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UNINA9910451549103321 |
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Autore |
Hurford James R |
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Titolo |
The origins of meaning [[electronic resource] /] / James R. Hurford |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007 |
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1-281-14907-1 |
9786611149079 |
0-19-152592-8 |
1-4356-0979-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (404 p.) |
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Language in the light of evolution ; ; 1 |
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Semantics - History |
Communication |
Evolution |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; PART I: MEANING BEFORE COMMUNICATION; 1. Let's Agree on Terms; 2. Animals Approach Human Cognition; 3. A New Kind of Memory Evolves; 4. Animals Form Proto-propositions; 5. Towards Human Semantics; PART II: COMMUNICATION: WHAT AND WHY?; 6. Communication by Dyadic Acts; 7. Going Triadic: Precursors of Reference; 8. Why Communicate? Squaring with Evolutionary Theory; 9. Cooperation, Fair Play, and Trust in Primates; 10. Epilogue and Prologue; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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In this, the first of two ground-breaking volumes on the nature of language in the light of the way it evolved, James Hurford looks at the origins of meaning and of its expression in language and reviews a mass of evidence to uncover the evolutionary path between the non-speaking minds of apes and our own speaking minds. This is a landmark contribution to the understanding of linguistic and thinking processes, and the fullest account yet published of the evolution of language and. communication. - ;In this, the first of two ground-breaking volumes on the nature of language in the light of the |
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UNINA9910953195503321 |
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Autore |
Haworth Alan <1944-> |
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Anti-libertarianism : markets, philosophy, and myth / / Alan Haworth |
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London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1994 |
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1-134-89071-0 |
1-134-89072-9 |
1-280-56262-5 |
9786610562626 |
0-203-00371-3 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (166 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [143]-146) and index. |
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Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; Part I; Chapter 1. Libertarianism - anti-libertarianism; Chapter 2. Market romances I; Chapter 3. Reducibility, freedom, the invisible hand; Chapter 4. Market romances II; Chapter 5. On freedom; Chapter 6. The legend of the angels and the fable of the bees; Part II; Chapter 7. Moralising the market; Chapter 8. Rights, wrongs and rhetoric; Chapter 9. Visions of Valhalla; Part Ill; Chapter 10. The good fairy's wand; Chapter 11. Hayek and the hand of fate; Chapter 12. Conclusions and postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Free marketeers claim that theirs is the only economic mechanism which respects and furthers human freedom. Socialism, they say, has been thoroughly discredited. Most libertarians treat the state in anything other than its minimal, 'nightwatchman' form as a repressive embodiment of evil. Some reject the state altogether.But is the 'free market idea' a rationally defensible belief? Or do its proponents fail to examine the philosophical roots of their so-called freedom? Anti-libertarianism takes a sceptical look at the conceptual tenets of free market politics. Alan Haworth argues t |
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