Philosophy category: 55395 books
by Gerald Jones, Jeremy Hayward, Dan Cardinal
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Exam Board: AQA
Level: AS/A-level
Subject: Philosophy
First Teaching: September 2014
First Exam: June 2016
Motivate students to think philosophically with this accessible and imaginative guide for the latest specification, brought to you by the market-leading A-level publisher**.**
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Philosophy for A Level
Metaphysics of God and Metaphysics of Mind
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Philosophy for A Level is an accessible textbook for the new 2017 AQA Philosophy syllabus. Structured closely around the AQA specification this textbook covers the two units, Metaphysics of God and Metaphysics of Mind, in an engaging and student-friendly way. With chapters on ‘How to do philosophy’,...
Philosophy for A2: Unit 4
Philosophical Problems, 2008 AQA Syllabus
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Philosophy for A2: Unit 4 is the definitive textbook for students of the current AQA Advanced Level syllabus for philosophy. Structured very closely around the AQA specifications for Unit 4: Philosophical Problems, Michael Lacewing helps students to engage with and understand the arguments of the...
Externalism, Self-Knowledge, and Skepticism
New Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Written by an international team of leading scholars, this collection of thirteen new essays explores the implications of semantic externalism for self-knowledge and skepticism, bringing recent developments in the philosophy of mind, the philosophy of language, and epistemology to bear on the issue....
by Peter Olen
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
While Wilfrid Sellars’ philosophy is often depicted in an ahistorical fashion, this book explores the consequences of placing his work in its historical context. In order to show how Sellars’ early publications depend on contextual factors, Peter Olen reconstructs the conceptions of language,...
by Louis Althusser
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
In How to Be a Marxist in Philosophy one of the most famous Marxist philosophers of the 20th century shares his concept of what it means to function fruitfully as a political thinker within the discipline and environs of philosophy. This is the first English translation to Althusser's provocative...
Active Perception in the History of Philosophy
From Plato to Modern Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
The aim of the present work is to show the roots of the conception of perception as an active process, tracing the history of its development from Plato to modern philosophy. The contributors inquire into what activity is taken to mean in different theories, challenging traditional historical accounts...
A Brief History of Analytic Philosophy
From Russell to Rawls
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
A Brief History of Analytic Philosophy: From Russell to Rawls presents a comprehensive overview of the historical development of all major aspects of analytic philosophy, the dominant Anglo-American philosophical tradition in the twentieth century.
Features coverage of all the major subject areas...
by John E. Drabinski
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
This book reads a series of Godard films as interventions in contemporary debate about the language of difference. Godard has something he wants both to preserve (singularity) and destroy (visual and aural totalitarianism). How is it possible to speak about the Other? How is it possible for the Other...
Peace Philosophy Magazine III
No death is accidental. The man has an inner knowledge of his impending death.
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details.
WE HELP OURSELVES, NOT THE WORLD
Before considering further how devotion to duty helps us in our spiritual progress, let me place before you in a brief compass another aspect of what we...
by Dorothea E. Olkowski
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
A groundbreaking, interdisciplinary approach to the study of consciousness: “Beautifully written, engaging throughout, and captivating” (Claire Colebrook, The Pennsylvania State University).
What can come of a scientific engagement with postmodern philosophy? Some scientists have claimed...
by Thomas J. Hickey
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
This concise and accessible book is a synthesis of the basic principles of the contemporary pragmatist philosophy of science.
It discusses the aim of basic science, the methods of scientific discovery, the criteria for scientific criticism, and the nature of scientific explanation. Included...
Ethics Embodied
Rethinking Selfhood through Continental, Japanese, and Feminist Philosophies
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2010
While the body has been largely neglected in much of traditional Western philosophy, there is a rich tradition of Japanese philosophy in which this is not the case. Ethics Embodied explains how Japanese philosophy includes the body as an integral part of selfhood and ethics and shows how it provides...
Richard Rorty
Education, Philosophy, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2001
Richard Rorty's neopragmatist philosophy marks him as one of the most gifted and controversial thinkers of his time. Antifoundationalism and antirepresentationalism are the guiding motifs in his thought. He wants to jettison a set of philosophical distinctions—appearance/reality, mind/body, morality/prudence—that...