Philosophy category: 55395 books
Thinking through French Philosophy
The Being of the Question
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2003
... no other book undertakes to relate all these French philosophers to each other the way that [Lawlor] does, brilliantly." —François Raffoul
For many, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gilles Deleuze represent one of the greatest movements in French philosophy. But these philosophers...
Truth, Objects, Infinity
New Perspectives on the Philosophy of Paul Benacerraf
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017
This volume features essays about and by Paul Benacerraf, whose ideas have circulated in the philosophical community since the early nineteen sixties, shaping key areas in the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of logic, and epistemology. The book started as a workshop...
Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry
Encyclopaedia, Genealogy, and Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 1994
MacIntyre's project, here as elsewhere, is to put up a fight against philosophical relativism. . . . The current form is the 'incommensurability,' so-called, of differing standpoints or conceptual schemes. Mr. MacIntyre claims that different schools of philosophy must differ fundamentally about what...
On The Metaphysics of Morals and Ethics
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals; Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals; The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015
Collected here in this omnibus edition are Immanuel Kant's three most important works on the Metaphysics of Morals and Ethics. Included are Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Introduction to the Metaphysic of Morals, and The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics. Kant's Fundamental Principles...
On Being in the World (Routledge Revivals)
Wittgenstein and Heidegger on Seeing Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
On Being in the World, first published in 1990, illumines a neglected but important area of Wittgenstein’s philosophy, revealing its pertinence to the central concerns of contemporary analytic philosophy.
The starting point is the idea of ‘continuous aspect perception’, which connects...
Philosophy of Science
The Link Between Science and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
A great mathematician and teacher bridges the gap between science and the humanities in this exposition of the philosophy of science. Philipp Frank, a distinguished physicist and philosopher in his own right, traces the history of science from Aristotle to Einstein to illustrate philosophy’s ongoing...
by John J. Drummond
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2007
Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) is widely regarded as the founding figure of the philosophical movement of 'phenomenology.' Husserl's philosophical program was both embraced and rejected by many, but in either case, his ideas set the stage for and exercised an enormous influence on the development of much...
Heidegger's Possibility
Language, Emergence - Saying Be-ing
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2008
Although Being in Time is the more recognizable of Martin Heidegger's many books, his second major work, Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning) also had a substantial impact on twentieth-century philosophy. Heidegger's Possibility is a careful and creative reading of this text by renowned scholar...
The Romantic Conception of Life
Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
"All art should become science and all science art; poetry and philosophy should be made one." Friedrich Schlegel's words perfectly capture the project of the German Romantics, who believed that the aesthetic approaches of art and literature could reveal patterns and meaning in nature that...
by Robin D. Rollinger
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Phenomenology, according to Husserl, is meant to be philosophy as rigorous science. It was Franz Brentano who inspired him to pursue the ideal of scientific philosophy. Though Husserl began his philosophical career as an orthodox disciple of Brentano, he eventually began to have doubts about this...
The Lord of the Rings and Philosophy
One Book to Rule Them All
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
The Lord of the Rings is intended to be applicable to the real world of relationships, religion, pleasure, pain, and politics. Tolkien himself said that his grand tale of wizards, orcs, hobbits, and elves was aimed at truth and good morals in the actual world.
Analysis of the popular appeal of The...
by G. W. F. Hegel
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A major figure in German Idealism, early 19th century philosopher G. W. F. Hegel developed a comprehensive philosophical framework, referred to as "Absolute Idealism" which sought to describe the relation between mind and nature. Underpinning the framework of this philosophy is the assertion that in...
Avicenna's Al-Shifā'
Oriental Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
This book deals with the philosophy of Ibn Sina - Avicenna as he was known in the Latin West- a Persian Muslim who lived in the eleventh century, considered one of the most important figures in the history of philosophy.
Although much has been written about Avicenna, and especially about his...
The Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry
Studies in Ancient Thought
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Now available in paperback, The Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry focuses on the theoretical and practical suppositions of the long-standing conflict between philosophy and poetry. Stanley Rosen--one of the leading Plato scholars of our day--examines philosophical activity, questioning whether...