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UNINA9910461406003321 |
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Green Keith <1954-> |
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Bertrand Russell, language and linguistic theory [[electronic resource] /] / Keith Green |
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London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2007 |
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1-283-12317-7 |
9786613123176 |
1-4411-9749-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (185 p.) |
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Continuum studies in British philosophy |
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Language and languages - Philosophy - History - 20th century |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-170) and index. |
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Contexts and connexions -- Language and the world -- Language and the mind -- Language and linguistic theory -- 'These fragments I have shored against my ruins' : Russell and modernism. |
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Although there has been a significant revival in interest in Bertrand Russell's work in recent years, most professional philosophers would still argue that Russell was not interested in language. Here, in the first full-length study of Russell's work on language throughout his long career, Keith Green shows that this is in fact not the case. In examining Russell's work, particularly from 1900 to 1950, Green exposes a repeated emphasis on, and turn to, linguistic considerations. Green considers how 'linguistics' and 'philosophy' were struggling in the twentieth century to define themselves and |
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UNINA9910698303303321 |
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Titolo |
Effects of climate change on energy production and use in the United States [[electronic resource] /] / report by the U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research; authors: Thomas J. Wilbanks...[and others] |
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Washington, DC : , : U.S. Climate Change Science Program, , 2007 |
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xiim 144 pages : digital, PDF file |
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U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and assessment product ; ; 4.5. |
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Climatic changes - United States |
Global warming - United States |
Energy policy - United States |
Power resources - United States |
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Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Oct 19, 2007). |
"October 2007". |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-124). |
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UNINA9910973946503321 |
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Autore |
Williams Bernard <1929-2003, > |
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Ethics and the limits of philosophy / / Bernard Williams ; with a commentary on the text by A.W. Moore and a foreword by Jonathan Lear |
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London : , : Routledge, , 1985, 2011 |
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9780203828281 |
0203828283 |
9781136807251 |
113680725X |
9781136807244 |
1136807241 |
1283103729 |
9786613103727 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (297 pages) |
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LearJonathan |
MooreA. W. <1956-> |
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Note generali |
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First published by Fontana Press, 1985. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Bernard Williams: Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy; Copyright; Contents; Foreword To The Routledge Classics Edition; Preface; 1. Socrates' Question; 2. The Archimedean Point; 3. Foundations: Well-Being; 4. Foundations: Practical Reason; 5. Styles of Ethical Theory; 6. Theory and Prejudice; 7. The Linguistic Turn; 8. Knowledge, Science, Convergence; 9. Relativism and Refl ection; 10. Morality, the Peculiar Institution; Postscript; Commentary on the Text by A. W. Moore; Notes; Index |
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With a new foreword by Jonathan Lear'Remarkably lively and enjoyable...It is a very rich book, containing excellent descriptions of a variety of moral theories, and innumerable and often witty observations on topics encountered on the way.' - Times Literary SupplementBernard Williams was one of the greatest philosophers of his generation. Ethics |
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and the Limits of Philosophy is not only widely acknowledged to be his most important book, but also hailed a contemporary classic of moral philosophy. Drawing on the ideas of the Greek philosophers, Williams reori |
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