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A Very Short IntroductionFrom its origins to the present day, Owen Davies explores ideas about paganism that have existed over the last two millennia. He takes a chronological look at changing attitudes towards its beliefs, its practices, and its relationship with the Church....

The concepts of meaning and mental content resist naturalistic analysis. This is because they are normative: they depend on ideas of how things ought to be. Allan Gibbard offers an expressivist explanation of these 'oughts': he borrows devices from metaethics to illuminate deep problems at the heart of the philosophy of language and thought....

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A ground-breaking history of the arts of peace, from Confucius and Ancient Greece through to the 21st century, opening an alternative window on history to show the strength of the case for peace which has been argued from ancient times onwards....

"e;In a language there are only differences without positive terms. Whether we take        the signified or the signifier, the language contains neither ideas nor sounds that        pre-exist the linguistic system, but only conceptual differences and phonic        differences issuing from this system."e; (From the posthumous Course in...