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Philosophical Essays, Volume 2 : The Philosophical Significance of Language /
No full textThe two volumes of Philosophical Essays bring together the most important essays written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of language. Scott Soames has selected thirty-one essays spanning nearly three decades of thinking about linguistic meaning and the philosophical significance of language. A judicious collection of old and new, these volumes include sixteen essays published in the 1980s and 1990s, nine published since 2000, and six new essays. The essays in Volume 1 investigate what linguistic meaning is; how the meaning of a sentence is related to the use we make of it; what we should expect from empirical theories of the meaning of the languages we speak; and how a sound theoretical grasp of the intricate relationship between meaning and use can improve the interpretation of legal texts. The essays in Volume 2 illustrate the significance of linguistic concerns for a broad range of philosophical topics--including the relationship between language and thought; the objects of belief, assertion, and other propositional attitudes; the distinction between metaphysical and epistemic possibility; the nature of necessity, actuality, and possible worlds; the necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori; truth, vagueness, and partial definition; and skepticism about meaning and mind. The two volumes of Philosophical Essays are essential for anyone working on the philosophy of language.The two volumes of Philosophical Essays bring together the most important essays written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of language. Scott Soames has selected thirty-one essays spanning nearly three decades of thinking about linguistic meaning and the philosophical significance of language. A judicious collection of old and new, these volumes include sixteen essays published in the 1980s and 1990s, nine published since 2000, and six new essays. The essays in Volume 1 investigate what linguistic meaning is; how the meaning of a sentence is related to the use we make of it; what we should expect from empirical theories of the meaning of the languages we speak; and how a sound theoretical grasp of the intricate relationship between meaning and use can improve the interpretation of legal texts. The essays in Volume 2 illustrate the significance of linguistic concerns for a broad range of philosophical topics--including the relationship between language and thought; the objects of belief, assertion, and other propositional attitudes; the distinction between metaphysical and epistemic possibility; the nature of necessity, actuality, and possible worlds; the necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori; truth, vagueness, and partial definition; and skepticism about meaning and mind. The two volumes of Philosophical Essays are essential for anyone working on the philosophy of language.Electronic reproduction.Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed October 27 2015
Philosophical Essays, Volume 1 : Natural Language: What It Means and How We Use It /
No full textThe two volumes of Philosophical Essays bring together the most important essays written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of language. Scott Soames has selected thirty-one essays spanning nearly three decades of thinking about linguistic meaning and the philosophical significance of language. A judicious collection of old and new, these volumes include sixteen essays published in the 1980s and 1990s, nine published since 2000, and six new essays. The essays in Volume 1 investigate what linguistic meaning is; how the meaning of a sentence is related to the use we make of it; what we should expect from empirical theories of the meaning of the languages we speak; and how a sound theoretical grasp of the intricate relationship between meaning and use can improve the interpretation of legal texts. The essays in Volume 2 illustrate the significance of linguistic concerns for a broad range of philosophical topics--including the relationship between language and thought; the objects of belief, assertion, and other propositional attitudes; the distinction between metaphysical and epistemic possibility; the nature of necessity, actuality, and possible worlds; the necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori; truth, vagueness, and partial definition; and skepticism about meaning and mind. The two volumes of Philosophical Essays are essential for anyone working on the philosophy of language.The two volumes of Philosophical Essays bring together the most important essays written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of language. Scott Soames has selected thirty-one essays spanning nearly three decades of thinking about linguistic meaning and the philosophical significance of language. A judicious collection of old and new, these volumes include sixteen essays published in the 1980s and 1990s, nine published since 2000, and six new essays. The essays in Volume 1 investigate what linguistic meaning is; how the meaning of a sentence is related to the use we make of it; what we should expect from empirical theories of the meaning of the languages we speak; and how a sound theoretical grasp of the intricate relationship between meaning and use can improve the interpretation of legal texts. The essays in Volume 2 illustrate the significance of linguistic concerns for a broad range of philosophical topics--including the relationship between language and thought; the objects of belief, assertion, and other propositional attitudes; the distinction between metaphysical and epistemic possibility; the nature of necessity, actuality, and possible worlds; the necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori; truth, vagueness, and partial definition; and skepticism about meaning and mind. The two volumes of Philosophical Essays are essential for anyone working on the philosophy of language.Electronic reproduction.Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher’s Web site, viewed October 27 2015
A Descriptivist Refutation of Kripke's Modal Argument and of Soames's Defence
No full textThis article systematically challenges Kripke's modal argument and Soames's defence of this argument by arguing that, just like descriptions, names can take narrow or wide scopes over modalities, and that there is a big difference between the wide scope reading and the narrow scope reading of a modal sentence with a name. Its final conclusions are that all of Kripke's and Soames's arguments are untenable due to some fallacies or mistakes; names are not rigid designators; if there were rigid designators, description(s) could be rigidified to refer fixedly to objects; so names cannot be distinguished in this way from the corresponding descriptions. A descriptivist account of names is still correct; and there is no justification for Kripke's theory of rigid designation and its consequences.http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000308094800005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=8e1609b174ce4e31116a60747a720701PhilosophyA&HCI0ARTICLE3225-2607
Double dural spinal sheath:a cadaveric case report
No full textA previously unreported variation in the anatomy of the spinal dural sheath was observed during routine cadaveric dissection, consisting of a duplication of the dural layer, with layers adherent throughout their length. The double dural sheath completely enveloped the spinal cord and nerve roots, and extended from C2 to L5: both layers were of similar thickness to a single dural sheath. Duplication of the dura mater in the form of two complete dural sheaths has not been previously observed and/or reported in a cadaveric study. However, areas of localised duplication of the ventral aspect of the dural sheath have been observed during intra-operative dissection, particularly in association with idiopathic herniation of the spinal cord. Complete duplication of the spinal dura mater is of clinical interest in spinal surgery, particularly in relation to idiopathic spinal cord herniation. © IJAV. 2010; 3: 41–43
The revival and success of Britain’s second application for membership of the European Community, 1968-71
No full textPhDOn 19 December 1967, France formally imposed a veto on British entry to
the European Community. The Labour government of Harold Wilson had
applied for membership of the Community in May of that year, but the
French, in accordance with the views of their President, Charles de Gaulle,
implacably opposed enlargement negotiations. Yet just three and a half
years later, in June 1971, accession negotiations between Britain and the
Community recorded agreement on the critical issues, thereby removing the
major diplomatic obstacles to British membership. Why this turnaround in
fortunes occurred, and what contribution the governments of Harold Wilson
and Edward Heath made to it, are the questions at the heart of this thesis.
In its analysis of these historic events, this thesis provides numerous new
findings. It re-interprets British actions in relation to the controversial
‘Soames affair’ of February 1969. It demonstrates the impact of The Hague
summit upon the cost of British membership, and shows how this influenced
internal debate about the case for joining the Community. Fresh light is shed
upon the critical phase of the accession negotiations between January and
June 1971, both in regard to Pompidou’s actions and motivations, and the
role of the May 1971 Heath-Pompidou summit in the successful outcome.
The thesis is based primarily upon British governmental sources held at the
National Archives. The private papers of key participants have also been
consulted, as well as parliamentary debates, political diaries, memoirs, and newspapers. In addition, the papers for the presidency of Georges
Pompidou, deposited at the Archives Nationales, are employed to illuminate
French actions at the two pivotal moments of the accession negotiations: the
impasse of March 1971; and the Heath-Pompidou summit two months later
«The Devil’s Workshop»: el pacto diabólico en “Enoch Soames” (1916), de Max Beerbohm, y “Un pacto con el diablo” (1941), de Juan José Arreola
No full textThis article is a comparative reading of two 20th-century short stories through the diabolical pact and the fantastic codification: “Enoch Soames”, by Beerbohm, and “Un pacto con el diablo”, by Arreola. From a literary perspective, this comparative reading comments on some stylistic choices and narrative techniques, particularly irony, humor, and metafiction to observe how each author rewrites a traditional motif as the diabolical pact.En este artículo se hace una lectura comparada de dos relatos del siglo xx por medio del pacto diabólico y la codificación fantástica: “Enoch Soames”, de Beerbohm, y “Un pacto con el diablo”, de Arreola. Esta lectura comparada se hace desde una perspectiva literaria y se comentan algunas cuestiones estilísticas y las técnicas narrativas, particularmente la ironía, el humor y la metaficción para observar cómo cada autor reescribe un motivo tradicional como el pacto diabólico
«The Devil’s Workshop»: The Diabolical Pact in “Enoch Soames” (1916), by Max Beerbohm, and “Un pacto con el diablo” (1941), by Juan José Arreola
No full textEn este artículo se hace una lectura comparada de dos relatos del siglo xx por medio del pacto diabólico y la codificación fantástica: “Enoch Soames”, de Beerbohm, y “Un pacto con el diablo”, de Arreola. Esta lectura comparada se hace desde una perspectiva literaria y se comentan algunas cuestiones estilísticas y las técnicas narrativas, particularmente la ironía, el humor y la metaficción para observar cómo cada autor reescribe un motivo tradicional como el pacto diabólico.This article is a comparative reading of two 20th-century short stories through the diabolical pact and the fantastic codification: “Enoch Soames”, by Beerbohm, and “Un pacto con el diablo”, by Arreola. From a literary perspective, this comparative reading comments on some stylistic choices and narrative techniques, particularly irony, humor, and metafiction to observe how each author rewrites a traditional motif as the diabolical pact
Strange Attractors: A Commentary on Applications of Indeterminacy in my Recent Music
No full textThis commentary reflects on how indeterminacy has been used in the music I have written over the period of my doctoral studies, 2005-2008. Non-musical ideas play a major role in my compositional language and this is reflected in the use of 'strange attractors' as a metaphor for the philosophical and aesthetic stance behind composing with indeterminacy. After a brief introduction chapter, the links between strange attractors—and chaos theory in general—and indeterminate music are discussed. And applications of indeterminacy to pitch organisation techniques such as spectral modelling and frequency modulation are examined as part of a frequency-based harmonic continuum. Different methods of generating ambiguous pitch percepts that sit at the boundaries of the harmony/timbre duality are considered In pieces with text processes
Anatomy and the health professional
No full text The advent of new imaging and visualising techniques within the past 20 years, in all branches of the anatomical sciences, has revolutionised the understanding of three-dimensional structure and function, as well as the diagnosis and treatment of disease. With these advances, traditional methods of teaching are, quite rightly, being questioned. The great challenge today is to impart an understanding and working knowledge of anatomy without recourse to excessive didactic teaching. In many disciplines problem-based learning may provide the answer, but at what stage within training should it be incorporated? Some advocate its use from day one, while others would insist on an initial period of more formal teaching in order to establish the fundamental principles and concepts. </jats:p
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