Authors:Gordon Baker, P. M. S. Hacker,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: wittgenstein, grammar, necessity, rules, investigations, philosophical, commentary, analytical
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 1991-01-15
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0631161880
ISBN-13: 9780631161882

This is the second volume of analytical commentary on Wittgenstein’s masterpiece, the Philosophical Investigations. Like the first, it consists of philosophical essays and critical exegesis. The six essays deal comprehensively with various themes in Wittgenstein’’s philosophy: the relationship between his mathematics and his philosophy of mind; his conception of grammar and rules of grammar; the relation between a rule and what accords with a rule; the characterization of rule-following as mastery of a technique manifest in practice; his notion of a form of life, and of agree

Author: Carole Matthew
Publisher: Avon A
Keywords: necessity, bare
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2003-05-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0060532149
ISBN-13: 9780060532147

Once Emily Miller thought that losing her boyfriend Declan would be the worst thing that could happen. Of course, that was before she learned that the lowlife cad had secretly mortgaged their dream house, run up their shared debts . . . and posted a picture of her on the internet that would make a rugby team blush. Still, she is coping masterfully, despite losing her home and her dignity -- until the local newspapers get wind of the story . . .So here she is -- homeless, jobless, loverless . . . and scandalous at thirty-two. Her best friend Cara thinks yoga, aromatherapy, and the perfect potio

Author: Saul A. Kripke
Publisher: Cambridge, Harvard University Press, [
Keywords: necessity, naming
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 1981-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0631128018
ISBN-13: 9780631128014

Author: Saul A. Kripke
Publisher: Harvard University Pre
Keywords: necessity, naming
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1980-07-26
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0674598466
ISBN-13: 9780674598461

If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it. Ever since the publication of its original version, Naming and Necessity has had great and increasing influence. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of reference, in particular of naming, and of identity. From a critique of the dominant tendency to assimilate names to descriptions and more generally to treat their reference as a function of their Fregean sense, surprisingly deep

Author: Harry G. Frankfurt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: love, volition, necessity
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 1998-11-28
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0521633958
ISBN-13: 9780521633956

This collection of essays complements a successful earlier collection published by Cambridge University Press, The Importance of What We Care About. Some of the essays develop lines of thought found in the earlier volume. They deal in general with foundational metaphysical and epistemological issues concerning Descartes, moral philosophy, and philosophical anthropology. Some bear upon topics in political philosophy and religion. A hallmark of Frankfurt’s work is his crisp and incisive style, which means that these essays should appeal to a wide range of philosophers as well as to readers

Author: Paul Woodruff
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: watched, watching, art, theater, necessity
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-04-30
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0195332008
ISBN-13: 9780195332001

What is unique and essential about theater? What separates it from other arts? Do we need "theater" in some fundamental way? The art of theater, as Paul Woodruff says in this elegant and unique book, is as necessary--and as powerful--as language itself. Defining theater broadly, including sporting events and social rituals, he treats traditional theater as only one possibility in an art that--at its most powerful--can change lives and (as some peoples believe) bring a divine presence to earth. The Necessity of Theater analyzes the unique power of theater by separating it into the twin arts of

Author: Richard N. Haa
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Keywords: war, wars, iraq, choice, necessity, memoir
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2009-05-05
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 1416549021
ISBN-13: 9781416549024

When should the United States go to war?It is arguably the most important foreign policy question facing any president, and Richard Haass -- a member of the National Security Council staff for the first President Bush and the director of policy planning in the State Department for Bush II -- is in a unique position to address it. Haass is one of just a handful of individuals -- along with Colin Powell, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Bob Gates -- involved at a senior level of U.S. government decision making during both Iraq conflicts. He is the first to take us behind closed doors and the fir