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Reason and Analysis in Ancient Greek Philosophy

Author : Georgios Anagnostopoulos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400760043
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Reason and Analysis in Ancient Greek Philosophy written by Georgios Anagnostopoulos and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This distinctive collection of original articles features contributions from many of the leading scholars of ancient Greek philosophy. They explore the concept of reason and the method of analysis and the central role they play in the philosophies of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. They engage with salient themes in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and political theory, as well as tracing links between each thinker’s ideas on selected topics. The volume contains analyses of Plato’s Socrates, focusing on his views of moral psychology, the obligation to obey the law, the foundations of politics, justice and retribution, and Socratic virtue. On Plato’s Republic, the discussions cover the relationship between politics and philosophy, the primacy of reason over the soul’s non-rational capacities, the analogy of the city and the soul, and our responsibility for choosing how we live our own lives. The anthology also probes Plato’s analysis of logos (reason or language) which underlies his philosophy including the theory of forms. A quartet of reflections explores Aristotelian themes including the connections between knowledge and belief, the nature of essence and function, and his theories of virtue and grace. The volume concludes with an insightful intellectual memoir by David Keyt which charts the rise of analytic classical scholarship in the past century and along the way provides entertaining anecdotes involving major figures in modern academic philosophy. Blending academic authority with creative flair and demonstrating the continuing interest of ancient Greek philosophy, this book will be a valuable addition to the libraries of all those studying and researching the origins of Western philosophy.

Philosophical Analysis

Author : Max Black
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Analysis written by Max Black and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Unconscious Knowing and Other Essays in Psycho-Philosophical Analysis

Author : Linda Brakel
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199581479
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Unconscious Knowing and Other Essays in Psycho-Philosophical Analysis written by Linda Brakel and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Unconscious Knowing and Other Essays in Psycho-Philosophical Analysis', Linda Brakel tackles a range of fascinating and puzzling phenomena that lie at the border between psychoanalysis and philosophy of mind. These include - unconscious knowing, vagueness, agency, the placebo effect, and even explanation itself. Unique in its use of tools and concepts from both philosophy and psychoanalysis, the book demonstrates how this interdisciplinary approach can provide some unique solutions to some impenetrable problems. Following the introduction, chapter two on 'unconscious knowing' puts forward a radical epistemological view of knowledge and belief, providing evidence from psychoanalytic data and empirical research, using the subliminal method. Chapter three considers philosophical accounts of vagueness in relation to a-rational mentation, finding surprising similarities. In Chapter four, an original account of agency is developed whilst discovering that a central problem for analysands is quite analogous to an important philosophical problem: namely, when I am concerned with my own survival, just what is the nature of the 'me' of concern? In Chapter five the mysterious placebo effect is made more understandable in terms of the basic psychoanalytic concepts that are shown to underlie it. Finally, chapter six concludes the book with an examination of explanations in general, including those in the proceeding chapters. This is a book that will be of great interest to those within both psychoanalysis and philosophy of mind, offering up some compelling explanations for some puzzling phenomena.

Analytic Philosophy in America

Author : Scott Soames
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069117640X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Analytic Philosophy in America written by Scott Soames and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of recent and unpublished essays, leading analytic philosopher Scott Soames traces milestones in his field from its beginnings in Britain and Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, through its subsequent growth in the United States, up to its present as the world's most vigorous philosophical tradition. The central essay chronicles how analytic philosophy developed in the United States out of American pragmatism, the impact of European visitors and immigrants, the midcentury transformation of the Harvard philosophy department, and the rapid spread of the analytic approach that followed. Another essay explains the methodology guiding analytic philosophy, from the logicism of Frege and Russell through Wittgenstein's linguistic turn and Carnap's vision of replacing metaphysics with philosophy of science. Further essays review advances in logic and the philosophy of mathematics that laid the foundation for a rigorous, scientific study of language, meaning, and information. Other essays discuss W.V.O. Quine, David K. Lewis, Saul Kripke, the Frege-Russell analysis of quantification, Russell's attempt to eliminate sets with his "no class theory," and the Quine-Carnap dispute over meaning and ontology. The collection then turns to topics at the frontier of philosophy of language. The final essays, combining philosophy of language and law, advance a sophisticated originalist theory of interpretation and apply it to U.S. constitutional rulings about due process.

Philosophical Essays, Volume 1

Author : Scott Soames
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691136815
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Essays, Volume 1 written by Scott Soames and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 meaning and the philosophical significance of language. A judicious collection of old and new, these volumes include sixteen essays published in the 1980s and 1990s, nine published since 2000, and six new essays. The essays in Volume 1 investigate what linguistic meaning is; how the meaning of a sentence is related to the use we make of it; what we should expect from empirical theories of the meaning of the languages we speak; and how a sound theoretical grasp of the intricate relationship between meaning and use can improve the interpretation of legal texts. The essays in Volume 2 illustrate the significance of linguistic concerns for a broad range of philosophical topics--including the relationship between language and thought; the objects of belief, assertion, and other propositional attitudes; the distinction between metaphysical and epistemic possibility; the nature of necessity, actuality, and possible worlds; the necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori; truth, vagueness, and partial definition; and skepticism about meaning and mind. The two volumes of Philosophical Essays are essential for anyone working on the philosophy of language.

What is Value?

Author : Everett W. Hall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317829611
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book What is Value? written by Everett W. Hall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. This is Volume IV of six in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Anglo-American Philosophy series and focuses on value with an essay in Philosophical Analysis.

Philosophical Analysis and Human Welfare

Author : Dickinson S. Miller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401017921
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Analysis and Human Welfare written by Dickinson S. Miller and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I was Dickinson Miller's assistant from 1940 to 1942, I soon realized that I had encountered an unusually powerful, acute, and original mind and a writer whose clear but vivid style matched the high quality of his intelligence. These traits were apparent in his comments about eminent philosophers with whom he had associated - particularly William James but also Santayana, Dewey, Husserl, and Wittgenstein - and in the mutual criticism he demanded of his writing and my first efforts. I was pleased and felt immensely privileged to share in his planning of a book devoted to "analysis, the method of philosophy at work" as in his articles on the knowledge-problem, induction, and free will. In view of the penetration of his articles, such a book seemed long overdue as James had insisted even in 1905. When Miller's projected book on "analysis at work" did not appear by 1956, I consulted him about putting together a collection of his published essays. Such a collection seemed but slight homage to one who had made such a striking contribution to American philosophy in rela tion to James and one from whom I had learned so much. He felt, however, that such a collection would be inappropriate and preferred to concentrate on a book, never finished, on "the principles of practical intelligence", the application of intelligence in a "morality of results" for human welfare.

Philosophical Essays

Author : Scott Soames
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Essays written by Scott Soames and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 meaning and the philosophical significance of language. A judicious collection of old and new, these volumes include sixteen essays published in the 1980s and 1990s, nine published since 2000, and six new essays. The essays in Volume 1 investigate what linguistic meaning is; how the meaning of a sentence is related to the use we make of it; what we should expect from empirical theories of the meaning of the languages we speak; and how a sound theoretical grasp of the intricate relationship between meaning and use can improve the interpretation of legal texts. The essays in Volume 2 illustrate the significance of linguistic concerns for a broad range of philosophical topics--including the relationship between language and thought; the objects of belief, assertion, and other propositional attitudes; the distinction between metaphysical and epistemic possibility; the nature of necessity, actuality, and possible worlds; the necessary a posteriori and the contingent a priori; truth, vagueness, and partial definition; and skepticism about meaning and mind. The two volumes of Philosophical Essays are essential for anyone working on the philosophy of language.

Essays in Philosophical Analysis

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822975769
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Essays in Philosophical Analysis written by Nicholas Rescher and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1969-01-15 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents twenty essays by Nicholas Rescher, representing more than a decade of his work. The first part of the collection offers thoughts on the history of philosophy from the Presocratics to the twentieth century; the second part features essays on epistemology, the philosophy of science, metaphysics, the theory of historiography, and the logic of temporal concepts. Despite the range of topics, all essays are closely integrated at the methodological level.

Philosophical Provocations

Author : Colin McGinn
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262340100
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Philosophical Provocations written by Colin McGinn and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pithy, direct, and bold: essays that propose new ways to think about old problems, spanning a range of philosophical topics. In Philosophical Provocations, Colin McGinn offers a series of short, sharp essays that take on philosophical problems ranging from the concept of mind to paradox, altruism, and the relation between God and the Devil. Avoiding the usual scholarly apparatus and embracing a blunt pithiness, McGinn aims to achieve as much as possible in as short a space as possible while covering as many topics as possible. Much academic philosophical writing today is long, leaden, citation heavy, dense with qualifications, and painful to read. The essays in Philosophical Provocations are short, direct, and engaging, often challenging philosophical orthodoxy as they consider issues in mind, language, knowledge, metaphysics, biology, ethics, and religion. McGinn is looking for new ways to think about old problems. Thus he writes, about consciousness, “I think we have been all wrong,” and goes on to suggest that both consciousness and the unconscious are mysteries. Summing up his proposal on altruism, he remarks, “My suggestion can now be stated, somewhat brutally, as follows: human altruism is the result of parasitic manipulation.” He takes a moment to reflect: “I really don't know why it is good to be alive, though I am convinced that the standard suggestions don't work.” McGinn gets straight to the point and states his position with maximum clarity. These essays offer provocative invitations to think again.

Essays in Ancient Philosophy

Author : Michael Frede
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816612757
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)

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Download or read book Essays in Ancient Philosophy written by Michael Frede and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text contains seventeen papers written by the author over the course of the last twelve years on the topic of philosophy.

Problems of Analysis

Author : Max Black
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Problems of Analysis written by Max Black and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1971-11-24 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Propositions, Functions, and Analysis

Author : Peter Hylton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191515965
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Propositions, Functions, and Analysis written by Peter Hylton and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-09-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of Bertrand Russell had a decisive influence on the emergence of analytic philosophy, and on its subsequent development. The essays collected in this volume, by one of the leading authorities on Russell's philosophy, all aim at recapturing and articulating aspects of Russell's philosophical vision during his most influential and important period, the two decades following his break with Idealism in 1899. One theme of the collection concerns Russell's views about propositions and their analysis, and the relation of those ideas to his rejection of Idealism. Another theme is the development of Russell's logicism, culminating in Whitehead's and Russell's Principia Mathematica, and Hylton offers a revealing view of the conception of logic which underlies it. Here again there is an emphasis on Russell's argument against Idealism, on the idea that his logicism was a crucial part of that argument. A further focus of the volume is Russell's views about functions and propositional functions. This theme is part of a contrast that Hylton draws between Russell's general philosophical position and that of Frege; in particular, there is a close parallel with the quite different views that the two philosophers held about the nature of philosophical analysis. Hylton also sheds valuable light on the much-disputed idea of an operation, which Wittgenstein advances in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.

Essays in the Philosophical Analysis

Author : Seiji Ueda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Essays in the Philosophical Analysis written by Seiji Ueda and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mortal Questions (Canto Classics)

Author : Thomas Nagel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107604710
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book Mortal Questions (Canto Classics) written by Thomas Nagel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface Sources 1 Death 2 The absurd 3 Moral luck 4 Sexual perversion 5 War and massacre 6 Ruthlessness in public life 7 The policy of preference 8 Equality 9 The fragmentation of value 10 Ethics without biology 11 Brain bisection and the unity of consciousness 12 What is it like to be a bat? 13 Panpsychism 14 Subjective and objective Index.

Exercises in Analysis

Author : Ian Hacking
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521256841
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book Exercises in Analysis written by Ian Hacking and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-01-31 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a volume of specially commissioned essays of analytical philosophy, on topics of current interest in ethics and the philosophy of logic and language. Among the topics discussed are the making of wicked promises, G. E. Moore's early ethical views, as well as indexicals, tense, indeterminism, conventionalism in mathematics, and identity and necessity. The essays are all by former students of Casimir Lewy, until recently Reader in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and an exponent of a particularly thoroughgoing form of philosophical analysis. Together, they represent some of the best work in these areas at present, and express what may be described as a characteristic 'Cambridge' voice.

Categorial Analysis

Author : E. Maynard Adams
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469643855
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Categorial Analysis written by E. Maynard Adams and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume have been selected for their contribution to Everett W. Hall's mature philosophical position, which was grounded in careful linguistic analysis and directed toward philosophically clarifying the major areas of culture. He emerges as skillful, meticulous, and patient in his exploration of language as a means of interpreting the categorial structure of the world. Originally published in 1964. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.