Tim Stainton (10 results)

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. This collection explores the historical origins of our modern concepts of intellectual or learning disability. The essays, from some of the leading historians of ideas of intellectual disability, focus on British and European material from the Middle Ages to the late-nineteenth century and extend across legal, educational, literary, religious, philosophical and psychiatric histories. They investigate how precursor concepts and discourses were shaped by and interacted with their particular social, cultural and intellectual environments, eventually giving rise to contemporary ideas. Intellectual disability is essential reading for scholars interested in the history of intelligence, intellectual disability and related concepts, as well as in disability history generally.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: New. This collection explores the historical origins of our modern concepts of intellectual or learning disability. The essays, from some of the leading historians of ideas of intellectual disability, focus on British and European material from the Middle Ages to the late-nineteenth century and extend across legal, educational, literary, religious, philosophical and psychiatric histories. They investigate how precursor concepts and discourses were shaped by and interacted with their particular social, cultural and intellectual environments, eventually giving rise to contemporary ideas. Intellectual disability is essential reading for scholars interested in the history of intelligence, intellectual disability and related concepts, as well as in disability history generally.…

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 258 pages. 8.25x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: New. This collection explores the historical origins of our modern concepts of intellectual or learning disability. The essays, from some of the leading historians of ideas of intellectual disability, focus on British and European material from the Middle Ages to the late-nineteenth century and extend across legal, educational, literary, religious, philosophical and psychiatric histories. They investigate how precursor concepts and discourses were shaped by and interacted with their particular social, cultural and intellectual environments, eventually giving rise to contemporary ideas. Intellectual disability is essential reading for scholars interested in the history of intelligence, intellectual disability and related concepts, as well as in disability history generally.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2005 Springer hardcover edition. Light reading wear else very good condition. Contents: 1. 'Introduction' by Reinaldo Elugardo and Robert J. Stainton; 2. 'Against Reconstruction in Ellipsis' by Mary Dalrymple; 3. 'The Semantics of Nominal Exclamatives' by Paul Portner and Raffaella Zanuttini; 4. 'Nonsententials in Minimalism' by Ellen Barton and Ljiljana Progovac; 5. 'A Note on Alleged Cases of Nonsentential Assertion' by Peter Ludlow; 6. 'On the Interpretation and Performance of Non-sentential Assertions' by Lenny Clapp; 7. 'Non-sentences, Implicature, and Success in Communication' by Tim Kenyon; 8. 'The Link between Sentences and 'Assertion': An Evolutionary Accident?' by Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy; 9. 'Knowledge by Acquaintance and Meaning in Isolation' by Andrew Botterell; 10. 'Co-extensive Theories and Unembedded Definite Descriptions' by Alex Barber; 11. 'The Ellipsis Account of Fiction-Talk' by Marga Reimer; 12. 'Quinean Interpretation and Anti-Vernacularism' by Steven Davis; 13. 'Saying What You Mean: Unarticulated Constituents and Communication' by Emma Borg.…

Paperback. Condition: New. This collection explores the historical origins of our modern concepts of intellectual or learning disability. The essays, from some of the leading historians of ideas of intellectual disability, focus on British and European material from the Middle Ages to the late-nineteenth century and extend across legal, educational, literary, religious, philosophical and psychiatric histories. They investigate how precursor concepts and discourses were shaped by and interacted with their particular social, cultural and intellectual environments, eventually giving rise to contemporary ideas. Intellectual disability is essential reading for scholars interested in the history of intelligence, intellectual disability and related concepts, as well as in disability history generally.…