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Kant And The Platypus

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • Published: 07/09/2000

  • ISBN: 9780099276951

  • Length: 480  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 30mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 330g

  • RRP: £11.99

Kant And The Platypus

Umberto Eco

How much do our perceptions of things depend on our cognitive ability, and how much on our linguistic resources? Where, and how, do these two questions meet? Umberto Eco undertakes a series of idiosyncratic and typically brilliant explorations, starting from the perceived data of common sense, from which flow an abundance of 'stories' or fables, often with animals as protagonists, to expound a clear critique of Kant, Heidegger and Peirce. And as a beast designed specifically to throw spanners in the works of cognitive theory, the duckbilled platypus naturally takes centre stage.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • Published: 07/09/2000

  • ISBN: 9780099276951

  • Length: 480  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 30mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 330g

  • RRP: £11.99

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About the Author

Umberto Eco

Umberto Eco (1932–2016) wrote fiction, literary criticism and philosophy. His first novel, The Name of the Rose, was a major international bestseller. His other works include Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, Baudolino, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Prague Cemetery and Numero Zero along with many brilliant collections of essays.

Umberto Eco

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