Philosophy category: 55395 books
Semantic-Truth Approaches in Chinese Philosophy
A Unifying Pluralist Account
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
This book explains a distinctive pluralist account of truth, jointly-rooted perspectivism (‘JRP’ for short). This explanation unifies various representative while philosophically interesting truth-concern approaches in early Chinese philosophy on the basis of people’s pre-theoretic “way-things-are-capturing”...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
The Missed Encounter of Radical Philosophy with Architecture brings together a respected team of philosophers and architecture scholars to ask what impact architecture has over today's culture and society. For three decades critical philosophy has been in discourse with architecture. Yet following...
La philosophie contemporaine / Contemporary philosophy
Chroniques nouvelles / A new survey
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The present publication is a continuation of two earlier series of chronicles, Philosophy in the Mid-Century (Firenze 1958/59) and Contemporary Philosophy (Firenze 1968), edited by Raymond Klibansky. As with the earlier series the present chronicles purport to give a survey of significant trends in...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This publication is a continuation of two earlier series of chroni cles, Philosophy in the Mid-Century (Firenze 1958/59) and Con temporary Philosophy (Firenze 1968), edited by Raymond Kli bansky. Like the other series, these chronicles provide a survey of important trends in contemporary philosophical...
Debates in Nineteenth-Century European Philosophy
Essential Readings and Contemporary Responses
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Debates in Nineteenth-Century European Philosophy offers an engaging and in-depth introduction to the philosophical questions raised by this rich and far reaching period in the history of philosophy. Throughout thirty chapters (organized into fifteen sections), the volume surveys the intellectual...
Philosophy of Mind in the Early and High Middle Ages
The History of the Philosophy of Mind, Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Philosophy of Mind in the Early and High Middle Ages provides an outstanding overview to a tumultuous 900-year period of discovery, innovation, and intellectual controversy that began with the Roman senator Boethius (c480-524) and concluded with the Franciscan theologian and philosopher John Duns...
Dieter Henrich and Contemporary Philosophy
The Return to Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Dieter Henrich is one of the most respected and frequently cited philosophers in Germany today. His extensive and highly innovative studies of German Idealism and his systematic analyses of subjectivity have significantly impacted on advanced German philosophical and theological debates. Dieter Henrich...
Philosophical Progress
In Defence of a Reasonable Optimism
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Many people believe that philosophy makes no progress. Members of the general public often find it amazing that philosophers exist in universities at all, at least in research positions. Academics who are not philosophers often think of philosophy either as a scholarly or interpretative enterprise,...
Kant’s Transition Project and Late Philosophy
Connecting the Opus postumum and Metaphysics of Morals
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Kant's Transition Project and Late Philosophy is the first study to provide a close reading of the connection between texts written by Kant during 1796 and 1798. Connecting Kant's unfinished book project, the Opus postumum, with the Metaphysics of Morals, it identifies and clarifies issues at the...
by Pragya Singh
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Philosophy of History should not be confused with the History of Philosophy, which is the study of the development of philosophical ideas through time. However, philosophy of history necessarily enquires about history of philosophy, since it is the history of its own thought. Originally the term "philosophy"...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2019
Lively debates on controversial and compelling questions in the philosophy of religion — an updated edition of the bestselling title
Building upon the reputation of the first edition, the extensively revised second edition of Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion features fifteen...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
The phenomenon of pain presents problems and puzzles for philosophers who want to understand its nature. Though pain might seem simple, there has been disagreement since Aristotle about whether pain is an emotion, sensation, perception, or disturbed state of the body. Despite advances in psychology,...
The Art of Living
The Stoics on the Nature and Function of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Ancient philosophy was conceived as a way of life or an art of living, but if ancient philosophers did think that philosophy should transform an individual's way of life, then what conception of philosophy stands behind this claim? John Sellars explores this question through a detailed account of...
by W. T. Stace
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
It is natural that, at the commencement of any study, one should be expected to say what the subject-matter of that study is. Botany is the knowledge of plants, astronomy of the heavenly bodies, geology of the rocks of the earth's crust. What, then, is the special sphere of philosophy? What is philosophy...