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

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

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

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

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

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

Reading Bayle

Thomas M. Lennon

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• A critical but sympathetic treatment of Pierre Bayle. Once known as the 'Arsenal of the Enlightenment,' his concepts were widely adopted by later thin... Lees meer

Kant and the Scandal of Philosophy

Luigi Caranti

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• Kant considered it to be scandalous that philosophy still had not found a rational proof of the existence of the external world during his time. Argua... Lees meer

Rationality and Cognition

Nenad Miscevic

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• Cognitive science has posed some radical challenges to philosophy in recent years, particularly in the study of the cognitive activities and capacitie... Lees meer

The Sovereignty of Joy

Alex McIntyre

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• In The Sovereignty of Joy, Alex McIntyre suggests that a sense of tragic joy is the legislating experience at the heart of Nietzsche's philosophy. A D... Lees meer

Inroads

Murray Miles

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• This unique introduction to philosophy is designed as a companion volume to a number of classic philosophical texts widely used in first- and upper-ye... Lees meer

Descartes's Legacy

David Hausman, Alan Hausman

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• The Hausmans wed an intentional theory of ideas with a modern information theoretic approach in a critical tour of some of the most important issues i... Lees meer

The Problem of Difference

Jeffrey Bell

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• Beginning with Plato and Aristotle, philosophers throughout history have built their theories around the problem of reconciling a fundamental distinct... Lees meer

Taking Life Seriously

F E Sparshott

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• This is the first book in modern times that makes sense of the Nicomachean Ethics in its entirety as an interesting philosophical argument, rather tha... Lees meer

The Hateful and the Obscene

Leonard Sumner

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• In a series of landmark decisions since 1990, Canadian courts have shaped a distinctive approach to the regulation of obscenity, hate literature, and ... Lees meer

William James On Radical Empiricism and Religion

Hunter Brown

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• Hunter Brown shows that Henry James's views of religious experience do not in fact lapse into subjectivism or fideism that critics have accused him of... 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

A Measured Pace

F E Sparshott

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• Although the theoretical importance of dance has always been recognized, dance has been relatively neglected in the philosophy of art. In this sequel ... Lees meer

The God Within

Emil Fackenheim

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• For nineteenth-century thinkers, the central problem of religious consciousness in the modern West was the tension between prevailing concepts of indi... Lees meer

The Problem of Difference

Jeffrey A. Bell

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• Jeffrey A. Bell here presents a finely constructed survey of the contemporary continental philosophers, focusing on how they have dealt with the probl... Lees meer

Natural Law Modernized

David Braybrooke

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• Braybrooke challenges received scholarly opinion by arguing that canonical theorists Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Rousseau took St Thomas Aquinas as their... Lees meer