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Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Irrealism in Ethics presents a collection of six original essays contributed by prominent moral philosophers that address various forms of the philosophical position of ethical irrealism.
Addresses various forms of the philosophical position of ethical irrealism
Presents arguments both for and...
Volume 21, Tome II: Cumulative Index
Index of Names, L-Z
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This last volume of Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources is a cumulative index to all the volumes of the series. The series was originally designed in a systematic fashion in order to make it as easily usable and accessible as possible. The individual parts of the series and the...
by Christine Yi Lai Luk
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
This book gives a concise history of biophysics in contemporary China, from about 1949 to 1976. It outlines how a science specialty evolved from an ambiguous and amorphous field into a fully-fledged academic discipline in the socio-institutional contexts of contemporary China. The book relates how,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Peter Chaadaev emerges from the pages of history as one of Russia's most provocative and influential thinkers. The purpose of this book is to present the reader with the fIrst English translation of most of his philosophical writings. During the first half of the nineteenth century Chaadaev incited...
Modern Challenges to Past Philosophy
Arguments and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Does philosophy have a timeless essence? Are the writings that have come down to us over the centuries from philosophers of genius mere souvenirs from a bygone era? Or are their thoughts still eminently worth examining with care?
Modern Challenges to Past Philosophy argues pondering past philosophy...
Eppur si muove: Doing History and Philosophy of Science with Peter Machamer
A Collection of Essays in Honor of Peter Machamer
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
This volume is a collection of original essays focusing on a wide range of topics in the History and Philosophy of Science. It is a festschrift for Peter Machamer, which includes contributions from scholars who, at one time or another, were his students. The essays bring together analyses of issues...
by Russell B. Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Russell B. Goodman tells the story of the development of philosophy in America from the mid-18th century to the late 19th century. The key figures in this story, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, the writers of The Federalist, and the romantics (or 'transcendentalists') Emerson...
by William Howard Adams
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Diamond-encrusted, alligator-skin handbags. Eighteen-course feasts. Yachts the length of city blocks. In the twenty-first century, many point to such conspicuous consumption as reflecting the moral failings of a rampant capitalism that sacrifices community values on an altar of greed. Television shows...
Vanishing Matter and the Laws of Motion
Descartes and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
This volume explores the themes of vanishing matter, matter and the laws of nature, the qualities of matter, and the diversity of the debates about matter in the early modern period. Chapters are unified by a number of interlocking themes which together enable some of the broader contours of the philosophy...
The Aftermath of Syllogism
Aristotelian Logical Argument from Avicenna to Hegel
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Syllogism is a form of logical argument allowing one to deduce a consistent conclusion based on a pair of premises having a common term. Although Aristotle was the first to conceive and develop this way of reasoning, he left open a lot of conceptual space for further modifications, improvements and...
Knowledge and Demonstration
Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2005
This study explores the theoretical relationship between Aristotle’s theory of syllogism and his conception of demonstrative knowledge. More specifically, I consider why Aristotle’s theory of demonstration presupposes his theory of syllogism. In reconsidering the relationship between Aristotle’s...
Analytic Philosophy in America
And Other Historical and Contemporary Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2014
In this collection of recent and unpublished essays, leading analytic philosopher Scott Soames traces milestones in his field from its beginnings in Britain and Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, through its subsequent growth in the United States, up to its present as the...
Paradise Postponed
Johann Heinrich Alsted and the Birth of Calvinist Millenarianism
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Pragmatism and the European Traditions
Encounters with Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology before the Great Divide
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2017
The turn of the twentieth century witnessed the birth of two distinct philosophical schools in Europe: analytic philosophy and phenomenology. The history of 20th-century philosophy is often written as an account of the development of one or both of these schools, as well as their overt or covert mutual...