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This volume contributes to the remarkable resurgence in interest in American pragmatism and its proponents, William James, C.S. Peirce and John Dewey by focusing on the influence of British empiricism, especially the philosophies of Locke and Hume, and...

This book consists of a series of essays that all turn around questions of the address of speech or writing. They argue and demonstrate that meaning is not just a matter of the active intention of a subject (for example, speaker, writer, or other...

This is a collection of four essays on aesthetic, ethical, and political issues by Dieter Henrich, the preeminent Kant scholar in Germany today. Although his interests have ranged widely, he is perhaps best known for rekindling interest in the great...

The two volumes of Philosophical Essays bring together the most important essays written by one of the world's foremost philosophers of language. Scott Soames has selected thirty-one essays spanning nearly three decades of thinking about linguistic...

James Collins probes the meaning and methods of historical interpretation in philosophy by analyzing the creative reciprocity between the modern source thinkers--the great classical philosophers from Descartes and Locke to Mill and Nietzsche--and their...

From romanticism through postmodernism, the imagination has become an indispensable reference point for thinking about the self, culture, philosophy, and politics. How has imagination so thoroughly influenced our understanding of experience and its...

Immanuel Kant's work changed the course of modern philosophy; in these essays Karl Ameriks examines how. He compares the philosophical system set out in Kant's Critiques with the work of the major philosophers before and after him (Descartes, Berkeley,...

David Hume wrote that Berkeley's arguments `admit of no answer but produce no conviction'. This book aims at the kind of understanding of Berkeley's philosophy that comes from seeing how we ourselves might be brought to embrace it. Berkeley held that...

During a distinguished career as thinker and educator at universities across North America, philosopher Kenneth L. Schmitz has striven to recover metaphysical realism in a world that has, after Kant, turned to the subject. Schmitz has done so through...

During the early modern era (c. 1600-1800), philosophers formulated a number of new questions, methods of investigation, and theories regarding the nature of the mind. The result of their efforts has been described as "the original cognitive...

This book reveals a thread that runs through Leibniz's metaphysics: from his logical notion of possible individuals to his notion of actual, nested ones. It presents Leibniz's subtle approach to possibility and explores some of its consequential...

Danish Yearbook of Philosophy - Volume 26Book InformationISBN 9788772891248Author David FavrholdtFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams) 228g

Danish Yearbook of Philosophy - Volume 40Book InformationISBN 9788763504942Author Finn CollinFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams) 276g

The Danish Yearbook of Philosophy is a peer reviewed journal committed to publishing high quality articles from Danish and international scholars and encourages papers across a wide range of philosophical issues.Book InformationISBN 9788763525824Author...

Danish Yearbook of Philosophy - Volume 39Book InformationISBN 9788763502894Author Finn CollinFormat PaperbackPage Count 91Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams) 188g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788186921258Author D. L. JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint D.K. Print World LtdPublisher D.K. Print World Ltd

This book examines the four most important projects for Jewish emancipation in eighteenth-century Europe. The essays presented in this volume analyze the proposal advanced by the freethinker John Toland in 1714 and three projects of the 1780s, formulated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903083024Author baron d' Paul Henri Thiry HolbachFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Clinamen Press LtdPublisher Clinamen Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871871425Author H. P. RickmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 159Imprint Open Gate PressPublisher Open Gate Press

Western philosophy has long excluded the work of women thinkers from their canon. Presenting Women Philosophers addresses this exclusion by examining the breadth of women's contributions to Western thought over some 900 years. Editors Cecile T. Tougas...

Here are tribal members -- insights on spirituality, land, leadership, conflict, treaties, environment, men, women, children, education, and peace.About the AuthorNorbert S. Hill, Jr., of the Oneida Tribe, has developed and administered educational...

History, Metaphors, and Fables collects the central writings by Hans Blumenberg and covers topics such as on the philosophy of language, metaphor theory, non-conceptuality, aesthetics, politics, and literary studies. This landmark volume demonstrates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451528308Author Robert Paul WolffFormat PaperbackImprint SignetPublisher Penguin Books AustraliaWeight(grams) 272g

This open access book sheds light on the term gongsheng/kyōsei, which is used in Chinese and Japanese to not only translate “symbiosis” in biology but also broadly deployed in philosophical, social and political contexts. It is a cross-contextual attempt...

An introduction to critical thinking which outlines the basic tenets of each of the major philosophies, analysing the type of thinking it encourages, discussing its history and the major figures who influenced it. The major philosophies discussed include...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503578170Author Matteo Favaretti CamposampieroFormat PaperbackPage Count 293Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700169987Author Gertrud BlaschitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 393Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences...

What is the importance of trust for human social life? What role does trust play in morality, in political arrangements, and in our attempts to gain knowledge and understand the world? When should we trust others, and when is withholding trust or...

Early modern women writers left their mark in multiple domains--novels, translations, letters, history, and science. Although recent scholarship in literary and cultural studies has enriched our understanding of these accomplishments, less attention has...

Updated and revised, the highly-anticipated second edition of The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness offers a collection of readings that together represent the most thorough and comprehensive survey of the nature of consciousness available today...

This is Philosophy of Mind presents students of philosophy with an accessible introduction to the core issues related to the philosophy of mind. * Includes issues related to the mind-body problem, artificial intelligence, free will, the nature of...

Taking Picture Books Seriously: What can we learn about philosophy through children's books? This warm and charming volume casts a spell on adult readers as it unveils the surprisingly profound philosophical wisdom contained in children's picture books,...

What does it mean to"do theory" in America? In what ways has "French Theory" changed American intellectual and artistic life? How different is it from what French intellectuals themselves conceived, and what does all this tell us...

John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding is among the most important books in philosophy ever written. It is also a difficult work dealing with many themes, including the origin of ideas; the extent and limits of human knowledge; the philosophy...

Feminist history of philosophy has successfully focused thus far on canon revision, canon critique, and the recovery of neglected or forgotten women philosophers. However, the methodology remains underexplored, and it seems timely to ask larger questions...

Modern notions of empathy often celebrate its ability to bridge divides, to unite humankind. Yet how do we square this with the popular view that we can never truly comprehend the experience of being someone else? In this book, Samuel Fleischacker delves...

This impressive volume of essays that includes contributions from Hubert Dreyfus, Mike Wheeler and Shaun Gallagher reflects an emerging trend in cognitive science, and explores this new approach to cognitive science informed by Heidegger's thoughts on...

This thought provoking book deals with religious scholarship and important controversies of the early modern period, specifically those relating to the question of the salvation of the pagans and the afterlife. From the Reformation, through the...

Few philosophical issues have had as long and elaborate a history as the problem of free will, which has been contested at every stage of the history of the subject. The present work practices an extensive bibliography of this elaborate literature,...

This lucid and wide-ranging volume constitutes a self-contained introduction to the elements and key issues of the philosophy of language. In particular, it focuses on the philosophical foundations of semantics, including the main challenges to and...