History of Scottish Philosophy

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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748628649
Total Pages : 400 pages
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Book Synopsis History of Scottish Philosophy by : Alexander Broadie

Download or read book History of Scottish Philosophy written by Alexander Broadie and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Saltire Society Scottish History Book of the Year 2009. Shortlisted for the Saltire Society Scottish Research Book of the Year 2009 This is the first-ever account of the full 700-year-old Scottish philosophical tradition. The book focuses on a number of philosophers in the period from the later-13th century until the mid-20th and attends especially to some brilliantly original texts. The book also indicates ways in which philosophy has been intimately related to other aspects of Scotland's culture. Among the greatest philosophers that Scotland has produced are John Duns Scotus, Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, Adam Smith and Thomas Reid. But there were many other fine, even brilliant philosophers who are less highly regarded, if they are noticed at all, such as John Mair, George Lokert, Frederick Ferrier, Andrew Seth, Norman Kemp Smith and John Macmurray. All these thinkers and many others are discussed in these pages. This clearly written and approachable book gives us a strong sense of the Scottish philosophical tradition.

Lectures on Modern Philosophy

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Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1920898867
Total Pages : 268 pages
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Book Synopsis Lectures on Modern Philosophy by : John Anderson

Download or read book Lectures on Modern Philosophy written by John Anderson and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These lectures from the 1930s on David Hume, Thomas Reid, and William James trace the development of John Anderson's empirical realism, helping to distinguish his position from "English" empiricism, Scottish commonsense and direct realism, radical empiricism and pragmatism. They also demonstrate Anderson's approach to the study of the history of philosophy. The lectures on David Hume place Anderson in direct opposition to his teacher and colleague at Edinburgh, Norman Kemp Smith, who heavily influenced the direction of Hume studies in the twentieth century. The lectures on Thomas Reid are unique in Anderson's works in addressing this seminal figure in the Scottish philosophical tradition, providing background reflections upon his own theory of mind as feeling, and arguing for the critical importance of Freud for contemporary philosophical realists. The lectures on William James offer a final accounting with this major American influence on Anderson's early philosophical development. For Anderson there can be no reconciliation between rationalism and empiricism. The view of the development modern philosophy as an emerging synthesis of these competing epistemological positions must be rejected. Rationalism is a persistent source of philosophical error and the philosophies of the so-called "empiricists" are fundamentally weakened by their rationalist assumptions. The very idea of providing a foundation for knowledge in notions of self-certainty represents an inherently rationalist project and must be rejected by any truly empiricist philosophy."--Provided by publisher.

Philosophical Investigations on Time, Space and the Continuum (Routledge Revivals)

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135175861
Total Pages : 174 pages
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Download or read book Philosophical Investigations on Time, Space and the Continuum (Routledge Revivals) written by Franz Brentano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franz Brentano is recognised as one of the most important philosophers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work, first published in English in 1988, besides being an important contribution to metaphysics in its own right, has considerable historical importance through its influence on Husserl’s views on internal time consciousness. The work is preceded by a long introduction by Stephan Körner in collaboration with Brentano’s literary executor.

Lectures on Modern Philosophy 1932-35

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Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1743321090
Total Pages : 268 pages
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Download or read book Lectures on Modern Philosophy 1932-35 written by John Anderson and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-08 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These lectures from the 1930s on David Hume, Thomas Reid and William James trace the development of John Anderson's empirical realism, helping to distinguish his position from "English" empiricism, Scottish commonsense and direct realism, radical empiricism and pragmatism. They also demonstrate Anderson's approach to the study of the history of philosophy. The lectures on David Hume place Anderson in direct opposition to his teacher and colleague at Edinburgh, Norman Kemp Smith, who heavily influenced the direction of Hume studies in the twentieth century. The lectures on Thomas Reid are unique in Anderson's works in addressing this seminal figure in the Scottish philosophical tradition, providing background reflections upon his own theory of mind as feeling, and arguing for the critical importance of Freud for contemporary philosophical realists. The lectures on William James offer a final accounting with this major American influence on Anderson's early philosophical development. For Anderson there can be no reconciliation between rationalism and empiricism. The view of the development modern philosophy as an emerging synthesis of these competing epistemological positions must be rejected. Rationalism is a persistent source of philosophical error and the philosophies of the so-called "empiricists" are fundamentally weakened by their rationalist assumptions. The very idea of providing a foundation for knowledge in notions of self-certainty represents an inherently rationalist project and must be rejected by any truly empiricist philosophy.

The British Quarterly Review

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
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Locke and Reid on Abstraction

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
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Curing the Philosopher's Disease

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Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761848118
Total Pages : 306 pages
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Download or read book Curing the Philosopher's Disease written by Richard H. Jones and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2009-09-28 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curing the Philosopher's Disease is a philosophical examination of the mysteries surrounding the foundations of science, philosophy, and religion. Much of Western philosophy and science is discussed in order to see our epistemological and metaphysical situation. The love/hate relation philosophers have with mystery is explored, as are the contributions of reductionists and antireductionists, postmodern relativists and critical realists, naturalists and the religious, and theologians and mystics. The thrust of the arguments affirms that there are limits to what philosophy, science, religion, and mystical experiences can tell us about reality. By acknowledging that some questions may be unanswerable and understanding the importance of that fact even as the answers remain ambiguous, our true situation in the world is revealed. Mystery should be reinstated as a basic feature when we reflect upon the nature of what we know and who we are. Mystery frames all of our claims to fundamental knowledge, and we must accept that it will remain a permanent fixture. Thus, the importance of mystery needs to be reaffirmed today, during an era when the fullness of reality is often ignored.

Merleau-Ponty and Environmental Philosophy

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791480240
Total Pages : 298 pages
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Book Synopsis Merleau-Ponty and Environmental Philosophy by : Suzanne L. Cataldi

Download or read book Merleau-Ponty and Environmental Philosophy written by Suzanne L. Cataldi and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Connects the work of Merleau-Ponty to environmental studies. This richly diverse collection looks at the contemporary relevance of the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to environmental issues and builds a coherent philosophical ecology based on his thought. The contributors describe and analyze relations within the natural world by focusing on the centrality of relations in Merleau-Ponty’s work; his concept of the bond between humanity and nature; and his novel philosophies of perception, embodiment, and “wild” Being. Eco-phenomenologies of living places such as Central Park in New York City, Midwestern farmlands, and communal household dwellings of Pacific Northwest Coast people are closely examined. The contributors also explore Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy for environmental ethics and develop notions such as vital values, somatic empathy, and interspecies sociality. Suzanne L. Cataldi is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and the author of Emotion, Depth, and Flesh: A Study of Sensitive Space: Reflections on Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy of Embodiment, also published by SUNY Press. William S. Hamrick is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and the author of the SUNY Press book Kindness and the Good Society: Connections of the Heart, winner of the 2004 Edward Goodwin Ballard Book Prize in Phenomenology.

The Philosophy of Fire Insurance

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
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Book Synopsis The Philosophy of Fire Insurance by : Albert Flandreau Dean

Download or read book The Philosophy of Fire Insurance written by Albert Flandreau Dean and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Philosophical Investigations on Space, Time and the Continuum

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Philosophical Investigations on Space, Time and the Continuum by : Franz Brentano

Download or read book Philosophical Investigations on Space, Time and the Continuum written by Franz Brentano and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Franz Brentano is recognised as one of the most important philosophers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work, first published in English in 1988, besides being an important contribution to metaphysics in its own right, has considerable historical importance through its influence on Husserl's views on internal time consciousness. The work is preceded by a long introduction by Stephan Körner in collaboration with Brentano's literary executor." -- Routledge.com

STACS 2000

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Total Pages : 576 pages
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The Philosophy of Anne Conway

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350134546
Total Pages : 225 pages
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Download or read book The Philosophy of Anne Conway written by Jonathan Head and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early modern philosopher Anne Conway offers a remarkable synthesis of ideas from differing philosophical traditions that deserve our attention today. Exploring all of the major aspects of Conway's thought, this book presents a valuable guide to her contribution to the history of philosophy. Through a close reading of her central text, Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (1690), it considers her intellectual context and addresses some of the outstanding interpretive issues concerning her philosophy. Contrasting her position with that of contemporaries such as Henry More, Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont and George Keith, it examines her critique of the prominent philosophical schools of the time, including Cartesian dualism and Hobbesian materialism. From her accounts of dualism, time and God to the often overlooked elements of her work such as her theory of freedom and salvation, The Philosophy of Anne Conway illuminates the ideas and legacy of an important early-modern woman philosopher.

Hermeneutic Philosophies of Social Science

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110551578
Total Pages : 638 pages
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Download or read book Hermeneutic Philosophies of Social Science written by Babette Babich and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hermeneutic philosophies of social science offer an approach to the philosophy of social science foregrounding the human subject and including attention to history as well as a methodological reflection on the notion of reflection, including the intrusions of distortions and prejudice. Hermeneutic philosophies of social science offer an explicit orientation to and concern with the subject of the human and social sciences. Hermeneutic philosophies of the social science represented in the present collection of essays draw inspiration from Gadamer’s work as well as from Paul Ricoeur in addition to Michel de Certeau and Michel Foucault among others. Special attention is given to Wilhelm Dilthey in addition to the broader phenomenological traditions of Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger as well as the history of philosophy in Plato and Descartes. The volume is indispensible reading for students and scholars interested in epistemology, philosophy of science, social social studies of knowledge as well as social studies of technology.

History of Philosophy Quarterly

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 498 pages
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Agreeable Connexions

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Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 1907909087
Total Pages : 299 pages
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Download or read book Agreeable Connexions written by Alexander Broadie and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scotland has played an immense role in European high culture through the centuries, and among its cultural links none have been greater than those with France. This book shows that the links with France stretch back deep into the Middle Ages, and continue without a break into the eighteenth century, the Age of Enlightenment. In one way or another all of the major figures of the Scottish Enlightenment were in close relation to France, and though this book attends to the broad picture of the cultural links binding the two countries, the focus is on certain individuals, especially David Hume, Thomas Reid, Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson, and certain of their French counterparts such as Montesquieu, Madame de Condorcet, Victor Cousin and Theodore Jouffroy. Prominent among the areas under discussion are scepticism and common sense, morality and the role of sympathy, and civil society and the question of what constitutes good citizenship. The book should appeal to all with an interest in the broad sweep of Scottish cultural history and more particularly in the country's Age of Enlightenment and its links with France.

The Philosophical System of Antonio Rosmini-Serbati

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Total Pages : 552 pages
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Immunology: The Making of a Modern Science

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Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080534538
Total Pages : 255 pages
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Download or read book Immunology: The Making of a Modern Science written by Richard B. Gallagher and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1995-07-14 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immunology has progressed in spectacular fashion in the last four decades. Studies of the response to infectious agents, transplanted organs and tumours (and the potential to manipulate that response), and the study of the immune system as a model system in molecular cell biology have yielded dramatic advances in our understanding of the mechanisms of immunity.The field has attracted a continuous stream of the brightest theoretical and experimental scientists for over forty years. This book conveys the philosophies and approaches of sixteen of the most successful of these scientists in the form of a series of narratives that describe the circumstances that led to a major discovery in immunology. Contributors not only recall an exciting period of research that helped shape modern immunology, but set it in the personal context of place and time. Jacques Miller, for example, describes the discovery of the function of the thymus, Rolf Zinkernagel explains how experiments on viral immunity led to the discovery of MHC restriction and Susumu Tonegawa provides an account of how antibody gene structure was defined. Medically-important discoveries include descriptions of early studies of autoimmunity by Noel Rose and of tumour immunology by George and Eva Klein.Far from being a collection of disinterested, historical accounts, this volume comprises a series of passionately biographical, personal essays that provide an unusually intimate insight into the scientific process. This book will be essential, and fascinating, reading for all those with an interest in immunology, and in the life sciences in general. For students and teachers, this will provide the background necessary for a true understanding of immunology, and to place subsequent discoveries in perspective.