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This book offers a systematic and critical discussion of Peter Winch's writings on the philosophy of the social sciences and is essential reading for those studying the development of philosophy in the twentieth century.

This book explores the hitherto neglected affinities between Ludwig Wittgenstein and Emmanuel Levinas, two of the most important and challenging thinkers of the 20th century

This book provides a systematic and comprehensive analysis of the idea of the imagination in Husserl and Heidegger. The author also locates phenomenology within the broader context of a philosophical world dominated by Kantian thought.

This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the different ways in which Wittgenstein appeals to the limit of language at different stages of his philosophical development.

This collection offers the first comprehensive and definitive account of Martin Heidegger's philosophy of technology. It does so through a detailed analysis of canonical texts and recently published primary sources on two crucial concepts in Heidegger's later thought: Gelassenheit and Gestell.

This book specifically explores Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations from the different angles of its originary conceptions, including the mathematical texts, shedding new light on fundamental issues in twentieth century and contemporary philosophy. A Wittgenstein typescript, translated for the first time into English, is included as an appendix.

This book presents a rigorous analysis and critique of the major varieties of contemporary philosophical naturalism. It advocates the thesis that contemporary naturalism should be abandoned in the light of serious difficulties against it.

This book specifically explores Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations from the different angles of its originary conceptions, including the mathematical texts, shedding new light on fundamental issues in twentieth century and contemporary philosophy. A Wittgenstein typescript, translated for the first time into English, is included as an appendix.

This book integrates themes in legal theory, political science and moral philosophy, as well as the philosophy of logic and language, including free speech, religious freedom, privacy, torture, unlawful detention and private property.

This all-new collection of essays discusses Putnam's contribution to contemporary realist and pragmatist debate. Hilary Putnam comments on the issues raised in each article.

This text brings together a collection of essays by a number of philosophers to honour Hugh Mellor's contribution to philosophy. The collection stands as an original exploration of some of the most central issues in philosophy.

Controversial and thought-provoking, this expertly written text examines interesting and contentious methodological issues in analytic philosophy and explores the connections between philosophy and science.

Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger are arguably the two most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Comparative work of these thinkers has only increased in recent decades, but no collection has yet explored the various ways in which Wittgenstein and Heidegger can be drawn into dialogue. As such, these essays stage genuine dialogues, with aspects of Wittgenstein¿s elucidations answering or problematizing aspects of Heidegger¿s, and vice versa. The result is a broad-ranging collection of essays that provides a series of openings and provocations that will serve as a reference point for future work that draws on the writings of these two philosophers.

This book examines analytic philosophy with a view to interpreting it. It presents its "raison d'etre" and the motivations, methods, and results of its eminent figures, looking at its historical context. Here prominent philosophers discuss key figures, methods and results in analytic philosophy.

This book is a systematic and historical exploration of the philosophical significance of grammar. It looks at the sustained philosophical reflection on the nature of grammar that was so evident at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Presents an overview of the scholarship on Russell and Meinong, as well as detailed accounts of some of the problems facing various incarnations of their theories.

This book presents a rigorous analysis and critique of the major varieties of contemporary philosophical naturalism. It advocates the thesis that contemporary naturalism should be abandoned in the light of serious difficulties against it.

Real Metaphysics brings together new articles by leading metaphysicians to honour Hugh Mellor's outstanding contribution to metaphysics. Some of the most outstanding minds of current times shed new light on all the main topics in metaphysics: truth, causation, dispositions and properties, explanation, and time. At the end of the book, Hugh Mellor responds to the issues raised by each of the thirteen contributors and gives us new insight into his own highly influential work on metaphysics.

Places analytic philosophy in a broader context comparing it with the methodology of its important rival tradition in twentieth-century philosophy - phenomenology, whose development parallels the development of analytic philosophy in many ways.

One of the most influential contemporary philosophers, Hilary Putnam's involvement in philosophy spans philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, ontology and epistemology and logic.This specially commissioned collection discusses his contribution to the realist and pragmatist debate. Hilary Putnam comments on the issues raised in each article, making it invaluable for any scholar of his work.

This volume brings together essays on the major themes of Davidson's thought by leading academics, along with individually penned responses by the philosopher himself.

Donald Davidson has made enormous contributions to the philosophy of action, epistemology, semantics and philosophy of mind and today is recognized as one of the most important analytical philosophers of the late twentieth century.Donald Davidson: Truth, Meaning and Knowledge addresses* Davidson's writings on epistemology and theory of language with their implications of ontology and philosophy of mind* the central issue of whether truth is the ultimate goal of enquiry, challenged by contributions from Richard Rorty and Paul Horwich* Davidson's approach to semantics and applied linguistics as addressed by Kirk Ludwig, Gabriel Segal, Peter Pagin, Stephen Neale, Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepore and Reinaldo Elugardo* Davidson's advances in the philosophy of mind in relation to the views of Williard V. Quine, John McDowell and Peter F. Strawson, in essays by Roger Gibson and Anita Avramides

This book is a systematic and historical exploration of the philosophical significance of grammar. In the first half of the twentieth century, and in particular in the writings of Frege, Husserl, Russell, Carnap and Wittgenstein, there was sustained philosophical reflection on the nature of grammar, and on the relevance of grammar to metaphysics, logic and science.

Bringing together an international range of younger philosophers and established thinkers, this volume opens up the idea of the transcendental in philosophy.