ilość książek w kategorii: 109458
Kantian Consequentialism
ISBN: 9780195094534 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The central problem for normative ethics is the conflict between a consequentialist view--that morality requires promoting the good of all--and a belief that the rights of the individual place significant constraints on what may be done to help others. Standard interpretations see Kant as rejecting all forms of consequentialism, and defending a theory which is fundamentally duty-based and agent-centered. Certain actions, like sacrificing the innocent, are categorically forbidden. In this original and controversial work, Cummiskey argues that there is no defensible basis for this view, that...
The central problem for normative ethics is the conflict between a consequentialist view--that morality requires promoting the good of all--and a beli...
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763,58 zł |
Autonomous Agents: From Self-Control to Autonomy
ISBN: 9780195094541 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book addresses two related topics: self-control and individual autonomy. In approaching these issues, Mele develops a conception of an ideally self-controlled person, and argues that even such a person can fall short of personal autonomy. He then examines what needs to be added to such a person to yield an autonomous agent and develops two overlapping answers: one for compatibilist believers in human autonomy and one for incompatibilists. While remaining neutral between those who hold that autonomy is compatible with determinism and those who deny this, Mele shows that belief that there...
This book addresses two related topics: self-control and individual autonomy. In approaching these issues, Mele develops a conception of an ideally se...
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910,15 zł |
The Theory of Knowledge: A Thematic Introduction
ISBN: 9780195094664 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Written in an engaging and accessible style, The Theory of Knowledge: A Thematic Introduction explains the main ideas and problems of contem porary epistemology, the philosophical study of knowledge. Comprehensi ve and rich in illustrations and examples, it deals with major topics while avoiding technical detail. It introduces traditional topics in e pistemology within the context of contemporary debates about the defin ition, sources, and limits of human knowledge. It also relates epistem ology to work in cognitive science and defends a plausible version of explanationism regarding...
Written in an engaging and accessible style, The Theory of Knowledge: A Thematic Introduction explains the main ideas and problems of contem porary ep...
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537,20 zł |
Freedom and Moral Sentiment: Hume's Way of Naturalizing Responsibility
ISBN: 9780195095012 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this book, Russell examines Hume's notion of free will and moral responsibility. It is widely held that Hume presents us with a classic statement of the "compatibilist" position--that freedom and responsibility can be reconciled with causation and, indeed, actually require it. Russell argues that this is a distortion of Hume's view, because it overlooks the crucial role of moral sentiment in Hume's picture of human nature. Hume was concerned to describe the regular mechanisms which generate moral sentiments such as responsibility, and Russell argues that his conception of free will must be...
In this book, Russell examines Hume's notion of free will and moral responsibility. It is widely held that Hume presents us with a classic statement o...
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714,72 zł |
Representation and the Mind-Body Problem in Spinoza
ISBN: 9780195095623 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This first extensive study of Spinoza's philosophy of mind concentrates on two problems crucial to the philosopher's thoughts on the matter: the requirements for having a thought about a particular object, and the problem of the mind's relation to the body. Della Rocca contends that Spinoza's positions are systematically connected with each other and with a principle at the heart of his metaphysical system: his denial of causal or explanatory relations between the mental and the physical. In this way, Della Rocca's exploration of these two problems provides a new and illuminating perspective...
This first extensive study of Spinoza's philosophy of mind concentrates on two problems crucial to the philosopher's thoughts on the matter: the requi...
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726,94 zł |
Uncommon Sense: The Heretical Nature of Science
ISBN: 9780195096361 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Most people believe that science arose as a natural end-product of our innate intelligence and curiosity, as an inevitable stage in human intellectual development. But physicist and educator Alan Cromer disputes this belief. Cromer argues that science is not the natural unfolding of human potential, but the invention of a particular culture, Greece, in a particular historical period. Indeed, far from being natural, scientific thinking goes so far against the grain of conventional human thought that if it hadn't been discovered in Greece, it might not have been discovered at all.
In... Most people believe that science arose as a natural end-product of our innate intelligence and curiosity, as an inevitable stage in human intellectual...
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191,91 zł |
The Advancement of Science: Science Without Legend, Objectivity Without Illusions
ISBN: 9780195096538 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. During the last three decades, reflections on the growth of scientific knowledge have inspired historians, sociologists, and some philosophers to contend that scientific objectivity is a myth. In this book, Kitcher attempts to resurrect the notions of objectivity and progress in science by identifying both the limitations of idealized treatments of growth of knowledge and the overreactions to philosophical idealizations. Recognizing that science is done not by logically omniscient subjects working in isolation, but by people with a variety of personal and social interests, who cooperate and...
During the last three decades, reflections on the growth of scientific knowledge have inspired historians, sociologists, and some philosophers to cont...
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416,69 zł |
Character
ISBN: 9780195096545 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. We often speak of a person's character--good or bad, strong or weak--and think of it as a guide to how that person will behave in a given situation. Oddly, however, philosophers writing about ethics have had virtually nothing to say about the role of character in ethical behavior. What is character? How does it relate to having a self, or to the process of moral decision? Are we responsible for our characters? Character answers these questions, and goes on to examine the place of character in ethical philosophy. Both the Kantian and utilitarian traditions, Kupperman argues, have...
We often speak of a person's character--good or bad, strong or weak--and think of it as a guide to how that person will behave in a given situation. O...
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201,67 zł |
Modalities: Philosophical Essays
ISBN: 9780195096576 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Based on her earlier ground-breaking axiomatization of quantified modal logic, the papers collected here by the distinguished philosopher Ruth Barcan Marcus cover much ground in the development of her thought, spanning from 1961 to 1990. The first essay here introduces themes initially viewed as iconoclastic, such as the necessity of identity, the directly referential role of proper names as "tags," the Barcan Formula about the interplay of possibility and existence, and alternative interpretations of quantification. Marcus also addresses the putative puzzles about substitutivity and about...
Based on her earlier ground-breaking axiomatization of quantified modal logic, the papers collected here by the distinguished philosopher Ruth Barcan ...
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221,22 zł |
Moral Discourse and Practice: Some Philosophical Approaches
ISBN: 9780195096699 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. What are ethical judgments about? And what is their relation to practice? How can ethical judgment aspire to objectivity? The past two decades have witnessed a resurgence of interest in metaethics, placing questions such as these about the nature and status of ethical judgment at the very center of contemporary moral philosophy.
Moral Discourse and Practice: Some Philosophical Approaches is a unique anthology which collects important recent work, much of which is not easily available elsewhere, on core metaethical issues. Naturalist moral realism, once devastated by the charge... What are ethical judgments about? And what is their relation to practice? How can ethical judgment aspire to objectivity? The past two decades have wi...
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870,60 zł |
The Century of Taste: The Philosophical Odyssey of Taste in the Eighteenth Century
ISBN: 9780195096804 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Century of Taste offers an exposition and critical account of the central figures in the early development of the modern philosophy of art. Dickie traces the modern theory of taste from its first formulation by Francis Hutcheson, to blind alleys followed by Alexander Gerard and Archibald Allison, its refinement and complete expression by Hume, and finally to its decline in the hands of Kant. In a clear and straightforward style, Dickie offers sympathetic discussions of the theoretical aims of these philosophers, but does not shy from controversy--pointing out, for instance, the...
The Century of Taste offers an exposition and critical account of the central figures in the early development of the modern philosophy of ar...
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726,94 zł |
Moral Dilemmas and Moral Theory
ISBN: 9780195096811 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Do moral dilemmas truly exist? What counts as a moral dilemma? Can an adequate moral theory admit the possibility of genuine conflicts of moral obligations? In this book, twelve prominent moral theorists examine these and other questions from a wide variety of philosophical perspectives. Concerned throughout with the implications of moral dilemmas for moral theory, this collection of essays captures in striking fashion the full scope and vitality of the current moral dilemmas debate. Including both realist and anti-realist meta-ethical positions, and Kantian and consequentialist normative...
Do moral dilemmas truly exist? What counts as a moral dilemma? Can an adequate moral theory admit the possibility of genuine conflicts of moral obliga...
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397,15 zł |
Self Expressions: Mind, Morals, and the Meaning of Life
ISBN: 9780195096965 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Human beings have the unique ability to consciously reflect on the nature of the self. But reflection has its costs. We can ask what the self is, but as David Hume pointed out, the self, once reflected upon, may be nowhere to be found. The favored view is that we are material beings living in the material world. But if so, a host of destabilizing questions surface. If persons are just a sophisticated sort of animal, then what sense is there to the idea that we are free agents who control our own destinies? What makes the life of any animal, even one as sophisticated as Homo sapiens,...
Human beings have the unique ability to consciously reflect on the nature of the self. But reflection has its costs. We can ask what the self is, but ...
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416,69 zł |
Cognition and Commitment in Hume's Philosophy
ISBN: 9780195097214 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. It is widely believed that Hume often wrote carelessly and contradicted himself, and that no unified, sound philosophy emerges from his writings. Don Garrett demonstrates that such criticisms of Hume are without basis. Offering fresh and trenchant solutions to longstanding problems in Hume studies, Garrett's penetrating analysis also makes clear the continuing relevance of Hume's philosophy.
It is widely believed that Hume often wrote carelessly and contradicted himself, and that no unified, sound philosophy emerges from his writings. Don ...
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167,48 zł |
Free Public Reason: Making It Up as We Go
ISBN: 9780195097610 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Free Public Reason examines the idea of public justification, stressing its importance but also questioning the coherence of the concept itself. Although public justification is employed in the work of theorists such as John Rawls, Jeremy Waldron, Thomas Nagel, and others, it has received little attention on its own as a philosophical concept. In this book Fred D'Agostino shows that the concept is composed of various values, interests, and notions of the good, and that no ranking of these is possible. The notion of public justification itself is thus shown to be contestable. In...
Free Public Reason examines the idea of public justification, stressing its importance but also questioning the coherence of the concept itse...
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861,29 zł |
Loyalty: An Essay on the Morality of Relationships
ISBN: 9780195098327 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. At a time when age-old political structures are crumbling, civil strife abounds, and economic uncertainty permeates the air, loyalty offers us security in our relationships with associates, friends, and family. Yet loyalty is a suspect virtue. It is not impartial. It is not blind. It violates the principles of morality that have dominated Western thought for the last two hundred years.
Loyalties are also thought to be irrational and contrary to the spirit of Capitalism. In a free market society, we are encouraged to move to the competition when we are not happy. This way of thinking has... At a time when age-old political structures are crumbling, civil strife abounds, and economic uncertainty permeates the air, loyalty offers us securit...
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79,54 zł |
Nietzsche's System
ISBN: 9780195098464 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book argues, against recent interpretations, that Nietzsche does in fact have a metaphysical system--but that this is to his credit. Rather than renouncing philosophy's traditional project, he still aspires to find and state essential truths, both descriptive and valuative, about us and the world. These basic thoughts organize and inform everything he writes; by examining them closely we can find the larger structure and unifying sense of his strikingly diverse views. With rigor and conceptual specificity, Richardson examines the will-to-power ontology and maps the...
This book argues, against recent interpretations, that Nietzsche does in fact have a metaphysical system--but that this is to his credit. Rat...
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446,01 zł |
Interpreting Islam: Bandali Jawzi's Islamic Intellectual History
ISBN: 9780195100518 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In this book, Sonn provides the first English translation of The History of Intellectual Movements in Islam (1928), a seminal text of Arab modernism written by the Palestinian intellectual Bandali al-Jawzi (1871-1942). In that book, Jawzi offered the first Marxist interpretation of the history and development of Islamic thought. The continuing importance of his work lies in Jawzi's critical method of reevaluating both European "orientalist" and classical Muslim accounts of Islamic history. Fifty years before Edward Said's landmark Orientalism, Jawzi identified the vested...
In this book, Sonn provides the first English translation of The History of Intellectual Movements in Islam (1928), a seminal text of Arab mo...
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543,72 zł |
Deconstructing the Mind
ISBN: 9780195100815 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Over the last two decades, debates over the viability of commonsense psychology have been center stage in both cognitive science and the philosophy of mind. Eliminativists have argued that advances in cognitive science and neuroscience will ultimately justify a rejection of our "folk" theory of the mind, and of its ontology. In the first half of this book Stich, who was at one time a leading advocate of eliminativism, maintains that even if the sciences develop in the ways that eliminativists foresee, none of the arguments for ontological elimination are tenable. Rather than being resolved by...
Over the last two decades, debates over the viability of commonsense psychology have been center stage in both cognitive science and the philosophy of...
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314,10 zł |
The Monkey Wars
ISBN: 9780195101096 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The controversy over the use of primates in research admits of no easy answers. We have all benefited from the medical discoveries of primate research--vaccines for polio, rubella, and hepatitis B are just a few. But we have also learned more in recent years about how intelligent apes and monkeys really are: they can speak to us with sign language, they can even play video games (and are as obsessed with the games as any human teenager). And activists have also uncovered widespread and unnecessarily callous treatment of animals by researchers (in 1982, a Silver Spring lab was charged with 17...
The controversy over the use of primates in research admits of no easy answers. We have all benefited from the medical discoveries of primate research...
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108,85 zł |