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UNINA9911099025203321 |
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Cognitive semantics : meaning and cognition / / edited by Jens Allwood, Peter Gardenfors |
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Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c1999 |
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1-282-16329-9 |
9786612163296 |
90-272-9909-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (215 p.) |
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Collana |
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Pragmatics & beyond, , 0922-842X ; ; new ser. 55 |
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AllwoodJens S. <1947-> |
GärdenforsPeter |
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Semantics - Psychological aspects |
Cognition |
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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 indexes. |
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COGNITIVE SEMANTICS; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Contents; Preface; Semantics as Meaning Determination with Semantic-Epistemic Operations; Some Tenets of Cognitive Semantics; Function, Cognition, and Layered Clause Structure; From Vision to Cognition: A Study of Metaphor and Polysemy in Swedish; Polysemy and Differentiation in the Lexicon: Verbs of Physical Contact in Swedish; Space and Time; Conceptual Engineering: Implementing Cognitive Semantics; Situated Embodied Semantics and Connectionist Modeling; Index of Names; Index of Subjects; PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES |
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Toward the end of the 20th century, there is both a dissatisfaction with existing formal semantic theories and a wish to preserve insights from other semantic traditions. Cognitive semantics, the latest of the major trends which have dominated the century, attempts to do this by focusing on meaning as a cognitive phenomenon. This book provides different perspectives on meaning as a cognitive phenomenon. Jens Allwood presents an approach where meaning is analyzed in terms of context sensitive cognitive operations. Peter Gärdenfors examines the relationship between cognitive semantics and standa |
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UNINA9911138487603321 |
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Autore |
Scarre Geoffrey |
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Utilitarianism / / Geoffrey Scarre |
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London ; ; New York, : Routlege, 1996 |
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9781852780975 |
1852780975 |
9780203213766 |
0203213769 |
9780203292280 |
0203292286 |
9781280187223 |
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9781134827930 |
1134827938 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (234 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-221) and index. |
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Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Introduction: The Character of the Theory; Four Ancient Moralists; Jesus; Aristotle; Epicurus; Utilitarianism and Enlightenment; Chastellux and Helvetius; Hutcheson; Hume; Priestley and Paley; Godwin; Bentham; John Stuart Mill; James Mill; The importance of character; Higher and lower pleasures; The 'proof of utility'; Utility and justice; Some Later Developments; Ideal Utilitarianism: Moore and Rashdall; Rule-utilitarianism; Happiness and Other Ends; Dominant-and inclusive-end conceptions of happiness; Problems about multiple ends |
Two contrasting responsesMaximisation, Fairness and Respect for Persons; Panem et circenses; 'Whoever debases others is debasing |
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himself'; But should the consequences count?; Limitations of the self-respect argument; Archangels, proles and the natural man; Utilitarianism and Personality; The hard line: utilitarians should be saints; A softer line: utilitarians may be human; Maximisation and alienation; Non-alienating direct utilitarianism; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Surveying the historical development and the present condition of utilitarian ethics, Geoffrey Scarre examines the major philosophers from Lao Tzu in the fifth century BC to Richard Hare in the twentieth. Utilitarianism traces the 'doctrine of utility' from the moralists of the ancient world, through the Enlightenment and Victorian utilitarianism up to the lively debate of the present day. Utilitarianism today faces challenges on several fronts: it cannot warrant the drawing of adequate protective boundaries around the essential interests of individuals, and it does not allow them the |
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