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Linguistics

Meaning, Creativity, and the Partial Inscrutability of the Human Mind Second Edition

Moravcsik Julius M.

ISBN: PB: 9781575864808, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2017
218 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

This book criticizes current philosophy of language as having altered its focus without adjusting the needed conceptual tools. It develops a new theory of lexical meaning and a new conception of cognition – humans not as information-processing creatu...

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Philosophy

Marvelous Clouds Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media

Peters John Durham

ISBN: PB: 9780226421353, ISBN: HB: 9780226253831, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 3 line drawings, 1 table

When we speak of clouds these days, it is as likely that we mean data clouds or network clouds as cumulus or stratus. In their sharing of the term, both kinds of clouds reveal an essential truth: that the natural world and the technological world are...

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Philosophy

Most Good You Can Do How Effective Altruism is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically

Singer Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300219869, Yale University Press, April 2016
232 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Peter Singer's books and ideas have been disturbing our complacency ever since the appearance of Animal Liberation. Now he directs our attention to a challenging new movement in which his own ideas have played a crucial role: effective altruism. Effe...

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Children's Books

Philosophy

Mister Descartes and His Evil Genius

Mongin Jean Paul

ISBN: HB: 9783037345467, University of Chicago Press, Diaphanes, March 2016
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, illustrated in colour throughout

At its most basic, philosophy is about learning how to think about the world around us. It should come as no surprise, then, that children make excellent philosophers! Plato & Co. introduces children – and curious grown-ups – to the lives and work of...

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Philosophy

Political Science

Marx at the Margins On Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies

Anderson Kevin B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226345673, University of Chicago Press, February 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In "Marx at the Margins", Kevin Anderson uncovers a variety of extensive but neglected texts by Marx that cast what we thought we knew about his work in a startlingly different light. Analyzing a variety of Marx's writings, including journalistic wor...

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Philosophy

Morality for Humans Ethical Understanding from the Perspective of Cognitive Science

Johnson Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226324944, ISBN: HB: 9780226113401, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

What is the difference between right and wrong? This is no easy question to answer, yet we constantly try to make it so, frequently appealing to some hidden cache of cut-and-dried absolutes, whether drawn from God, universal reason, or societal autho...

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Philosophy

Mind, Self, and Society The Definitive Edition

Mead George Herbert

ISBN: PB: 9780226112732, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
536 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

George Herbert Mead is widely recognized as one of the most brilliantly original American pragmatists. Although he had a profound influence on the development of social philosophy, he published no books in his lifetime. This makes the lectures collec...

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Philosophy

History of Art

Modular Objects Civil Society

Oppenheimer Geof

ISBN: HB: 9780945323235, University of Chicago Press, WhiteWalls, May 2015
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 143 halftones

"Modular Objects Civil Society" creatively reimagines the ways in which communities collectively produce meaning through the social environments they inhabit – and thereby cultivate. At its heart, the book is a reflection on the performance of living...

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Philosophy

Moral Culture of the Scottish Enlightenment 1690-1805

Ahnert Thomas

ISBN: HB: 9780300153804, Yale University Press, March 2015
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In the Enlightenments it was often argued that moral conduct, rather than adherence to theological doctrine, was the true measure of religious belief. Thomas Ahnert argues that this "enlightened" emphasis on conduct in religion relied less on argumen...

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Psychology

Philosophy

Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon Toward a Political History of Madness

Murat Laure

ISBN: HB: 9780226025735, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

"The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon" is built around a bizarre historical event and an off-hand challenge. The event? In December 1840, nearly twenty years after his death, the remains of Napoleon were returned to Paris for burial – and the next day...

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