ilość książek w kategorii: 109698
The Non-Reality of Free Will
ISBN: 9780195064971 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The traditional disputants in the free will discussion--the libertarian, soft determinist, and hard determinist--agree that free will is a coherent concept, while disagreeing on how the concept might be satisfied and whether it can, in fact, be satisfied. In this innovative analysis, Richard Double offers a bold new argument, rejecting all of the traditional theories and proposing that the concept of free will cannot be satisfied, no matter what the nature of reality. Arguing that there is unavoidable conflict within our understanding of moral responsibility and free choice, Double seeks to...
The traditional disputants in the free will discussion--the libertarian, soft determinist, and hard determinist--agree that free will is a coherent co...
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708,81 zł |
Reading Nietzsche
ISBN: 9780195066739 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Addressing the issue of how to read Nietzsche, this book presents an accessible series of essays for students and general readers on Nietzsche's individual works, written by such distinguished Nietzsche scholars as Frithjof Bergmann, Arthur Danto, Bernd Magnus, Christopher Middleton, Eric Blondel, Lars Gustaffson, Alexander Nehamas, Richard Schacht, Gary Shapiro, Hugh Silverman, and Ivan Soll. Among the works discussed are On the Genealogy of Morals, Beyond Good and Evil, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Twilight of the Idols and The Will to Power.
Addressing the issue of how to read Nietzsche, this book presents an accessible series of essays for students and general readers on Nietzsch...
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258,73 zł |
Particles and Waves: Historical Essays in the Philosophy of Science
ISBN: 9780195067552 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This volume brings together eleven essays by the distinguished philosopher of science, Peter Achinstein. The unifying theme is the nature of the philosophical problems surrounding the postulation of unobservable entities such as light waves, molecules, and electrons. How, if at all, is it possible to confirm scientific hypotheses about "unobservables"? Achinstein examines this question as it arose in actual scientific practice in three nineteenth-century episodes: the debate between particle and wave theorists of light, Maxwell's kinetic theory of gases, and J.J. Thomson's discovery of the...
This volume brings together eleven essays by the distinguished philosopher of science, Peter Achinstein. The unifying theme is the nature of the philo...
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411,14 zł |
Essays on the Philosophy of Socrates
ISBN: 9780195067576 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The last two decades have witnessed a virtual explosion of research in Socratic philosophy. This volume collects essays that represent the range and diversity of that vast literature, including historical and philosophical essays devoted to a single Platonic dialogue, as well as essays devoted to the Socratic method, Socratic epistemology, and Socratic ethics. With lists of suggested further readings, an extensive bibliography on recent Socratic research, and an index locorum, this unique and much-needed anthology makes the study of Socratic philosophy accessible to both scholars and...
The last two decades have witnessed a virtual explosion of research in Socratic philosophy. This volume collects essays that represent the range and d...
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158,76 zł |
Conversations with Nietzsche: A Life in the Words of His Contemporaries
ISBN: 9780195067781 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Nietzsche's friend, the philosopher Paul Ree, once said that Nietzsche was more important for his letters than for his books, and even more important for his conversations than for his letters. In Conversations with Nietzsche, Sander Gilman and David Parent present a fascinating selection of eighty-seven memoirs, anecdotes, and informal recollections by friends and acquaintances of Nietzsche. Translated from the definitive German collection, Begegnungen mit Nietzsche, these biographical pieces--some of which have never before appeared in English--cover the entire span of...
Nietzsche's friend, the philosopher Paul Ree, once said that Nietzsche was more important for his letters than for his books, and even more important ...
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358,74 zł |
Religious Convictions and Political Choice
ISBN: 9780195067798 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How far may Americans properly rely on their religious beliefs when they make and defend political decisions? For example, are ordinary citizens or legislators doing something wrong when they consciously allow their decisions respecting abortion laws to be determined by their religious views? Despite its intense contemporary relevance, the full dimensions of this issue have until now not been thoroughly examined. Religious Convictions and Political Choice represents the first attempt to fill this gap. Beginning with an account of the basic premises of our liberal democracy,...
How far may Americans properly rely on their religious beliefs when they make and defend political decisions? For example, are ordinary citizens or le...
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330,17 zł |
Image Ethics: The Moral Rights of Subjects in Photographs, Film, and Television
ISBN: 9780195067804 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This pathbreaking collection of thirteen original essays examines the moral rights of the subjects of documentary film, photography, and television. Image makers--photographers and filmmakers--are coming under increasing criticism for presenting images of people that are considered intrusive and embarrassing to the subject. Portraying subjects in a "false light," appropriating their images, and failing to secure "informed consent" are all practices that intensify the debate between advocates of the right to privacy and the public's right to know. Discussing these questions from a variety of...
This pathbreaking collection of thirteen original essays examines the moral rights of the subjects of documentary film, photography, and television. I...
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382,56 zł |
Zen and the Way of the Sword: Arming the Samurai Psyche
ISBN: 9780195068108 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Zen--serene, contemplative, a discipline of meditation associated with painting, rock gardens, and flower arranging--seems an odd ingredient in the martial psyche of the Japanese samurai. "One who is a samurai must before all things keep constantly in mind...the fact that he has to die," wrote a seventeenth-century warrior. "That is his chief business." But the demands of that "business," writes Winston King, found the perfect philosophical match in the teachings of Zen Buddhism.
In Zen and the Way of the Sword, King offers a fascinating look into the mind of the samurai swordsman in a... Zen--serene, contemplative, a discipline of meditation associated with painting, rock gardens, and flower arranging--seems an odd ingredient in the ma...
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156,28 zł |
In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture
ISBN: 9780195068528 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights. The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the many racially-charged images that have burst across our television screens in the last year alone, images that show that for all our complacent beliefs in a melting-pot society, race is as much of a problem as ever in America.
In this vastly important, widely-acclaimed volume, Kwame Anthony Appiah, a Ghanaian philosopher who now teaches at... The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles. The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heig...
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118,18 zł |
Philosophy, Politics, Autonomy: Essays in Political Philosophy
ISBN: 9780195069631 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. These remarkable essays include Cornelius Castoriadis's latest contributions to philosophy, political and social theory, classical studies, development theory, cultural criticism, science, and ecology. Examining the "co-birth" in ancient Greece of philosophy and politics, Castoriadis shows how the Greeks' radical questioning of established ideas and institutions gave rise to the "project of autonomy." The "end of philosophy" proclaimed by Postmodernism would mean the end of this project. That end is now hastened by the lethal expansion of technoscience, the waning of political and social...
These remarkable essays include Cornelius Castoriadis's latest contributions to philosophy, political and social theory, classical studies, developmen...
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709,67 zł |
Cities of the Gods: Communist Utopias in Greek Thought
ISBN: 9780195069839 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Modern studies of classical utopian thought are usually restricted to the Republic and Laws of Plato, producing the impression that Greek speculation about ideal states was invariably authoritarian and hierarchical. This book, however, sets Plato in the context of the whole ancient tradition of philosophical utopia. It distinguishes two types of Greek utopia, relating both to the social and the political background of Greece between the fifth and third centuries B.C. There was a lower utopianism, meant for literal implementation, which arose from the Greek colonizing...
Modern studies of classical utopian thought are usually restricted to the Republic and Laws of Plato, producing the impression that ...
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839,79 zł |
The Composition of Aristotle's Athenaion Politeia: Observation and Explanation
ISBN: 9780195070323 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Discovered one hundred years ago, Aristotle's Athenaion Politeia is invaluable to contemporary understanding of Athenian democracy. As a historical record, however, it has been found to be so unreliable that some have questioned its true authorship, and it has remained largely ignored by those studying philosophy and literature. Keaney uses a literary approach to reassert Aristotle's authorship and to present the Athenaion Politeia as a document that defies the constraints of any particular genre--probably never intended to be a piece of historical writing. He goes beyond...
Discovered one hundred years ago, Aristotle's Athenaion Politeia is invaluable to contemporary understanding of Athenian democracy. As a hist...
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363,51 zł |
The Nature of All Being: A Study of Wittgenstein's Modal Atomism
ISBN: 9780195071115 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this comprehensive study of Wittgenstein's modal theorizing, Bradley offers a radical reinterpretation of Wittgenstein's early thought and presents both an interpretive and a philosophical thesis. A unique feature of Bradley's analysis is his reliance on Wittgenstein's Notebooks, which he believes offer indispensable guidance to the interpretation of difficult passages in the Tractatus. Bradley then goes on to argue that Wittgenstein's account of modality--and the related notion of possible worlds--is in fact superior to any of the currently popular theories in this area....
In this comprehensive study of Wittgenstein's modal theorizing, Bradley offers a radical reinterpretation of Wittgenstein's early thought and presents...
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518,30 zł |
Springs of Action
ISBN: 9780195071146 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Tackling some central problems in the philosophy of action, Mele constructs an explanatory model for intentional behavior, locating the place and significance of such mental phenomena as beliefs, desires, reason, and intentions in the etiology of intentional action. Part One comprises a comprehensive examination of the standard treatments of the relations between desires, beliefs, and actions. In Part Two, Mele goes on to develop a subtle and well-defended view that the motivational role of intentions is of a different sort from that of beliefs and desires. Mele, also offers a provocative...
Tackling some central problems in the philosophy of action, Mele constructs an explanatory model for intentional behavior, locating the place and sign...
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744,53 zł |
Privacy, Intimacy, and Isolation
ISBN: 9780195071481 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Privacy is a puzzling concept. From the backyard to the bedroom, everyday life gives rise to an abundance of privacy claims. In the legal sphere, privacy is invoked with respect to issues including abortion, marriage, and sexuality. Yet privacy is surrounded by a mire of theoretical debate. Certain philosophers argue that privacy is neither conceptually nor morally distinct from other interests, while numerous legal scholars point to the apparently disparate interests involved in constitutional and tort privacy law. By arguing that intimacy is the core of privacy, including privacy law,...
Privacy is a puzzling concept. From the backyard to the bedroom, everyday life gives rise to an abundance of privacy claims. In the legal sphere, priv...
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756,44 zł |
Philosophical Interpretations
ISBN: 9780195071627 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Robert Fogelin here collects fifteen of his essays, organized around the theme of interpreting philosophical texts. The essays place particular emphasis on understanding the argumentative or dialectical role that passages play in the specific context in which they occur. The somewhat surprising result of taking this principle seriously is that certain traditional, well-worked texts are given a radical re-interpretation. Throughout the essays reprinted here, Fogelin argues that, when carefully read, the philosophical position under consideration has more merit than commonly believed. Included...
Robert Fogelin here collects fifteen of his essays, organized around the theme of interpreting philosophical texts. The essays place particular emphas...
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589,74 zł |
In Defense of the Accidental: Philosophical Studies
ISBN: 9780195072525 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The seven essays collected in this book address the history of modern ideas and contemporary cultural issues. The first is the discourse of Marquard's acceptance of the Sigmund Freud prize; the second addresses the equivalence of modernity and the theodicee; the third confronts the idea of "meaning"; the fourth considers the notion of world history; the fifth addresses world alienation; the sixth deals with the human sciences; and the seventh is a mediation on chance and luck as essential aspects of the human condition.
The seven essays collected in this book address the history of modern ideas and contemporary cultural issues. The first is the discourse of Marquard's...
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595,51 zł |
Creation and Abortion: A Study in Moral and Legal Philosophy
ISBN: 9780195072846 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Based on a non-consequentialist ethical theory, this book critically examines the prevalent view that if a fetus has the moral standing of a person, it has a right to life and abortion is impermissible. Most discussion of abortion has assumed that this view is correct, and so has focused on the question of the personhood of the fetus. Kamm begins by considering in detail the permissibility of killing in non-abortion cases which are similar to abortion cases. She goes on to consider the case for the permissibility of abortion in many types of pregnancies, including ones resulting from rape,...
Based on a non-consequentialist ethical theory, this book critically examines the prevalent view that if a fetus has the moral standing of a person, i...
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215,82 zł |
Morality and Moral Theory: A Reappraisal and Reaffirmation
ISBN: 9780195072921 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Contemporary philosophers have grown increasingly skeptical toward both morality and moral theory. Some argue that moral theory is a radically misguided enterprise that does not illuminate moral practice, while others simply deny the value of morality in human life. In this important new book, Louden responds to the arguments of both "anti-morality" and "anti-theory" skeptics. In Part One, he develops and defends an alternative conception of morality, which, he argues, captures more of the central features of both Aristotelian and Kantian ethics than do other contemporary models, and enables...
Contemporary philosophers have grown increasingly skeptical toward both morality and moral theory. Some argue that moral theory is a radically misguid...
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156,28 zł |
Contemporary Perspectives on Religious Epistemology
ISBN: 9780195073249 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This unique textbook--the first to offer balanced, comprehensive coverage of all major perspectives on the rational justification of religious belief--includes twenty-four key papers by some of the world's leading philosophers of religion. Arranged in six sections, each representing a major approach to religious epistemology, the book begins with papers by noted atheists, setting the stage for the main theistic responses--Wittgensteinian Fideism, Reformed epistemology, natural theology, prudential accounts of religious beliefs, and rational belief based in religious experience--in...
This unique textbook--the first to offer balanced, comprehensive coverage of all major perspectives on the rational justification of religiou...
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781,83 zł |