books by Ernest Lepore     books:     Ernest Lepore      Meaning and Argument: An Introduction to Logic Through Language Ernest Lepore Wiley-Blackwell, 2003 the best intro-level logic book i've read first things first: ernest lepore is the author of the book, NOT the editor. secondly, read the editorial review. i don't have much to add to it, but in the spirit of pitching in my two cents... i have had the pleasure of taking a logic course with dr. lepore, ...             Holism: A Shopper's Guide Jerry Fodor, Ernest Lepore Wiley-Blackwell, 1992 The main question addressed in this book is whether individuation of the contents of thoughts and linguistic expressions is inherently holistic. The authors consider arguments that are alleged to show that the meaning of a scientific hypothesis depends on the entire theory that entails it, or that the content of a concept depends on the entire ...             John Searle and his Critics (Philosophers and their Critics) Wiley-Blackwell, 1993 John Searle and His Critics proceeds from an analysis of the importance and influence of Searle's seminal works to an overall assessment of Searle's impact in the philosophy of language, of mind, of social explanation, and of reference and intentionality.             What Every College Student Should Know: How to Find the Best Teachers and Learn the Most from Them Rutgers University Press, 2002 Truly first rate! This is really a wonderful work. One of the authors is a university professor; the other is an undergraduate: this in itself is an inspired idea. But what really makes the book stand out is the way that they have managed to translate their combined wisdom into ...             Insensitive Semantics: A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism Herman Cappelen, Ernest Lepore Wiley-Blackwell, 2005 Insensitive Semantics is an overview of and contribution to the debates about how to accommodate context sensitivity within a theory of human communication, investigating the effects of context on communicative interaction and, as a corollary, what a context of utterance is and what it is to be in one. Provides detailed and wide-ranging ...             Truth and Interpretation: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson Ernest Lepore WileyBlackwell, 1989             Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language, and Reality Ernest Lepore, Kirk Ludwig Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 Finally! An in-depth, comprehensible intro to Davidson NOTE TO READER: Unfortunately, due to a glitch in Amazon's review system, you can read this review from two different books: The right book: Donald Davidson (Contemporary Philosophy in Focus) edited by Kirk Ludwig The wrong book: Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, ...             Language Turned on Itself: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Metalinguistic Discourse Herman Cappelen, Ernest Lepore Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 Language Turned on Itself examines what happens when language becomes self-reflexive; when language is used to talk about language. Those who think, talk and write about language are compulsive users of various metalinguistic devices, but reliance on these devices begins early: kids are told, 'That's called a "rabbit"'. It's not implausible that ...             The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language (Oxford Handbooks) Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 Ernie Lepore and Barry Smith present the definitive reference work for this diverse and fertile field of philosophy. A superb international team contribute forty brand-new essays covering topics from the nature of language to meaning, truth, and reference, and the interfaces of philosophy of language with linguistics, psychology, logic, ...             Donald Davidson's Truth-Theoretic Semantics Ernest Lepore, Kirk Ludwig Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 The work of Donald Davidson (1917-2003) transformed the study of meaning. Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig, two of the world's leading authorities on Davidson's work, present the definitive study of his widely admired and influential program of truth-theoretic semantics for natural languages, giving an exposition and critical examination of its ...             Qué es la ciencia cognitiva Ernest Lepore, Zenon Pylyshyn Oxford University Press México, S.A. de C.V., 2003 Obra escrita por investigadores líderes en el campo de las ciencias cognitivas, ha sido concebida como una introducción que incluye los temas clave que caracterizan al campo en la actualidad explora áreas como mente, visión lenguaje y neurociencias, y contiene una selección de los fundamentos de las ciencias cognitivas, desarrollo de la cognición, ...             Actions and Events: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson Ernest Lepore, Brian McLaughlin Blackwell Publishers, 1988 You can't touch this Well, it looks like I just bought the last copy of this book available anywhere :-) So why bother reviewing it? Its true that this book is mostly of historical interest now. It is basically the proceedings of a conference held in 1985 on Donald Davidson's ...             What is Cognitive Science Wiley-Blackwell, 1999 Written by an assembly of leading researchers in the field, this volume provides an innovative and non-technical introduction to cognitive science, and the key issues that animate the field.             Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language, and Reality Ernest Lepore, Kirk Ludwig Oxford University Press, USA, 2005 Ernest Lepore and Kirk Ludwig present the definitive critical exposition of the philosophical system of Donald Davidson (1917-2003). Davidson's ideas had a deep and broad influence in the central areas of philosophy; he presented them in brilliant essays over four decades, but never set out explicitly the overarching scheme in which they all have ...          products you might be interested in search for books interpretation, introduction, metalinguistic, perspectives, philosophers, truth-theoretic      toavi.com    web we recommend Truly first rate! randomly chosen book: The Good War: An Oral History of World War II