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How do we know a cat is a cat? And why do we call it a cat? How much of our perception of things is based on cognitive ability, and how much on linguistic resources? Here, in six remarkable essays, Umberto Eco explores in depth questions of reality, perception, and experience. Basing his ideas on common sense, Eco shares a vast wealth of literary and historical knowledge, touching on issues that affect us every day. At once philosophical and amusing, Kant and the Platypus is a tour of the world of our senses, told by a master of knowing what is real and what is not.

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Umberto Eco (born 5 January 1932) is an Italian medievalist,semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist, best knownfor his novel The Name of the Rose, an intellectual mysterycombining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studiesand literary theory. His 1988 novel Foucault's Pendulum has beendescribed as a "thinking person's Da Vinci Code". Eco is Presidentof the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, University of Bologna.He has also written academic texts, children’s books and manyessays. Eco was born in the city of Alessandria in the region ofPiedmont. His father, Giulio, was an accountant before thegovernment called upon him to serve in three wars. During World WarII, Umberto and his mother, Giovanna, moved to a small village inthe Piedmontese mountainside. Eco received a Salesian education,and he has made references to the order and its founder in hisworks and interviews. His family name is supposedly an acronym ofex caelis oblatus (Latin: a gift from the heavens), which was givento his grandfather (a foundling) by a city official. His father wasthe son of a family with thirteen children, and urged Umberto tobecome a lawyer, but he entered the University of Turin in order totake up medieval philosophy and literature, writing his thesis onThomas Aquinas and earning his BA in philosophy in 1954. Duringthis time, Eco left the Roman Catholic Church after a crisis offaith. After this, Eco worked as a cultural editor for the statebroadcasting station Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI) and alsolectured at the University of Turin (1956–64). A group ofavant-garde artists—painters, musicians, writers—whom he hadbefriended at RAI (Gruppo 63) became an important and influentialcomponent in Eco's future writing career. This was especially trueafter the publication of his first book in 1956, Il problemaestetico di San Tommaso, which was an extension of his doctoralthesis. This also marked the beginning of his lecturing career athis alma mater. In September 1962, he married Renate Ramge, aGerman art teacher with whom he has a son and a daughter. Hedivides his time between an apartment in Milan and a vacation housenear Rimini.

<p>Umberto Eco (born 5 January 1932) is an Italian medievalist,
semiotician, philosopher, literary critic and novelist, best known
for his novel The Name of the Rose, an intellectual mystery
combining semiotics in fiction, biblical analysis, medieval studies
and literary theory. His 1988 novel Foucault's Pendulum has been
described as a "thinking person's Da Vinci Code". Eco is President
of the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici, University of Bologna.
He has also written academic texts, children’s books and many
essays. Eco was born in the city of Alessandria in the region of
Piedmont. His father, Giulio, was an accountant before the
government called upon him to serve in three wars. During World War
II, Umberto and his mother, Giovanna, moved to a small village in
the Piedmontese mountainside. Eco received a Salesian education,
and he has made references to the order and its founder in his
works and interviews. His family name is supposedly an acronym of
ex caelis oblatus (Latin: a gift from the heavens), which was given
to his grandfather (a foundling) by a city official. His father was
the son of a family with thirteen children, and urged Umberto to
become a lawyer, but he entered the University of Turin in order to
take up medieval philosophy and literature, writing his thesis on
Thomas Aquinas and earning his BA in philosophy in 1954. During
this time, Eco left the Roman Catholic Church after a crisis of
faith. After this, Eco worked as a cultural editor for the state
broadcasting station Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI) and also
lectured at the University of Turin (1956–64). A group of
avant-garde artists—painters, musicians, writers—whom he had
befriended at RAI (Gruppo 63) became an important and influential
component in Eco's future writing career. This was especially true
after the publication of his first book in 1956, Il problema
estetico di San Tommaso, which was an extension of his doctoral
thesis. This also marked the beginning of his lecturing career at
his alma mater. In September 1962, he married Renate Ramge, a
German art teacher with whom he has a son and a daughter. He
divides his time between an apartment in Milan and a vacation house
near Rimini.</p>

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目　　录

Introduction
Chapter One :ON BEXNC
Semiotics and the Something
An unnatural problem
Why is there being?
How we talk about being
The aporia of being in Aristotle
The duplication of being
The questioning of the poets
A model of world knowledge
On the possibility that being might abscond
The resistances of being
The sense of the continuum
Positive conclusions

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