Oxford University Press

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...

The Turkish Republic was formed out of immense bloodshed and carnage. In the years leading up to the ascendancy of Mustafa Kemal Atatuerk, virtually every town and village throughout Anatolia was wracked by intercommunal violence.    Sorrowful Shores presents a unique history of these bloody years of social and political transformation....

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