Chasing Reality

Mario Bunge

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• Chasing Reality deals with the controversies over the reality of the external world. Distinguished philosopher Mario Bunge offers an extended defence ... Lees meer

Philosophy and Freedom

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• James Doull's remarkable legacy as a teacher, scholar, and thinker has left behind a profound and challenging examination of the philosophical and his... Lees meer

Philosophical Perspectives on Bioethics

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• How should we attempt to resolve concrete bioethical problems? How are we to understand the role of bioethics in the health care system, government, a... Lees meer

Reading Bayle

Thomas Lennon

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• Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) has been described by Richard Popkin as the key intellectual figure at the outset of the eighteenth century. Examinations of ... Lees meer

Probability Theory and Probability Semantics

Hughes LeBlanc, Peter Roeper

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• As a survey of many technical results in probability theory and probability logic, this monograph by two widely respected scholars offers a valuable c... Lees meer

Fackenheim: German Philosophy & Jewish

Louis Greenspan

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• Emil Fackenheim, now retired from the University of Toronto, is one of Canada's most influential and internationally recognized philosophers. Bringing... Lees meer

Descartes's Legacy

Alan Hausman, David Hausman

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• Debates current in the philosophy of mind regarding the gathering and processing of information, and the nature of perception and representation, also... Lees meer

The Sovereignty of Joy

Alex McIntyre

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• Nietzsche's philosophical effort is fundamentally a response to the political question of who should rule and upon what basis in the era following the... Lees meer

Utilitarianism

David Braybrooke

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• Utilitarianism, belaboured by repeated counterexamples, has fallen out of favour as an ethical theory. In Utilitarianism: Restorations; Repairs; Renov... Lees meer

Philosophy and Freedom

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• James Doull's remarkable legacy as a teacher, scholar, and thinker has left behind a profound and challenging examination of the philosophical and his... Lees meer

Picturing Knowledge

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• The traditional concept of scientific knowledge places a premium on thinking, not visualizing. Scientific illustrations are still generally regarded a... Lees meer

Analytical Political Philosophy

David Braybrooke

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• The analytic movement has long been the dominant philosophical tradition in English-speaking countries. In Analytical Political Philosophy: From Disco... Lees meer

Semantic Challenges to Realism

Mark Quentin Gardiner

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• Anti-realism entered the philosophical scene some twenty years ago, and has since become a widely accepted view. But although many philosophers espous... Lees meer

Boyle on Atheism

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• Opposition to atheism flourished in the seventeenth century, and famed scientist-philosopher Robert Boyle (1627-91) was so opposed to it that he had p... Lees meer

Puzzles for the Will

Jordan Howard Sobel

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• Issues of free will and determinism, with their far-reaching practical implications, hold a central place in the history of philosophy. In this book J... Lees meer

The Rule of Reason

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• Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914), the founder of Pragmatism, was an American philosopher, logician, physicist, and mathematician. Since the publicat... Lees meer

The Self and Its Body in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit

John Russon

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• A major criticism of Hegel's philosophy is that it fails to comprehend the experience of the body. In this book, John Russon shows that there is in fa... Lees meer

Emergence and Convergence

Mario Bunge

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• Two problems continually arise in the sciences and humanities, according to Mario Bunge: parts and wholes and the origin of novelty. In Emergence and ... Lees meer

A Theory of Physical Probability

Richard Johns

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• In a random process, later events seem to be loosely attached to earlier ones; in other words, a substantial or tight relationship between the two is ... Lees meer

Insight and Inference

Murray Miles

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• In this major re-examination of Descartes's founding principle, cogito, ergo sum , Murray Miles presents a portrait of Descartes as the Father of Mode... Lees meer

Hegel and the Tradition

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• This collection examines Hegel's philosophy as it bears on the meaning and relevance of tradition - historical, legal, aesthetic, religious, and philo... Lees meer

The External World and Our Knowledge of It

Fred Wilson

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• David Hume is often considered to have been a sceptic, particularly in his conception of the individual's knowledge of the external world. However, a ... Lees meer

Real Words

Jeffrey Reid

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• There exists a very particular grasp of the relation between language and objectivity in the work of G.W.F. Hegel (1770-1831), one that rejects the id... Lees meer

Bernard Bosanquet and the Legacy of British Idealism

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• Bernard Bosanquet (1848-1923) was one of the leading figures of the idealist movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and in his... Lees meer