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Discovering Feminist Philosophy
Knowledge, Ethics, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2003
Many people believe that gender equality has been achieved. In such a world, why dwell on the dualism between the sexes? Why separate, and therefore marginalize, women's scholarship from scholarship as a whole? In short, why feminist philosophy? Discovering Feminist Philosophy provides an accessible...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The last two decades have seen two significant trends emerging within the philosophy of science: the rapid development and focus on the philosophy of the specialised sciences, and a resurgence of Aristotelian metaphysics, much of which is concerned with the possibility of emergence, as well as the...
The Abdication of Philosophy — The Abdication of Man
A Critical Study of the Interdependence of Philosophy as Critical Theory and Man as a Free Individual
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
We live in a time of functionalism, operationalism and technologism with all its levelling, depersonalising and dehumanising effects. In such an age, the question arises of philosophy as critical, reflective theory about the world, man's position and purpose in the world and the relationship between...
by Mary Midgley
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Why should anybody take an interest in philosophy? Is it just another detailed study like metallurgy? Or is it similar to history, literature and even religion: a study meant to do some personal good and influence our lives?
In her last published work, Mary Midgley addresses provocative questions,...
From Critical to Speculative Idealism
The Philosophy of Solomon Maimon
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume is the first part of a larger work on the philosophy of Solomon Maimon and its systematic place in the history of thought. Here we deal with so me of the fundamental themes of Maimon's philosophy, including his examination of Kant's philosophy, his re lation to such immediate post-Kantians...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
The twentieth century was one of the most significant and exciting periods ever witnessed in philosophy, characterized by intellectual change and development on a massive scale. The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy is an outstanding authoritative survey and assessment of the century...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2006
The philosophy of Immanuel Kant is the watershed of modern thought, which irrevocably changed the landscape of the field and prepared the way for all the significant philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This 2006 volume, which complements The Cambridge Companion to Kant,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The purpose of this collection of papers is to introduce English speaking philosophers and theologians to something of the variety of the contemporary debate about the religious relevance of Hegel's thought. It is published in the hope that it will appeal not only to specialised students of Hegel's...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
The overall aim of the volume is to explore the relation of Socratic philosophizing, as Plato represents it, to those activities to which it is typically opposed. The essays address a range of figures who appear in the dialogues as distinct “others” against whom Socrates is contrasted—most obviously,...
by Christopher Shields, Robert Pasnau
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
This new and updated edition of Christopher Shields and Robert Pasnau's The Philosophy of Aquinas introduces the Aquinas' overarching explanatory framework in order to provide the necessary background to his philosophical investigations across a wide range of areas: rational theology, metaphysics,...
Québec Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Part I: Logic, Mathematics, Physics and History of Science
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
By North-American standards, philosophy is not new in Quebec: the first men tion of philosophy lectures given by a Jesuit in the College de Quebec (founded 1635) dates from 1665, and the oldest logic manuscript dates from 1679. In English-speaking universities such as McGill (founded 1829), philosophy...
Thinking about Science, Reflecting on Art
Bringing Aesthetics and Philosophy of Science Together
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Thinking about Science, Reflecting on Art: Bringing Aesthetics and Philosophy of Science Together is the first book to systematically examine the relationship between the philosophy of science and aesthetics. With contributions from leading figures from both fields, this edited collection engages...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
This is the first book that provides access to twelve Continental philosophers and the consequences of their thinking for the philosophy of religion. Basically, in the second half of the twentieth century, it has been treated from within the Anglo- American school of philosophy, which deals mainly...
Natural Philosophy
From Social Brains to Knowledge, Reality, Morality, and Beauty (Treatise on Mind and Society)
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
Paul Thagard uses new accounts of brain mechanisms and social interactions to forge theories of mind, knowledge, reality, morality, justice, meaning, and the arts. Natural Philosophy brings new methods for analyzing concepts, understanding values, and achieving coherence. It shows how to unify the...