Philosophy In The Last Forty Years
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Author |
: Saul A. Kripke |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 185 |
Release |
: 2018 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190660611 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190660619 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reference and Existence by : Saul A. Kripke
This work can be read as a sequel to Kripke's classic Naming and Necessity, confronting important issues left open in that work and developing a novel approach to questions concerning empty names and existence. It provides along the way novel treatments of fictional and mythological discourse, the pragmatics of definite and indefinite descriptions and the language of sense data.
Author |
: Peter Unger |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190696016 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019069601X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Empty Ideas by : Peter Unger
During the middle of the twentieth century, philosophers generally agreed that, by contrast with science, philosophy should offer no substantial thoughts about the general nature of concrete reality. Instead, philosophers offered conceptual truths. It is widely assumed that, since 1970, things have changed greatly. This book argues that's an illusion that prevails because of the failure to differentiate between "concretely substantial" and "concretely empty" ideas.
Author |
: Arthur Ripstein |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 2010-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674054516 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674054512 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Force and Freedom by : Arthur Ripstein
In this masterful work, both an illumination of Kant’s thought and an important contribution to contemporary legal and political theory, Arthur Ripstein gives a comprehensive yet accessible account of Kant’s political philosophy. Ripstein shows that Kant’s thought is organized around two central claims: first, that legal institutions are not simply responses to human limitations or circumstances; indeed the requirements of justice can be articulated without recourse to views about human inclinations and vulnerabilities. Second, Kant argues for a distinctive moral principle, which restricts the legitimate use of force to the creation of a system of equal freedom. Ripstein’s description of the unity and philosophical plausibility of this dimension of Kant’s thought will be a revelation to political and legal scholars. In addition to providing a clear and coherent statement of the most misunderstood of Kant’s ideas, Ripstein also shows that Kant’s views remain conceptually powerful and morally appealing today. Ripstein defends the idea of equal freedom by examining several substantive areas of law—private rights, constitutional law, police powers, and punishment—and by demonstrating the compelling advantages of the Kantian framework over competing approaches.
Author |
: Charles Taylor |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 889 |
Release |
: 2018-09-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674986916 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674986911 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Secular Age by : Charles Taylor
The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.
Author |
: Witold Gombrowicz |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 117 |
Release |
: 2007-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300132069 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300132069 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes by : Witold Gombrowicz
George Sand was the most famous, and the most scandalous, woman in nineteenth-century France. As a writer, she was enormously prolific: she wrote more than ninety novels, thirty-five plays, and thousands of pages of autobiography. She inspired writers as diverse as Flaubert and Proust but is often remembered for her love affairs with such figures as Musset and Chopin. Her affair with Chopin is the most notorious: their nine-year relationship ended in 1847 when Sand began to suspect that the composer had fallen in love with her daughter, Solange. Drawing on archival sources, much of it neglected by Sand's previous biographers, Elizabeth Harlan examines the intertwined issues of maternity and identity that haunt Sand's writing and defined her life. Why was Sand's relationship with her daughter so fraught? Why was a woman so famous for her personal and literary audacity ultimately so conflicted about women's liberation? In an effort to solve the riddle of Sand's identity, Harlan examines a latticework of lives that include Solange, Sand's mother and grandmother, and Sand's own protagonists, whose stories amplify her own.
Author |
: Miranda Fricker |
Publisher |
: Clarendon Press |
Total Pages |
: 198 |
Release |
: 2007-07-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191519307 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191519308 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Epistemic Injustice by : Miranda Fricker
In this exploration of new territory between ethics and epistemology, Miranda Fricker argues that there is a distinctively epistemic type of injustice, in which someone is wronged specifically in their capacity as a knower. Justice is one of the oldest and most central themes in philosophy, but in order to reveal the ethical dimension of our epistemic practices the focus must shift to injustice. Fricker adjusts the philosophical lens so that we see through to the negative space that is epistemic injustice. The book explores two different types of epistemic injustice, each driven by a form of prejudice, and from this exploration comes a positive account of two corrective ethical-intellectual virtues. The characterization of these phenomena casts light on many issues, such as social power, prejudice, virtue, and the genealogy of knowledge, and it proposes a virtue epistemological account of testimony. In this ground-breaking book, the entanglements of reason and social power are traced in a new way, to reveal the different forms of epistemic injustice and their place in the broad pattern of social injustice.
Author |
: Burt Hopkins |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 697 |
Release |
: 2021-09-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000293234 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000293238 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy by : Burt Hopkins
Volume XVIII. Special Issue: Gian-Carlo Rota and The End of Objectivity, 2019
Author |
: Penelope Maddy |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190618698 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190618698 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis What Do Philosophers Do? by : Penelope Maddy
How do you know the world around you isn't just an elaborate dream, or the creation of an evil neuroscientist? If all you have to go on are various lights, sounds, smells, tastes and tickles, how can you know what the world is really like, or even whether there is a world beyond your own mind? Questions like these -- familiar from science fiction and dorm room debates -- lie at the core of venerable philosophical arguments for radical skepticism: the stark contention that we in fact know nothing at all about the world, that we have no more reason to believe any claim -- that there are trees, that we have hands -- than we have to disbelieve it. Like non-philosophers in their sober moments, philosophers, too, find this skeptical conclusion preposterous, but they're faced with those famous arguments: the Dream Argument, the Argument from Illusion, the Infinite Regress of Justification, the more recent Closure Argument. If these can't be met, they raise a serious challenge not just to philosophers, but to anyone responsible enough to expect her beliefs to square with her evidence. What Do Philosophers Do? takes up the skeptical arguments from this everyday point of view, and ultimately concludes that they don't undermine our ordinary beliefs or our ordinary ways of finding out about the world. In the process, Maddy examines and evaluates a range of philosophical methods -- common sense, scientific naturalism, ordinary language, conceptual analysis, therapeutic approaches -- as employed by such philosophers as Thomas Reid, G. E. Moore, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and J. L. Austin. The result is a revealing portrait of what philosophers do, and perhaps a quiet suggestion for what they should do, for what they do best.
Author |
: Jeremy Butterfield |
Publisher |
: Elsevier |
Total Pages |
: 1481 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780444515605 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0444515607 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis Philosophy of Physics by : Jeremy Butterfield
The ambition of this volume is twofold: to provide a comprehensive overview of the field and to serve as an indispensable reference work for anyone who wants to work in it. For example, any philosopher who hopes to make a contribution to the topic of the classical-quantum correspondence will have to begin by consulting Klaas Landsman's chapter. The organization of this volume, as well as the choice of topics, is based on the conviction that the important problems in the philosophy of physics arise from studying the foundations of the fundamental theories of physics. It follows that there is no sharp line to be drawn between philosophy of physics and physics itself. Some of the best work in the philosophy of physics is being done by physicists, as witnessed by the fact that several of the contributors to the volume are theoretical physicists: viz., Ellis, Emch, Harvey, Landsman, Rovelli, 't Hooft, the last of whom is a Nobel laureate. Key features - Definitive discussions of the philosophical implications of modern physics - Masterly expositions of the fundamental theories of modern physics - Covers all three main pillars of modern physics: relativity theory, quantum theory, and thermal physics - Covers the new sciences grown from these theories: for example, cosmology from relativity theory; and quantum information and quantum computing, from quantum theory - Contains special Chapters that address crucial topics that arise in several different theories, such as symmetry and determinism - Written by very distinguished theoretical physicists, including a Nobel Laureate, as well as by philosophers - Definitive discussions of the philosophical implications of modern physics - Masterly expositions of the fundamental theories of modern physics - Covers all three main pillars of modern physics: relativity theory, quantum theory, and thermal physics - Covers the new sciences that have grown from these theories: for example, cosmology from relativity theory; and quantum information and quantum computing, from quantum theory - Contains special Chapters that address crucial topics that arise in several different theories, such as symmetry and determinism - Written by very distinguished theoretical physicists, including a Nobel Laureate, as well as by philosophers
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: PediaPress |
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