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Viaje al centro de la filosofía
De los sabios que miraban las estrellas al profeta que abrazaba los caballos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Adéntrate en la historia de la filosofía y descubre por qué su estudio es uno de los más fascinantes. Con Nemrod Carrasco nos trasladaremos a los orígenes de la filosofía para conocer de primera mano a Aristófanes, Platón o Aristóteles; nos introduciremos en el mundo de Matrix a través de...
From Critical to Speculative Idealism
The Philosophy of Solomon Maimon
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume is the first part of a larger work on the philosophy of Solomon Maimon and its systematic place in the history of thought. Here we deal with so me of the fundamental themes of Maimon's philosophy, including his examination of Kant's philosophy, his re lation to such immediate post-Kantians...
Philosophy of Finitude
Heidegger, Levinas and Nietzsche
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Examining the legacies of Heidegger, along with Derrida, Levinas and Nietzsche, Rafael Winkler argues that it is not the search for truth or even contradictions that stimulates philosophical thought. Instead, it is our exposure to the unthinkable or the impossible – to thought's own limits.
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Artificial Intelligence
A Philosophical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Presupposing no familiarity with the technical concepts of either philosophy or computing, this clear introduction reviews the progress made in AI since the inception of the field in 1956. Copeland goes on to analyze what those working in AI must achieve before they can claim to have built a thinking...
Minding the Modern
Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
In this brilliant study, Thomas Pfau argues that the loss of foundational concepts in classical and medieval Aristotelian philosophy caused a fateful separation between reason and will in European thought. Pfau traces the evolution and eventual deterioration of key concepts of human agency—will,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
The principal aim of this volume is to elucidate what freedom, sovereignty, and autonomy mean for Nietzsche and what philosophical resources he gives us to re-think these crucial concepts. A related aim is to examine how Nietzsche connects these concepts to his thoughts about life-affirmation, self-love,...
How History Matters to Philosophy
Reconsidering Philosophy’s Past After Positivism
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
In recent decades, widespread rejection of positivism’s notorious hostility toward the philosophical tradition has led to renewed debate about the real relationship of philosophy to its history. How History Matters to Philosophy takes a fresh look at this debate. Current discussion usually starts...
Layers In Husserl's Phenomonology
On Meaning and Intersubjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Layers in Husserl's Phenomenology provides close readings and analyses of a number of Husserl's key translated and untranslated works across the entirety of his corpus. While maintaining a dialogue with four decades' worth of scholarship on Husserl, Peter R. Costello provides a number of new and significant...
Philosophy, History and Politics
Studies in Contemporary English Philosophy of History
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by Christian H. Sötemann
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2009
Scientific Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Philosophy - General Essays, Eras, , 15 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The article investigates fragments of the two Presocratic philosophers Heraclitus and Parmenides, which are frequently seen as indicating two drastically...
Wittgenstein's Later Theory of Meaning
Imagination and Calculation
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
By exploring the significance of Wittgenstein’s later texts relating to the philosophy of language, Wittgenstein’s Later Theory of Meaning offers insights that will transform our understanding of the influential 20th-century philosopher.
Explores the significance of Wittgenstein’s later...
Sartre
A Philosophical Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) was one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century. Regarded as the father of existentialist philosophy, he was also a political critic, moralist, playwright, novelist, and author of biographies and short stories. Thomas R. Flynn provides the first book-length...
by Andrew Bowie
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Reconsiders the path of German philosophy from Kant to Nietzsche, in relation to consciousness, aesthetics and language. The book traces the beginning of modern debates on aesthetics and politics, as well as hermeneutics, paying attention to the significance of music in modern philosophy.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
What is judgement? is a question that has exercised generations of philosophers. Early analytic philosophers (Frege, Russell and Wittgenstein) and phenomenologists (Brentano, Husserl and Reinach) changed how philosophers think about this question. This book explores and assesses their contributions and help us to retrace their steps.