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by A.P. Dimri, Amulya Chevuturi
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
This book examines the meteorological phenomenon known as Western Disturbances (WDs) and traces their influence on the Indian subcontinent. It fully details the unique characteristics and dynamics of these disturbances, which produce large-scale instabilities in the atmosphere over northern India...
Inverse Methods
Interdisciplinary Elements of Methodology, Computation, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Over the last few decades inversion concepts have become an integral part of experimental data interpretation in several branches of science. In numerous cases similar inversion-like techniques were developed independently in separate disciplines, sometimes based on different lines of reasoning, but...
by W. Dilthey
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Perhaps no philosopher has so fully explored the nature and conditions of historical understanding as Wilhelm Dilthey. His work, conceived overall as a Critique of Historical Reason and developed through his well-known theory of the human studies, provides concepts and methods still fruitful for those...
Orrery
A Story of Mechanical Solar Systems, Clocks, and English Nobility
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2013
“Orrery” appeals to almost anyone interested in popular astronomy, astronomical mechanical devices, scientific instruments, the history of clocks - and even the history of aristocratic and prestigious families! Many people these days – not only astronomers – have a good idea of the main components...
Hume and Husserl
Towards Radical Subjectivism
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
To become fully aware of the original and radical character of his transcendental phenomenology Edmund Husserl must be located within the historical tradition of Western philosophy. Although he was not a historian of philosophy, Husserl's his torical reflections convinced him that phenomenology...
Empathy, Sociality, and Personhood
Essays on Edith Stein’s Phenomenological Investigations
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
This book explores the phenomenological investigations of Edith Stein by critically contextualising her role within the phenomenological movement and assessing her accounts of empathy, sociality, and personhood. Despite the growing interest that surrounds contemporary research on empathy, Edith Stein’s...
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...
by Ernest W. Ranly
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
My own serious study of Max Scheler began in 1958 when I pre sented a Master's thesis to St. Louis University under the direction of Professor Vernon]. Bourke on Scheler's value-theory. Three years later when I returned to complete my doctorate work at St. Louis University I returned also to the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2015
This volume offers 11 papers that cover the wide spectrum of influences on Rudolf Carnap’s seminal work, Der Logische Aufbau der Welt (The Logical Structure of the World). Along the way, it covers a host of topics related to this important philosophical work, including logic, theories of order,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
The Berlin Group for scientific philosophy was active between 1928 and 1933 and was closely related to the Vienna Circle. In 1930, the leaders of the two Groups, Hans Reichenbach and Rudolf Carnap, launched the journal Erkenntnis. However, between the Berlin Group and the Vienna Circle, there was...
Wundt and the Philosophical Foundations of Psychology
A Reappraisal
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
This book reassesses the seminal work of Wilhelm Wundt by discussing the history and philosophy of psychology. It traces the pioneering theorist’s intellectual development and the evolution of psychology throughout his career. The author draws on little-known sources to situate psychological concepts...
Founding Psychoanalysis Phenomenologically
Phenomenological Theory of Subjectivity and the Psychoanalytic Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2011
The present anthology seeks to give an overview of the different approaches to establish a relation between phenomenology and psychoanalysis, primarily from the viewpoint of current phenomenological research. Already during the lifetimes of the two disciplines' founders, Edmund Husserl (1859 - 1938)...
Body, Text, and Science
The Literacy of Investigative Practices and the Phenomenology of Edith Stein
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
What is "scientific" about the natural and human sciences? Precisely this: the legibility of our worlds and the distinctive reading strategies that they provoke. That account of the essence of science comes from Edith Stein, who as HusserI's assistant 1916-1918 labored in vain to bring his...
Nietzsche as Affirmative Thinker
Papers Presented at the Fifth Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter, April 1983
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The full century that has elapsed since Nietzsche was at the height of his work did not obliterate his impact. In many ways he is still a contemporary philosopher, even in that sense of 'contemporary' which points to the future. We may have outgrown his style (always, however, admirable and exciting...