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Pickstock shows how Platonic philosophy did not assume a primacy of metaphysical presence, as had been previously thought, but a primacy of liturgical theory and practice. She also provides a significant rethinking of Christian views on language and life.

No recent scientific enterprise has been so alluring, terrifying, and filled with extravagant promise and frustrating setbacks as artificial intelligence. How intelligent are the best of today's AI programs? To what extent can we entrust them with decisions that affect our lives? How human-like...

This book investigates what it means, and whether it is coherent, to say that there is God.

In 'Conceptual Art and Painting', a companion to his 'Essays on Art and Language', Charles Harrison reconsiders Conceptual Art in light of renewed interest in the original movement and of the various forms of 'neo-Conceptual' art.

This survey introduces central debates of English-language philosophy since 1945. After discussions of philosophers of the 1950s, the book describes the key philosophical debates that have shaped discussions from the 1960s until the present day.

Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only white people can be racist? Are you confused by these ideas, and do you wonder how they have managed so quickly to challenge...

The Stoics' unique blend of practicality and wisdom has been inspiring the most successful among us for centuries, from Roman emperors to Barack Obama, and most recently via Ryan Holiday's bestselling 'The Obstacle Is The Way'. If that book introduced readers to the idea that what is in the way...

Throughout history, philosophers have grappled with questions of how we should live and why, of politics, of science, of language. This dictionary anatomizes the philosophical tradition and shows the thoughts, paradoxes, errors and breakthroughs that underline human speculation.

Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Aims to cover all subjects and languages.

In this book Michael Heim provides the first consistent philosophical basis for critically evaluating the impact of word processing on our use of and ideas about language. This edition includes a new foreword by David Gelernter, a new preface by the author and an updated bibliography.