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Kant on Proper Science
Biology in the Critical Philosophy and the Opus postumum
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
This bookprovides a novel treatment of Immanuel Kant’s views on proper natural science and biology. The status of biology in Kant’s system of science is often taken to be problematic. By analyzing Kant’s philosophy of biology in relation to his conception of proper science, the present book...
The Natural philosophy of Emanuel Swedenborg
A Study in the Conceptual Metaphors of the Mechanistic World-View
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Although Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) is commonly known for his spiritual philosophy, his early career was focused unnatural science. During this period, Swedenborg thought of the world was like a gigantic machine, following the laws of mechanics and geometry. This volume analyzes this mechanistic...
Conceiving Nature after Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel
The Philosopher's Guide to the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
This book defies the reigning dismissal of the philosophy of nature by turning to what Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel have had to say about nature and critically thinking through their arguments to reconstruct a comprehensive account of the universe. Aided by the contributions of more recent thinkers,...
Morning Hours
Lectures on God's Existence
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The last work published by Moses Mendelssohn during his lifetime, Morning Hours (1785) is also the most sustained presentation of his mature epistemological and metaphysical views, all elaborated in the service of presenting proofs for the existence of God. But Morning Hours is much more than a theoretical...
Matrix Warrior
Being the One
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Finally comes the ultimate book for all those seeking to know more about the philosophy behind The Matrix and its sequels. Suppose that this world is not what it seems, and that humanity is actually just a food source supplementing a reign of machines. Welcome to the premise behind the world of The...
Reading Machiavelli
Scandalous Books, Suspect Engagements, and the Virtue of Populist Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
To what extent was Machiavelli a “Machiavellian”? Was he an amoral adviser of tyranny or a stalwart partisan of liberty? A neutral technician of power politics or a devout Italian patriot? A reviver of pagan virtue or initiator of modern nihilism? Reading Machiavelli answers these questions through...
Humanisme
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: March 20, 2017
Partez à la découverte de l'humanisme avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
Le mot humanisme était encore à la mode au lendemain de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, au point que tous les courants de pensée s'en recommandaient: Sartre démontrait que l'existentialisme est un humanisme, les marxistes...
by Plato
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors. Protagoras is a dialogue by Plato. The traditional subtitle...
by Frank Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2011
Language, Names, and Information is an important contribution to philosophy of language by one of its foremost scholars, challenging the pervasive view that the description theory of proper names is dead in the water, and defending a version of the description theory from a perspective on language...
Kant's Theory of Knowledge
An Analytical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2004
The Critique of Pure Reason is Kant's acknowledged masterpiece, in which he tackles the question of how we can possibly have knowledge that does not rest on experience (a priori knowledge). The first half of the Critique advances a constructive theory of human cognition and defends the possibility...
Form and Dialectic in Georg Simmel's Sociology
A New Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
This book shows that a dialectical conceptual model underpins Georg Simmel's writings. The book provides key examples of social forms – including fashion, the secret and money – as exemplifications of this method. The volume concludes with a reassessment of Simmel's relevance today.
L'Engagement téméraire – suivi d'annexes
Nouvelle édition 2019
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Nouvelle édition 2019 sans DRM de L’Engagement téméraire de Jean-Jacques Rousseau augmentée d'annexes (Biographie).
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by William J. FitzPatrick
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This work is an examination of teleological attributions i.e. ascriptions of proper functions and natural ends) to the features and behavior of living things with a view to understanding their application to human life.
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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
A team of international experts present a collection of articles on William James's philosophy of religion and its current relevance. A new look at his philosophy of religion is crucially important for the development of this field of inquiry today.