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Philosophy took a ‘linguistic turn’ in the twentieth century that was marked by the focus on theories of meaning, reference, description, predication and truth. Starting with the roots of the analyti …

The second volume is devoted to issues of compositionality that arouse in the sciences of language, the investigation of the mind, and the modeling of representational brain functions. How could comp …

The aim of the book is to clarify the concept of omniscience. This is done first by discussing basic questions on omniscience (chs.1-12) and secondly by offering a theory of omniscience as an axiomat …

At the centre of the metaethical debate that took off from G.E. Moore’s Principia Ethica (1903) was his critique of ethical naturalism. While Moore’s own arguments against ethical naturalism find lit …

Humanitarian Interventions – that sounds nice; much nicer than wars, battles and use of military force. Foremost, the phrase makes you think of the delivery of sanitary goods, medication, of soup-kit …

Exploring and understanding how medieval Christians perceived and constructed the figure of the Prophet Muhammad is of capital relevance in the complex history of Christian-Muslim relations. Medieval …