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Rationis Defensor
Essays in Honour of Colin Cheyne
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Rationis Defensor is to be a volume of previously unpublished essays celebrating the life and work of Colin Cheyne. Colin was until recently Head of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Otago, a department that can boast of many famous philosophers among its past and present faculty and...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
This unique study brings together for the first time two of the most important philosophers of this century. Never before have these two thinkers been compared - and commentators' opinions on their relationship differ greatly. Are the views of Wittgenstein and Quine on method and the nature of philosophy...
How Hume and Kant Reconstruct Natural Law
Justifying Strict Objectivity without Debating Moral Realism
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
Kenneth R. Westphal presents an original interpretation of Hume's and Kant's moral philosophies, the differences between which are prominent in current philosophical accounts. Westphal argues that focussing on these differences, however, occludes a decisive, shared achievement: a distinctive constructivist...
Verstehen
The Uses of Understanding in the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
In late nineteenth-century German academic circles, the term verstehen (literally, understanding, or comprehension) came to be associated with the view that social phenomena must be understood from the point of view of the social actor. Advocates of this approach were opposed by positivists who stressed...
Black Heretics, Black Prophets
Radical Political Intellectuals
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
by Sven Hroar Klempe
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This book investigates the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard's (1813�1855) contributions to our understanding of psychology. In Kierkegaard's historical context, psychology was challenged from both scientific and philosophical perspectives. Kierkegaard considered psychology a core discipline...
Berkeley's Puzzle
What Does Experience Teach Us?
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Sensory experience seems to be the basis of our knowledge and conception of mind-independent things. The puzzle is to understand how that can be: even if the things we experience (apples, tables, trees, etc), are mind-independent how does our sensory experience of them enable us to conceive of them...
Tenerezza
La rivoluzione del potere gentile
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 2, 2017
La tenerezza, quando è autentica, non sopporta facili definizioni: si insinua con delicata tenacia tra le grandi virtù civili e la retorica del potere, è ciò che ci manca per poter vivere e sentire in un mondo finalmente comune. Per questo parlarne è un’impresa ardua e bellissima. E tanto più...
Education Policy
Philosophical Critique
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2013
Education Policy sees 12 philosophers of education critique current and recent UK educational policies relating to higher education and faith-based education, assessment, the teaching of reading, vocational and civic education, teacher education, the influence of Europe and the idea of the ‘Big...
by Jeremy Stangroom, James Garvey
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
No matter how you view philosophy, regardless of what you think it is, this series from The Independent will give you a strong sense of the life and work of the very best thinkers in the philosophical neighbourhood, dealing carefully and rationally with the most human of questions, the hardest questions,...
Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes - Volume 2
Marx, Freud, Sartre, Camus, Heidegger
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
"Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes Volume 2” comprises the five books “Marx in 60 Minutes”, “Freud in 60 Minutes”, “Sartre in 60 Minutes”, “Heidegger in 60 Minutes”, and “Camus in 60 Minutes”. Each short study sums up the key idea at the heart of each respective thinker and asks the...
Rousseau in 60 Minutes
Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Rousseau possessed a brilliant mind and one that questioned every accepted value and idea. Whatever most were “for”, Rousseau was always “against”! He was against monarchy, against the church, against the status quo, against inequality, against traditional education, against marriage, and (of...
by John Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2004
Nietzsche wrote in a scientific culture transformed by Darwin. He read extensively in German and British Darwinists, and his own works dealt often with such obvious Darwinian themes as struggle and evolution. Yet most of what Nietzsche said about Darwin was hostile: he sharply attacked many of his...
by John Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2002
This book argues, against recent interpretations, that Nietzsche does in fact have a metaphysical system--but that this is to his credit. Rather than renouncing philosophy's traditional project, he still aspires to find and state essential truths, both descriptive and valuative, about us and the world....