This book is an outstanding contribution to the philosophical study of language and mind, by one of the most influential thinkers of our time. In a series of penetrating essays, Noam Chomsky cuts through the confusion and prejudice which has infected the study of language and mind, bringing new solutions to traditional philosophical puzzles and fresh perspectives on issues of general interest, ...


 The book 1985 is the third and last dystopia in oeuvre of Anthony Burgess. It can be considered unique since it contains a string non-fictional texts reflecting on Orwell’s classic as well related philosophical, political, social, theological issues, followed by dystopian novella entitled “1985.” essay argues that book, but especially essays, read Burgess’s “cacotopian ars poetica,” or h...

In this book, William Bechtel outlines a new and original program for the philosophy of cognitive science using an original concept of mechanism as its core idea. Bechtel’s concept of mechanism is intended to allow for a naturalized science of the mind that is continuous with the other sciences. Bechtel is a philosopher of science that is interested in how science is actually made and therefore...

Abstract Roger Crisp, in his book Reasons and Goodness , argues favour of de-moralizing our philosophical reflection on ethics. This paper begins by explaining what ‘de-moralizing’ means. Then the assesses Crisp’s argument for puts forward arguments against de-moralizing.

In 1962 the journal Acta Biotheoretica published the final work of the biologist Edward Stuart Russell [4], a full eight years after his death. Entitled The Diversity of Animals [3]: an Evolutionary Study, this short, unfinished manuscript on evolution [5] received little recognition in the scientific presses despite both its technical discussion of adaptations in decapods (crabs, shrimp, etc.)...

ABSTRACT Thorstein Veblen was a founding father of the original institutional economics. Veblen’s first book, The Theory Leisure Class (1899), introduced to economists an interdisciplinary perspective understand consumers’ decision-making. This relied on processual nature instincts, habits, and institutions. ideas human behavior were not completely original, it has been widely recognized that s...