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Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie

Edited by Kurt Flasch, Ruedi Imbach, Burkhard Mojsisch and Olaf Pluta

ISSN 1384-668X
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Controversies

Ethics and Interdisciplinarity

Edited by Giovanni Scarafile

ISSN 1574-1583
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Dialogue Studies

Edited by Edda Weigand

ISSN 1875-1792
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Figurative Thought and Language

Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou and Herbert L. Colston

ISSN 2405-6944

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Pragmatics & Cognition

Edited by Elly Ifantidou and Louis de Saussure

ISSN 0929-0907 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9943
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Exploring Dialogue: Selected essays on argumentation by Erik C. W. Krabbe with contributions by Jan Albert van Laar

Edited by Erik C.W. Krabbe and Jan Albert van Laar

Exploring Dialogue is a collection of essays on argumentation, authored or coauthored by Erik C.W. Krabbe, which take a philosopher's or even a logician's point of view. For this collection, Krabbe selected twenty of what, in his opinion, were his best philosophical essays about argumentation. Four… read more
[Argumentation in Context, 23] 2026. x, 407 pp.
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Principles of New Science: Dialogue in the stream of life

Edda Weigand

This book looks beyond the limit of certainty which has long been taken as a defining characteristic of science. Beyond certainty lies complexity. How can complexity be addressed in the framework of science? What can science of complexity mean? The first and basic principle is that we recognize… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 35] 2026. xiii, 169 pp. + index | Open Access logo open access
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‘Only joking’: Negotiating offensive humour in interaction

Edited by Chi-Hé Elder, Eleni Kapogianni and Ibi Baxter-Webb

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 32:1 (2025) v, 260 pp.
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The Pragmatics of Hypocrisy

Edited by Sandrine Sorlin and Tuija Virtanen

As a first attempt to date, this book addresses the notion of hypocrisy from a pragmatic perspective and devises a comprehensive model of verbal hypocrisy. The studies included adopt emic and etic approaches in order to contribute jointly towards an understanding of what appears to be a ubiquitous… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 343] 2024. viii, 268 pp.
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The Speech Act(ion) of Commenting in Social Media and Beyond

Edited by Robert Külpmann and Rita Finkbeiner

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 31:2 (2024) v, 134 pp.
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Zur mittelalterlichen Herkunft einiger Theoreme in der modernen Aristoteles-Interpretation: Eine Fallstudie anhand der Kommentare von Albertus Magnus und Thomas von Aquin zu Aristoteles’ Metaphysik XII

Erwin Sonderegger

Die Rezeption der Texte von Aristoteles in verschiedenen Welten hat zu Umformungen geführt, von denen manche noch heute als Meinung des Aristoteles selbst behauptet werden. Wenn es möglich ist, diese aus verschiedenen Welten herkommenden Umgestaltungen ausdrücklich zu machen, können sie methodisch… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 61] 2024. vii, 126 pp.
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Discourse-pragmatic markers, fillers and filled pauses: Pragmatic, cognitive, multimodal and sociolinguistic perspectives

Edited by Kate Beeching, Grant Howie, Minna Kirjavainen and Anna Piasecki

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 29:2 (2022) iii, 213 pp.
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Argumentation between Doctors and Patients: Understanding clinical argumentative discourse

Frans H. van Eemeren, Bart Garssen and Nanon Labrie

Argumentation between Doctors and Patients discusses the use of argumentation in clinical settings. Starting from the pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation, it aims at providing an understanding of argumentative discourse in the context of doctor-patient interaction. It explains when and how… read more
[Not in series, 235] 2021. x, 155 pp.
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New Developments in Relevance Theory

Edited by Manuel Padilla Cruz and Agnieszka Piskorska

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 28:2 (2021) v, 218 pp.
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Overarching Greek Trends in European Philosophy

Edited by Marco Antonio Coronel Ramos

This book is an enquiry into memory in the Western world. Specifically, memory is the framework of culture, because it links the present to the past - or tradition - and projects it into the future. For this reason, any work focusing on memory involves a double challenge: (1) to reveal the origin… read more
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Scientia Media: Der Molinismus und das Faktenwissen. Mit einer Edition des Ms. BU Salamanca 156 von 1653

Sven K. Knebel

Molinismus ist heute ein Kapitel Philosophie. Das Thema dieses Buchs ist jedoch nicht die Renaissance der Scientia Media-Hypothese in der modernen angloamerikanischen Religionsphilosophie, sondern ihre scholastische Ausgestaltung in dem auf Molina folgenden Jahrhundert: Ohne den Kalkül mit den… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 60] 2021. xx, 440 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Sensory Experiences: Exploring meaning and the senses

Danièle Dubois, Caroline Cance, Matt Coler, Arthur Paté and Catherine Guastavino

Sensory Experiences: Exploring meaning and the senses describes the collective elaboration of a situated cognitive approach with an emphasis on the relations between language and cognition within and across different sensory modalities and practices. This approach, grounded in 40 years of empirical… read more
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Sex, Death & Politics: Taboos in Language

Edited by Melanie Keller, Philipp Striedl, Daniel Biro, Johanna Holzer and Benjamin Weber

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 28:1 (2021) v, 221 pp.
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Coherence

T. Givón

Coherence, connectivity and the fitting together of smaller parts into larger structures and a coherent whole is the hallmark of complex biologically-based systems. As a structure-internal constraint, coherence makes it possible for the parts to work together as a whole. As an external constraint,… read more
[Not in series, 230] 2020. xi, 293 pp.
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Controversies and Interdisciplinarity: Beyond disciplinary fragmentation for a new knowledge model

Edited by Jens Allwood, Olga Pombo, Clara Renna and Giovanni Scarafile

Nowadays, the forms assumed by knowledge indicate an unhinging of traditional structures conceived on the model of discipline. Consequently, what was once strictly disciplinary becomes interdisciplinary, what was homogeneous becomes heterogeneous and what was hierarchical becomes heterarchical.When… read more
[Controversies, 16] 2020. vi, 279 pp.
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Deafness, Gesture and Sign Language in the 18th Century French Philosophy

Josef Fulka

The book represents a historical overview of the way the topic of gesture and sign language has been treated in the 18th century French philosophy. The texts treated are grouped into several categories based on the view they present of deafness and gesture. While some of those texts obviously view… read more
[Gesture Studies, 8] 2020. vii, 166 pp.
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Discourses on the Edges of Life

Edited by Vicent Salvador †, Adéla Kotátková and Ignasi Clemente

Death inhabits our collective imaginary, even though sometimes, like a squatter, it hides discretely in order to avoid conflicts. It is undoubtedly a multi-faceted subject of study, which requires consideration from an interdisciplinary perspective. This book deals with this phenomenon, and more… read more
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Emotion, Body and Mind across a Continent: Figurative representations of emotions in Australian Aboriginal languages

Edited by Maïa Ponsonnet, Dorothea Hoffmann and Isabel O'Keeffe

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 27:1 (2020) v, 312 pp.
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The Quest for Argumentative Equivalence: Argumentative patterns in political interpreting contexts

Emanuele Brambilla

What are the implications of strategic manoeuvring for the activity of the simultaneous interpreter? This is the main question addressed in The Quest for Argumentative Equivalence. Based on the analysis of a multilingual comparable corpus named ARGO, the book investigates political argumentation… read more
[Argumentation in Context, 18] 2020. xv, 238 pp.
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Controversies in the Contemporary World

Edited by Adriano Fabris and Giovanni Scarafile

Inspired by Marcelo Dascal’s theory of controversies, this volume includes studies in the theory of controversies, studies of the history of controversy forms and their evolution, and case-studies of particular historical and current controversies.The purpose of this volume is to identify a… read more
[Controversies, 15] 2019. xiv, 305 pp.
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Normativity in Language and Linguistics

Edited by Aleksi Mäkilähde, Ville Leppänen and Esa Itkonen

This volume sets out to discuss the role of norms and normativity in both language and linguistics from a multiplicity of perspectives. These concepts are centrally important to the philosophy and methodology of linguistics, and their role and nature need to be investigated in detail. The chapters… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 209] 2019. vii, 272 pp.
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Pragmatics and its Interfaces as related to the Expression of Intention

Edited by István Kecskés

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 26:1 (2019) vi, 165 pp.
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Strategic Maneuvering for Political Change: A pragma-dialectical analysis of Egyptian anti-regime columns

Ahmed Abdulhameed Omar

In Strategic Maneuvering for Political Change, the author analyzes five political columns written before 2011 by Al Aswany, a prominent Egyptian novelist, using the lens of the extended pragma-dialectical theory of argumentation. What these texts have in common is the use of narrative, fictional… read more
[Argumentation in Context, 16] 2019. ix, 188 pp.
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Surprise at the Intersection of Phenomenology and Linguistics

Edited by Natalie Depraz and Agnès Celle

Surprise is treated as an affect in Aristotelian philosophy as well as in Cartesian philosophy. In experimental psychology, surprise is considered to be an emotion. In phenomenology, it is only addressed indirectly (Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas), with the important exception of Ricœur and Maldiney;… read more
[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 11] 2019. vi, 185 pp.
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Cognitive Perspectives on Genre

Edited by Carla Vergaro

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 25:3 (2018) v, 214 pp.
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The Dynamics of Lexical Innovation: Data, methods, models

Edited by Daphné Kerremans, Jelena Prokić, Quirin Würschinger and Hans-Jörg Schmid

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 25:1 (2018) v, 200 pp.
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Historical Pragmatics of Controversies: Case studies from 1600 to 1800

Gerd Fritz, Thomas Gloning and Juliane Glüer

The book gives an introduction to the new research field of Historical Pragmatics of Controversies and provides seven case studies (from 1609 to 1796) on controversies in the fields of astronomy/astrology, medicine, chemistry, philosophy, and theology. The protagonists of these controversies… read more
[Controversies, 14] 2018. vii, 346 pp.
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Science and Democracy: Controversies and conflicts

Edited by Pierluigi Barrotta and Giovanni Scarafile

The relationship between science and democracy has become a much-debated issue. In recent years, we have even seen an exponential growth in literature on the subject. No doubt, the interest has partly been justified by the concern of public opinion over the technological repercussions of scientific… read more
[Controversies, 13] 2018. viii, 198 pp.
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Veritas et subtilitas: Truth and Subtlety in the History of Philosophy. Essays in memory of Burkhard Mojsisch (1944 – 2015)

Edited by Tengiz Iremadze and Udo Reinhold Jeck

The book provides a collection of scientific papers which are dedicated to the memory of Burkhard Mojsisch. The collection includes highly qualified papers on ancient, medieval and early modern philosophy, and demonstrates the importance of the historical research of philosophy at the beginning of… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 59] 2018. ix, 482 pp.
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Argumentation across Communities of Practice: Multi-disciplinary perspectives

Edited by Cornelia Ilie and Giuliana Garzone

Featuring multidisciplinary and transcultural investigations, this volume showcases state-of-the-art scholarship about the impact of argumentation-based discourses and field-specific argumentation practices in a wide range of communities of practice belonging to the media, social, legal and… read more
[Argumentation in Context, 10] 2017. vi, 345 pp.
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How to Do Philosophy with Words: Reflections on the Searle-Derrida debate

Jesús Navarro

Nowadays philosophy is characterized by such heterogeneous intellectual practices that its very unity and coherence seem endangered. What is especially disconcerting is that most authors manage to largely ignore the very existence of methodological positions radically different from their own.… read more
[Controversies, 12] 2017. xviii, 225 pp.
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Irony in Language Use and Communication

Edited by Angeliki Athanasiadou and Herbert L. Colston

The volume provides original research and analyses of the multi-faceted conceptual and verbal process(es) of irony. Key topics explored include interdisciplinary perspectives and approaches to the study of irony. Collectively, the papers examine irony from psychology, embodiment studies,… read more
[Figurative Thought and Language, 1] 2017. x, 282 pp.
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Prototypical Argumentative Patterns: Exploring the relationship between argumentative discourse and institutional context

Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren

Prototypical Argumentative Patterns reports about a research project started at the University of Amsterdam in 2012. In this project distinctive argumentative patterns have been identified in argumentative discourse in the political, the legal and the medical domain. These patterns consist of… read more
[Argumentation in Context, 11] 2017. ix, 184 pp.
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Robert Brandom's Normative Inferentialism

Giacomo Turbanti

The philosophy of language of Robert Brandom is based on a theoretical structure composed of three main elements: the normative analysis of linguistic practices, the inferential characterization of conceptual contents and the expressive articulation of the relations between the former two.… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 280] 2017. xi, 245 pp.
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Controversies, Communication and the Body

Edited by Joseph Lehmann

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 23:3 (2016) vi, 170 pp.
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Metaphysik im Barockscotismus: Untersuchungen zum Metaphysikwerk des Bartholomaeus Mastrius. Mit Dokumentation der Metaphysik in der scotistischen Tradition ca. 1620-1750

Claus A. Andersen

Die Philosophie des Barockscotismus war einerseits durch die rückwärtsgewandte Anknüpfung an den mittelalterlichen Denker Johannes Duns Scotus, andererseits durch die Anknüpfung an die Entwicklung in der zeitgenössischen Scholastik, vor allem der Jesuitenscholastik, geprägt. Welche Art von… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 57] 2016. xviii, 993 pp.
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New Theoretical Insights into Untruthfulness

Edited by Marta Dynel

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 23:1 (2016) v, 208 pp.
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Nicholas of Amsterdam: Commentary on the Old Logic. Critical edition with introduction and indexes

Egbert P. Bos

Master Nicholas of Amsterdam was a prominent master of arts in Germany during the first half of the fifteenth century. He composed various commentaries on Aristotle’s works. One of these commentaries is on the logica vetus, the old logic, viz. on Porphyry’s Isagoge and on Aristotle’s Categories and… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 58] 2016. liv, 383 pp.
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Argumentation in Political Deliberation

Edited by Marcin Lewiński and Dima Mohammed

The goal of this volume is to further the examination of the role, shape, and quality of argumentation in political deliberation. The chapters collected in the volume employ the concepts and methods developed within argumentation theory to investigate the specifics of political discourse across… read more
[Benjamins Current Topics, 76] 2015. v, 178 pp.
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Realism and Individualism: Charles S. Peirce and the Threat of Modern Nominalism

Mateusz W. Oleksy

Realism and Individualism. Charles S. Peirce and the Threat of Modern Nominalism discusses the main problems, tenets, assumptions, and arguments involved in Charles S. Peirce's early and late realist stances and subjects to critical scrutiny the still dominant view that Pragmatic Realism merely… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 55] 2015. ix, 350 pp.
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Scrutinizing Argumentation in Practice

Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen

Scrutinizing Argumentation in Practice contains a selection of papers reflecting upon the use of argumentation in real life contexts. The first five sections are devoted to argumentation in a specific institutional context: scientific controversies, argumentation in politics, argumentation in a… read more
[Argumentation in Context, 9] 2015. ix, 343 pp.
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Vom Paläolithikum zur Postmoderne – Die Genese unseres Epochen-Systems: Bd. II: Das 18. und 19. Jahrhundert

Andreas Kamp

Mit dem vorliegenden Buch setzen wir unsere Studie zur Genese der heutigen Epochen-Systematik fort. Aufgrund der ebenso vielfältigen wie profunden Transformationen, die während des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts stattfanden, konzentriert es sich, die Analyse der jüngeren Entwicklungen für den dritten… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 56] 2015. ix, 326 pp.
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Certainty-uncertainty – and the Attitudinal Space in Between

Edited by Sibilla Cantarini, Werner Abraham and Elisabeth Leiss

The selected papers of this volume cover five main topics, namely ‘Certainty: The conceptual differential’; ‘(Un)Certainty as attitudinality’; ‘Dialogical exchange and speech acts’; ‘Onomasiology’; and ‘Applications in exegesis and religious discourse’. By examining the general theme of the… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 165] 2014. x, 365 pp.
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Creative Confluence

Johan F. Hoorn

Creative Confluence is a highly original work, building bridges between physics, biology, technology, economy, organizations, neuropsychology, literature, arts, and cultural history. It is an attempt to explain the process of creativity as a universal principle of nature, cutting through the… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 16] 2014. xv, 320 pp.
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Creativity, Cognition and Material Culture

Edited by Lambros Malafouris, Chris Gosden and Karenleigh A. Overmann

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 22:1 (2014) v, 181 pp.
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Diagrammatic Reasoning

Edited by Riccardo Fusaroli and Kristian Tylén

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 22:2 (2014) v, 107 pp.
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Let's talk politics: New essays on deliberative rhetoric

Edited by Hilde Van Belle, Kris Rutten, Paul Gillaerts, Dorien Van De Mieroop and Baldwin Van Gorp

In this volume on political argumentation, the study of argument takes place within a rhetorical framework. As such, it is a contribution to the study of argumentation-in-context with an explicit rhetorical approach. Rather than focusing on the poor quality of political participation and political… read more
[Argumentation in Context, 6] 2014. viii, 208 pp.
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True Emotions

Mikko Salmela

True Emotions discusses several key problems in emotion research. The question about the true nature of emotions focuses on the role of cognition in human emotions at different levels of analysis: functional role, types of processes and representations, and neural implementation. Truth to the self,… read more
[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 9] 2014. ix, 191 pp.
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Universals in Second Scholasticism: A comparative study with focus on the theories of Francisco Suárez S.J. (1548-1617), João Poinsot O.P. (1589-1644) and Bartolomeo Mastri da Meldola O.F.M. Conv. (1602-1673)/Bonaventura Belluto O.F.M. Conv. (1600-1676)

Daniel Heider

This study aims to present a comparative analysis of philosophical theories of universals espoused by the foremost representatives of the three main schools of early modern scholastic thought. The book introduces the doctrines of Francisco Suárez, S.J. (1548–1617), the Thomist John of St. Thomas, O. read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 54] 2014. xi, 344 pp.
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Alignment in Communication: Towards a new theory of communication

Edited by Ipke Wachsmuth, Jan de Ruiter, Petra Jaecks and Stefan Kopp

Alignment in Communication is a novel direction in communication research, which focuses on interactive adaptation processes assumed to be more or less automatic in humans. It offers an alternative to established theories of human communication and also has important implications for human-machine… read more
[Advances in Interaction Studies, 6] 2013. viii, 231 pp.
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Argumentation in Political Interviews: Analyzing and evaluating responses to accusations of inconsistency

Corina Andone

In Argumentation in Political Interviews Corina Andone uses the pragma-dialectical concept of strategic maneuvering to gain a better understanding of political interviews as argumentative practices. She analyzes and evaluates the way in which politicians react in political interviews to the… read more
[Argumentation in Context, 5] 2013. viii, 147 pp.
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Communication in Humans and Other Animals

Gisela Håkansson and Jennie Westander

Communication is a basic behaviour, found across animal species. Human language is often thought of as a unique system, which separates humans from other animals. This textbook serves as a guide to different types of communication, and suggests that each is unique in its own way: human verbal and… read more
[Advances in Interaction Studies, 4] 2013. xi, 242 pp.
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Organic Creativity and the Physics Within

Mea M.M. Lowcre

A group of international top scientists from a diversity of disciplines sat together for five days with artists, designers, and entrepreneurs to develop a trans-disciplinary theory of creativity. Organic Creativity and the Physics Within assumes that creativity is a quality of nature visible in… read more
[Not in series, 179] 2013. x, 59 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Roots and Collapse of Empathy: Human nature at its best and at its worst

Stein Bråten

Spanning from care-giving infants and civilian rescuers risking their life to the collapse of empathy in agents of torture and extinction, this unique book deals with and illustrates the altruistic best and atrocious worst of human nature. It begins with infant roots of empathy, then turns to the… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 91] 2013. xv, 276 pp.
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Writing and the Mind

Edited by David R. Olson and Marcelo Dascal †

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 21:3 (2013) v, 148 pp.
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Über Beweise und Beweisarten bei Wilhelm Ockham

Heinz-Helmut Möllmann

Die Arbeit versucht über drei, eigens gekennzeichnete und für Wilhelm Ockham (1285–1347) ausgewiesene Beweisarten (Induktion, Überredungsbeweis, Widerlegungsbeweis), die in einer Fülle von Beispielen dokumentiert werden, die Begründung seiner z. T. berüchtigten oder unverstandenen Thesen in ihrer… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 53] 2013. x, 727 pp.
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Categorical versus Dimensional Models of Affect: A seminar on the theories of Panksepp and Russell

Edited by Peter Zachar and Ralph D. Ellis

One of the most important theoretical and empirical issues in the scholarly study of emotion is whether there is a correct list of “basic” types of affect or whether all affective states are better modeled as a combination of locations on shared underlying dimensions. Many thinkers have written on… read more
[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 7] 2012. vi, 350 pp.
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Culture – Language – Cognition

Edited by Marcelo Dascal †

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 20:2 (2012) vi, 198 pp.
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Epistemics of the Virtual

Johan F. Hoorn

Proposing a new theory of fiction, this work reviews the confusion about perceived realism, metaphor, virtual worlds and the seemingly obvious distinction between what is true and what is false. The rise of new media, new technology, and creative products and services requires a new examination of… read more
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 12] 2012. x, 231 pp.
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Exploring Argumentative Contexts

Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen

In Exploring Argumentative Contexts Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen bring together a broad variety of essays examining argumentation as it occurs in seven communicative domains: the political context, the historical context, the legal context, the academic context, the medical context, the… read more
[Argumentation in Context, 4] 2012. xx, 398 pp.
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The Art of Dialectic between Dialogue and Rhetoric: The Aristotelian Tradition

Marta Spranzi

This book reconstructs the tradition of dialectic from Aristotle's Topics, its founding text, up to its "renaissance" in 16th century Italy, and focuses on the role of dialectic in the production of knowledge. Aristotle defines dialectic as a structured exchange of questions and answers and thus… read more
[Controversies, 9] 2011. xii, 239 pp.
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Controversies Within the Scientific Revolution

Edited by Marcelo Dascal † and Victor D. Boantza

From the beginning of the Scientific Revolution around the late sixteenth century to its final crystallization in the early eighteenth century, hardly an observational result, an experimental technique, a theory, a mathematical proof, a methodological principle, or the award of recognition and… read more
[Controversies, 11] 2011. vi, 287 pp.
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Controversy Spaces: A model of scientific and philosophical change

Edited by Oscar Nudler

The notion of controversy space is the key element of the new model of scientific and philosophical change introduced in this book. Devised as an alternative to classical models, the model of Controversy Spaces is a heuristic tool for the reconstruction of processes of conceptual change in the… read more
[Controversies, 10] 2011. vi, 187 pp.
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Keeping in touch with Pragma-Dialectics: In honor of Frans H. van Eemeren

Edited by Eveline T. Feteris, Bart Garssen and Francisca Snoeck Henkemans

Keeping in touch with Pragma-Dialectics is written to honor Frans van Eemeren and his work in the field of argumentation theory on the occasion of his retirement. The volume contains 17 contributions from teams of authors consisting of a combination of a pragma-dialectician and one or two… read more
[Not in series, 163] 2011. vi, 283 pp.
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Philosophical Perspectives for Pragmatics

Edited by Marina Sbisà, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren

The ten volumes of Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While the other volumes select specific cognitive, grammatical, social, cultural, variational,… read more
[Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 10] 2011. xv, 318 pp.
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The Primacy of Movement: Expanded second edition

Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

This expanded second edition carries forward the initial insights into the biological and existential significances of animation by taking contemporary research findings in cognitive science and philosophy and in neuroscience into critical and constructive account. It first takes affectivity as its… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 82] 2011. xxxii, 574 pp.
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Prosody and Humor

Edited by Salvatore Attardo, Manuela Maria Wagner and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 19:2 (2011) vi, 194 pp.
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Sprache und Metaphysik: Meister Eckharts Prädikationstheorie und ihre Auswirkung auf sein Denken

Tamar Tsopurashvili

Die vorliegende Studie zielt darauf ab, die Metaphysik Meister Eckharts auf systematische Weise darzustellen und das gemeinsame Fundament zu ermitteln, das anzeigt, dass seine spekulativen lateinischen wie auch seine von bildhaften Ausdrucksweisen geprägten deutschen Schriften inhaltlich… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 52] 2011. xi, 188 pp.
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Suarezismus: Erkenntnistheoretisches aus dem Nachlass des Jesuitengenerals Tirso González de Santalla (1624–1705). Abhandlung und Edition

Sven K. Knebel

Geistesgeschichtlich ist die große Vergangenheit des lateinischen Aristotelismus immer noch unbewältigt. Die vorliegende Teiledition eines Cursus philosophicus von 1653/55 [Ms. BU Salamanca 1351-52] dokumentiert den regen Schulbetrieb zu Lockes Zeit. Etwas ‚metaphysische‘ zu betrachten, das hieß im… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 51] 2011. xiii, 580 pp.
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Theory of Language: The representational function of language

Karl Bühler

Karl Bühler (1879–1963) was one of the leading theoreticians of language of the twentieth century. Although primarily a psychologist, Bühler devoted much of his attention to the study of language and language theory. His masterwork Sprachtheorie (1934) quickly gained recognition in the fields of… read more
[Not in series, 164] 2011. xcviii, 518 pp.
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Vom Paläolithikum zur Postmoderne - Die Genese unseres Epochen-Systems: Bd. I: Von den Anfängen bis zum Ausgang des 17. Jahrhunderts

Andreas Kamp

Dies ist der erste Teil einer zweibändigen Studie zur Genese unseres heutigen, vom Anspruch her den chronologischen Verlauf der gesamten Menschheitsgeschichte strukturierenden „Epochen“-Systems. Der Band skizziert zunächst die geistesgeschichtlichen Prämissen. Von der rudimentären paläolithischen… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 50] 2011. ix, 309 pp.
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Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues

Edited by Yorick Wilks

What will it be like to admit Artificial Companions into our society? How will they change our relations with each other? How important will they be in the emotional and practical lives of their owners – since we know that people became emotionally dependent even on simple devices like the… read more
[Natural Language Processing, 8] 2010. xxii, 315 pp.
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Controversies and the Metaphysics of Mind

Yaron M. Senderowicz

Since ancient times, metaphysical theories have been shaped by the dialectical relations between metaphysical positions. The present book offers a new account of the role of controversies in the evolution of ideas in current metaphysics of mind. Part One develops a pragmatic theory of metaphysical… read more
[Controversies, 8] 2010. xi, 235 pp.
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Dialogue – The Mixed Game

Edda Weigand

The ‘Mixed Game Model’ represents a holistic theory of dialogue which starts from human beings’ competence-in-performance and describes how language is integrated in a general theory of human action and behaviour. Human beings are able to adapt to changing conditions and to pursue their interests… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 10] 2010. xii, 304 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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The Emergence of Consciousness: A top-down, social phenomenon?

Edited by Jonathan Cole and Marcelo Dascal †

Special issue of Pragmatics & Cognition 18:3 (2010) vi, 148 pp.
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Gedanken als Wirkursachen: Francisco Suárez zur geistigen Hervorbringung

Michael Renemann

Francisco Suárez (1548–1617) sieht es als Problem an, dass nach dem traditionellen Modell der Kunstproduktion der Gedanke immer nur als Vorkonzeption und damit auf sehr vermittelte Weise in das Kunstwerk eingeht. Entsprechend wäre auch die Analyse von geistigen Hervorbringungen immer ein Prozess,… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 49] 2010. ix, 173 pp.
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Mind Ascribed: An elaboration and defence of interpretivism

Bruno Mölder

This book provides a thoroughly worked out and systematic presentation of an interpretivist position in the philosophy of mind, of the view that having mental properties is a matter of interpretation. Bruno Mölder elaborates and defends a particular version of interpretivism, the ascription theory,… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 80] 2010. xii, 293 pp.
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The Practice of Reason: Leibniz and his Controversies

Edited by Marcelo Dascal †

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) dedicated much of his life to some of the most central debates of his time. For him, our chance of progress towards the happiness of mankind lies in the capacity to recognize the value of the different perspectives through which humans approach the world.… read more
[Controversies, 7] 2010. xvi, 359 pp.
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Emotions, Ethics, and Authenticity

Edited by Mikko Salmela and Verena Mayer

The relationship of emotions, ethics, and authenticity constitutes a nexus of philosophical and psychological problems with wide interdisciplinary relevance. What is the proper role of emotions in moral behavior and theory; are emotions reliable guides to our authentic personal values; and finally;… read more
[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 5] 2009. vi, 237 pp.
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Examining Argumentation in Context: Fifteen studies on strategic maneuvering

Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren

Examining Argumentation in Context: Fifteen studies on strategic maneuvering contains a selection of papers on strategic maneuvering in argumentative discourse. Starting point of all of these contributions is that a satisfactory analysis and evaluation of strategic maneuvering is possible only if… read more
[Argumentation in Context, 1] 2009. x, 305 pp.
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From Interaction to Symbol: A systems view of the evolution of signs and communication

Piotr Sadowski

Against the background of jargon-ridden and often obscure semiotic literature Sadowski’s book offers a reader-friendly yet rigorous account of human communication and its evolution from animal and primate behaviour. What is specifically human about the way we exchange information with other people,… read more
[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 8] 2009. xxi, 300 pp.
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Language as Dialogue: From rules to principles of probability

Edda Weigand

With her theory of ‘Language as Dialogue’, Edda Weigand has opened up a new and promising perspective in linguistic research and its neighbouring disciplines. Her model of ‘competence-in-performance’ solved the problem of how to bridge the gap between competence and performance and thus… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 5] 2009. viii, 410 pp. | Open Access logo open access
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Mind that Abides: Panpsychism in the new millennium

Edited by David Skrbina

Panpsychism is the view that all things, living and nonliving, possess some mind like quality. It stands in sharp contrast to the traditional notion of mind as the property of humans and (perhaps) a few select ‘higher animals’. Though surprising at first glance, panpsychism has a long and noble… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 75] 2009. xiv, 401 pp.
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The Transparent Becoming of World: A crossing between process philosophy and quantum neurophilosophy

Gordon G. Globus †

The Transparent Becoming of World undertakes a penetrating inquiry into the quotidian world we take for granted and the brain that silently hoists our bubbles of world-thrownness. After critiquing the traditional views of direct realism, indirect realism and idealism, the continual becoming of… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 77] 2009. xiii, 169 pp.
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Controversy and Confrontation: Relating controversy analysis with argumentation theory

Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen

The essays that are collected in Controversy and Confrontation provide a closer insight into the relationship between controversy and confrontation that deepens our understanding of the functioning of argumentative discourse in managing differences of opinion. Their authors stem from two… read more
[Controversies, 6] 2008. xiii, 278 pp.
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Dialogue and Rhetoric

Edited by Edda Weigand

The volume deals with the relationship between dialogue and rhetoric. The actual state of the art in dialogue analysis is characterized by a tendency to overcome the distinction between competence and performance and to combine components from both sides of the dichotomy, in a way which includes… read more
[Dialogue Studies, 2] 2008. xiv, 316 pp.
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Fact and Value in Emotion

Edited by Louis C. Charland and Peter Zachar

There is a large amount of scientific work on emotion in psychology, neuroscience, biology, physiology, and psychiatry, which assumes that it is possible to study emotions and other affective states, objectively. Emotion science of this sort is concerned primarily with 'facts' and not 'values',… read more
[Consciousness & Emotion Book Series, 4] 2008. vi, 212 pp.
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Limiting the Iconic: From the metatheoretical foundations to the creative possibilities of iconicity in language

Ludovic De Cuypere

Iconicity has become a popular notion in contemporary linguistic research. This book is the first to present a synthesis of the vast amount of scholarship on linguistic iconicity which has been produced in the previous decades, ranging from iconicity in phonology and morpho-syntax to the role of… read more
[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 6] 2008. xiii, 286 pp.
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Naturalness and Iconicity in Language

Edited by Klaas Willems and Ludovic De Cuypere

Iconicity and naturalness remain controversial concepts in recent linguistic research. The present volume aims to scrutinize unresolved issues of iconicity and naturalness in language. The studies discuss topics such as naturalism in the philosophy of language and the epistemology of linguistics,… read more
[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 7] 2008. ix, 249 pp.
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The Reflexive Nature of Consciousness

Greg Janzen

Combining phenomenological insights from Brentano and Sartre, but also drawing on recent work on consciousness by analytic philosophers, this book defends the view that conscious states are reflexive, and necessarily so, i.e., that they have a built-in, “implicit” awareness of their own occurrence,… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 72] 2008. vii, 186 pp.
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Conceptual Atomism and the Computational Theory of Mind: A defense of content-internalism and semantic externalism

John-Michael Kuczynski

What is it to have a concept? What is it to make an inference? What is it to be rational? On the basis of recent developments in semantics, a number of authors have embraced answers to these questions that have radically counterintuitive consequences, for example:One can rationally accept… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 69] 2007. x, 524 pp.
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Embodiment in Cognition and Culture

Edited by John Michael Krois, Mats Rosengren, Angela Steidele and Dirk Westerkamp

This volume shows that the notions of embodied or situated cognition, which have transformed the scientific study of intelligence have the potential to reorient cultural studies as well. The essays adapt and amplify embodied cognition in such different fields as art history, literature, history of… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 71] 2007. xxii, 304 pp.
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Eriugenas negative Ontologie

Sebastian Florian Weiner

Recently, there has been an upsurge of interest in the work Periphyseon of the early medieval philosopher John Scot Eriugena. Previous research has classified the book either as a piece of Neoplatonic philosophy or as part of the Latin dialectic tradition, which has led to one-sided interpretations. read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 46] 2007. ix, 222 pp.
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Traditions of Controversy

Edited by Marcelo Dascal † and Han-liang Chang

Controversies may be particularly prominent in one or another culture. Yet, there is hardly any culture where they do not exist. This book assumes that the practice of controversy, along with its theorization, constitutes – in each of the cultures and disciplines where it develops – a tradition.… read more
[Controversies, 4] 2007. xvi, 310 pp.
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Cognitive Linguistics Investigations: Across languages, fields and philosophical boundaries

Edited by June Luchjenbroers

The total body of papers presented in this volume captures research across a variety of languages and language groups, to show how particular elements of linguistic description draw on otherwise separate aspects (or fields) of linguistic investigation. As such, this volume captures a diversity of… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 15] 2006. xiii, 334 pp.
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De Anima: Die Rezeption der aristotelischen Psychologie im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert

Sascha Salatowsky

Aristoteles’ De Anima ist einer der zentralen Texte der Philosophiegeschichte. Seine grundlegende Leistung liegt in der alle Lebewesen umfassenden ontologisch-ontischen Bestimmung der Seele und ihrer Vermögen, einschließlich der Lehre vom Geist (nous), deren nähere Explikation seit der Antike Anlaß… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 43] 2006. xiv, 407 pp.
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Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning: Neo-Gricean studies in pragmatics and semantics in honor of Laurence R. Horn

Edited by Betty J. Birner and Gregory Ward

One of the most lively and contentious issues in contemporary linguistic theory concerns the elusive boundary between semantics and pragmatics, and Professor Laurence R. Horn of Yale University has been at the center of that debate ever since his groundbreaking 1972 UCLA dissertation. This volume… read more
[Studies in Language Companion Series, 80] 2006. xii, 350 pp.
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Intellectus und Imaginatio: Aspekte geistiger und sinnlicher Erkenntnis bei Nicolaus Cusanus

Herausgegeben von João Maria André, Gerhard Krieger und Harald Schwaetzer

Dieser Band stellt einen Beitrag zum Verständnis geistiger und sinnlicher Erkenntnis bei Nicolaus Cusanus dar. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei die Begriffe intellectus und imaginatio, deren historischer und sachlicher Zusammenhang untereinander und ihr Verhältnis zu weiteren Aspekten der menschlichen… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 44] 2006. viii, 157 pp.
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Language, Religion and National Identity in Europe and the Middle East: A historical study

John Myhill

This book discusses the historical record of the idea that language is associated with national identity, demonstrating that different applications of this idea have consistently produced certain types of results. Nationalist movements aimed at ‘unification’, based upon languages which vary greatly… read more
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Mystique et Philosophie: Grunt, abgrunt et Ungrund chez Maître Eckhart et Jacob Böhme

Virginie Pektaş

Par le biais d’une méthode philologique, historique, et philosophique, ce livre établit l’absence de lien direct entre Maître Eckhart et Jacob Böhme. En réalité, le concept de la “philosophie mystique allemande”, commençant soit disant avec Eckhart et finissant avec Böhme, a son origine dans la… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 45] 2006. x, 324 pp.
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Analogy as Structure and Process: Approaches in linguistics, cognitive psychology and philosophy of science

Esa Itkonen

The concept of analogy is of central concern to modern cognitive scientists, whereas it has been largely neglected in linguistics in the past four decades. The goal of this thought-provoking book is (1) to introduce a cognitively and linguistically viable notion of analogy; and (2) to re-establish… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 14] 2005. xiv, 249 pp.
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Argumentation in Practice

Edited by Frans H. van Eemeren and Peter Houtlosser

Since the late 1950s the study of argumentation has developed from a marginal part of logic and rhetoric into a genuine interdisciplinary academic discipline. After having first been primarily concerned with creating an adequate philosophical perspective on argumentation, argumentation theorists… read more
[Controversies, 2] 2005. viii, 368 pp.
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Context as Other Minds: The Pragmatics of Sociality, Cognition and Communication

T. Givón

Givon's new book re-casts pragmatics, and most conspicuously the pragmatics of sociality and communication, in neuro-cognitive, bio-adaptive, evolutionary terms. The fact that context, the core notion of pragmatics, is a framing operation undertaken on the fly through judgements of relevance, has… read more
[Not in series, 130] 2005. xvi, 283 pp.
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Controversies and Subjectivity

Edited by Pierluigi Barrotta and Marcelo Dascal †

This collective volume focuses on two closely connected issues whose common denominator is the embattled notion of the subject. The first concerns the controversies on the nature of the subject and related notions, such as the concepts of ‘I’ and ‘self’. From both theoretical and historical… read more
[Controversies, 1] 2005. x, 411 pp.
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Curious Emotions: Roots of consciousness and personality in motivated action

Ralph D. Ellis

Emotion drives all cognitive processes, largely determining their qualitative feel, their structure, and in part even their content. Action-initiating centers deep in the emotional brain ground our understanding of the world by enabling us to imagine how we could act relative to it, based on… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 61] 2005. viii, 238 pp.
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Die Aktualität der Philosophie Kants: Bochumer Ringvorlesung Sommersemester 2004

Herausgegeben von Kirsten Schmidt, Klaus Steigleder und Burkhard Mojsisch

This book is a collection of articles based on a lecture series about Kant's philosophy. The contributions present an excellent overview of Kant's work – the subjects range from metaphysical, ethical, aesthetical, teleological, historical and political aspects to questions of mind, nature and… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 42] 2005. xii, 264 pp.
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Memory and Understanding: Concept formation in Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu

Renate Bartsch

This book treats memory and understanding on two levels, on the phenomenological level of experience, on which a theory of dynamic conceptual semantics is built, and on the neuro-connectionist level, which supports the capacities of concept formation, remembering, and understanding. A… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 63] 2005. x, 158 pp.
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Origins of Language: Constraints on hypotheses

Sverker Johansson

Sverker Johansson has written an unusual book on language origins, with its emphasis on empirical evidence rather than theory-building. This is a book for the student or researcher who prefers solid data and well-supported conclusions, over speculative scenarios. Much that has been written on the… read more
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The Rhetoric of Philosophy

Shai Frogel

The book claims that philosophy can be defined by its distinct rhetoric. This rhetoric is shaped by two values: humanism and critique. Humanism is defined as preferring the individual human deliberation to any external authority or method. Self-conviction is the touchstone of truth in philosophy.… read more
[Controversies, 3] 2005. x, 156 pp.
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Sisyphus’s Boulder: Consciousness and the limits of the knowable

Eric Dietrich and Valerie Gray Hardcastle

Consciousness lies at the core of being human. Therefore, to understand ourselves, we need a theory of consciousness. In Sisyphus's Boulder, Eric Dietrich and Valerie Hardcastle argue that we will never get such a theory because consciousness has an essential property that prevents it from ever… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 60] 2005. xii, 136 pp.
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Talk and Practical Epistemology: The social life of knowledge in a Caribbean community

Jack Sidnell

Drawing on the methods of conversation analysis and ethnography, this book sets out to examine the epistemological practices of Indo-Guyanese villagers as these are revealed in their talk and daily conduct. Based on over eighty-five hours of conversation recorded during twelve months of… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 142] 2005. xvi, 255 pp.
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Aristotelisches Wissen und Glauben im 15. Jahrhundert: Ein anonymer Kommentar zum Pariser Verurteilungsdekret von 1277 aus dem Umfeld des Johannes de Nova Domo. Studie und Text

Henrik Wels

On March 7, 1277, Etienne Tempier, Bishop of Paris, condemned a list of 219 theological and philosophical theses. This condemnation had a lasting impact on the teaching of philosophy and theology at the late-medieval universities, and many philosophical and theological texts of this time contain… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 41] 2004. clxxii, 162 pp.
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Brain and Being: At the boundary between science, philosophy, language and arts

Edited by Gordon G. Globus †, Karl H. Pribram and Giuseppe Vitiello

This book results from a group meeting held at the Institute for Scientific Exchange in Torino, Italy. The central aim was for scientists to “think together” in new ways with those in the humanities inspired by quantum theory and especially quantum brain theory. These fields of inquiry have… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 58] 2004. xii, 354 pp.
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The Building Blocks of Meaning: Ideas for a philosophical grammar

Michele Prandi

The shaping of complex meanings depends on punctual and relational coding and inferencing. Coding is viewed as a vector which can run either from expression to content or from concepts to (linguistic) forms to mark independent conceptual relations. While coding relies on systematic resources… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 13] 2004. xviii, 520 pp.
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Cognition and Technology: Co-existence, convergence and co-evolution

Edited by Barbara Gorayska and Jacob L. Mey

This new collection of contributions to the field of Cognitive Technology (CT) provides the (to date) widest spectrum of the state of the art in the discipline — a disciple dedicated to humane factors in tool design. The reader will find here a summary of past research as well as an overview of new… read more
[Not in series, 127] 2004. vi, 369 pp.
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Cognitive Semantics and Scientific Knowledge: Case studies in the cognitive science of science

András Kertész

The book focuses on the question of how and to what extent cognitive semantic approaches can contribute to the new field of the cognitive science of science. The argumentation is based on a series of instructive case studies which are intended to test the prospects and limits of the metascientific… read more
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The Evolution of Human Language: Scenarios, principles, and cultural dynamics

Wolfgang Wildgen

Wolfgang Wildgen presents three perspectives on the evolution of language as a key element in the evolution of mankind in terms of the development of human symbol use. (1) He approaches this question by constructing possible scenarios in which mechanisms necessary for symbolic behavior could have… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 57] 2004. xii, 240 pp.
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Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness: An Anthology

Edited by Rocco J. Gennaro

Higher-Order (HO) theories of consciousness have in common the idea that what makes a mental state conscious is that it is the object of some kind of higher-order representation. This volume presents fourteen previously unpublished essays both defending and criticizing this approach to the problem… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 56] 2004. xii, 368 pp.
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A History of Language Philosophies

Lia Formigari

Theory and history combine in this book to form a coherent narrative of the debates on language and languages in the Western world, from ancient classic philosophy to the present, with a final glance at on-going discussions on language as a cognitive tool, on its bodily roots and philogenetic role. read more
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Konzeptionen des Denkens im Neuplatonismus: Zur Rezeption der Proklischen Philosophie im deutschen und georgischen Mittelalter. Dietrich von Freiberg – Berthold von Moosburg – Joane Petrizi

Tengiz Iremadze

Diese Studie untersucht die Rezeption der Nous-Problematik im deutschen und georgischen Denken des Mittelalters und zeigt sowohl Gemeinsamkeiten als auch Differenzen bei der Analyse der zur Behandlung ausgewählten Texte auf. Eine eingehende historisch-systematische Erforschung der… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 40] 2004. xii, 265 pp.
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Mind and Causality

Edited by Alberto Peruzzi

Which causal patterns are involved in mental processes?On what mechanisms does the self-organisation of cognitive structure rest?Can a naturalistic view account for the basic resources of intentionality, while avoiding the objections to reductive materialism?By considering the developmental,… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 55] 2004. xiv, 235 pp.
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Philosophy of the Brain: The brain problem

Georg Northoff

"What is the mind?""What is the relationship between brain and mind?"These are common questions. But "What is the brain?" is a rare question in both the neurosciences and philosophy. The reason for this may lie in the brain itself: Is there a "brain problem"?In this fresh and innovative book, Georg… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 52] 2004. x, 433 pp.
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The Structure and Development of Self-Consciousness: Interdisciplinary perspectives

Edited by Dan Zahavi, Thor Grünbaum and Josef Parnas

Self-consciousness is a topic of considerable importance to a variety of empirical and theoretical disciplines such as developmental and social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, and philosophy. This volume presents essays on self-consciousness by prominent psychologists, cognitive… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 59] 2004. xiv, 160 pp.
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The Structure of Time: Language, meaning and temporal cognition

Vyvyan Evans

One of the most enigmatic aspects of experience concerns time. Since pre-Socratic times scholars have speculated about the nature of time, asking questions such as: What is time? Where does it come from? Where does it go? The central proposal of The Structure of Time is that time, at base,… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 12] 2004. x, 286 pp.
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Caging the Beast: A theory of sensory consciousness

Paula Droege

A major obstacle for materialist theories of the mind is the problem of sensory consciousness. How could a physical brain produce conscious sensory states that exhibit the rich and luxurious qualities of red velvet, a Mozart concerto or fresh-brewed coffee? Caging the Beast: A Theory of Sensory… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 51] 2003. x, 181 pp.
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Das Wissen vom Guten: Bedeutung und Kontinuität des Tugendwissens in den Dialogen Platons

Marcel van Ackeren

This analysis of the relation between virtue and knowledge focuses on the following aspects: i) Virtue and Happiness can be objects of knowledge; ii) Virtue is knowledge; iii) The search for knowledge is aiming at – and justified by – the human to be happy. Plato therefore defines philosophy not as… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 39] 2003. x, 370 pp.
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Interpretation and Understanding

Marcelo Dascal †

Our species has been hunting for meaning ever since we departed from our cousins in the evolutionary tree. We developed sophisticated forms of communication. Yet, as much as they can convey meaning and foster understanding, they can also hide meaning and prevent comprehension. Indeed, we can never… read more
[Not in series, 120] 2003. xxii, 714 pp.
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Multiple Analogies in Science and Philosophy

Cameron Shelley

A multiple analogy is a structured comparison in which several sources are likened to a target. In Multiple analogies in science and philosophy, Shelley provides a thorough account of the cognitive representations and processes that participate in multiple analogy formation. Through analysis of… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 11] 2003. xvi, 167 pp.
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Quantum Closures and Disclosures: Thinking-together postphenomenology and quantum brain dynamics

Gordon G. Globus †

Quantum Closures and Disclosures thinks together two seemingly irreconcilable discourses: An application of quantum field theory to brain functioning, called quantum brain dynamics, and the continental postphenomenological tradition, especially the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida.… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 50] 2003. xxii, 198 pp.
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Richard Billingham “De Consequentiis” mit Toledo-Kommentar: Kritisch herausgegeben, eingeleitet und kommentiert

Stephanie Weber-Schroth

The theory of consequences is one of the most important developments of medieval logic and was an integral part of the logic curricula at universities. One of the most famous authors of school tracts in the 14th century was Richard Billingham who was well known for his Speculum puerorum, a famous… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 38] 2003. xxviii, 335 pp.
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Schlußfolgerungslehre in Erfurter Schulen des 14. Jahrhunderts: Eine Untersuchung der Konsequentientraktate von Thomas Maulfelt und Albert von Sachsen in Gegenüberstellung mit einer zeitgenössischen Position

Rainer Grass

As the title indicates the author presents a contemporary theory of consequence. In so doing he establishes a terminology that enables a description, interpretation and evaluation of medieval theory independently of medieval vocabulary.In the interest of better understanding the medieval writers… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 37] 2003. x, 264 pp.
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The Civilized Organization: Norbert Elias and the future of organization studies

Edited by Ad van Iterson, Willem Mastenbroek, Tim Newton and Dennis Smith

This book brings a major new resource to organization studies: the work of Norbert Elias. By applying his ideas in a critical but sympathetic way, the authors provide a new perspective on the never-ending stream of management fads and fashions. Standing back and taking a more detached perspective,… read more
[Advances in Organization Studies, 10] 2002. xxviii, 251 pp.
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Consciousness Emerging: The dynamics of perception, imagination, action, memory, thought, and language

Renate Bartsch

This study of the workings of neural networks in perception and understanding of situations and simple sentences shows that, and how, distributed conceptual constituents are bound together in episodes within an interactive/dynamic architecture of sensorial and pre-motor maps, and maps of conceptual… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 39] 2002. x, 256 pp.
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Consciousness Evolving

Edited by James H. Fetzer

A collection of stimulating studies on the past, the present, and the future of consciousness, Consciousness Evolving contributes to understanding some of the most important conceptual problems of our time. The advent of the modern synthesis together with the human genome project affords a platform… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 34] 2002. xx, 253 pp.
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Consciousness Recovered: Psychological functions and origins of conscious thought

George Mandler †

This integrated approach to the psychology of consciousness arises out of Mandler’s 1975 paper that was seminal in starting the current flood of interest in consciousness. The book starts with this paper, followed by a novel psychological/evolutionary theoretical discussion of consciousness, and… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 40] 2002. xii, 142 pp.
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Das Problem des Unendlichen im ausgehenden 14. Jahrhundert: Eine Studie mit Textedition zum Physikkommentar des Lorenz von Lindores

Thomas Dewender

The focus of this book is on the theory of infinity in Lawrence of Lindores’ commentary on Aristotle’s “Physics”. Written shortly before 1400, Lindores’ text played an important role in disseminating the natural philosophy of John Buridan and his disciples in the 15th century. In the first part of… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 36] 2002. x, 430 pp.
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Die Philosophie in ihren Disziplinen: Eine Einführung. Bochumer Ringvorlesung Wintersemester 1999/2000

Herausgegeben von Burkhard Mojsisch und Orrin F. Summerell

The disciplines of philosophy make up its methodological and thematic branches of study; they reflect its self-understanding as a science according to both its basic tasks and its different approaches to them. The contributions to this anthology, arranged according to the main disciplines of… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 35] 2002. viii, 286 pp.
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Essays in Speech Act Theory

Edited by Daniel Vanderveken and Susumu Kubo

Any study of communication must take into account the nature and role of speech acts in a broad context. This book addresses questions such as:- What do we mean?- How do we say it? and- How is it understood?in the broad context of universal, socio-cultural and psychological issues that bear on… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 77] 2002. vi, 345 pp.
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Linguistic Emotivity: Centrality of place, the topic-comment dynamic, and an ideology of pathos in Japanese discourse

Senko K. Maynard

Linguistic Emotivity explores expressive and emotive meanings in Japanese from the perspective of the Place of Negotiation theory. The Place of Negotiation theory provides a framework for understanding how linguistic signs function in the place of communication (in cognitive, emotive, and… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 97] 2002. xiv, 481 pp.
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The Mirror of Grammar: Theology, philosophy and the Modistae

L.G. Kelly

Much is known about the grammar of the modistae and about its eclipse; this book sets out to trace its rise. In the late eleventh century grammar became an analytical rather than an exegetical discipline under the impetus of the new theology. Under the impetus of Arab learning the ancient sciences… read more
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Selbst – Singularität – Subjektivität: Vom Neuplatonismus zum Deutschen Idealismus

Herausgegeben von Theo Kobusch, Burkhard Mojsisch und Orrin F. Summerell

This anthology examines stations in the development of Neoplatonist thought between its origins in late antiquity and its modern culmination in the philosophy of German Idealism. Aspects of the latter receive extensive treatment, in contrast to other anthologies on the Neoplatonic tradition. This… read more
[Not in series - Grüner, 148] 2002. viii, 304 pp.
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Unfolding Perceptual Continua

Edited by Liliana Albertazzi

The book analyses the differences between the mathematical interpretation and the phenomenological intuition of the continuum. The basic idea is that the continuity of the experience of space and time originates in phenomenic movement. The problem of consciousness and of the spaces of… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 41] 2002. vi, 296 pp.
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Consciousness and Intentionality

Grant R. Gillett and John McMillan

Is there an internal relationship between consciousness and intentionality? Can mental content be described in such a way so as to avoid dualism? What is the influence of social context upon consciousness, conceptions of self and mental content?This book considers questions such as these and argues… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 27] 2001. x, 263 pp.
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Language and Ideology: Volume 1: theoretical cognitive approaches

Edited by René Dirven †, Bruce Hawkins and Esra Sandikcioglu

Together with its sister volume on Descriptive Cognitive Approaches, this volume explores the contribution which cognitive linguistics can make to the identification and analysis of overt and hidden ideologies. As a theory of language which sees language as the accumulation of the conventionalised… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 204] 2001. vi, 301 pp.
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Pattern and Process: A Whiteheadian perspective on linguistics

Michael Fortescue

The purpose of this book is to illustrate the relevance to linguistics today of Whitehead’s philosophy of organism. Although largely ignored by linguists, Whitehead has in fact much to say as regards the cognitive processes underpinning language pattern. His theory of symbolism conceives of… read more
[Human Cognitive Processing, 6] 2001. viii, 311 pp.
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Philosophiehistorie als Rezeptionsgeschichte: Die Reaktion auf Aristoteles' De Anima-Noetik. Der frühe Hellenismus

Andreas Kamp

No single theoretician provoked a greater tradition of the reception of his thought throughout changing times and across diverse cultures than did Aristotle, and so Hegel, who calls him the ‘teacher of the human race’, well describes the man known for ages simply as ‘the philosopher’. The present… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 33] 2001. viii, 315 pp.
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The Physical Nature of Consciousness

Edited by Philip Van Loocke

The Physical Nature of Consciousness contains twelve chapters that discuss recent and new perspectives on the relation between modern physics and consciousness. Stuart Hameroff opens with an extended and updated exposition of the Penrose/Hameroff Orch-OR model, and subsequently addresses recent… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 29] 2001. viii, 319 pp.
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Platons ‘Parmenides’ und Marsilio Ficinos ‘Parmenides’-Kommentar: Ein kritischer Vergleich

Arne Malmsheimer

Gemeinhin gilt der Platonische Dialog ‘Philosophos’, auf den Platon selbst im ‘Sophistes’ verweist, als verschollen. Eine genaue Analyse des ‘Theaitetos’ sowie der sog. Eleatischen Dialoge kann jedoch erweisen, dass Platon die Trilogie ‘Sophistes’, ‘Politikos’ und ‘Philosophos’ mit dem ‘Parmenides’… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 34] 2001. x, 325 pp.
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Self-Reference and Self-Awareness

Edited by Andrew Brook and Richard C. DeVidi

Rich in precursors (Kant and Frege) and stimulated by Castañeda’s study in the logic of self-consciousness and Shoemaker’s seminal paper ‘Self-reference and self-awareness’, the work of the past thirty-five years on self-reference and self-awareness has generated a wealth of deep, sophisticated… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 30] 2001. viii, 277 pp.
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Umbrüche: Historische Wendepunkte der Philosophie von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit. Festschrift für Kurt Flasch zu seinem 70. Geburtstag

Herausgegeben von Klaus Kahnert und Burkhard Mojsisch

Umbrüche ist keine lückenlose Darstellung aller Wendepunkte in der Philosophiegeschichte, sondern eine Sammlung von Beiträgen, die sowohl bekannte Neuanfänge als auch bislang wenig beachtete Denkbewegungen analysieren ­ bis hin zu Auseinandersetzungen mit Anregungen, die für sich selbst genommen… read more
[Not in series - Grüner, 144] 2001. xii, 312 pp.
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Beyond Dissociation: Interaction between dissociated implicit and explicit processing

Edited by Yves Rossetti and Antti Revonsuo

Analysis and dissociation have proved to be useful tools to understand the basic functions of the brain and the mind, which therefore have been decomposed to a multitude of ever smaller subsystems and pieces by most scientific approaches. However, the understanding of complex functions such as… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 22] 2000. x, 372 pp.
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Beyond Physicalism

Daniel D. Hutto

Unlike standard attempts to address the so-called ‘hard problem’ of consciousness, which assume our understanding of consciousness is unproblematic, this book begins by focusing on phenomenology and is devoted to clarifying the relations between intentionality, propositional content and experience.… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 21] 2000. xvi, 306 pp.
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The Caldron of Consciousness: Motivation, affect and self-organization — An anthology

Edited by Ralph D. Ellis and Natika Newton

These new studies by prominent neuroscientists, psychologists and philosophers work toward a coherent framework for understanding emotion and its contribution to the functioning of consciousness in general, as an aspect of self-organizing, embodied subjects. Distinguishing consciousness from… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 16] 2000. xxii, 276 pp.
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Die Disputatio de anima rationali secundum substantiam des Nicolaus Baldelli S.J. nach dem Pariser Codex B.N. lat. 16627: Eine Studie zur Ablehnung des Averroismus und Alexandrismus am Collegium Romanum zu Anfang des 17. Jahrhunderts

Henrik Wels

The Disputationes in libros De anima, contained in the Paris Codex B.N. lat. 16627, were recorded for centuries under the name Cesare Cremonini. This study shows the Disputationes to be a transcript of a lecture held by the Jesuit Nicolaus Baldelli (1573-1655) and so, on the basis of the only known… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 30] 2000. viii, 153 pp.
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Essays on Definition

Juan C. Sager

This collection of essays on definitions, from Plato and Aristotle to modern times, assembles interesting, sometimes less widely known and controversial texts. They examine the subject from the point of view of philosophy which is essential for a theory of terminology seeking to establish the… read more
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Exploring the Self: Philosophical and psychopathological perspectives on self-experience

Edited by Dan Zahavi

The aim of this volume is to discuss recent research into self-experience and its disorders,and to contribute to a better integration of the different empirical and conceptual perspectives. Among the topics discussed are questions like ‘What is a self?,’ ‘What is the relation between the… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 23] 2000. viii, 299 pp.
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Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology

Edited by Kerstin Dautenhahn

Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology is written for readers who are curious about what human (social) cognition is, and whether and how advanced software programs or robots can become social agents. Topics addressed in 16 peer-reviewed chapters by researchers at the forefront of agent… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 19] 2000. xxiv, 448 pp.
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L'Époque de la Renaissance (1400–1600): Tome IV: Crises et essors nouveaux (1560–1610)

Sous la direction de Tibor Klaniczay, Eva Kushner et Paul Chavy

L’Époque de la Renaissance. Crises et essors nouveaux (1560–1610), a collaborative literary history of the second half of the sixteenth century in Europe, responds to a number of challenges, including those critical of the Renaissance concept itself in favour of a broader Early Modern concept. It… read more
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Limiting the Arbitrary: Linguistic naturalism and its opposites in Plato's Cratylus and modern theories of language

John E. Joseph

The idea that some aspects of language are ‘natural’, while others are arbitrary, artificial or derived, runs all through modern linguistics, from Chomsky’s GB theory and Minimalist program and his concept of E- and I-language, to Greenberg’s search for linguistic universals, Pinker’s views on… read more
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Meaning and Cognition: A multidisciplinary approach

Edited by Liliana Albertazzi

The aim of this book is to present significant aspects of cognitive grammar by adopting an interdisciplinary approach. The book provides an interplay of contributions by some exponents of cognitive grammar (Langacker, Croft, Wood, Geeraerts, Kövecses, Wildgen), and philosophers of language… read more
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The Moral Laboratory: Experiments examining the effects of reading literature on social perception and moral self-concept

Frank Hakemulder

The idea that reading literature changes the reader seems as old as literature itself. Through the ages philosophers, writers, and literary scholars have suggested it affects norms, empathic ability, self-concept, beliefs, etc. This book examines what we actually know about these effects. And it… read more
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Poetic Effects: A relevance theory perspective

Adrian Pilkington

Poetic Effects: A Relevance Theory Perspective offers a pragmatic account of the effects achieved by the poetic use of rhetorical tropes and schemes. It contributes to the pragmatics of poetic style by developing work on stylistic effects in relevance theory. It also contributes to literary studies… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 75] 2000. xiv, 209 pp.
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Psychological Concepts and Biological Psychiatry: A philosophical analysis

Peter Zachar

This interdisciplinary work addresses the question, What role should psychological conceptualization play for thinkers who believe that the brain is the organ of the mind? It offers readers something unique both by systematically comparing the writings of eliminativist philosophers of mind with the… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 28] 2000. xx, 340 pp.
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Schelling: Zwischen Fichte und Hegel/Between Fichte and Hegel

Herausgegeben von Christoph Asmuth, Alfred Denker und Michael Vater

“Schelling has undergone his philosophical education before the public” — so G. W. F. Hegel in criticism of the novel systematic projects which his philosophical ally and later rival F. W. J. Schelling successively made public. Today, however, Hegel’s derisive judgment can be seen not to hold:… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 32] 2000. viii, 423 pp.
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The Presence of Mind

Daniel D. Hutto

Will our everyday account of ourselves be vindicated by a new science? Or, will our self-understanding remain untouched by such developments? This book argues that beliefs and desires have a legitimate place in the explanation of action. Eliminativist arguments mistakenly focus on the vehicles of… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 17] 1999. xiv, 252 pp.
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The Primacy of Movement

Maxine Sheets-Johnstone

Through diligent and rigorous attention to both natural history and phenomenological accounts of kinetic phenomena, particularly the phenomenon of self-movement, this richly interdisciplinary book brings to the fore the long-neglected topic of animate form and with it, a long-neglected inquiry into… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 14] 1999. xxxiv, 583 pp.
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The Aconceptual Mind: Heideggerian themes in holistic naturalism

Pauli Pylkkö

According to Heidegger, naturalistic thinking is naive and unable to deal with its own essence and limitations. It can only serve the veiled interests of modern Western technology in its inherent inclination to attain global dominance. But these eight thematically intertwined essays face… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 11] 1998. xxvi, 298 pp.
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Consciousness and Qualia

Leopold Stubenberg

This is a philosophical study of qualitative consciousness, characteristic examples of which are pains, experienced colors, sounds, etc. Consciousness is analyzed as the having of qualia. Phenomenal properties or qualia are problematical because they lack appropriate bearers. The relation of having… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 5] 1998. x, 367 pp.
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Die Entdeckung des Raums: Vom hesiodische “χάος” zur platonischen “χώρα”

Thomas Kratzert

Von »chaos« zu sprechen, ist en vogue. Seit den 70er Jahren ist der Gebrauch des Begriffs auf einem unaufhaltsamen Vormarsch. Im bereich der Physik reaktiviert, hat der Begriff »chaos« eine popularistische Faszination erlangt, die ihre gesellschaftlichen, wirtschaftlichen und politischen Ursachen… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 26] 1998. x, 128 pp.
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Die Grenzen der Sprache: Sprachimmanenz – Sprachtranszendenz

Herausgegeben von Christoph Asmuth, Friedrich Glauner und Burkhard Mojsisch

Der vorliegende Sammelband widmet sich einem Thema der Sprachphilosophie: den Grenzen der Sprache. Die Begrenztheit des Sprechens, das Versagen der Sprache und das Schweigen sind Bereiche, denen das Interesse dieses Buches gilt. Groß e Bedeutung gewinnt deshalb die Frage, in welchem Sinne und ob… read more
[Not in series - Grüner, 143] 1998. ix, 406 pp.
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Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter: Band 2. 1997

Herausgegeben von Burkhard Mojsisch, Olaf Pluta und Rudolf Rehn

This annual is devoted to the philosophy of Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter: Concentrates on research which documents the connections between ancient and medieval philosophy; Focuses on the interrelations among various cultural and… read more
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Linguistics Inside Out: Roy Harris and his critics

Edited by George Wolf and Nigel Love

Roy Harris’s thoroughgoing attack on the presuppositions underpinning the dominant traditions of Western thought about language, and his advocacy of a radically reconceived linguistics focused on the idea that the linguistic sign is contextually created and interpreted as a function of the… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 148] 1997. xxviii, 344 pp.
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The Noblest Animate Motion: Speech, physiology and medicine in pre-Cartesian linguistic thought

Jeffrey Wollock

The body of theory on speech production and speech disorder developed prior to Descartes has been so neglected by historians that its very existence is practically unknown today. Yet it provides a framework for understanding the speech process which is not only comprehensive and coherent, but of… read more
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Sein – Reflexion – Freiheit: Aspekte der Philosophie Johann Gottlieb Fichtes

Herausgegeben von Christoph Asmuth

Das Denken Johann Gottlieb Fichtes (1762-1814) gehört zu den großen Entwürfen der europäischen Philosophie. Fichtes Wissenschaftslehre entwickelte erstmals eine Theorie des absoluten Ich als Grundlage aller Wissenschaften. Damit schuf er das Fundament für die Entstehung des sog. Deutschen… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 25] 1997. vi, 320 pp.
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Two Sciences of Mind: Readings in cognitive science and consciousness

Edited by Seán Ó Nualláin, Paul Mc Kevitt and Eoghan Mac Aogáin

The Reaching for Mind workshop, held at AISB ’95, explicitly addressed itself to the current crisis in Cognitive Science. In particular, the issue of how this discipline can address consciousness was a leitmotiv in the workshop. The conclusion seems inescapable that there is a need for two sciences… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 9] 1997. xii, 498 pp.
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Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter: Band 1. 1996

Herausgegeben von Burkhard Mojsisch, Olaf Pluta und Rudolf Rehn

This annual is devoted to the philosophy of Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The Bochumer Philosophisches Jahrbuch für Antike und Mittelalter: Concentrates on research which documents the connections between ancient and medieval philosophy; Focuses on the interrelations among various cultural and… read more
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De Lingua Latina X: A new critical text and English translation with prolegomena and commentary

Daniel J. Taylor

De Lingua Latina X has never been so courageously edited nor so daringly translated as in this long-awaited sequel to Taylor’s Declinatio (SiHoLS 2). The editor’s intimate familiarity with both the extant archetype and Varro’s unique linguistic theory and practice make this volume indispensable for… read more
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Die Einheit der Welt: Die Qi-Theorie des Neo-Konfuzianers Zhang Zai (1020–1077)

Wolfgang Ommerborn

Der Neo-Konfuzianismus bildet mit seinen verschiedenen Strömungen die wichtigste Geistesschule des imperialen China seit der Song-Zeit (960-1279). Er entstand als Reaktion auf die das chinesische Denken in den Jahrhunderten vorher stark beeinflussenden Schulen des Buddhismus und des Neo-Daoismus… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 23] 1996. iv, 349 pp.
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Foundations of Understanding

Natika Newton

How can symbols have meaning for a subject? Foundations of Understanding argues that this is the key question to ask about intentionality, or meaningful thought. It thus offers an alternative to currently popular linguistic models of intentionality, whose inadequacies are examined: the goal should… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 10] 1996. x, 211 pp.
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The Postmodern Brain

Gordon G. Globus †

This interdisciplinary work discloses an unexpected coherence between recent concepts in brain science and postmodern thought. A nonlinear dynamical model of brain states is viewed as an autopoietic, autorhoetic, self-organizing, self-tuning eruption under multiple constraints and guided by an… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 1] 1995. xii, 188 pp.
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Questioning Consciousness: The interplay of imagery, cognition, and emotion in the human brain

Ralph D. Ellis

Questioning Consciousness brings together neuroscientific, psychological and phenomenological research, combining in a readable format recent developments in image research and neurology. It reassesses the mind-body relation and research on 'mental models', abstract concept formation, and… read more
[Advances in Consciousness Research, 2] 1995. viii, 262 pp.
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Le traité de Pierre d’Ailly sur la Consolation de Boèce, Qu. 1: Édition et étude critiques

Marguerite Chappuis

L’édition critique de la première question du traité (Utrum aliquis philosophus per inquisitionem philosophicam in naturali lumine ad veram humanae beatitudinis notitiam valeat pervenire) est basée sur les sept manuscrits connus, dont deux autographes.L’auteur du traité, le maître parisien Pierre… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 20] 1993. xlii, 438 pp.
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John Wilkins and 17th-Century British Linguistics

Edited by Joseph L. Subbiondo

In this reader, 19 articles have been collected that bring out the central position of John Wilkins and his Essay Toward a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language (1668) in the history of ideas in 17th-century Britain.
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Zarathustra and the Ethical Ideal: Timely meditations on philosophy

Robert H. Cousineau

This work defines its course in reference to Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra. The author uses Zarathustra to reflect how our understanding is wedded to affective modes, thematizing especially laughter, fear, awe and hope. The book invites us to rethink how to overcome some relevant impasses of… read more
[Not in series, 48] 1991. x, 225 pp.
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Leibniz, Humboldt, and the Origins of Comparativism: Proceedings of the international conference, Rome, 25–28 September 1986

Edited by Tullio De Mauro † and Lia Formigari

Both Leibniz and Humboldt are scholars in whose work we find a passionate interest in the history and development of languages combined with a strong theoretical commitment. Linking their names to linguistic comparativism draws attention to the contribution these scholars have made to the history… read more
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Metaphor II: A classified bibliography of publications from 1985 to 1990

Compiled by Jean-Pierre van Noppen and Edith Hols

Metaphor, though not now the scholarly “mania” it once was, remains a topic of great interest in many disciplines albeit with interesting shifts in emphasis. Warren Shibles' Metaphor: An Annotated Bibliography and History (Bloomington, Ind. 1971) recorded the initial interest. Then Metaphor: A… read more
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Paradigmen der Moderne

Herausgegeben von Helmut Bachmaier

Die in dem Band versammelten Aufsatze sind aus einer Ringvorlesung 1984/85 an der Universitat Konstanz hervorgegangen. Sie versuchen, die Logik der Wiener Moderne exemplarisch zu erhellen. Nach dem Verlust des Zentralwertes (Broch) und dem Zerfall des Habsburger Ordens wurde in Teilbereichen von… read more
[Viennese Heritage/Wiener Erbe, 3] 1990. xxiii, 287 pp.
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Theory of Language: The Representational Function of Language

Karl Bühler

Karl Bühler (1879-1963) was one of the leading theoreticians of language of this century. His masterwork Sprachtheorie (1934) has been praised widely and gained considerable recognition in the fields of linguistics, semiotics, the philosophy of language and the psychology of language. The work has,… read more
[Foundations of Semiotics, 25] 1990. lxii, 508 pp.
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Aspect and Meaning in Slavic and Indic

Ranjit Chatterjee

Three features set this book apart from other recent publications on aspect. First, it looks closely at the language family, Slavic, that has been the main source of assumptions and data about aspect. Second, it looks upon the object of linguistic study, natural language, from an angle shared by… read more
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 51] 1989. xxiii, 137 pp.

Conceptual Relevance

Joseph Grünfeld

[Not in series - Grüner, 140] 1989. 248 pp.
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Etymology and Grammatical Discourse in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Mark E. Amsler

This study focuses on the uses of the grammatical concept of etymologia in primarily Latin writings from the early Middle Ages. Etymologia is a fundamental procedure and discursive strategy in the philosophy and analysis of language in early medieval Latin grammar, as well as in Biblical exegesis,… read more
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Exploring Postmodernism: Selected papers presented at a Workshop on Postmodernism at the XIth International Comparative Literature Congress, Paris, 20–24 August 1985

Edited by Matei Calinescu and Douwe W. Fokkema †

The great diversity of contexts in which the term Postmodernism is currently encountered reflects the remarkable success of a coinage that has been in circulation for only about forty years. It has been used by philosophers, sociologists, art critics and literary historians to become, finally, a… read more

Geteilte Sprache: Festschrift für Rainer Marten

Herausgegeben von Utz Maas und Willem van Reijen

[Not in series - Grüner, 71] 1988. vi, 350 pp.
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Imitation and the Image of Man

James S. Hans

In the Imitation and the Image of Man James S. Hans presents his conception of the mimetic. His primary goal to this study is to broaden several kinds of discourse: first, to redfine our conception of the literary; second, to expand our ideas of the kinds of things that can be treated together;… read more
[Cultura Ludens, 3] 1987. xviii, 163 pp.
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Informal Fallacies

Douglas N. Walton

The basic question of this monograph is: how should we go about judging arguments to be reasonable or unreasonable? Our concern will be with argument in a broad sense, with realistic arguments in natural language. The basic object will be to engage in a normative study of determining what factors,… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series, 4] 1987. x, 338 pp.
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Speculative Grammar, Universal Grammar, Philosophical Analysis: Papers in the Philosophy of Language

Edited by Dino Buzzetti and Maurizio Ferriani

This volume brings together papers originally presented at a seminar series on Speculative Grammar, Universal Grammar, and Philosophical Analysis, held at the University of Bologna in 1984. The seminars aimed at considering various aspects of the interplay between linguistic theories on the one… read more
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Approaching Postmodernism: Papers presented at a Workshop on Postmodernism, 21–23 September 1984, University of Utrecht

Edited by Douwe W. Fokkema † and Hans Bertens

Most of the essays collected in this volume deal with theoretical issues that dominate the international debate on Postmodernism, issues such as the shifting nature of the concept, the problem of periodization and the problem of historicity. Other essays offer readings of Postmodernist texts and… read more
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From Logic to Rhetoric: Translated from the French original edition, Paris, 1982

Michel Meyer

What is language, and how has it been conceived since Frege? How did the development of thought about language lead to a renewed interest in rhetoric in the twentieth century and ultimately to the ‘problematological synthesis’? These are the main questions treated in this book. A constant… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, VII:3] 1986. ix, 147 pp.
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Kritiker der Unsterblichkeitsdoktrin in Mittelalter und Renaissance

Olaf Pluta

Die Destruktion der rationalen Psychologie als Doktrin ist, dem gängigen Urteil nach, das Verdienst von David Humes Essay Of the Immortality of the Soul und Immanuel Kants Kritik der reinen Vernunft. Hume und Kant stellen aber nur Höhepunkte einer Bewegung dar, deren Beginn wesentlich früher… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 7] 1986. xii, 138 pp.
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Les Idéologues: Sémiotique, philosophie du langage et linguistique pendant la Révolution française. Proceedings of the Conference, held at Berlin, October 1983

Edited by Winfried Busse and Jürgen Trabant

Le présent volume réunit les contributions d’un colloque sur la pensée sémiotique et linguistique des Idéologues qui s’est tenu à Berlin du 3 au 5 octobre 1983. Ce recueil d’articles fait suite à un fascicule de la revue Histoire Epistémologie Langage qui était consacré au même sujet et dont il… read more
[Foundations of Semiotics, 12] 1986. xvi, 404 pp.
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Pinnacles of India's Past: Selections from the Ṛgveda

Translated and annotated by Walter H. Maurer

The Ṛgveda is the oldest of the books that comprise the scriptures of Hinduism. While its age cannot be accurately determined, it can be said with reasonable certainty that it must have existed in its present form at least as early as 1000 BC. It consists of 1,028 hymns, arranged, according to the… read more
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Language and Logic: A speculative and condition-theoretic study

Johan van der Auwera

In this volume Van der Auwera attempts to clarify the idea that language reflects both mind and reality and to elucidate the reflection idea by turning it into the cornerstone of a linguistic theory of meaning. read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond Companion Series, 2] 1985. xiv, 256 pp.
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Metaphor: A Bibliography of post-1970 publications

Compiled by Jean-Pierre van Noppen

The aim of the present bibliography is to provide the student of metaphor with an up-to-date and comprehensive (albeit not exhaustive) overview of recent publications dealing with various aspects of metaphor in a variety of disciplines. Where the emphasis is primarily on specific works “about”… read more
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The Philosophical Foundations of Humboldt's Linguistic Doctrines

Martin L. Manchester

Wilhelm von Humboldt’s writings on language are a mixture of philosophical theorizing about mind and language on the one hand, and on the other hand, specialized studies of the most detailed sort of both the classical languages and languages which only in Humboldt’s day were becoming known to… read more
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Slavic Structuralism

Endre Bojtar

This work examines Czech Structuralism from the mid-nineteen twenties until 1948 (J. Mukařovský, R. Jakobson, F. Vodička, R. Wellek, etc.), the Polish so-called Integral School, lasting from about 1930 until 1945, (M. Kridl, K. Budzyk, F. Siedlicki, D. Hopensztand, S. Żółkiewski), as well as R.… read more
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Literary History, Modernism, and Postmodernism: (The Harvard University Erasmus Lectures, Spring 1983)

Douwe W. Fokkema †

In these lectures, delivered at Harvard University in March 1983, the differences between Modernism and Postmodernism are discussed in semiotic terms, based on a contrastive analysis of semantic and syntactical (compositional) features. They present the major results of research into the literary… read more
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Mercury: or the Secret and Swift Messenger: Shewing how a Man may with Privacy and Speed communicate his Thoughts to a Friend at any distance. Reprinted from the third edition (1708)

John Wilkins

Works of the Right Reverend John Wilkins' (1708). Together with an abstract of Dr. Wilkin's 'Essay towards a Real Character and a Philosophical Languages,' a sketch of the life of the author and an account of his writings. With an introductory essay on the Universal Language Movement in England,… read more
[Foundations of Semiotics, 6] 1984. cix, 124 pp.
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The Metaphysics of Transcendental Subjectivity: Descartes, Kant and W. Sellars

Joseph Claude Evans

The general topic of this book is the metaphysics of the subject in Kantian transcendental philosophy. A critical appreciation of Kant's achievements requires that we be able to view Kant's positions as transformations of pre-Kantian philosophy, and that we understand the ways in which contemporary… read more
[Bochumer Studien zur Philosophie, 5] 1984. xii, 138 pp.
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Mimesis in Contemporary Theory: An interdisciplinary approach: Volume 1: The literary and philosophical debate

Edited by Mihai Spariosu

After almost two hundred years of relative obscurity mimesis finds itself again in the limelight of Western theoretical discourse. In the Anglo-American tradition, mimesis or ‘imitation’ regained some prominence, at the turn of the century, through S.H. Butcher’s translation of and introduction to… read more
[Cultura Ludens, 1:1] 1984. xxix, 287 pp.
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Politico-economic writings: An annotated reprint of 'Zeitungsartikel und Vorträge', edited by J.C. Nyíri

Karl Wittgenstein

This volume contains an annotated reprint of Wittgenstein's "Zeitungsartikel und Vorträge", edited by J. C. Nyíri. The writings are preceded by an extensive introduction by J. C. Nyíri and Brian McGuinness. English summaries and notes have been provided by Barry Smith. read more
[Viennese Heritage/Wiener Erbe, 1] 1984. xl, 240 pp.
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Schopenhauer and the Ground of Existence

Bernard Bykhovskii

[Philosophical Currents, 30] 1984. vi, 194 pp.
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Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language

Umberto Eco

[Not in series, 16] 1984. xi, 242 pp.
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The Social Significance of Telematics: An essay on the information society

Lars Qvortrup

The assumption underlying this book is that we are facing a societal transformation, a “silent revolution” in fact, with consequences at least as far reaching as those of the Industrial Revolution. The author of this book wants to intervene in the current discussion about this revolution, a… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, V:7] 1984. xviii, 228 pp.
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Linguistics and Evolutionary Theory: Three Essays. New edition

With an introduction by J. Peter Maher

Contains: The Darwinian Theory and the Science of language (1863) by August Schleicher, translated from the German by Alexander V. W. Bikkers. On the Significance of Language for the Natural History of Man (1865) by August Schleicher, translated from the German by J. Peter Maher. On the Origin of… read more
[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 6] 1983. xlvi, 84, 78 pp. (altog. 210 pp.).
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Pragmatics and the Philosophy of Mind: Vol. I: Thought in Language

Marcelo Dascal †

This volume deals with the relation between pragmatics and the philosophy of mind. Unlike most of the books written on the subject, it does not defend the view that a specific form of dependence holds between language and thought, to the exclusion of all other possible relations. Taking pragmatics… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, IV:1] 1983. xii, 207 pp.
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Thematic Studies in Phenomenology and Pragmatism

Patrick L. Bourgeois and Sandra B. Rosenthal

The themes chosen for study in this volume are deeply embedded within the respective structures of phenomenology and pragmatism, though often implicitly so. Each of the six chapters begins with the phenomenological perspective and then proceeds to the pragmatic focus. The intent of each chapter is… read more
[Not in series - Grüner, 17] 1983. viii, pp. 207
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Biological Foundations of Linguistic Communication: Towards a biocybernetics of language

Thomas T. Ballmer

This is the second of two volumes – the first volume being Waltraud Brennenstuhl’s Control and Ability (P&B III:4) – treating biocybernetical questions of language. This book starts out from an investigation of the (neuro-)biological relevancy of natural language from the point of view of grammar… read more
[Pragmatics & Beyond, III:7] 1982. x, 161 pp.
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Method and Language

Joseph Grünfeld

This monograph explores the relationship between method and language. The notion of method is inherent in everything we can claim to understand. The language conventions which make a question meaningful cannot be challenged at the same time the problem is posed. Problems exist only relatively to… read more
[Not in series - Grüner, 137] 1982. vii, 208 pp.
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Psychologism and Psychoaesthetics: A historical and critical view of their relations

John Fizer

Unlike studies which confine psychologism to the second half of the nineteenth century, and to an explicit claim of psychology as a ‘Grundwissenschaft’ during that period, this work attempts to trace psychologism's emergence in Greek antiquity, in hedonistic tendencies of the Renaissance, and in… read more
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Structure and Gestalt: Philosophy and literature in Austria-Hungary and her successor states

Edited by Barry Smith

The majority of the papers in the present volume were presented at, or prepared in conjunction with, meetings of the Seminar for Austro-German Philosophy, a group of philosophers interested in the work of Brentano and Husserl and of the various thinkers who fell under their influence. One… read more

Marxism, Science and the Movement of History

Alan R. Burger, Hyman R. Cohen and David H. Degrood

[Philosophical Currents, 27] 1980. vi, 298 pp.
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Pragmatism and Phenomenology: A Philosophic Encounter

Sandra B. Rosenthal and Patrick L. Bourgeois

In the philosophic world today, pragmatism and phenomenology can be found standing at a crossroad. Though each has arrived there via divergent paths and for very different reasons, the direction that each takes in the future may be significantly influenced by the suggestions the other has to offer.… read more
[Not in series - Grüner, 89] 1980. viii, 199 pp.
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Ausgewählte Schriften: Band 3: 1937–1970 (Philologische Schriften)

Otto Weinreich

Durch die vorliegende Sammlung soll alles an entlegener Stelle Veröffentlichte vereinigt und alles nicht mehr Greifbare erneut vorgelegt werden, damit dieses Lebenswerk in seinem vollen Umfang zugänglich bleibt. Bestimmt sich damit die Auswahl der Beiträge nach dem äußeren Gesichtspunkt der… read more
[Not in series - Grüner, WEINR 3] 1979. ii, 576 pp.

Dialectics and Revolution: Volume II

David H. Degrood

[Philosophical Currents, 26] 1979. vii, 232 pp.
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Ecce Homo! A Lexicon of Man

Luigi Romeo

This fascinating lexicon presents a compilation of approximately a thousand labels with which man has referred to himself in literary history. This is an indispensible reference tool for anyone interested in the accomplishments of Homo.

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[Not in series, 11] 1979. xv, 163 pp.

Explorations in Philosophy and Society

Charles Cunneen

[Philosophical Currents, 23] 1978. vi, 280 pp.

Science and Society in Ancient India

Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya

[Philosophical Currents, 22] 1978. viii, 441 pp.

Crisis and Consciousness

Ralph M. Faris

[Philosophical Currents, 20] 1977. vi, 208 pp.

Consciousness and Social Life

David H. Degrood

[Philosophical Currents, 15] 1976. viii, 115 pp.

Kierkegaard

Bernard Bykhovskii

[Philosophical Currents, 16] 1976. x, 122 pp.
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Ausgewählte Schriften: Band 4: Zur Musikwissenschaft, 1909–1960. Konzertkritiken, 1923–1933 und 1945–1952

Otto Weinreich

Durch die vorliegende Sammlung soll alles an entlegener Stelle Veröffentlichte vereinigt und alles nicht mehr Greifbare erneut vorgelegt werden, damit dieses Lebenswerk in seinem vollen Umfang zugänglich bleibt. Bestimmt sich damit die Auswahl der Beiträge nach dem äußeren Gesichtspunkt der… read more
[Not in series - Grüner, WEINR 4] 1975. 606 pp.

John Dewey's Aesthetic Philosophy

Philip M. Zeltner

[Philosophical Currents, 12] 1975. viii, 127 pp.
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Adolf Glassbrenner: His Development from 'Jungdeutscher' to 'Vormärzler'

Heinz Bulmahn

Adolf Glassbrenner (1810–1876) was a German humorist and satirist. The aim of this study is to show that Glassbrenner’s writings were rooted within the abstract idealism of the Young Germans. Special focus lies on the period between 1840 and 1849, Glassbrenner’s most active writing period, and… read more
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Ausgewählte Schriften: Band 2: 1922–1937 (Philologische Schriften)

Otto Weinreich

Durch die vorliegende Sammlung soll alles an entlegener Stelle Veröffentlichte vereinigt und alles nicht mehr Greifbare erneut vorgelegt werden, damit dieses Lebenswerk in seinem vollen Umfang zugänglich bleibt. Bestimmt sich damit die Auswahl der Beiträge nach dem äußeren Gesichtspunkt der… read more
[Not in series - Grüner, WEINR 2] 1973. 672 pp.

East–West Dialogues: Foundations and Problems of Revolutionary Praxis

Paul K. Crosser, David H. Degrood and Dale Riepe

[Philosophical Currents, 5] 1973. ix, 180 pp.

Science and Values

Joseph Grünfeld

[Not in series - Grüner, 122] 1973. xii, 210 pp.

The Teaching of Critical thinking

Edward D'angelo

[Philosophical Currents, 1] 1971. ix, 78 pp.
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Ausgewählte Schriften: Band 1: 1907–1921 (Philologische Schriften)

Otto Weinreich

Durch die vorliegende Sammlung soll alles an entlegener Stelle Veröffentlichte vereinigt und alles nicht mehr Greifbare erneut vorgelegt werden, damit dieses Lebenswerk in seinem vollen Umfang zugänglich bleibt. Bestimmt sich damit die Auswahl der Beiträge nach dem äußeren Gesichtspunkt der… read more
[Not in series - Grüner, WEINR 1] 1969. ii, 607 pp.
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Philology of the Gospels (1898)

Friedrich Blass

[Not in series - Grüner, 14] 1969. ix, 250 pp.
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