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Body, Mind and Self in Hume’s Critical Realism

Author : Fred Wilson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110327074
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Body, Mind and Self in Hume’s Critical Realism written by Fred Wilson and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay proposes that Hume’s non-substantialist bundle account of minds is basically correct. The concept of a person is not a metaphysical notion but a forensic one, that of a being who enters into the moral and normative relations of civil society. A person is a bundle but it is also a structured bundle. Hume’s metaphysics of relations is argued must be replaced by a more adequate one such as that of Russell, but beyond that Hume’s account is essentially correct. In particular it is argued that it is one’s character that constitutes one’s identity; and that sympathy and the passions of pride and humility are central in forming and maintaining one’s character and one’s identity as a person. But also central is one’s body: a person is an embodied consciousness: the notion that one’s body is essential to one’s identity is defended at length. Various concepts of mind and consciousness are examined - for example, neutral monism and intentionality - and also the concept of privacy and our inferences to other minds.

Body, Mind and Self in Hume's Critical Realism

Author : Fred Wilson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9783110327083
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Body, Mind and Self in Hume's Critical Realism written by Fred Wilson and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay proposes that Hume s non-substantialist bundle account of minds is basically correct. The concept of a person is not a metaphysical notion but a forensic one, that of a being who enters into the moral and normative relations of civil society. A person is a bundle but it is also a structured bundle. Hume s metaphysics of relations is argued must be replaced by a more adequate one such as that of Russell, but beyond that Hume s account is essentially correct. In particular it is argued that it is one s character that constitutes one s identity; and that sympathy and the passions of pride and humility are central in forming and maintaining one s character and one s identity as a person. But also central is one s body: a person is an embodied consciousness: the notion that one s body is essential to one s identity is defended at length. Various concepts of mind and consciousness are examined - for example, neutral monism and intentionality - and also the concept of privacy and our inferences to other minds."

The Bloomsbury Companion to Hume

Author : Alan Bailey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474243959
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Bloomsbury Companion to Hume written by Alan Bailey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Hume (1711-1776), philosopher, historian, and essayist, is widely considered to be Britain's greatest philosopher. One of the leading intellectual figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, his major works and central ideas, especially his radical empiricism and his critique of the pretensions of philosophical rationalism, remain hugely influential on contemporary philosophers. This comprehensive and accessible guide to Hume's life and work includes 21 specially commissioned essays, written by a team of leading experts, covering every aspect of Hume's thought. The Companion presents details of Hume's life, historical and philosophical context, providing students with a comprehensive overview of all the key themes and topics apparent in his work, including his accounts of causal reasoning, scepticism, the soul and the self, action, reason, free will, miracles, natural religion, politics, human nature, women, economics and history, and an account of his reception and enduring influence. This textbook is indispensable to anyone studying in the areas of Hume Studies, British, and eighteenth-century philosophy.

The Continuum Companion to Hume

Author : Alan Bailey
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441114610
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Continuum Companion to Hume written by Alan Bailey and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Hume (1711-1776), philosopher, historian, and essayist, is widely considered to be Britain's greatest philosopher.One of the leading intellectual figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, his major works and central ideas, especially his radical empiricism and his critique of the pretensions of philosophical rationalism, remain hugely influential on contemporary philosophers. This comprehensive and accessible guide to Hume's life and work includes 21 specially commissioned essays, written by a team of leading experts, covering every aspect of Hume's thought. The Companion presents details of Hume's life, historical and philosophical context, a comprehensive overview of all the key themes and topics apparent in his work, including his accounts of causal reasoning, scepticism, the soul and the self, action, reason, free will, miracles, natural religion, politics, human nature, women, economics and history, and an account of his reception and enduring influence. This is an essential reference tool for anyone working in the fields of Hume Studies and Eighteenth-Century Philosophy.

The Early Modern Subject

Author : Udo Thiel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191617334
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book The Early Modern Subject written by Udo Thiel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Early Modern Subject explores the understanding of self-consciousness and personal identity—two fundamental features of human subjectivity—as it developed in early modern philosophy. Udo Thiel presents a critical evaluation of these features as they were conceived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He explains the arguments of thinkers such as Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, Wolff, and Hume, as well as their early critics, followers, and other philosophical contemporaries, and situates them within their historical contexts. Interest in the issues of self-consciousness and personal identity is in many ways characteristic and even central to early modern thought, but Thiel argues here that this is an interest that continues to this day, in a form still strongly influenced by the conceptual frameworks of early modern thought. In this book he attempts to broaden the scope of the treatment of these issues considerably, covering more than a hundred years of philosophical debate in France, Britain, and Germany while remaining attentive to the details of the arguments under scrutiny and discussing alternative interpretations in many cases.

Studies in the philosophy of Herbert Hochberg

Author : Erwin Tegtmeier
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110330555
Total Pages : 251 pages
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Download or read book Studies in the philosophy of Herbert Hochberg written by Erwin Tegtmeier and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Hochberg is one of the most influential analytical philosophers and one of the most influential critics of analytical philosophy. He disputed with almost all leading analytical philosophers, from Quine, Goodman and Wilfrid Sellars to David Lewis and David Armstrong. His point of view is ontological and he harks back to the origins of analytical philosophy where he finds unknown precursors of current views. And he finds parallels to contemporary non-analytic philosophies. In his own ontology he tries to dispense with simple particulars.

Phenomenological Realism Versus Scientific Realism

Author : Javier Cumpa
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311032606X
Total Pages : 145 pages
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Download or read book Phenomenological Realism Versus Scientific Realism written by Javier Cumpa and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two eminent metaphysicians Armstrong and Grossmann exchanged letters for ten years in which they discussed crucial points of their respective ontologies. They have a common basis. Both do metaphysics proper and not linguistic philosophy. Both advocate universals and acknowledge the key position of the category of states of affairs. However, they differ on the simplicity of universals and the nature of states of affairs. There is also a fundamental methodological disagreement between them. Armstrong accepts only the evidence of natural science and has a materialist view on mind while Grossmann is a dualist and grants also the same evidential status to the phenomenological data of perception and introspection. The letters are grouped into three phases. The first is the issue of universals, the second the ontological analysis of laws of nature and the third the ontology of numbers. The book contains also longer comments and reviews, partly not published until now.

Idealist Alternatives to Materialist Philosophies of Science

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004415270
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Idealist Alternatives to Materialist Philosophies of Science written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idealist Alternatives to Materialist Philosophies of Science (ed. Philip MacEwen) presents some of the major challenges to materialist interpretations of science while also giving materialism a full hearing.

Tropes, Universals and the Philosophy of Mind

Author : Simone Gozzano
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110327112
Total Pages : 196 pages
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Download or read book Tropes, Universals and the Philosophy of Mind written by Simone Gozzano and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ontological debate on the nature of properties is alive as ever. Mainly, they are viewed either as universals or tropes (abstract particulars), an alternative with an immediate impact on what events are taken to be. Although much inquiry in philosophy of mind is done without a full awareness of it, some recent works suggest that the choice may have far-reaching consequences on central topics of this discipline, e.g., token physicalism, multiple realizability, mental causation, perception, introspection, self-awareness. This book explores the extent to which this is true with novel contributions by philosophers who have played a major role in bringing to the fore this interplay of foundational metaphysics and philosophical psychology and by other experts in these fields.

Truth in Fiction

Author : Franck Yann Lihoreau
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110326795
Total Pages : 315 pages
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Download or read book Truth in Fiction written by Franck Yann Lihoreau and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays collected in this volume are all concerned with the connection between fiction and truth. This question is of utmost importance to metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic and epistemology, raising in each of these areas and at their intersections a large number of issues related to creation, existence, reference, identity, modality, belief, assertion, imagination, pretense, etc. All these topics and many more are addressed in this collection, which brings together original essays written from various points of view by philosophers of diverse trends. These essays constitute major contributions to the current debates that the connection between truth and fiction continually enlivens, and give a sense of the directions in which research on this question is heading.

Modelling Metaphysics

Author : Uwe Meixner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110326086
Total Pages : 283 pages
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Download or read book Modelling Metaphysics written by Uwe Meixner and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book models and simulates metaphysics by presenting the metaphysics of a model. The small size of the model makes it possible to treat metaphysical matters with a more than usual systematicity and comprehensiveness. In the mirror of sustained analogy, simulation-metaphysics offers a wealth of insights on the real thing: on the doctrines, the methods, and the epistemology of metaphysics.

States of Affairs

Author : Maria Elisabeth Reicher
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110326027
Total Pages : 221 pages
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Download or read book States of Affairs written by Maria Elisabeth Reicher and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: States of affairs raise, among others, the following questions: What kind of entity are they (if there are any)? Are they contingent, causally efficacious, spatio-temporal and perceivable entities, or are they abstract objects? What are their constituents and their identity conditions? What are the functions that states of affairs are able to fulfil in a viable theory, and which problems and prima facie counterintuitive consequences arise out of an ontological commitment to them? Are there merely possible (non-actual, non-obtaining) states of affairs? Are there molecular (i.e., negative, conjunctive, disjunctive etc.) states of affairs? Are there modal and tensed states of affairs? In this volume, these and other questions are addressed by David M. Armstrong, Marian David, Herbert Hochberg, Uwe Meixner, L. Nathan Oaklander, Peter Simons, Erwin Tegtmeier and Mark Textor.

Robust Reality

Author : George Englebretsen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110325829
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Robust Reality written by George Englebretsen and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary analytic philosophy can generally be characterized by the following tendencies: commitment to first-order predicate logic as the only viable formal logic; rejection of correspondence theories of truth; a view of existence as something expressed by the existential quantifier; a metaphysics that doesn’t give the world as a whole its due. This book seeks to offer an alternative analytic theory, one that provides a unified account of what there is, how we speak about it, the underlying logic of our language, how the truth of what we say is determined, and the central role of the real world in all of this. The result is a robust account of reality. The inspiration for many of the ideas that constitute this overall theory comes from such sources as Aristotle, Leibniz, Ryle, and Sommers.

Causality and Motivation

Author : Roberto Poli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110329573
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Causality and Motivation written by Roberto Poli and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The belief is widely held that the physical world is causally-driven. The world is one because a tangled web of causally-driven processes keeps it together. However, both the psychological and the social worlds cannot be articulated in causal terms only. Hereby, “motivation” is used as the most general term referring to whatever keeps (synchronically) together and provides (diachronic) reasons explaining the behavior of psychological and social systems. In order to systematically address these problems, a categorical framework is needed for understanding the various types of realities populating the world and their multifarious interrelations. The papers collected in this volume dig into some of the intricacies presented by these problems. The papers here presented have been selected from those presented at the workshops bearing the very same name, “Causality and Motivation” organized in Bolzano and Rome.

Concepts of Sharedness

Author : Hans Bernhard Schmid
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110327171
Total Pages : 320 pages
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Download or read book Concepts of Sharedness written by Hans Bernhard Schmid and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Fifth Conference on Collective Intentionality held at the University of Helsinki August 31 to September 2, 2006 and two additional contributions. The common aim of the papers is to explore the structure of shared intentional attitudes, and to explain how they underlie the social, cultural and institutional world. The contributions to this volume explore the phenomenology of sharedness, the concept of sharedness, and also various aspects of the structure of collective intentionality in general, and of the intricate relations between sharedness and normativity in particular. Concepts of Sharedness shows how rich and lively the philosophical research focused on the analysis of collective intentionality has become, and will provide further inspiration for future work in this rapidly evolving field.

Fostering the Ontological Turn

Author : Rosaria Egidi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110325985
Total Pages : 276 pages
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Download or read book Fostering the Ontological Turn written by Rosaria Egidi and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gustav Bergmann (1906-1987) was, arguably, one of the greatest ontologists of the twentieth century. In 2006 and 2007, after a period of relative neglect, international conferences devoted solely to Bergmann's work were held at the University of Iowa in the USA, Université de Provence in France, and Università degli Studi di Roma Tre in Italy. The fifteen papers collected in this volume were presented at the third of these conferences, in Rome, and are here divided into three sections: "Categories of a realistic ontology", "World, mind, and relations", "Metaphysics of space and time".

Reason and Rationality

Author : Maria Cristina Amoretti
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110325861
Total Pages : 254 pages
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Download or read book Reason and Rationality written by Maria Cristina Amoretti and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reason and rationality represent crucial elements of the self-image of human beings and have unquestionably been among the most debated issues in Western philosophy, dating from ancient Greece, through the Middle Ages, and to the present day. Many words and thoughts have already been spent trying to define the nature and standards of reason and rationality, what they could or ought to be, and under what conditions something can be said to be rational. This volume focuses instead on the relationships of reason and rationality to some relevant specific topics, i.e., science, knowledge, gender, politics, ethics, religion, aesthetics, language, logic, and metaphysics, trying to uncover and clarify both the connections and differences in their various characterisations and uses.