De gruyter jan 2016 (103 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - English Pronunciation for Speakers of Spanish fills a gaping hole in the market for books on English phonetics and pronunciation because it not only combines theoretical issues and applications to practice, but it also adopts a contrastive English-Spanish approach to better suit the needs of Spanish-speaking learners of English (SSLE), enabling them to build gradually on the knowledge gained in each chapter.The book covers the key concepts of English phonetics and phonology in seven chapters written in an accessible and engaging style: 1. Phonetics and Phonology2. The Production and Classification of Speech Sounds3. Vowels and Glides4. Consonants5. Segment Dynamics: Aspects of Connected Speech6. Beyond the Segment: Stress and Intonation7. Predicting Pronunciation from Spelling (and vice versa) Features: in-text audio illustrations, as well as over a hundred written and audio exercises with corresponding keys and different kinds of artwork (Tables, Figures, illustrations, spectrograms, etc.) classic readings in the discipline in the Further Reading section of each chapter highlights the phonetic contrasts and specific cues that are more important to aid comprehension in English and offers guidelines on 'correct' pronunciation habits to help SSLE sound as close as possible to native English The book's companion website, EPSS Multimedia Lab, can be used on computers, smartphones and tablets, and is useful for the self-taught student and the busy lecturer alike. The website of the EPSS Multimedia lab can be accessed here: usc.gal/multimlab/ Features of the website: a complete sound bank defining and illustrating the sounds of English RP as compared with those of Peninsular Spanish written definitions and animated diagrams, videos and original recordings (by native speakers of English and Spanish) showing the articulation of each sound, alongside its most common spellings, as well as pronunciation practice for individual words and whole sentences a comprehensive selection of over a hundred written and audio exercises (with their keys) for practice both at home or in the language lab audio files corresponding to the audio illustrations given in the written book a repository of useful resources by topics and a list of online glossaries and pronunciation dictionaries.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Turbulence and Reconstruction is an anthology of viewpoints on society from the arts and the sciences. The authors believe that the arts and the sciences are effective spaces to encourage us to think differently about our outdated concepts of representation and categorization and reconstruct new potentials about how the designs of the future might benefit our environment and the survival of our bodies. Essential to all writers is the need to drop our old disciplinary boundaries to question our interdependent relationship to technology and to reality. Turbulence and reconstruction are processes that not only affect our representation and categorization, urban nature and energy consumption but also our relation to media and technology - the digital ideologies of interaction and substitution. ; Turbulence and Reconstruction ist eine Anthologie von künstlerischen und wissenschaftlichen Sichtweisen auf unsere Gesellschaft. Die Autoren gehen davon aus, dass Kunst und Wissenschaft produktive Denkräume bieten und uns dazu ermutigen, neue Konzepte und Kategorisierungen zu entwickeln, die Potenziale freisetzen und von denen wir in Zukunft profitieren können.Wesentlich dabei ist, dass die alten Grenzen zwischen den Disziplinen überwunden und die wechselseitige Wirkung von Technologie und Realität diskutiert werden kann.Turbulenz und Wiederaufbau sind Prozesse, die nicht nur Darstellung, Kategorien, urbane Lebensräume und Energieverbrauch betreffen, sondern auch unsere Beziehung zu Medien und Technologien - und damit zur digitalen Ideologie von Interaktion und Substitution.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - A standard work in a revised edition: Matthias Schnettger and Heinz Duckhardt have fully updated this highly praised textbook on the Enlightenment and the Baroque period. Their overview considers the latest perspectives in research, and the bibliography has been supplemented with key works published since the last edition. The volume is sure to remain an essential tool for students and teachers of modern history.; Das Standardwerk liegt in überarbeiteter Form vor: Matthias Schnettger und Heinz Duchhardt bringen den hochgelobten Oldenbourg Grundriss zu Aufklärung und Barock auf den neuesten Stand. Der Forschunsgüberblick erfasst aktuelle Strömungen und Tendenzen und die Bibliographie ist um die zentrale Literatur ergänzt, die seit der letzten Auflage erschienen ist. Der Band bleibt so ein wichtiges Hilfsmittel für alle Studierenden und Dozenten der Neueren Geschichte.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Applied linguistics is the best single label to represent a wide range of contemporary research at the intersection of linguistics, anthropology, psychology, and sociology, to name a few. The Handbook of Japanese Applied Linguistics reflects crosscurrents in applied linguistics, an ever-developing branch/discipline of linguistics. The book is divided into seven sections, where each chapter discusses in depth the importance of particular topics, presenting not only new findings in Japanese, but also practical implications for other languages. Section 1 examines first language acquisition/development, whereas Section 2 covers issues related to second language acquisition/development and bilingualism/multilingualism. Section 3 presents problems associated with the teaching and learning of foreign languages. Section 4 undertakes questions in corpus/computational linguistics. Section 5 deals with clinical linguistics, and Section 6 takes up concerns in the area of translation/interpretation. Finally, Section 7 discusses Japanese sign language. Covering a wide range of current issues in an in an in-depth, comprehensive manner, the book will be useful for researchers as well as graduate students who are interested in Japanese linguistics in general, and applied linguistics in particular. Chapter titles Chapter 1. Cognitive Bases and Caregivers' Speech in Early Language Development (Tamiko Ogura, Tezukayama University)Chapter 2. Literacy Acquisition in Japanese Children (Etsuko Haryu, University of Tokyo)Chapter 3. Age Factors in Language Acquisition (Yuko Goto Butler, University of Pennsylvania)Chapter 4. Cross-lingual Transfer from L1 to L2 Among School-age Children (Kazuko Nakajima, University of Toronto)Chapter 5. Errors and Learning Strategies by Learners of Japanese as an L2 (Kumiko Sakoda, Hiroshima University/NINJAL)Chapter 6. Adult JFL Learners' Acquisition of Speech Style Shift (Haruko Minegishi Cook, University of Hawai'i at Manoa)Chapter 7. Japanese Language Proficiency Assessment (Noriko Kobayashi, Tsukuba University)Chapter 8. The Role of Instruction in Acquiring Japanese as a Second Language (Kaoru Koyanagi, Sophia University)Chapter 9. The Influence of Topic Choice on Narrative Proficiency by Learners of Japanese as a Foreign Language (Masahiko Minami, San Francisco State University)Chapter 10. CHILDES for Japanese: Corpora, Programs, and Perspectives (Susanne Miyata, Aichi Shukutoku University)Chapter 11. KY Corpus (Jae-Ho Lee, Tsukuba University)Chapter 12. Corpus-based Second Language Acquisition Research (Hiromi Ozeki, Reitaku University)Chapter 13. Assessment of Language Development in Children with Hearing Impairment and Language Disorders (Kiyoshi Otomo, Tokyo Gakugei University)Chapter 14. Speech and Language Acquisition in Japanese Children with Down Syndrome (Toru Watamaki, Nagasaki University)Chapter 15. Revisiting Autistic Language: Is 'literalness' a Truth or Myth Manabu Oi (Osaka University/Kanazawa University)Chapter 16. Towards a Robust, Genre-based Translation Model and its Application (Judy Noguchi, Mukogawa Women's University; Atsuko Misaki, Kwansei Gakuin University; Shoji Miyanaga, Ritsumeikan University; Masako Terui, Kinki University)Chapter 17. Japanese Sign Language: An Introduction (Daisuke Hara, Toyota Technological Institute)Chapter 18. Japanese Sign Language Phonology and Morphology (Daisuke Hara, Toyota Technological Institute)Chapter 19. Japanese Sign Language Syntax (Noriko Imazato, Kobe City College of Technology)Chapter 20. Sign Language Development and Language Input (Takashi Torigoe, Hyogo University of Teac.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - First complete edition of two demotic manuscripts from the early Roman period. These papyri, written in the distinctive Soknopaiu Nesos hand (Fayyum), are inscribed with religious texts for which only a few parallels are known. Papyrus Berlin P. 6750 contains 10 fragmentary columns and can be described as a compendium of liturgical texts, including among others glorifications, lamentations, litanies of names and hymnic parts. The first seven columns are centred on Osiris, foremost in the West, with the description of his 'resurrection'; the last three columns, which deploy more recent grammar constructions, are concerned with the birth of Horus-the-son-of-Isis inside the mammisi, and his accession to the throne. Papyrus Berlin P. 8765, in its present state, is made up of two large columns containing litanies of names and it is a close parallel to a section of papyrus Berlin P. 6750. There is reason to think that the main papyrus was written by a scribe from Soknopaiu Nesos in the 1st century A.D. who both compiled earlier sacerdotal texts and composed new ones, combining traditional themes. This enterprise reflects the surge in creativity that can be witnessed throughout Egypt in the religious sphere during the early Roman period.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Das Werk bietet eine zusammenhängende und zugleich komprimierte Gesamtdarstellung des Rechts der Abstammung sowie der elterlichen Sorge. Es wendet sich in erster Linie an den juristischen Leserkreis und damit an Rechtspfleger, Rechtsanwälte und Richter sowie an Studierende der Fachhochschulen und Universitäten sowie Referendare, bietet aber auch Konsularbeamten und Mitarbeitern der Jugend- und der Standesämter und juristischen Laien eine grundlegende und systematische Darstellung zu Voraussetzungen, Inhalt und den Schranken des Rechts der elterlichen Sorge.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Das Werk bietet eine zusammenhängende und zugleich komprimierte Gesamtdarstellung des Rechts der Abstammung sowie der elterlichen Sorge. Es wendet sich in erster Linie an den juristischen Leserkreis und damit an Rechtspfleger, Rechtsanwälte und Richter sowie an Studierende der Fachhochschulen und Universitäten sowie Referendare, bietet aber auch Konsularbeamten und Mitarbeitern der Jugend- und der Standesämter und juristischen Laien eine grundlegende und systematische Darstellung zu Voraussetzungen, Inhalt und den Schranken des Rechts der elterlichen Sorge.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Die zweite Auflage des eingeführten Kompendiums nimmt die Herausforderungen in den Blick, vor denen das Hochschul- und Wissenschaftsrecht gegenwärtig steht. Schwerpunkte bilden etwa die Neuregelung der W-Besoldung in den Ländern nach der Entscheidung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts aus dem Jahre 2012 oder der rechtssichere Umgang mit Plagiaten in der Wissenschaft.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -Das Werk bietet eine zusammenhängende und zugleich komprimierte Gesamtdarstellung des Rechts der Abstammung sowie der elterlichen Sorge. Es wendet sich in erster Linie an den juristischen Leserkreis und damit an Rechtspfleger, Rechtsanwälte und Richter sowie an Studierende der Fachhochschulen und Universitäten sowie Referendare, bietet aber auch Konsularbeamten und Mitarbeitern der Jugend- und der Standesämter und juristischen Laien eine grundlegende und systematische Darstellung zu Voraussetzungen, Inhalt und den Schranken des Rechts der elterlichen Sorge.Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Genthiner Strasse 13, 10785 Berlin 408 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -1985 war ein Jahr der Vergangenheitspolitik: Der 40. Jahrestag des Kriegsendes war für die deutsche Außenpolitik von zentraler Bedeutung. Während die Rede von Bundespräsident von Weizsäcker am 8. Mai auf großen Respekt traf, sorgte die Gefallenenehrung durch Bundeskanzler Kohl und Präsident Reagan auf einem Soldatenfriedhof bei Bitburg nicht zuletzt in den USA für Empörung. Gleichzeitig beschuldigte die UdSSR die Bundesregierung des Revanchismus. Mit dem Regierungsantritt Gorbatschows am 11. März erlebte die sowjetische Politik eine Dynamisierung, die in einem Ost-West-Gipfel im November ihren Ausdruck fand. Zahlreiche der 356 hier erstmals veröffentlichten Dokumente belegen, welche Bedeutung diesem ersten Gipfeltreffen seit Juni 1979 auch für die deutsche Außenpolitik beigemessen wurde. Gorbatschow und Reagan erörterten in Genf Themen weltpolitischer Bedeutung, neben SDI vor allem Fragen der Rüstungskontrolle. Bei der Zusammenarbeit in Europa waren Fortschritte zu verzeichnen, so durch eine verstärkte deutsch-französische Kooperation in der Sicherheitspolitik sowie auf dem Gebiet von Forschung und Technologie mit der Gründung von EUREKA. 2037 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -1985 war ein Jahr der Vergangenheitspolitik: Der 40. Jahrestag des Kriegsendes war für die deutsche Außenpolitik von zentraler Bedeutung. Während die Rede von Bundespräsident von Weizsäcker am 8. Mai auf großen Respekt traf, sorgte die Gefallenenehrung durch Bundeskanzler Kohl und Präsident Reagan auf einem Soldatenfriedhof bei Bitburg nicht zuletzt in den USA für Empörung. Gleichzeitig beschuldigte die UdSSR die Bundesregierung des Revanchismus. Mit dem Regierungsantritt Gorbatschows am 11. März erlebte die sowjetische Politik eine Dynamisierung, die in einem Ost-West-Gipfel im November ihren Ausdruck fand. Zahlreiche der 356 hier erstmals veröffentlichten Dokumente belegen, welche Bedeutung diesem ersten Gipfeltreffen seit Juni 1979 auch für die deutsche Außenpolitik beigemessen wurde. Gorbatschow und Reagan erörterten in Genf Themen weltpolitischer Bedeutung, neben SDI vor allem Fragen der Rüstungskontrolle. Bei der Zusammenarbeit in Europa waren Fortschritte zu verzeichnen, so durch eine verstärkte deutsch-französische Kooperation in der Sicherheitspolitik sowie auf dem Gebiet von Forschung und Technologie mit der Gründung von EUREKA. 2037 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The contemporary fields of the study of culture, the humanities and the social sciences are unfolding in a dynamic constellation of cultural turns. This book provides a comprehensive overview of these theoretically and methodologically groundbreaking reorientations. It discusses the value of the new focuses and their analytical categories for the work of a wide range of disciplines. In addition to chapters on the interpretive, performative, reflexive, postcolonial, translational, spatial and iconic turns, it discusses emerging directions of research.Drawing on a wealth of international research, this book maps central topics and approaches in the study of culture and thus provides systematic impetus for changed disciplinary and transdisciplinary research in the humanities and beyond - e.g., in the fields of sociology, economics and the study of religion.This work is the English translation by Adam Blauhut of an influential German book that has now been completely revised. It is a stimulating example of a cross-cultural translation between different theoretical cultures and also the first critical synthesis of cultural turns in the English-speaking world. 312 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume introduces key concepts for a trans/national expansion in the study of culture. Using translation as an analytical category, it explores what is translatable and untranslatable between nation-specific approaches such as British/American cultural studies, German Kulturwissenschaften and other traditions in studying culture. The range of articles included in the book covers both theoretical reflections and specific case studies that analyze the tensions and compatibilities amongst contemporary perspectives on the study of culture. By testing various key concepts - translation, cultural transfer, travelling concepts - this volume reflects on an essential vocabulary and common points of reference for scholars seeking new frameworks and methodologies for the foundation of a trans/national study of culture that is commensurate with the entangled nature of our world society. 280 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The book is addressed to young people interested in computer technologies and computer science. The objective of this book is to provide the reader with all the necessary elements to get him or her started in the modern field of informatics and to allow him or her to become aware of the relationship between key areas of computer science. The book is addressed not only to future software developers, but also to all who are interested in computing in a widely understood sense. The authors also expect that some computer professionals will want to review this book to lift themselves above the daily grind and to embrace the excellence of the whole field of computer science. Unlike existing books, this one bypasses issues concerning the construction of computers and focuses only on information processing. Recognizing the importance of the human factor in information processing, the authors intend to present the theoretical foundations of computer science, software development rules, and some business aspects of informatics in non-technocratic, humanistic terms. 122 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -As a poet whose art developed in a remarkably coherent chronological pattern and whose overt use of his own life for the subject matter of his verse was unparalleled in extent, Wordsworth presents an especially compelling claim to such systematic treatment. An invaluable tool for students of this major writer and of the Romantic period generally, this book offers a rapid means of access to factual information for any type of study making use of either the dates or relative order of Wordsworth's writings or personal experiences. 796 pp. Englisch.…

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Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Galaxies are among nature's most aweinspiring and beautifully formed objects. In this highly informative and lucidly written book, Paul Hodge seeks to demystify galaxies and to examine closely our present-day knowledge of these magnificent star systems. 184 pp. Englisch.…

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Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -'Education had ended in 1871, life was complete in 1890.' With this paradoxical statement, Adams apparently dismissed from the record twenty of the most interesting and active years of his career. Opening on the highest note of expectation and closing with his desperate flight to the South Seas in 1890, a divided and lonely figure, that season of fulfillment and inner growth is the subject of this book. Through detailed analyses of Adams' writings, Samuels shows how this drama eventually became transformed into works of literary art. 528 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -By 2020, half of the world's population and most university students will have a supercomputer in their pockets. This revolution will affect the way students respond to higher education. The university classroom must henceforth engage students, and the classic lecture format alone might not be enough to do so. This book answers the question how university students can learn in the classroom what they cannot learn in any other way. The answer is inspired by options that are not available to political scientists - in the way that they are in the laboratories for the sciences, in the performances for the live arts, and in the studios for visual arts - as well as ideas that are already present, but not widespread in the discipline: problem-solving and case studies, as in the professional schools, and simulation exercises in many other disciplines. This book proposes therefore an active pedagogy for political science, at a time when active pedagogy is more important than ever.Prof. Laure Paquette, PhD, has been a visiting researcher or professor in 23 countries. She has advised several foreign governments as well as her own, Canada, and has published extensively in four languages. This is her sixteenth book. 168 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Simplifying complexity explores how to eliminate ignorance, which in the view of the author, is the purpose of the sciences and technologies and their consequent developments. More specifically, the book deals with the plurality of the sciences and technologies. It is about the way in which each of them develops around the prosthetics of printed languages and the models used as visual aids to help us create new modes of communication to understand and solve human problems. Consequently, the task is to simplify the complexity that we find in different sciences, both social and physical. In his collection of essays, George E. Yoos surveys a number of different models that have evolved from the innate, biological forms of grammar, logic, and modes of orientation. He investigates the evolution of socially constructed systems of numeracy and measurement that have evolved and developed in different languages for the use in scientific and technological communication. He identifies methods derived from three distinct personal experiences: the use of types of prosthetic, mnemonic, and attention controlling devices, in order to yield simpler perspectives of complex states of affairs. George E. Yoos, emeritus professor, is a legend in the field of rhetoric. Founder and editor of the Rhetoric Society Quarterly [1972-1985], author of Reframing Rhetoric [2007], Politics and Rhetoric [2009], and fellow of the Rhetoric Society of America. 188 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Dieses grundlegende Arbeitsheft liegt nun in aktualisierter vierter Auflage vor. Es macht Studierende mit den Tatsachen und Problemen der französischen Morphologie vertraut. Die Darstellung umfasst drei Teile: I. Grundbegriffe, II. Flexion; III. Wortbildung. Im I. Teil werden morphologische Einheiten wie Morph, Morphem, Wort, Wurzel, Affix usw. eingeführt. Im Zusammenhang damit werden die Verfahren der Segmentierung, Klassifizierung und Konstituentenanalyse vorgestellt und an vielfältigem Beispielmaterial erläutert. Der II. Teil enthält eine Darstellung der Substantiv-, Adjektiv- und Verbflexion. Bei der Verbflexion wird auf unterschiedliche Vorstellungen vom Aufbau einer Verbform, die Struktur der Endung und Alternationen im Bereich des Verbstamms ausführlich eingegangen. Im III. Teil werden die Verfahren der Derivation (Suffigierung, Präfigierung, Parasynthese) und Komposition dargestellt und durch zahlreiche Beispiele illustriert. Gemäß ihrer Bedeutung in der französischen Wortbildung wird der Suffigierung besonders viel Raum gegeben. Erörtert werden Alternationen in der Derivationsbasis, das Verhältnis zwischen volkstümlicher und gelehrter Bildung und die Nullsuffigierung. Bei der Präfigierung steht die Definition des Präfixes und die Abgrenzung gegenüber der Komposition im Mittelpunkt, bei der Parasynthese der Vergleich konkurrierender Beschreibungsansätze. 166 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -No detailed description available for 'Diary of Frederick Mackenzie'.De Gruyter Mouton, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin 444 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -No detailed description available for 'The United Nations'.De Gruyter Mouton, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin 164 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -By 2020, half of the world's population and most university students will have a supercomputer in their pockets. This revolution will affect the way students respond to higher education. The university classroom must henceforth engage students, and the classic lecture format alone might not be enough to do so. This book answers the question how university students can learn in the classroom what they cannot learn in any other way.The answer is inspired by options that are not available to political scientists in the way that they are in the laboratories for the sciences, in the performances for the live arts, and in the studios for visual arts as well as ideas that are already present, but not widespread in the discipline: problem-solving and case studies, as in the professional schools, and simulation exercises in many other disciplines. This book proposes therefore an active pedagogy for political science, at a time when active pedagogy is more important than ever.Prof. Laure Paquette, PhD, has been a visiting researcher or professor in 23 countries. She has advised several foreign governments as well as her own, Canada, and has published extensively in four languages. This is her sixteenth book.Gruyter, de Open, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin 168 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This volume explores the questions related to the theory, practice, and policy of the well-being and well-becoming of children. It does so in a truly interdisciplinary way with a focus on the social sciences and philosophy, giving therefore justice to the growing insight that studying and promoting the well-being of children has a strong ethical component. It is dependent on the questions of good life, its conditions and cannot be separated from the concept of social justice and moral entitlements of children and their families. In this book, philosophers and social scientists, in close dialogue, shed light on some of the most challenging matters involved. 176 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Dieses Buch dient der Vorbereitung der mündlichen Staatsprüfung.Für alle Arten der mündlichen Prüfung werden konkrete Handlungsempfehlungen aufgezeigt. Skizzierte Prüfungsgespräche ermöglichen zudem die Wiederholung des Pflichtfachstoffs. 180 pp. Deutsch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -When people seek psychological support, formulation is the theory-driven methodology used by many practitioners to guide identification of the processes, mechanisms, and patterns of behaviour that appear to be contributing to the presenting difficulties. However, the process of formulating - or applying psychological theory to practice - can often seem unclear. In this volume, we present multiple demonstrations of formulation in action - written by applied psychologists embedded in clinical training, research, and practice. The volume covers a range of contemporary approaches to formulation and therapy that have not been considered in extant works, and includes unique sections offering critical counter-perspectives and commentaries on each approach (and its application) by authors working from alternative theoretical positions. 228 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Scientific literature on particular themes in ontology is extremely abundant, but it is often very hard for freshmen or sophomores to find a red thread between the various proposals.This text is an opinionated introduction, a preliminary text to research in ontology from the so called standard approach to ontological commitment, that is from the particular point of view that connects ontological questions to quantificational questions. It offers a survey of this viewpoint in ontology together with their possible applications through a broad array of examples and open problems and, at the same time, essential references to the classics of philosophy, so as to allow non-specialists to understand the terms and analysis procedures characterizing the discipline. Its result is a wide-ranging overview of the issued tackled by ontology, with a particular focus on the most relevant problems of contemporary debate (categorial taxonomies, nonexistent objects, case studies of ontological debates in specific fields of knowledge). 262 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -David Malet Armstrong (8 July 1926-13 May 2014) has been one of the most influential contemporary metaphysicians working in the analytic tradition and surely the greatest 20th century Australian philosopher. His main merit is to have reestablished metaphysics as a respectable branch of philosophy placing it at the centre of the philosophical debate, and giving it the status of an authoritative and competent interlocutor of both rational and empirical sciences. By means of a rigorously argumentative approach and a sharp prose, Armstrong has built a whole metaphysical system, that is, a comprehensive and unified picture of the fundamental structure of the world. The various chapters of the book address the key issues concerning Armstrong' view about the problem of universals, the nature of states of affairs, the ontological ground of possibility, nomic necessity, and dispositions, the truthmaker theory, and the theory of mind. This volume aims to celebrate Armstrong's memory bringing new understanding, and hopefully stimulating more work, on his philosophy, with the conviction that it constitutes an invaluable heritage for contemporary research in metaphysics. 272 pp. Englisch. …