ilość książek w kategorii: 109458
Freedom Within Reason
ISBN: 9780195085655 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Philosophers typically see the issue of free will and determinism in terms of a debate between two standard positions. Incompatibilism holds that freedom and responsibility require causal and metaphysical independence from the impersonal forces of nature. According to compatibilism, people are free and responsible as long as their actions are governed by their desires. In Freedom Within Reason, Susan Wolf charts a path between these traditional positions: We are not free and responsible, she argues, for actions that are governed by desires that we cannot help having. But the wish to...
Philosophers typically see the issue of free will and determinism in terms of a debate between two standard positions. Incompatibilism holds that free...
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201,67 zł |
Between Universalism and Skepticism: Ethics as Social Artifact
ISBN: 9780195086461 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Philips defends a middle ground between the view that there is a set of standards binding on rational beings as such (universalism) and the view that differences in morals reduce ultimately to matters of taste (skepticism). He begins with a sustained critique of universalist moral theories and some familiar approaches to concrete moral questions that presuppose them (most appeals to intuitions, respect for person's moralities, and versions of contractarianism and wide reflective equilibrium). He goes on to criticize major recent attempts to develop nonuniversalist alternatives to skepticism,...
Philips defends a middle ground between the view that there is a set of standards binding on rational beings as such (universalism) and the view that ...
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323,87 zł |
Ethics and Excellence: Cooperation and Integrity in Business
ISBN: 9780195087116 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Greek philosopher Aristotle, writing over two thousand years before Wall Street, called people who engaged in activities which did not contribute to society "parasites." In his latest work, renowned scholar Robert C. Solomon asserts that though capitalism may require capital, it does not require, much less should be defined by the parasites it inevitably attracts. Capitalism has succeeded not with brute strength or because it has made people rich, but because it has produced responsible citizens and--however unevenly--prosperous communities. It cannot tolerate a conception of business...
The Greek philosopher Aristotle, writing over two thousand years before Wall Street, called people who engaged in activities which did not contribute ...
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716,31 zł |
Philodemus and Poetry: Poetic Theory and Practice in Lucretius, Philodemus and Horace
ISBN: 9780195088151 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is an edited collection by a distinguished team of scholars on the philosopher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (ca. 110-40 BC). The discovery of his library at Herculaneum, and the editing and gradual publication of the material, has reawakened interest in the philosophical and historical importance of his work. Philodemus presents us with a poetic theory of interest in itself, and several of his treatises provide us with instances of how poetry was seen as providing moral paradigms and guidance. These essays explore the many facets of Philodemus's work and the relationship between them,...
This is an edited collection by a distinguished team of scholars on the philosopher and poet Philodemus of Gadara (ca. 110-40 BC). The discovery of hi...
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836,86 zł |
Falling in Love with Wisdom: American Philosophers Talk about Their Calling
ISBN: 9780195089172 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. David Lynn Hall's love of philosophy began with a fifty-cent paperback. Then an adolescent facing an 18-hour bus trip across the great Southwest, desperate for anything to read, Hall bought Alfred North Whitehead's Adventures of Ideas at a rest stop in Pecos, Texas. He didn't have a clue who Whitehead was, but the book had a colorful, exotic cover, and nothing else on the revolving wire bookrack appealed to him. "I paid fifty cents, boarded the Trailways bus, nestled into my narrow seat and into the vastness of the desert spaces--and soon into the yet vaster spaces of humanity's great...
David Lynn Hall's love of philosophy began with a fifty-cent paperback. Then an adolescent facing an 18-hour bus trip across the great Southwest, desp...
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143,05 zł |
Confrontations with the Reaper: A Philosophical Study of the Nature and Value of Death
ISBN: 9780195089288 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What is death? Do people survive death? What do we mean when we say that someone is "dying"? Presenting a clear and engaging discussion of the classic philosophical questions surrounding death, this book studies the great metaphysical and moral problems of death. In the first part, Feldman shows that a definition of life is necessary before death can be defined. After exploring several of the most plausible accounts of the nature of life and demonstrating their failure, he goes on to propose his own conceptual scheme for death and related concepts. In the second part, Feldman turns to ethical...
What is death? Do people survive death? What do we mean when we say that someone is "dying"? Presenting a clear and engaging discussion of the classic...
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204,12 zł |
Pyrrhonian Reflections on Knowledge and Justification
ISBN: 9780195089875 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This work, written from a neo-Pyrrhonian perspective, is an examination of contemporary theories of knowledge and justification. It takes ideas primarily found in Sextus Empiricus's Outlines of Pyrrhonism, restates them in a modern idiom, and then asks whether any contemporary theory of knowledge meets the challenges they raise. The first part, entitled "Gettier and the Problem of Knowledge," attempts to rescue our ordinary concept of knowledge from those philosophers who have assigned burdens to it that it cannot bear. Properly understood, Fogelin shows that the concept of knowledge...
This work, written from a neo-Pyrrhonian perspective, is an examination of contemporary theories of knowledge and justification. It takes ideas primar...
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543,72 zł |
The Evangelical Rhetoric of Ramon Llull: Lay Learning and Piety in the Christian West Around 1300
ISBN: 9780195090055 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Ramon Llull (1232-1316), born on Majorca, was one of the most remarkable lay intellectuals of the thirteenth century. He devoted much of his life to promoting missions among unbelievers, the reform of Western Christian society, and personal spiritual perfection. He wrote over 200 philosophical and theological works in Catalan, Latin, and Arabic. Many of these expound on his "Great Universal Art of Finding Truth," an idiosyncratic dialectical system that he thought capable of proving Catholic beliefs to non-believers. This study offers the first full-length analysis of his theories about...
Ramon Llull (1232-1316), born on Majorca, was one of the most remarkable lay intellectuals of the thirteenth century. He devoted much of his life to p...
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531,51 zł |
Other Minds: Critical Essays 1969-1994
ISBN: 9780195090086 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Over the past twenty-five years, Thomas Nagel has played a major role in the philosophico-biological debate on subjectivity and consciousness. This extensive collection of published essays and reviews offers Nagel's opinionated views on the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and political philosophy, as well as on fellow philosophers like Freud, Wittgenstein, Rawls, Dennet, Chomsky, Searle, Nozick, Dworkin, and MacIntyre.
Over the past twenty-five years, Thomas Nagel has played a major role in the philosophico-biological debate on subjectivity and consciousness. This ex...
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441,13 zł |
Practical Guilt: Moral Dilemmas, Emotions, and Social Norms
ISBN: 9780195090901 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. P.S. Greenspan uses the treatment of moral dilemmas as the basis for an alternative view of the structure of ethics and its relation to human psychology. Greenspan argues that dilemmas may be regarded as possible consequences of a set of social rules designed to be simple enough to be teachable. Where these rules prohibit action either way, the problematic motivational force of dilemmas can be explained by reference to the role of emotion as a substitute for action. Guilt is seen as a natural but contested candidate for the sort of emotional sanction for wrongdoing that might supply...
P.S. Greenspan uses the treatment of moral dilemmas as the basis for an alternative view of the structure of ethics and its relation to human psycholo...
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216,33 zł |
Agents, Causes, and Events: Essays on Indeterminism and Free Will
ISBN: 9780195091564 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume gathers together recent discussion concerning the prospects for devising a satisfactory indeterministic account of freedom of action. Exploring traditional problems associated with indeterministic accounts, proposals for resolving such problems are expounded and criticized.
This volume gathers together recent discussion concerning the prospects for devising a satisfactory indeterministic account of freedom of action. Expl...
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1333,65 zł |
Agents, Causes, and Events: Essays on Indeterminism and Free Will
ISBN: 9780195091571 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Many philosophers are persuaded by familiar arguments that free will is incompatible with causal determinism. Yet, notoriously, past attempts to articulate how the right type of indeterminism might secure the capacity for autonomous action have generally been regarded as either demonstrably inadequate or irremediably obscure. This volume gathers together the most significant recent discussions concerning the prospects for devising a satisfactory indeterministic account of freedom of action. These essays give greater precision to traditional formulations of the problems associated with...
Many philosophers are persuaded by familiar arguments that free will is incompatible with causal determinism. Yet, notoriously, past attempts to artic...
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605,12 zł |
The Limits of Lockean Rights in Property
ISBN: 9780195091762 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book discusses Locke's theory of property from both a critical and an interpretative standpoint. The author first develops a comprehensive interpretation of Locke's argument for the legitimacy of private property, and then examines the extent to which the argument is really serviceable in defense of that institution. He contends that a purified version of Locke's argument--one that adheres consistently to the logic of Locke's text while excluding considerations extraneous to his logic--actually does establish the legitimacy of a form of private property. This version, which is both...
This book discusses Locke's theory of property from both a critical and an interpretative standpoint. The author first develops a comprehensive interp...
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299,44 zł |
On Evil
ISBN: 9780195091830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The De Malo represents some of Aquinas' most mature thinking on goodness, badness, and human agency. In it he examines the full range of questions associated with evil: its origin, its nature, its relation to good, and its compatibility with the existence of an omnipotent, benevolent God. This edition offers Richard Regan's new, clear readable English translation, based on the Leonine Commission's authoritative edition of the Latin text. Brian Davies has provided an extensive introduction and notes. (Please note: this edition does not include the Latin text).
The De Malo represents some of Aquinas' most mature thinking on goodness, badness, and human agency. In it he examines the full range of ques...
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230,99 zł |
The Logic of Reliable Inquiry
ISBN: 9780195091953 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. There are many proposed aims for scientific inquiry--to explain or predict events, to confirm or falsify hypotheses, or to find hypotheses that cohere with our other beliefs in some logical or probabilistic sense. This book is devoted to a different proposal--that the logical structure of the scientist's method should guarantee eventual arrival at the truth given the scientist's background assumptions. Interest in this methodological property, called "logical reliability," stems from formal learning theory, which draws its insights not from the theory of probability, but from the theory of...
There are many proposed aims for scientific inquiry--to explain or predict events, to confirm or falsify hypotheses, or to find hypotheses that cohere...
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910,15 zł |
The Skeptic Way: Sextus Empiricus's Outlines of Pyrrhonism
ISBN: 9780195092134 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Outlines of Pyrrhonism by the 2nd century A.D. Greek physician Sextus Empiricus was immensely influential in the history of Western philosophy. The rediscovery and publication of this work in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries led directly to the skepticism of Montaigne, Gassendi, Bayle, Descartes, Berkeley, Hume, and others, and eventually to the preoccupation of modern philosophy with attempts to refute or otherwise combat philosophical skepticism. In recent years, however, it has become apparent that Pyrrhonism--the form of skepticism professed by Sextus--is in several...
The Outlines of Pyrrhonism by the 2nd century A.D. Greek physician Sextus Empiricus was immensely influential in the history of Western philo...
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666,86 zł |
Zen and the Way of the Sword: Arming the Samurai Psyche
ISBN: 9780195092615 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 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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108,85 zł |
Readings in Medieval Philosophy
ISBN: 9780195092936 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 864 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The most comprehensive collection of its kind, this unique anthology presents fifty-four readings--many of them not widely available--by the most important and influential Christian, Jewish, and Muslim philosophers of the Middle Ages. The text is organized topically, making it easily accessible to students, and the large selection of readings provides instructors with maximum flexibility in choosing course material.
Each thematic section is comprised of six chronologically arranged readings. This organization focuses on the major philosophical issues and allows a smooth introduction to... The most comprehensive collection of its kind, this unique anthology presents fifty-four readings--many of them not widely available--by the most impo...
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670,70 zł |
From Morality to Virtue
ISBN: 9780195093926 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this book, Slote offers the first full-scale foundational account of virtue ethics to have appeared since the recent revival of interest in the ethics of virtue. Slote advocates a particular form of such ethics for its intuitive and structural advantages over Kantianism, utilitarianism, and common-sense morality, and he argues that the problems of other views can be avoided and a contemporary plausible version of virtue ethics achieved only by abandoning specifically moral concepts for general aretaic notions like admirability and virtue. Although this study is not bound by particular...
In this book, Slote offers the first full-scale foundational account of virtue ethics to have appeared since the recent revival of interest in the eth...
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338,52 zł |
Private Consciences and Public Reasons
ISBN: 9780195094190 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Within democratic societies, a deep division exists over the nature of community and the grounds for political life. Should the political order be neutral between competing conceptions of the good life or should it be based on some such conception? This book addresses one crucial set of problems raised by this division: What bases should officials and citizens employ in reaching political decisions and justifying their positions? Should they feel free to rely on whatever grounds seem otherwise persuasive to them, like religious convictions, or should they restrict themselves to "public...
Within democratic societies, a deep division exists over the nature of community and the grounds for political life. Should the political order be neu...
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189,46 zł |