figures. The first volume takes the story from 1900 to mid-century. The second brings the history up to date. As Scott Soames tells it, the story of analytic philosophy is one of great but uneven progress, with leading thinkers making important advances t...
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    64,40 €

  • Philosophical Analysis in the Twentieth Century, Volume 1
    Scott Soames
    This is a major, wide-ranging history of analytic philosophy since 1900, told by one of the tradition’s leading contemporary figures. The first volume takes the story from 1900 to mid-century. The second brings the history up to date. As Scott Soames tells it, the story of analytic philosophy is one of great but uneven progress, with leading thinkers making important advances t...
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    64,69 €

  • Beyond Rigidity
    Scott Soames
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    119,94 €

  • Understanding Truth
    Scott Soames
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    142,60 €