Metaphysics category: 2011 books

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Beyond The Tractatus Wars

The New Wittgenstein Debate

by
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012

Over fifteen years have passed since Cora Diamond and James Conant turned Wittgenstein scholarship upside down with the program of “resolute” reading, and ten years since this reading was crystallized in the major collection The New Wittgenstein. This approach remains at the center of the debate...
Cover of Gilles Deleuze: Affirmation in Philosophy
by J. Conway
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010

Why does knowledge of philosophy presuppose knowledge of reality? What are the characters in Deleuze's theatre and philosophy? How are his famous metaphysical distinctions secondary to the concept of philosophy as practice and politics? These questions are answered through careful analysis and application of Deleuzian principles.
Cover of Modal Justification via Theories
by Bob Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016

This monograph articulates and defends a theory-based epistemology of modality (TEM). According to TEM, someone justifiably believe an interesting modal claim if and only if (a) she justifiably believes a theory according to which that claim is true, (b) she believes that claim on the basis of that...
Cover of Anscombe's Moral Philosophy
by Duncan Richter
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2010

G.E.M. Anscombe (1919-2001) was one of the most important, outspoken, and misunderstood philosophers of the twentieth century. More than anyone else she revived virtue ethics and the philosophy of action. She was also almost alone in publicly opposing Oxford University's decision to award an honorary...
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Representational Ideas

From Plato to Patricia Churchland

by R. A. Watson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

In Representational Ideas: From Plato to Patricia Churchland Watson argues that all intelligible theories of representation by ideas are based on likeness between representations and objects. He concludes that 17th century materialist criticisms of `having' mental representations in the mind apply...
Cover of The Conceptual Structure of Reality
by Gal Yehezkel
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014

This book describes a novel conception of reality, one that uniquely incorporates an idealistic view of existence with an account of objectivity. It introduces a general model of conceptual analysis and demonstrates its effectiveness in exposing and establishing the existence of conceptual ties. The...
Cover of The Nature of Necessity
by Alvin Plantinga
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 1978

This is a reissue of a book which is an exploration and defence of the notion of modality 'de re', the idea that objects have both essential and accidental properties. It is one of the first full-length studies of the modalities to emerge from the debate to which Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Ruth Marcus...
Cover of Absolut offen
by Swami Ganzdurchananda
Language: German
Release Date: April 1, 2012

"Der absolute Friede ist, dass es niemanden gibt, der einen relativen Frieden benötigt." Mit jeder formulierten Einsicht, die Swami Ganzdurchananda in diesen Texten und Dialogen darlegt, wird gleichzeitig auf ihre innewohnende Irrelevanz verwiesen. Denn keine kleine, noch große Einsicht, wird je zu...
Cover of L’Être et l’essence
by Thomas d’Aquin
Language: French
Release Date: March 1, 2016

INTRODUCTION CHAPITRE I: DIVERS SENS DE L'ESSENCE CHAPITRE II: L’ESSENCE N’EST NI MATIÈRE NI FORME SEULES CHAPITRE III: LE TERME « CORPS » CHAPITRE IV: LES DEUX SENS DE « NATURE» CHAPITRE V : L'ETRE ET L’ESSENCE CHAPITRE VI: LES PERFECTIONS DE L’EXISTER PUR CHAPITRE VII: L'ESSENCE ET EXISTENCE DANS LES ACCIDENTS  
Cover of Esquisse d’une Morale sans Obligation ni Sanction
by Jean-Marie Guyau
Language: French
Release Date: July 19, 2013

Ce livre est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur Kobo. Extrait : La morale de la métaphysique réaliste admet un bien en soi, un bien naturel distinct du plaisir et du bonheur, une hiérarchie possible des biens dans la nature et, par cela même, une hiérarchie des différents êtres....
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Théologie

(Les Grands Articles d'Universalis)

by Encyclopaedia Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: June 27, 2016

Alain définissait la théologie « une philosophie sans recul ». Il voulait dire qu'elle manque d'indépendance critique, qu'elle est liée à un système de croyances, à un dogme, qu'elle accepte une orthodoxie, une autorité, une censure : vérité d'appareil, non vérité rationnelle.
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Heidegger et le problème de la mort

existentialité, authenticité, temporalité

by Cristian Ciocan
Language: French
Release Date: November 12, 2013

Cet ouvrage est la première monographie systématique d’expression française dédiée exclusivement au problème heideggérien de la mort. Il se donne pour tâche de clarifier tout l’enjeu de cette question capitale de la pensée de Martin Heidegger. La nouveauté de cette étude réside dans...
Cover of Our Captured Minds
by David Anthony Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018

Is your mind your own? How do ideologies, religions, governments and other authorities in your life dictate what you believe and feel? Are you in control of your own moral well-being? Is morality objective or relative to contexts? Author, David Matthews presents the answers to these...
Cover of Épicure : Oeuvres majeures et annexes (annotées, illustrées)

Épicure : Oeuvres majeures et annexes (annotées, illustrées)

Lettre à Pythoclès, Lettre à Ménécée, Lettre à Hérodote, Maximes capitales, Testament

by Epicure
Language: French
Release Date: April 5, 2019

Nouvelle édition 2019 des oeuvres d'Epicure, contenant ses lettres, les maximes capitales et son testament***,*** traduites par Octave Hamelin et Charles Zevort, et rapportées par Diogène Laërce. L'édition est enrichie de notes explicatives, d'introductions et d'annexes biographiques et critiques. Contenu...
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