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Kant and the Platypus: Essays
by Eco, Umberto
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- ISBN 10
- 0151004471
- ISBN 13
- 9780151004478
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About This Item
Harcourt Brace & Co, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($28.00 price intact). Published byHarcourt Brace, 2000. Octavo. Blue cloth boards stamped in gold. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp with spotting to top of pages. Dust jacket is very good with light shelf wear with a stain to bottom edge. 464 pages. ISBN: 0151004471. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Southampton Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 90675
- Title
- Kant and the Platypus: Essays
- Author
- Eco, Umberto
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Like New
- Jacket Condition
- Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0151004471
- ISBN 13
- 9780151004478
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
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