Society For Philosophy Culture: 30 books
Meaning and Identity
An Interdisciplinary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Meaning and Identity: An Interdisciplinary Perspective explores the construction of meaning, linguistically and culturally, and the relationship this bears to the production of identity. It looks at meaning and identity from a range of perspectives, including meaning-making and the identity of cities,...
by Robert Paul Wolff
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Addressing himself not only to radical thinkers but to liberal thinkers as well, Robert Paul Wolff, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University, provides here an examination of four concepts central to liberal political concerns: Liberty, Tolerance, Loyalty, and Power. With distinctive...
by J.L. Shaw, D.L. Oxtoby
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2014
This volume of the collected works of J.L. Shaw contains twelve papers that fall in the intersection of logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. Professor Shaw's methodology in these papers is that of comparative philosophy. With an emphasis on classical Indian analytical philosophy and...
by J.L. Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Some Logical Problems Concerning Existence is not only a treatise on philosophical logic or philosophy of language but also contains explanations of concepts which are necessary for understanding other branches of philosophy, especially metaphysics or ontology. It deals with the nature of existential...
The Nyaya on Meaning
A Commentary on Pandit Visvabandhu
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2013
The Nyaya on Meaning is not only a commentary on Pandit Visvabandhu Tarkatirtha's article on "The Nyaya on the Meaning of Some Words" but also contains explanations which are indispensable for understanding the Navya-Nyaya tradition of Indian philosophy. It also covers a wide range of topics,...
by Russell Wahl
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
It has been said that Bertrand Russell adopted at some time or other during his life every philosophical point of view that has ever been held by anyone. While this is without doubt an overstatement, it is certainly true that he held dramatically differing views on propositions and propositional functions...
From Left Communism to Post-modernism
Reconsidering Emancipatory Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
From Left Communism to Post-modernism addresses issues of the shape and future of the socialist movement and the politics of post-modernism. The author identifies a tradition of socialist thought - left communism - that is separate from socialist orthodoxy, seeking to stage a conversation between...
Nodding In On The Great Conversation
Juvenilia and Published and Unpublished Essays on David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
For more than half a century, Philosopher Robert Paul Wolff has been thinking and writing about the great figures of eighteenth century philosophy and about the ideals and realities of American higher education. In this first volume of his collected published and unpublished papers, a number of those...
A Head In The Cloud
Tutorials, Mini-Tutorials, Micro-Tutorials, and Appreciations From the Blog of Robert Paul Wolff
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
When Robert Paul Wolff retired in 2008 after a fifty-year career as a university professor, he was somewhat at a loss as to what to do. One of his sons said, "Why don't you start a blog, Dad?" And so, like hundreds of millions of others around the world, he did. The Philosopher's Stone has...
Understanding Rawls
A Reconstruction and Critique of A Theory of Justice
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Since its publication in 1971, John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice has been the subject of a lively debate among philosophers, economists, and political scientists. In this book, Robert Paul Wolff provides an interpretation and critique of Rawls’ theory that both clarifies it and reveals its basic...
Causality and Its Application
Samkhya, Bauddha and Nyaya
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2013
Causality and Its Application: Samkhya, Bauddha and Nyaya is not only a commentary on the views of classical Indian philosophers, but also contains explanations of concepts which are indispensable for understanding metaphysics, epistemology and ethics, among many other things. This book deals with...
Reason, Culture, Religion
The Metaphysics of World Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
In Reason, Culture, Religion, Ralph Pettman calls for wider recognition of, and greater commitment to, the ‘new’ international relations, a discipline much more comprehensive and cosmopolitan than the ‘old’. He first documents the way modernist analysts describe and explain world politics....
by Robert Paul Wolff
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Political Theory has been transformed in the last thirty years by the introduction of methods of analysis imported from mathematics and economics. Modern students of the subject need to know something about Rational Choice Theory, Game Theory, and Collective Choice Theory if they are to be able to...
Kant’s Theory of Mental Activity
A Commentary on the Transcendental Analytic of the Critique of Pure Reason
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2013
This book analyses and explains the central passage of Kant’s philosophy, the “Transcendental Analytic” of the Critique of Pure Reason. It proceeds in the manner of a textual commentary, discussing and explaining each section of the Analytic in turn. The purpose, however, is not merely to comment...