The Philosophy of Laughter and Humor

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy
• This book assesses the adequacy of the traditional theories of laughter and humor, suggests revised theories, and explores such areas as the aesthetic... Lees meer

Peirce's Approach to the Self

Vincent M Colapietro

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy
• Based on a careful study of his unpublished manuscripts as well as his published work, this book explores Peirce's general theory of signs and the way... Lees meer

The Emergence of Whitehead's Metaphysics, 1925-1929

Lewis S Ford

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy
• A breathtaking detective story, this book charts the adventure of Whitehead's ideas in a remarkably detailed and careful reconstruction of his metaphy... Lees meer

Being and the Between

William Desmond

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy
• The culmination of a systematic metaphysics written by a world-class philosopher, demonstrating the need for a renewal of metaphysics As Plato told us... Lees meer

Whitehead and Bradley

Leemon B McHenry

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy
• In his magnum opus, Process and Reality, Alfred North Whitehead claims a special affinity to Oxford philosopher Francis Herbert Bradley. McHenry clari... Lees meer

Analytic Theism, Hartshorne, and the Concept of God

Daniel A Dombrowski

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy
• Initiates and continues a dialogue regarding the concept of God in the neoclassical philosophy of Charles Hartshorne and that found in analytic philos... Lees meer

Ethics and the Between

William Desmond

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy
• In Ethics and the Between William Desmond addresses our current perplexities regarding the devaluation of being in modernity and the shadow of ethical... Lees meer

Linguistic Philosophy

Garth L Hallett

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy
• How much authority should language, the medium of communication, be accorded as a determinant of truth and therefore of what we say? Garth L. Hallett ... Lees meer

Platonic Studies of Greek Philosophy

Robert S Brumbaugh

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy
• Robert S. Brumbaugh is Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Lees meer

Wittgenstein's Account of Truth

Sara Ellenbogen

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy
• Explores the complex nature of truth in Wittgenstein's philosophy. Wittgenstein's Account of Truth challenges the view that semantic antirealists attr... Lees meer

Freedom and Modernity

Richard Dien Winfield

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy
• This book questions the postmodern credo that the autonomy of reason and action is a delusion, concealing our entrapment in historical convention and ... Lees meer

Experience as Art

Joseph H Kupfer

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Philosophy
• Joseph Kupfer removes aesthetics from the exclusive province of museums, concert halls, and the periphery of human interests to reveal the impact of a... Lees meer

The Unity of Knowledge and Action

Warren G Frisina

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy
• Uses the thought of Wang Yang-ming, John Dewey, and Alfred North Whitehead to explain a more coherent theory of knowledge. Building upon insights from... Lees meer

Coming to Be

James W Felt

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy
• Synthesizes Thomistic and Whiteheadian metaphysics. This book explores the possibility of using the twentieth-century "process" philosophy of Alfred N... Lees meer

Kant on Causation

Steven M Bayne

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy
• An in-depth examination of the nature of Kant's causal principle. Kant famously confessed that Hume's treatment of cause and effect woke him from his ... Lees meer

Moral Analysis

Louis G Lombardi

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy
• This is an introductory text for an ethics course that provides the theoretical background for discussion of ethical problems. It could be supplemente... Lees meer

Waking to Wonder

Gordon C F Bearn

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy
• The central claim of this book is that, early and late, Wittgenstein modelled his approach to existential meaning on his account of linguistic meaning... Lees meer

The Social Authority of Reason

Philip J Rossi Sj

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Philosophy
• Explores the social ramifications of Kant's concept of radical evil. In The Social Authority of Reason, Philip J. Rossi, SJ argues that the current cu... Lees meer

A History of Ancient Philosophy III

Giovanni Reale

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy
• Reale's volume supplies a synthesis previously lacking--a synthesis in the historical treatment of the great philosophies of the Hellenistic Age: the ... Lees meer

The Dilemma of Modernity

Lawrence Cahoone

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy
• The development of modern culture along subjectivist lines has led to an analogue of psychological narcissism-to philosophical narcissism-in the cultu... Lees meer

Phenomenology of the Truth Proper to Religion

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy
• The question is, what constitutes truth in religion? Represented here is the whole spectrum of phenomenology-transcendental, existential, hermeneutic,... Lees meer

Of Two Minds

James Blachowicz

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy
• Proposes a resolution to the paradox of inquiry, originally formulated in Plato's Meno and most recently the focus of the "logic of discovery" debate ... Lees meer

Hartshorne and the Metaphysics of Animal Rights

Daniel A Dombrowski

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy
• Charles Hartshorne is one of the premier metaphysicians and philosophers of religion in the twentieth century. He has written extensively on animals, ... Lees meer

A Discourse on Novelty and Creation

Carl Hausman

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Philosophy
• Carl Hausman presents here a sustained and systematic examination of the problems of constructing a framework for understanding the concept of creativ... Lees meer