Collected Philosophical Papers

Collected Philosophical Papers
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 230
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ISBN-10 : 9789400943643
ISBN-13 : 9400943644
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Synopsis Collected Philosophical Papers by : E. Levinas

Philosophical Papers : Volume I

Philosophical Papers : Volume I
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 301
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ISBN-10 : 9780198020424
ISBN-13 : 0198020422
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Synopsis Philosophical Papers : Volume I by : David Lewis Professor of Philosophy Princeton University

The first volume of this series presents fifteen selected papers dealing with a variety of topics in ontology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.

Philosophical Papers and Letters

Philosophical Papers and Letters
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 743
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ISBN-10 : 9789401014267
ISBN-13 : 9401014264
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Synopsis Philosophical Papers and Letters by : G.W. Leibniz

The selections contained in these volumes from the papers and letters of Leibniz are intended to serve the student in two ways: first, by providing a more adequate and balanced conception of the full range and penetration of Leibniz's creative intellectual powers; second, by inviting a fresher approach to his intellectual growth and a clearer perception of the internal strains in his thinking, through a chronological arrangement. Much confusion has arisen in the past through a neglect of the develop ment of Leibniz's ideas, and Couturat's impressive plea, in his edition of the Opuscu/es et fragments (p. xii), for such an arrangement is valid even for incomplete editions. The beginning student will do well, however, to read the maturer writings of Parts II, III, and IV first, leaving Part I, from a period too largely neglected by Leibniz criticism, for a later study of the still obscure sources and motives of his thought. The Introduction aims primarily to provide cultural orientation and an exposition of the structure and the underlying assumptions of the philosophical system rather than a critical evaluation. I hope that together with the notes and the Index, it will provide those aids to the understanding which the originality of Leibniz's scientific, ethical, and metaphysical efforts deserve.

Content and Justification

Content and Justification
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 371
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ISBN-10 : 9780199292103
ISBN-13 : 0199292108
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Synopsis Content and Justification by : Paul A. Boghossian

Content and Justification presents a series of essays by Paul Boghossian on the theory of content and on its relation to the phenomenon of a priori knowledge.Part one comprises essays on the nature of rule-following and its relation to the problem of mental content; on the intelligibility of eliminativist views of the mental; on the prospects for a naturalistic reduction of mental content; and on the currently influential view that meaning is a normative notion.Part two includes three widely discussed papers on the phenomenon of self-knowledge and its compatibility with externalist conceptions of mental content.Part three concerns the classical but ill-understood phenomenon of knowledge that is based upon knowledge of meaning or conceptual competence.Finally, part four turns its attention from general issues about mental content to an account of a specific class of mental contents. It contains two widely discussed papers on the nature of colour concepts, and colour properties.

Emerson's Literary Philosophy

Emerson's Literary Philosophy
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 170
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ISBN-10 : 9783030549794
ISBN-13 : 3030549798
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Synopsis Emerson's Literary Philosophy by : Reza Hosseini

This book situates Ralph Waldo Emerson in the tradition of philosophy as “spiritual exercise”, arguing that the defining feature of his literary philosophy is the conviction that there is an inherent link between moral persuasion and literary excellence. Hosseini persuasively argues that the Emersonian project can be viewed as an extension of Socrates’ call for a return to the beginning of philosophy, to search for a way of revolutionizing our ways of seeing from within. Examining Emerson’s provocative style of writing, Hosseini contends that his prose is shaped by a desire to bring about psychagogia, or influencing the soul through the power of words. This book furthermore examines the evolving nature of Emerson’s thoughts on “scholarly action” and its implications, his religious temperament as an aesthetic experience of the world through wonder, and the reasons for a resounding acknowledgment of despair in his essay “Experience.” In the concluding chapter, Hosseini explores the depth of Emerson’s engagement with the classical Persian poets and argues that what we may call his “literary humanism” is informed by Persian Adab, exemplified in the writings of Rumi, Hafiz, and Saadi. Weaving together themes from Persian philosophy and Emersonian transcendentalism, Hosseini establishes Emerson’s way of seeing as refreshingly relevant, showing that the questions he tackled in his writings are as pressing today as they were in his time.

Essays on Philosophical Subjects

Essays on Philosophical Subjects
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Total Pages : 468
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ISBN-10 : NYPL:33433081631024
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Synopsis Essays on Philosophical Subjects by : Adam Smith

Modality and Tense

Modality and Tense
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 396
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ISBN-10 : 9780199278701
ISBN-13 : 0199278709
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Synopsis Modality and Tense by : Kit Fine

In this book, Kit Fine draws together a series of essays, three of them previously unpublished, on possibility, necessity, and tense.

Philosophical Papers

Philosophical Papers
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 586
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ISBN-10 : 9027709416
ISBN-13 : 9789027709417
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Synopsis Philosophical Papers by : Moritz Schlick

Philosophical Papers

Philosophical Papers
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : 0791418294
ISBN-13 : 9780791418291
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Synopsis Philosophical Papers by : Calvin O. Schrag

Insofar as three nineteenth century philosophers - in particular, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche - figured so decisively in the shaping of twentieth century continental thought, they too become part of the wider story being told.

The Philosophical Papers of Alan Donagan, Volume 1

The Philosophical Papers of Alan Donagan, Volume 1
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 0226155706
ISBN-13 : 9780226155708
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Synopsis The Philosophical Papers of Alan Donagan, Volume 1 by : Alan Donagan

A major voice in late twentieth-century philosophy, Alan Donagan is distinguished for his theories on the history of philosophy and the nature of morality. The Philosophical Papers of Alan Donagan, volumes 1 and 2, collect 28 of Donagan's most important and best-known essays on historical understanding and ethics from 1957 to 1991. Volume 1 includes essays on Spinoza, Descartes, Bradley, Collingwood, Russell, Moore, and Popper, as well as two previously unpublished papers on the history of philosophy as a discipline, and on Ryle and Wittgenstein's nature of philosophy. Linked by Donagan's commitment to the central importance of history for philosophy and his interest in problems of historical understanding, these essays represent the remarkable scope of Donagan's thought.