The Meaning of Mind: Language, Morality, and Neuroscience 0614219418, 9780614219418

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A thought-provoking examination of how insights from neuroscience challenge deeply held assumptions about morality and l

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Patrick de Gramont draws upon evidence from infant observaton and linguistics as well as from information theory in orde

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Mark Platts is responsible for the first systematic presentation of truth-conditional semantics and for turning a genera

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This book is a call to action for all those engaged in the study of history to direct more attention to the fundamental

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About fifty years ago, Stephen Ullmann wrote that polysemy is 'the pivot of semantic analysis'. Fifty years on

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Since the millennium, the neurophysiological and psychological bases of moral judgements and actions have been the topic

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Since the millennium, the neurophysiological and psychological bases of moral judgements and actions have been the topic

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This provocative analysis by three leading bioethicists criticizes contemporary neuroscientific claims about individual

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An intellectual exploration of language and liturgy and how both of them participate in the articulation of meaning.

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An intellectual exploration of language and liturgy and how both of them participate in the articulation of meaning.

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