A bright first edition/first printing in Very Good+ condition with lightly bumped corners in alike edgeworn dust-jacket; 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 Italian by Alastair McEwen; 8vo; [ii], viii, [2], 464, [4] pages.

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Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition - 1st US Edition/1st Printing

Verlag

Harcourt Brace & Company, New York

Erscheinungsjahr

2000

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

0151004471

ISBN-13

9780151004478

Einband

Hardcover

Auflage

1st US Edition; First Printing.

Zustand

Very Good+

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Very Good+

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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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"Umberto Eco's essays read like letters from a friend, trying to share something he loves with someone he likes." -San Francisco Review of Books

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