Pragmatism category: 176 books

A book that explains a concept beyond the idea of Atheists, Theists as well as Agnostics. 

Cheong Lee writes a standard contemporary work in semiotics. The full title is "Interpretation of Nature: Peirce's Theory of Interpretation". However, because he is still young, he is like a passenger on a train. His argument is like a travel journal. Semiotics is like journey. One understands...

This book is about the pragmatics of language and it illustrates how pragmatics transcends the boundaries of linguistics. This volume covers Gricean pragmatics as well as topics including: conversation and collective belief, the norm of assertion, speech acts, what a context is, the distinction between...

Practice, Judgment, and the Challenge of Moral and Political Disagreement: A Pragmatist Account offers an account of moral and political disagreement, explaining its nature and showing how we should deal with it. In so doing it strikes a middle path between troublesome dualisms such as those of realism...

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  

Né en 1926 à Chicago, Hilary Putnam est l’une des grandes figures de la philosophie contemporaine, dont l’œuvre diversifiée traverse la philosophie des mathématiques, des sciences, de l’esprit et du langage, mais également l’éthique et la métaphysique. Critique de l’empirisme logique,...

Nostradamus est né à Saint-Rémy de Provence en 1503, au cours de sa vie il nous avait laissé un recueil de prophétie bien trop étrange pour ne rien recéler de secret. Bien sûr que cet homme avait dissimulé un langage, son œuvre a traversé les siècles sans que personne ne découvre...

La notion de vérité est ambiguë. On peut parler d'une proposition vraie ; mais on peut parler également de la vérité de son contenu, comme Platon a posé celle des objets hypostasiés en Idées, que vise d'après lui la connaissance …

The**Indispensable Excess of the Aesthetic: Evolution of Sensibility in Nature traces the evolution of sensibility from the most primal indications detectable at the level of cellular receptors and plant tendril sensitivity, animal creativity and play to cultural ramifications. Taking on Darwin’s...

Humans have long wondered whether we might be able to cure to all diseases and put a stop aging. But what if we were able to revive the dead to achieve an even more universal version of immortality? In this study, Adam Stanczyk, an architect, considers various aspects of the debate on immortality...

While moral philosophy has traditionally been understood as an examination of the good life, this book argues that ethical inquiry should, rather, begin from an examination of evil and other 'negative' moral concepts, such as guilt and suffering.

At a time where the relevance of the social sciences is under threat, this innovative book offers a speculative experimentation on the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences to rethink what 'relevance' is, and to cultivate a new ethos of knowledge-making for an eventful world. Engaging...

Arguing that our attachment to Aristotelian modes of discourse makes a revision of their conceptual foundations long overdue, the author proposes the consideration of unacknowledged factors that play a central role in argument itself. These are in particular the subjective imprint and the dynamics...

Just War scholarship has adapted to contemporary crises and situations. But its adaptation has spurned debate and conversation—a method and means of pushing its thinking forward. Now the Just War tradition risks becoming marginalized. This concern may seem out of place as Just War literature is...