ilość książek w kategorii: 109458
Submitting to Freedom: The Religious Vision of William James
ISBN: 9780195074260 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Ramsey presents a new analysis and interpretation of the religious views of the nineteenth-century American philosopher William James. He argues that James was primarily motivated by religious concerns in his writings and that this fact has been obscured by the artificial scholarly division of his "philosophy," "psychology," and "religion"--a symptom of the professionalization which James himself strenuously resisted in his own time. Ramsey believes that James is best understood in his historical context, as a representative of a society and culture struggling to come to terms with modernity....
Ramsey presents a new analysis and interpretation of the religious views of the nineteenth-century American philosopher William James. He argues that ...
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431,35 zł |
The Ethics of Reproductive Technology
ISBN: 9780195074352 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This timely anthology helps students examine the normative and conceptual issues raised by recent innovations in human reproduction, including in vitro fertilization, embryo transfer, and surrogate motherhood. Broad-based and interdisciplinary, it gathers together essays of remarkable depth and philosophical sophistication by legal scholars, health care professionals, scientists, and theologians as well as philosophers, paying particular attention to women's perspectives and to issues that concern women. Organized around issues rather than techniques and featuring unusually clear...
This timely anthology helps students examine the normative and conceptual issues raised by recent innovations in human reproduction, including in ...
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802,68 zł |
The Concept of Identity
ISBN: 9780195074741 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A collection of the author's essays on various issues in philosophy, which focuses on identity in particular and metaphysics in general.
A collection of the author's essays on various issues in philosophy, which focuses on identity in particular and metaphysics in general.
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455,78 zł |
Love's Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature
ISBN: 9780195074857 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume brings together Nussbaum's published papers on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. The papers, many of them previously inaccessible to non-specialist readers, deal with such fundamental issues as the relationship between style and content in the exploration of ethical issues; the nature of ethical attention and ethical knowledge and their relationship to written forms and styles; and the role of the emotions in deliberation and self-knowledge. Nussbaum investigates and defends a conception of ethical understanding which involves...
This volume brings together Nussbaum's published papers on the relationship between literature and philosophy, especially moral philosophy. The papers...
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275,02 zł |
By the Grace of Guile: The Role of Deception in Natural History and Human Affairs
ISBN: 9780195075083 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The nihilists are right, admits philosopher Loyal Rue. The universe is blind and aimless, indifferent to us and void of meaning. There are no absolute truths and no objective values. There is no right or wrong way to live, only alternative ways. There is no correct reading of a text or a picture or a dance. God is dead, nihilism reigns. But, Rue adds, nihilism is a truth inconsistent with personal happiness and social coherence. What we need instead is a new myth, a noble lie. Only a noble lie can save us from the psychological and social chaos now threatened by the spread of skepticism about...
The nihilists are right, admits philosopher Loyal Rue. The universe is blind and aimless, indifferent to us and void of meaning. There are no absolute...
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143,05 zł |
The Genealogy of Disjunction
ISBN: 9780195075243 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is a comprehensive study of the English word or, and the logical operators variously proposed to present its meaning. Although there are indisputably disjunctive uses of or in English, it is a mistake to suppose that logical disjunction represents its core meaning. Or is descended from the Anglo-Saxon word meaning second, a form which survives in such expressions as "every other day." Its disjunctive uses arise through metalinguistic applications of an intermediate adverbial meaning which is conjunctive rather than disjunctive in character. These...
This is a comprehensive study of the English word or, and the logical operators variously proposed to present its meaning. Although there are...
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228,54 zł |
Essays on the Philosophy and Science of René Descartes
ISBN: 9780195075502 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A major contribution to Descartes studies, this book provides a panorama of cutting-edge scholarship ranging widely over Descartes's own primary concerns: metaphysics, physics, and its applications. It is at once a tool for scholars and--steering clear of technical Cartesian science--an accessible resource that will delight nonspecialists. The contributors include Edwin Curley, Willis Doney, Alan Gabbey, Daniel Garber, Marjorie Grene, Gary Hatfield, Marleen Rozemond, John Schuster, Dennis Sepper, Stephen Voss, Stephen Wagner, Margaret Welson, Jean Marie Beyssade, Michelle Beyssade, Michel...
A major contribution to Descartes studies, this book provides a panorama of cutting-edge scholarship ranging widely over Descartes's own primary conce...
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910,15 zł |
Essays on the Philosophy and Science of René Descartes
ISBN: 9780195075519 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A major contribution to Descartes studies, this book provides a panorama of cutting-edge scholarship ranging widely over Descartes's own primary concerns: metaphysics, physics, and its applications. It is at once a tool for scholars and--steering clear of technical Cartesian science--an accessible resource that will delight nonspecialists. The contributors include Edwin Curley, Willis Doney, Alan Gabbey, Daniel Garber, Marjorie Grene, Gary Hatfield, Marleen Rozemond, John Schuster, Dennis Sepper, Stephen Voss, Stephen Wagner, Margaret Welson, Jean Marie Beyssade, Michelle Beyssade, Michel...
A major contribution to Descartes studies, this book provides a panorama of cutting-edge scholarship ranging widely over Descartes's own primary conce...
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211,45 zł |
Living High and Letting Die: Our Illusion of Innocence
ISBN: 9780195075892 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. By contributing a few hundred dollars to a charity like UNICEF, a prosperous person can ensure that fewer poor children die, and that more will live reasonably long, worthwhile lives. Even when knowing this, however, most people send nothing, and almost all of the rest send little. What is the moral status of this behavior? To such common cases of letting die, our untutored response is that, while it is not very good, neither is the conduct wrong. What is the source of this lenient assessment? In this contentious new book, one of our leading philosophers argues that our intuitions about...
By contributing a few hundred dollars to a charity like UNICEF, a prosperous person can ensure that fewer poor children die, and that more will live r...
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763,58 zł |
American Transcendentalism and Asian Religions
ISBN: 9780195076585 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The first major study since the 1930s of the relationship between American Transcendentalism and Asian religions, and the first comprehensive work to include post-Civil War Transcendentalists like Samuel Johnson, this book is encyclopedic in scope. Beginning with the inception of Transcendentalist Orientalism in Europe, Versluis covers the entire history of American Transcendentalism into the twentieth century, and the profound influence of Orientalism on the movement--including its analogues and influences in world religious dialogue. He examines what he calls "positive Orientalism," which...
The first major study since the 1930s of the relationship between American Transcendentalism and Asian religions, and the first comprehensive work to ...
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885,72 zł |
Working Without a Net: A Study of Egocentric Epistemology
ISBN: 9780195076998 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this new book, Foley defends an epistemology that takes seriously the perspectives of individual thinkers. He argues that having rational opinions is a matter of meeting our own internal standards rather than standards that are somehow imposed upon us from the outside. It is a matter of making ourselves invulnerable to intellectual self-criticism. Foley also shows how the theory of rational belief is part of a general theory of rationality. He thus avoids treating the rationality of belief as a fundamentally different kind of phenomenon from the rationality of decision or action. His...
In this new book, Foley defends an epistemology that takes seriously the perspectives of individual thinkers. He argues that having rational opinions ...
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568,16 zł |
Warrant: The Current Debate
ISBN: 9780195078626 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Known for distinguished work in the fields of metaphysics and philosophy of religion, Alvin Plantinga ventures further into epistemology in this book and its companion volume, Warrant and Proper Function. Plantinga examines the nature of epistemic warrant; whatever it is that when added to true belief yields knowledge. This present volume surveys current contributions to the debate and paves the way for his own positive proposal in Warrant and Proper Function. This first volume serves as a good introduction to the central issues in contemporary epistemology.
Known for distinguished work in the fields of metaphysics and philosophy of religion, Alvin Plantinga ventures further into epistemology in this book ...
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248,09 zł |
Warrant and Proper Function
ISBN: 9780195078633 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this companion volume to Warrant: The Current Debate, Alvin Plantinga develops an original approach to the question of epistemic warrant; that is what turns true belief into knowledge. He argues that what is crucial to warrant is the proper functioning of one's cognitive faculties in the right kind of cognitive environment. Although this book is in some sense a sequel to its companion volume, the arguments do not presuppose those of the first book and it stands alone as a stimulating contribution to epistemology.
In this companion volume to Warrant: The Current Debate, Alvin Plantinga develops an original approach to the question of epistemic warrant; ...
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836,86 zł |
Warrant and Proper Function
ISBN: 9780195078640 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this companion volume to Warrant: The Current Debate, Alvin Plantinga develops an original approach to the question of epistemic warrant; that is what turns true belief into knowledge. He argues that what is crucial to warrant is the proper functioning of one's cognitive faculties in the right kind of cognitive environment. Although this book is in some sense a sequel to its companion volume, the arguments do not presuppose those of the first book and it stands alone as a stimulating contribution to epistemology.
In this companion volume to Warrant: The Current Debate, Alvin Plantinga develops an original approach to the question of epistemic warrant; ...
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275,02 zł |
Reality, Representation, and Projection
ISBN: 9780195078787 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book is an important collection of new essays on various topics relating to realism and its rivals in metaphysics, logic, metaethics, and epistemology. The contributors include some of the leading authors in these fields and in several cases their essays constitute definitive statements of their views. In some cases authors write in response to the essays of other contributors, in other cases they proceed independently. Although not primarily historical this collection includes discussions of philosophers from the middle ages to the present day, from Aquinas to Wittgenstein. No one...
This book is an important collection of new essays on various topics relating to realism and its rivals in metaphysics, logic, metaethics, and epistem...
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580,37 zł |
Morality, Normativity, and Society
ISBN: 9780195078794 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Moral claims not only purport to be true, they also purport to guide our choices. This book presents a new theory of normative judgment, the "standard-based theory," which offers a schematic account of the truth conditions of normative propositions of all kinds, including moral propositions and propositions about reasons. The heart of Copp's approach to moral propositions is a theory of the circumstances under which corresponding moral standards qualify as justified, the "society-centered theory." He argues that because any society needs a social moral code in order to enable its members to...
Moral claims not only purport to be true, they also purport to guide our choices. This book presents a new theory of normative judgment, the "standard...
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470,44 zł |
Identity, Consciousness and Value
ISBN: 9780195079173 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The topic of personal identity has prompted some of the liveliest and most interesting debates in recent philosophy. In a fascinating new contribution to the discussion, Peter Unger presents a psychologically aimed, but physically based, account of our identity over time. While supporting the account, he explains why many influential contemporary philosophers have underrated the importance of physical continuity to our survival, casting a new light on the work of Lewis, Nagel, Nozick, Parfit, Perry, Shoemaker, and others. Deriving from his discussion of our identity itself, Unger produces a...
The topic of personal identity has prompted some of the liveliest and most interesting debates in recent philosophy. In a fascinating new contribution...
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441,13 zł |
Correspondence and Disquotation: An Essay on the Nature of Truth
ISBN: 9780195079241 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Marian David defends the correspondence theory of truth against the disquotational theory of truth, its current major rival. The correspondence theory asserts that truth is a philosophically rich and profound notion in need of serious explanation. Disquotationalists offer a radically deflationary account inspired by Tarski and propagated by Quine and others. They reject the correspondence theory, insist truth is anemic, and advance an "anti-theory" of truth that is essentially a collection of platitudes: "Snow is white" is true if and only if snow is white; "Grass is green" is true if and...
Marian David defends the correspondence theory of truth against the disquotational theory of truth, its current major rival. The correspondence theory...
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568,16 zł |
The Ethics of Killing: Problems at the Margins of Life
ISBN: 9780195079982 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This magisterial work is the first comprehensive study of the ethics of killing, where the moral status of the individual killed is uncertain. Drawing on philosophical notions of personal identity and the immorality of killing, McMahan looks carefully at a host of practical issues, including abortion, infanticide, the killing of animals, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.
This magisterial work is the first comprehensive study of the ethics of killing, where the moral status of the individual killed is uncertain. Drawing...
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690,29 zł |
Wittgenstein on Mind and Language
ISBN: 9780195080001 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Drawing on ten years of research on the unpublished Wittgenstein papers, Stern investigates what motivated Wittgenstein's philosophical writing and casts new light on the Tractatus and Philosophical Investigations. The book is an exposition of Wittgenstein's early conception of the nature of representation and how his later revision and criticism of that work led to a radically different way of looking at mind and language. It also explains how the unpublished manuscripts and typescripts were put together and why they often provide better evidence of the development of his...
Drawing on ten years of research on the unpublished Wittgenstein papers, Stern investigates what motivated Wittgenstein's philosophical writing and ca...
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629,22 zł |