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Kant And The Platypus: Essays On Language And Cognition - 1st US Edition/1st Printing
de Eco, Umberto
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- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0151004471
- ISBN 13
- 9780151004478
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New York: Harcourt Brace & Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0151004471 . First American edition/first printing in Fine condition in alike dustjacket. SIGNED by author Umberto Eco on the title page. Contursi A042e; This collection of essays is an erudite, detailed inquiry into the philosophy of mind and language. Professor Eco tackles Kant's question, How does the mind transform the manifold of sense perceptions into knowledge? As Eco puts it, What would Kant have done had he come upon a platypus? Translated from the original Italian languange by Alastair McEwen; 8vo; [ii], viii, [2], 464, [4] pages; Signed by Author .
Sinopsis
How do we know that a cat is a cat? Why do we agree on calling the beast a cat? Interesting questions, but an even more intriguing question lies at the heart of all modern philosophy-how much of our perception of things depends on our cognitive ability and how much on linguistic resources? At this point semiotics becomes inextricably linked to epistemology, or cognition. In these essays, Umberto Eco explores in depth such subjects as perception, the relationship between language and experience, and iconism that he only touched on in A Theory of Semiotics. Forgoing a formal, systematic treatment, Eco engages in a series of explorations based on common sense, from which flow an abundance of illustrative fables, often with animals as protagonists. Among the characters, a position of prominence is reserved for the platypus, which appears to have been created specifically to "put the cat among the pigeons" as far as many theories of knowledge are concerned. In Kant and the Platypus, Eco shares with us a wealth of ideas at once philosophical and amusing.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 19727
- Título
- Kant And The Platypus: Essays On Language And Cognition - 1st US Edition/1st Printing
- Autor
- Eco, Umberto
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Edición
- First US Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0151004471
- ISBN 13
- 9780151004478
- Editorial
- Harcourt Brace & Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2000
- Palabras clave
- Collectible Rare Out-Of-Print, Essays, Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), Cognition And Philosophical Perception, Philosophy Of Linguistics
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Legendary Authors / Eco, Umberto; Science / Philosophy;
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