Philosophy of Linguistics investigates the foundational concepts and methods of linguistics, the scientific study of human language. This groundbreaking collection, the most thorough treatment of the
Psychology is the study of thinking, and cognitive science is the interdisciplinary investigation of mind and intelligence that also includes philosophy, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, linguis
This volume covers a wide range of conceptual, epistemological and methodological issues in the philosophy of science raised by reflection upon medical science and practice. Several chapters examine s
Yoga is now internationally an integral part of our health-conscious cultural landscape. It is practiced by millions for health and fitness reasons. While Yoga is seen and practiced mostly as a body e
Bayes (political science, California State University-Northridge) assembles international contributors to explore perspectives on gender and politics around the world. In some of the essays, scholars
Berg-Schlosser (political science, Phillips-University Marburg, Germany) assembles seven essays on democratization, based on presentations and discussions at the International Political Science Associ
Originally composed in Latin by Gilbertus Anglicus (Gilbert the Englishman), his Compendium of Medicine was a primary text of the medical revolution in thirteenth-century Europe. Composed mainly of m
The Liar Paradox challenges logicians' and semanticists' theories of truth and meaning. Modern accounts of paradoxes in formal semantics offer solutions through the hierarchy of object language and m
This volume presents mathematical game theory as an interface between logic and philosophy. It provides a discussion of various aspects of this interaction, covering new technical results and examini
The volume collects classics of Marxist historiography of science, including a new translation of Boris Hessen's "The Social and Economic Roots of Newton's Principia" (1931), Henryk Grossmann's "The
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was an outstanding contributor to many fields of human knowledge. The historiography of philosophy has tagged him as a "rationalist". But what does this exactly mean? Is he
This book is intended to provide a philosophically- and historically-based introduction to modal logic, offering to every reader, even those with little specific background, a conceptually clear path
This volume reflects on the effects of recent discoveries in genetics on a broad range of scientific fields. In addition to neuroscience, evolutionary biology, anthropology and medicine, contributors
