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Author : Melinda Bollar Wagner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Metaphysics in Midwestern America written by Melinda Bollar Wagner and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Curtis White
Publisher : Sun & Moon
ISBN 13 : 9781557130440
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Metaphysics in the Midwest written by Curtis White and published by Sun & Moon. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter A. French
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816608881
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Studies in Metaphysics written by Peter A. French and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies in Metaphysics was first published in 1979. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
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Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Midwest Studies in Philosophy written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hud Hudson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801438899
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (388 download)
Download or read book A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person written by Hud Hudson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hud Hudson presents an innovative view of the metaphysics of human persons according to which human persons are material objects but not human organisms. In developing his account, he formulates and defends a unique collection of positions on parthood, persistence, vagueness, composition, identity, and various puzzles of material constitution.The author also applies his materialist metaphysics to issues in ethics and in the philosophy of religion. He examines the implications for ethics of his metaphysical views for standard arguments addressing the moral permissibility of our treatment of human persons and their parts, fetuses and infants, the irreversibly comatose, and corpses. He argues that his metaphysics provides the best foundation in the philosophy of religion for the Christian doctrine of the resurrection of the body.Hudson addresses a broad range of metaphysical issues, but among his most strikingly original contributions are his defense of the "Partist" view (according to which a material object can exactly occupy multiple, overlapping regions of spacetime) and his argument for the compatibility of Christianity with a materialistic theory of human persons.
Author : James K. Dew, Jr.
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1493416839
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)
Download or read book Philosophy written by James K. Dew, Jr. and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two experienced educators offer an up-to-date introduction to philosophy from a Christian perspective that covers the four major areas of philosophical thought: epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and ethics. Written from an analytic perspective, the book introduces key concepts and issues within the main areas of philosophical inquiry in a comprehensive yet accessible way, inviting readers on a quest for goodness, truth, and beauty that ultimately points to Jesus as the source of all.
Author : Matthew Slater
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199363226
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science written by Matthew Slater and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of the proper role of metaphysics in philosophy of science is both significant and contentious. The last few decades have seen considerable engagement with philosophical projects aptly described as "the metaphysics of science:" inquiries into natural laws and properties, natural kinds, causal relations, and dispositions. At the same time, many metaphysicians have begun moving in the direction of more scientifically-informed ("scientistic" or "naturalistic") metaphysics. And yet many philosophers of science retain a deep suspicion about the significance of metaphysical investigations into science. This volume of new essays explores a broadly methodological question: what role should metaphysics play in our philosophizing about science? These new essays, written by leading philosophers of science, address this question both through ground-level investigations of particular issues in the metaphysics of science and by more general methodological inquiry.
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Total Pages : 1222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Short Story Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary Gutting
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521856213
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book What Philosophers Know written by Gary Gutting and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon the work of Quine, Rawls, Rorty and others, Gutting challenges the standard view about what philosophers have achieved.
Author : Peter A. French
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816612129
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Contemporary Perspectives on the History of Philosophy written by Peter A. French and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary Perspectives on the History of Philosophy was first published in 1983. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The authors of the 27 appears in Volume 8, Midwest Studies in Philosophy,have established reputations as historians of philosophy, but their vantage point, here, is from "contemporary perspectives" - they use contemporary analytic skills to examine problems and issues considered by past philosophers. The papers, arranged in historical order, fall into six groups: ancient philosophy (the Pythagoreans, Plato, and Aristotle); the seventeenth-century rationalists (Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza); the empiricists (Locke, Berkeley, and Hume); Kant; the nineteenth century (Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Mill); and, in conclusion, an essay on Wittgenstein's Tractatus and two broad, retrospective papers entitled "Old Analyses of the Physical World and new Philosophies of Language" and "Moral Crisis and the History of Ethics."
Author : Francesco Federico Calemi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110455005
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Metaphysics and Scientific Realism written by Francesco Federico Calemi and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Malet Armstrong (8 July 1926–13 May 2014) has been one of the most influential contemporary metaphysicians working in the analytic tradition and surely the greatest 20th century Australian philosopher. His main merit is to have reestablished metaphysics as a respectable branch of philosophy placing it at the centre of the philosophical debate, and giving it the status of an authoritative and competent interlocutor of both rational and empirical sciences. By means of a rigorously argumentative approach and a sharp prose, Armstrong has built a whole metaphysical system, that is, a comprehensive and unified picture of the fundamental structure of the world. The various chapters of the book address the key issues concerning Armstrong' view about the problem of universals, the nature of states of affairs, the ontological ground of possibility, nomic necessity, and dispositions, the truthmaker theory, and the theory of mind. This volume aims to celebrate Armstrong’s memory bringing new understanding, and hopefully stimulating more work, on his philosophy, with the conviction that it constitutes an invaluable heritage for contemporary research in metaphysics.
Author : Helen Beebee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136975764
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)
Download or read book The Semantics and Metaphysics of Natural Kinds written by Helen Beebee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-05-05 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essentialism--roughly, the view that natural kinds have discrete essences, generating truths that are necessary but knowable only a posteriori--is an increasingly popular view in the metaphysics of science. At the same time, philosophers of language have been subjecting Kripke’s views about the existence and scope of the necessary a posteriori to rigorous analysis and criticism. Essentialists typically appeal to Kripkean semantics to motivate their radical extension of the realm of the necessary a posteriori; but they rarely attempt to provide any semantic arguments for this extension, or engage with the critical work being done by philosophers of language. This collection brings authors on both sides together in one volume, thus helping the reader to see the connections between views in philosophy of language on the one hand and the metaphysics of science on the other. The result is a book that will have a significant impact on the debate about essentialism, encouraging essentialists to engage with debates about the semantic presuppositions that underpin their position, and, encouraging philosophers of language to engage with the metaphysical presuppositions enshrined in Kripkean semantics.
Author : G. W. Fitch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317489160
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Saul Kripke written by G. W. Fitch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saul Kripke is one of the most original and creative philosophers writing today. His work has had a tremendous impact on the direction that philosophy has taken in the last thirty years and continues to dominate some of its most fundamental aspects. Given Kripke's importance it is perhaps surprising that there is no introduction to his philosophy available to the general student. This book fills that gap. As much of Kripke's work is highly technical, the book's central aim is to provide clear exposition of Kripke's ideas in a form that is understandable to a beginning readership as well as a commentary on them that more advanced students will find useful. The book begins with a discussion of Kripke's early work on modal logic, which provides the foundation for many of his later philosophical contributions, before examining in detail Kripke's central ideas and arguments contained in Naming and Necessity. In further chapters, Kripke's work on semantic paradoxes and his theory of truth are outlined as well as his controversial interpretation of Wittgenstein's famous private language argument. Kripke's ideas are situated alongside those of his precursors and some of the most important and interesting responses to them are explored. The reader is thus able to appreciate the path-breaking nature of Kripke's contributions, how they have challenged fundamentally traditional interpretations, and how they have sparked some of the most important philosophical debates of recent years.
Author : Peter A. French
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816611297
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Social and Political Philosophy written by Peter A. French and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social and Political Philosophy was first published in 1982. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
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Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Who's who in the Midwest written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Daly
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1460401174
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Philosophical Methods written by Christopher Daly and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Philosophical Methods is the first book to survey the various methods that philosophers use to support their views. Rigorous yet accessible, the book introduces and illustrates the methodological considerations that are involved in current philosophical debates. Where there is controversy, the book presents the case for each side, but highlights where the key difficulties with them lie. While eminently student-friendly, the book makes an important contribution to the debate regarding the acceptability of the various philosophical methods, and so it will also be of interest to more experienced philosophers.
Author : Arif Ahmed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316060810
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Evidence, Decision and Causality written by Arif Ahmed and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most philosophers agree that causal knowledge is essential to decision-making: agents should choose from the available options those that probably cause the outcomes that they want. This book argues against this theory and in favour of evidential or Bayesian decision theory, which emphasises the symptomatic value of options over their causal role. It examines a variety of settings, including economic theory, quantum mechanics and philosophical thought-experiments, where causal knowledge seems to make a practical difference. The arguments make novel use of machinery from other areas of philosophical inquiry, including first-person epistemology and the free will debate. The book also illustrates the applicability of decision theory itself to questions about the direction of time and the special epistemic status of agents.
