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Author : Panayot Butchvarov
Publisher : Panayot Butchvarov
ISBN 13 : 9780810103191
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Concept of Knowledge written by Panayot Butchvarov and published by Panayot Butchvarov. This book was released on 1970 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Panayot Butchvarov
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1614519471
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Anthropocentrism in Philosophy written by Panayot Butchvarov and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropocentrism in philosophy is deeply paradoxical. Ethics investigates the human good, epistemology investigates human knowledge, and antirealist metaphysics holds that the world depends on our cognitive capacities. But humans’ good and knowledge, including their language and concepts, are empirical matters, whereas philosophers do not engage in empirical research. And humans are inhabitants, not 'makers', of the world. Nevertheless, all three (ethics, epistemology, and antirealist metaphysics) can be drastically reinterpreted as making no reference to humans.
Author : Panayot Butchvarov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780783787183
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (871 download)
Download or read book Being Qua Being written by Panayot Butchvarov and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lewis Edwin Hahn
Publisher : Library of Living Philosophers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Philosophy of P.F. Strawson written by Lewis Edwin Hahn and published by Library of Living Philosophers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-sixth volume in the highly acclaimed Library of Living Philosophers series is devoted to the work of British philosopher of logic and metaphysician, P. F. Strawson. Following the Library of Living Philosophers series format, the volume contains an intellectual autobiography, twenty critical and descriptive essays by leading philosophers from around the world, Strawson's replies to the essays, and a bibliography of Strawson's works. Born in 1919, Strawson was a leading proponent of ordinary language philosophy. He is the author of the early and extremely influential paper "On Referring" in which he criticized Russell's theory of definite descriptions. His most influential book, Individuals, helped to raise the status of metaphysics as a philosophical enterprise. Themes first addressed in this book continued to be of concern to him in his later work, including the possibility of objective knowledge, the subject-predicate distinction, the ontological status of persons, and the problem of individuation. Contributors to the book include: Ruth Garrett Millikan, Susan Haack, E. M. Adams, Panayot Butchvarov, Richard Behling, John McDowell, Simon Blackburn, Tadeusz Szubka, David Frederick Haight, Joseph S. Wu, Andrew G. Black, David Pears, Robert Boyd, Hilary Putnam, Paul F. Snowdon, Arindam Chakrabarti, Wenceslao J. Gonzalez, Ernest Sosa, Chung-M. Tse, John R. Searle, P. F. Strawson.
Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268102929
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)
Download or read book Metaphysical Perspectives written by Nicholas Rescher and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Metaphysical Perspectives, Nicholas Rescher offers a grand vision of how to conceptualize, and in some cases answer, some of the most fundamental issues in metaphysics and value theory. Rescher addresses what he sees as the three prime areas of metaphysical concern: (1) the world as such and the architecture of nature at large, (2) ourselves as nature's denizens and our potential for learning about it, and (3) the transcendent domain of possibility and value. Rescher engages issues across a wide range of metaphysical themes, from different worldviews and ultimate questions to contingency and necessity, intelligent design and world-improvability, personhood and consciousness, empathy and other minds, moral obligation, and philosophical methodology. Over the course of this book, Rescher discusses, with his characteristic fusion of idealism and pragmatism, an integrated overview of the key philosophical problems grounded in an idealistically value-oriented approach. His discussion seeks to shed new light on philosophically central issues from a unified point of view.
Author : Richard M. Gale
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470998970
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics written by Richard M. Gale and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics is a definitive introduction to the core areas of metaphysics. It brings together sixteen internationally respected philosophers that demonstrate how metaphysics is done as they examine topics including causation, temporality, ontology, personal identity, idealism, and realism.
Author : David Weissman
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791401309
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Hypothesis and the Spiral of Reflection written by David Weissman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes a realist, fallibilist alternative when intuitionism and its psychocentric ontology are rejected. Weissman proposes an agenda for metaphysical inquiry and also a method for testing metaphysical claims. Arguing that science and metaphysics are successive refinements of the maps and plans used in practical life, he affirms that metaphysics is to complete our self-understanding by locating us within a world we have not made. This book is a sequel to Intuition and Ideality which surveys the many versions of intuitionism--intuitionism as it prescribes that reality be identified with mind itself or with the things set before our inspecting mind.
Author : American Philosophical Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985974817
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Presidential Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 1991-2000 written by American Philosophical Association and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1900 to promote the exchange of ideas among philosophers, to encourage creative and scholarly activity in philosophy, to facilitate the professional work and teaching of philosophers, and to represent philosophy as a discipline, the American Philosophical Association (APA) has from a few hundred members to more than ten thousand, now being one of the largest philosophical societies in the world and the only American philosophical society not devoted to a single special school or philosophical approach. In 1999, in anticipation of its centennial, the APA authorized philosopher Richard T. Hull to collect and publish the presidential addresses delivered over the course of the first hundred years of the APA. This is the tenth volume in the series, which covers addresses given between 1991 and 2000. Each presidential address is accompanied by a photo and biography of the author , a chronology of the APA, a list of presidents per decade, a list of universities and colleges closely associated with each president, and name and subject indexes. Distinguished philosophers represented in this volume include Annette Baier, Stuart Hampshire, Judith Thompson, Stanley Cavell, Mary Mothersill, Elliott Sober, Martha Nussbaum, and many others. This unique record of the development and leadership of American philosophy during the twentieth century will complement the libraries of both professional philosophers and interested non-professionals and it provides an excellent resource for students and professionals alike to trace the history of special interest areas in philosophy. An eleventh volume of commissioned essays, covering each decade of The Association's first hundred years, is planned. This will include essays that comment on the philosophical trends represented in each of the decades of the APA's first century.
Author : W.F. Vallicella
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401705887
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book A Paradigm Theory of Existence written by W.F. Vallicella and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heart of philosophy is metaphysics, and at the heart of the heart lie two questions about existence. What is it for any contingent thing to exist? Why does any contingent thing exist? Call these the nature question and the ground question, respectively. The first concerns the nature of the existence of the contingent existent; the second concerns the ground of the contingent existent. Both questions are ancient, and yet perennial in their appeal; both have presided over the burial of so many of their would-be undertakers that it is a good induction that they will continue to do so. For some time now, the preferred style in addressing such questions has been deflationary when it has not been eliminativist. Ask Willard Quine what existence is, and you will hear that "Existence is what existential quantification expresses. "! Ask Bertrand Russell what it is for an individual to exist, and he will tell you that an individual can no more exist than it can be numerous: there 2 just is no such thing as the existence of individuals. And of course Russell's eliminativist answer implies that one cannot even ask, on pain of succumbing to the fallacy of complex question, why any contingent individual exists: if no individual exists, there can be no question why any individual exists. Not to mention Russell's modal corollary: 'contingent' and 'necessary' can only be said de dicto (of propositions) and not de re (of things).
Author : H. L. Dyke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401735301
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Time and Ethics written by H. L. Dyke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a pressing need for an investigation into how time and ethics impact on each other. This book leads the way in addressing that need. The essays in this collection raise and investigate some of the key issues that arise at the intersection between these two areas of philosophy. It is for undergraduates, postgraduates and professional philosophers.
Author : Terry Horgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199269904
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Metaethics After Moore written by Terry Horgan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaethics is concerned to answer second-order non-moral questions about the semantics, metaphysics, and epistemology of moral thought and discourse and is often traced to G.E. Moore work. These essays represent the most up to date work in the field, after and in some cases directly inspired by Moore.
Author : Jan Dejnozka
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780822630531
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Ontology of the Analytic Tradition and Its Origins written by Jan Dejnozka and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The analytic movement advertised its 'linguistic turn' as a radical break from the two-thousand-year-old substance tradition. But this is an illusion. On the fundamental level of ontology, there is enough reformulation and presupposition of traditional 'no entity without identity' themes to analogize Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, and Quine to Aristotle as paradigmatic of modified realism. Thus the pace of ontology is glacial. Frege and Russell, not Wittgenstein and Quine, emerge as the true analytic progenitors of 'no entity without identity, ' offering between them at least twenty-nine private language arguments and sixty-four 'no entity without identity' theories
Author : Noah M. Lemos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052146207X
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Intrinsic Value written by Noah M. Lemos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-09-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the justification of our beliefs about intrinsic value.
Author : Charles Taylor
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674664760
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (647 download)
Download or read book Philosophical Arguments written by Charles Taylor and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995-02-24 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Taylor is one of the most important English-language philosophers at work today; he is also unique in the philosophical community in applying his ideas on language and epistemology to social theory and political problems. In this book Taylor brings together some of his best essays, including "Overcoming Epistemology," "The Validity of Transcendental Argument," "Irreducibly Social Goods," and "The Politics of Recognition." As usual, his arguments are trenchant, straddling the length and breadth of contemporary philosophy and public discourse. The strongest theme running through the book is Taylor's critique of disengagement, instrumental reason, and atomism: that individual instances of knowledge, judgment, discourse, or action cannot be intelligible in abstraction from the outside world. By developing his arguments about the importance of "engaged agency," Taylor simultaneously addresses themes in philosophical debate and in a broader discourse of political theory and cultural studies. The thirteen essays in this collection reflect most of the concerns with which he has been involved throughout his career--language, ideas of the self, political participation, the nature of modernity. His intellectual range is extraordinary, as is his ability to clarify what is at stake in difficult philosophical disputes. Taylor's analyses of liberal democracy, welfare economics, and multiculturalism have real political significance, and his voice is distinctive and wise.
Author : Ramon M. Lemos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813013664
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (136 download)
Download or read book The Nature of Value written by Ramon M. Lemos and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the central theses of this book is that value is neither identical with nor reducible to psychological phenomena such as liking or disliking, preferring, evaluating, and valuing or disvaluing. He examines various kinds of value, the place of moral value within them, the ontological status of the bearers of value, and the relationship between morality and rationality. In clear writing he defines the issues he considers, sets out his position, and supports his views with original arguments that display his awareness of the history of moral philosophy.
Author : Robert Audi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781107015050
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy written by Robert Audi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the leading, full-scale comprehensive dictionary of philosophical terms and thinkers to appear in English in more than half a century. Written by a team of more than 550 experts and now widely translated, it contains approximately 5,000 entries ranging from short definitions to longer articles. It is designed to facilitate the understanding of philosophy at all levels and in all fields. Key features of this third edition: • 500 new entries covering Eastern as well as Western philosophy, and covering individual countries such as China, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain • Increased coverage of such growing fields as ethics and philosophy of mind • More than 100 new intellectual portraits of leading contemporary thinkers • Wider coverage of Continental philosophy • Dozens of new technical concepts in cognitive science and other areas • Enhanced cross-referencing to add context and increase understanding • Expansions in both text and index to facilitate research and browsing
Author : Stephan Körner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521264969
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (649 download)
Download or read book Metaphysics written by Stephan Körner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-09-06 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an ambitious and substantial study of metaphysics: its nature and inescapability. Professor Körner's method may be described as 'philosophical anthropology', and aims to arrive at a characterisation of the metaphysical beliefs with which we (have to) operate. Professor Körner begins by describing how the categorical framework of a person's metaphysical beliefs may be embedded in more ordinary beliefs and practical attitudes to the world. He illustrates the variety of such frameworks and describes their role, going on to explain how they may be modified by argument and reflection. This is an independent inquiry, but also the culmination of a series of Professor Körner's earlier works. The writing is extremely clear and the material sensitively controlled, revealing great learning and many suggestive insights and comparisons. It presents overall a comprehensive and carefully thought-out account of metaphysics.
