ilość książek w kategorii: 109458
Irrationality: An Essay on Akrasia, Self-Deception, and Self-Control
ISBN: 9780195080018 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Although much human action serves as proof that irrational behavior is remarkably common, certain forms of irrationality--most notably, incontinent action and self-deception--pose such difficult theoretical problems that philosophers have rejected them as logically or psychologically impossible. Here, Mele shows that, and how, incontinent action and self-deception are indeed possible. Drawing upon recent experimental work in the psychology of action and inference, he advances naturalized explanations of akratic action and self-deception while resolving the paradoxes around which the...
Although much human action serves as proof that irrational behavior is remarkably common, certain forms of irrationality--most notably, incontinent ac...
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387,38 zł |
Natural Reasons: Personality and Polity
ISBN: 9780195080124 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Hurley here revives a classical idea about rationality in a modern framework, by developing analogies between the structure of personality and the structure of society in the context of contemporary work in philosophy of mind, ethics, decision theory and social choice theory. The book examines the rationality of decisions and actions, and illustrates the continuity of philosophy of mind on the one hand, and ethics and jurisprudence on the other. A major thesis of the book is that arguments drawn from the philosophy of mind may be used to undermine widely held subjectivist positions in ethics...
Hurley here revives a classical idea about rationality in a modern framework, by developing analogies between the structure of personality and the str...
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716,31 zł |
Modern Logic: A Text in Elementary Symbolic Logic
ISBN: 9780195080292 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Filling the need for an accessible, carefully structured introductory text in symbolic logic, Modern Logic has many features designed to improve students' comprehension of the subject, including a proof system that is the same as the award-winning computer program MacLogic, and a special appendix that shows how to use MacLogic as a teaching aid. There are graded exercises at the end of each chapter--more than 900 in all--with selected answers at the end of the book. Unlike competing texts, Modern Logic gives equal weight to semantics and proof theory and explains their...
Filling the need for an accessible, carefully structured introductory text in symbolic logic, Modern Logic has many features designed to impr...
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670,70 zł |
In the Light of Logic
ISBN: 9780195080308 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this collection of essays written over a period of twenty years, Solomon Feferman explains advanced results in modern logic and employs them to cast light on significant problems in the foundations of mathematics. Most troubling among these is the revolutionary way in which Georg Cantor elaborated the nature of the infinite, and in doing so helped transform the face of twentieth-century mathematics. Feferman details the development of Cantorian concepts and the foundational difficulties they engendered. He argues that the freedom provided by Cantorian set theory was purchased at a heavy...
In this collection of essays written over a period of twenty years, Solomon Feferman explains advanced results in modern logic and employs them to cas...
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489,98 zł |
Essays in Quasi-Realism
ISBN: 9780195080414 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume collects some influential essays in which Simon Blackburn, one of our leading philosophers, explores one of the most profound and fertile of philosophical problems: the way in which our judgments relate to the world. This debate has centered on realism, or the view that what we say is validated by the way things stand in the world, and a variety of oppositions to it. Prominent among the latter are expressive and projective theories, but also a relaxed pluralism that discourages the view that there are substantial issues at stake. The figure of the "quasi-realist" dramatizes the...
This volume collects some influential essays in which Simon Blackburn, one of our leading philosophers, explores one of the most profound and fertile ...
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580,37 zł |
Philosophy After Objectivity
ISBN: 9780195081091 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Since the beginning of philosophy, philosophers have sought objective knowledge: knowledge of things whose existence does not depend on one's conceiving of them. This book uses lessons from debates over objective knowledge to characterize the kinds of reasons pertinent to philosophical and other theoretical views. It argues that we cannot meet skeptics' typical demands for nonquestion-begging support for claims to objective truth, and that therefore we should not regard our supporting reasons as resistant to skeptical challenges. One key lesson is that a constructive, explanatory approach to...
Since the beginning of philosophy, philosophers have sought objective knowledge: knowledge of things whose existence does not depend on one's conceivi...
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480,21 zł |
Rights, Welfare, and Mill's Moral Theory
ISBN: 9780195082180 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume collects David Lyons' well-known essays on Mill's moral theory and includes an introduction which relates the essays to prior and subsequent philosophical developments. Like the author's Forms and Limits of Utilitarianism (Oxford, 1965), the essays apply analytical methods to issues in normative ethics. The first essay defends a refined version of the beneficiary theory of rights against H.L.A. Hart's important criticisms. The central set of essays develops new interpretations of Mill's moral theory with the aim of determining how far rights can be incorporated in a...
This volume collects David Lyons' well-known essays on Mill's moral theory and includes an introduction which relates the essays to prior and subseque...
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304,32 zł |
Essays in Quasi-Realism
ISBN: 9780195082241 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume collects some influential essays in which Simon Blackburn, one of our leading philosophers, explores one of the most profound and fertile of philosophical problems: the way in which our judgments relate to the world. This debate has centered on realism, or the view that what we say is validated by the way things stand in the world, and a variety of oppositions to it. Prominent among the latter are expressive and projective theories, but also a relaxed pluralism that discourages the view that there are substantial issues at stake. The figure of the "quasi-realist" dramatizes the...
This volume collects some influential essays in which Simon Blackburn, one of our leading philosophers, explores one of the most profound and fertile ...
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213,90 zł |
Problems from Kant
ISBN: 9780195083224 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This rigorous examination of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason provides a comprehensive analysis of the major metaphysical and epistemological questions of Kant's most famous work. Author James Van Cleve presents clear and detailed discussions of Kant's positions and arguments on these themes, as well as critical assessments of Kant's reasoning and conclusions. Expansive in its scope, Van Cleves study covers the overall structure of Kant's idealism, the existence and nature of synthetic a priori knowledge, the epistemology of geometry, and the ontological status of space,...
This rigorous examination of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason provides a comprehensive analysis of the major metaphysical and epistemological q...
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788,00 zł |
Law and Truth
ISBN: 9780195083231 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Taking up a single question--"What does it mean to say a proposition of law is true?"--this book advances a major new account of truth in law. Drawing upon the later philosophy of Wittgenstein, as well as more recent postmodern theory of the relationship between language, meaning, and the world, Patterson examines leading contemporary jurisprudential approaches to this question and finds them flawed in similar and previously unnoticed ways. He offers a powerful alternative account of legal justification, one in which linguistic practice--the use of forms of legal argument--holds the...
Taking up a single question--"What does it mean to say a proposition of law is true?"--this book advances a major new account of truth in law. Drawing...
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243,20 zł |
Basic Concepts of Legal Thought
ISBN: 9780195083361 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this one-of-a-kind text, George P. Fletcher, a renowned legal theorist, offers a provocative yet accessible overview of the basics of legal thought. The first section of the book is designed to introduce the reader to fundamental concepts such as the rule of law and deciding cases under the law. It continues with an analysis of the values of justice, desert, consent, and equality, as they figure into our judgment of legal cultures in terms of soundness and legitimacy. The final chapters address the problems of morality and consistency in the law. In each case the author not only introduces...
In this one-of-a-kind text, George P. Fletcher, a renowned legal theorist, offers a provocative yet accessible overview of the basics of legal thought...
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529,01 zł |
The Sense of Adharma
ISBN: 9780195083415 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Addressing one of the most difficult conceptual topics in the study of classical Hinduism, Ariel Glucklich presents a rigorous phenomenology of dharma, or order. The work moves away from the usual emphasis on symbols and theoretical formulations of dharma as a religious and moral norm. Instead, it focuses on images that emerge from the basic experiential interaction of the body in its spatial and temporal contexts, such as the sensation of water on the skin during the morning purification, or the physical manipulation of the bride during the marriage ritual. Images of...
Addressing one of the most difficult conceptual topics in the study of classical Hinduism, Ariel Glucklich presents a rigorous phenomenology of dh...
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995,64 zł |
Liar Speaks the Truth: Defense of the Revision Theory
ISBN: 9780195083439 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this book, Yaq?b describes a simple conception of truth and shows that it yields a semantical theory that accommodates the whole range of our seemingly conflicting intuitions about truth. This conception takes the Tarskian biconditionals (such as "The sentence 'Johannes loved Clara' is true if and only if Johannes loved Clara") as correctly and completely defining the notion of truth. The semantical theory, which is called the revision theory, that emerges from this conception paints a metaphysical picture of truth as a property whose applicability is given by a revision process rather...
In this book, Yaq?b describes a simple conception of truth and shows that it yields a semantical theory that accommodates the whole range of our seemi...
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416,69 zł |
Morality, Mortality: Volume II: Rights, Duties, and Status
ISBN: 9780195084597 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In Morality, Mortality, Volume II, Kamm continues to explore questions of life and death as illustrations of general issues in moral theory. Resuming her development of non- consequentialist ethical theory and its application to practical ethical problems, she explores the distinction between killing and letting die, between harming and not aiding, and between intending and foreseeing harm. Throughout this examination, she focuses on the methodology used in analyzing these questions. Kamm develops a principled account of when harming some to save others is permissable and...
In Morality, Mortality, Volume II, Kamm continues to explore questions of life and death as illustrations of general issues in moral theory. ...
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971,22 zł |
Leibniz: Determinist, Theist, Idealist
ISBN: 9780195084603 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Legendary since his own time as a universal genius, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) contributed significantly to almost every branch of learning. One of the creators of modern mathematics, and probably the most sophisticated logician between the Middle Ages and Frege, as well as a pioneer of ecumenical theology, he also wrote extensively on such diverse subjects as history, geology, and physics. But the part of his work that is most studied today is probably his writings in metaphysics, which have been the focus of particularly lively philosophical discussion in the last twenty years or...
Legendary since his own time as a universal genius, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) contributed significantly to almost every branch of learning...
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604,79 zł |
Moore and Wittgenstein on Certainty
ISBN: 9780195084887 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Ludwig Wittgenstein's On Certainty was finished just before his death in 1951 and is a running commentary on three of G.E. Moore's greatest epistemological papers. In the early 1930s, Moore had written a lengthy commentary on Wittgenstein, anticipating some of the issues Wittgenstein would discuss in On Certainty. The philosophical relationship between these two great philosophers and their overlapping, but nevertheless differing, views is the subject of this book. Both defended the existence of certainty and thus opposed any form of skepticism. However, their defenses and...
Ludwig Wittgenstein's On Certainty was finished just before his death in 1951 and is a running commentary on three of G.E. Moore's greatest e...
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726,94 zł |
Innocence Lost: An Examination of Inescapable Moral Wrongdoing
ISBN: 9780195085174 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Our lives are such that moral wrongdoing is sometimes inescapable for us. We have moral responsibilities to persons which may conflict and which it is wrong to violate even when they do conflict. Christopher W. Gowans argues that we must accept this conclusion if we are to make sense of our moral experience and the way in which persons are valuable to us. In defending this position, he critically examines the recent moral dilemmas debate. He maintains that what is important in this debate is not whether there are irresolvable moral conflicts, but whether there are moral conflicts in which...
Our lives are such that moral wrongdoing is sometimes inescapable for us. We have moral responsibilities to persons which may conflict and which it is...
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218,78 zł |
Autonomy and Intervention: Parentalism in the Caring Life
ISBN: 9780195085310 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The basic relationship between people should be care, and the caring life is the highest which humans can live. Unfortunately, care that is not thoughtful slides into illegitimate intrusion on autonomy. Autonomy is a basic good, and we should not abridge it without good reason. On the other hand, it is not the only good. We must sometimes intervene in the lives of others to protect them from grave harms or provide them with important benefits. The reflective person, therefore, needs guidelines for caring. Some contemporary moralists condemn paternalism categorically. This work examines...
The basic relationship between people should be care, and the caring life is the highest which humans can live. Unfortunately, care that is not though...
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568,16 zł |
Kant's Transcendental Psychology
ISBN: 9780195085631 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. For the last 100 years historians have denigrated the psychology of the Critique of Pure Reason. In opposition, Patricia Kitcher argues that we can only understand the deduction of the categories in terms of Kant's attempt to fathom the psychological prerequisites of thought, and that this investigation illuminates thinking itself. Kant tried to understand the "task environment" of knowledge and thought: Given the data we acquire and the scientific generalizations we make, what basic cognitive capacities are necessary to perform these feats? What do these capacities imply...
For the last 100 years historians have denigrated the psychology of the Critique of Pure Reason. In opposition, Patricia Kitcher argues that ...
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196,79 zł |
Human Morality
ISBN: 9780195085648 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Some people believe that the demands of morality coincide with the requirements of an enlightened self-interest. Others believe that morality is diametrically opposed to considerations of self-interest. This book argues that there is another position, intermediate between these extremes, which makes better sense of the totality of our moral thought and practice. Scheffler elaborates this position via an examination of morality's content, scope, authority, and deliberative role. Although conflicts between morality and self-interest do arise, according to this position, nevertheless morality is...
Some people believe that the demands of morality coincide with the requirements of an enlightened self-interest. Others believe that morality is diame...
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189,46 zł |