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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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298,02 |
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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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230,83 |
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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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909,25 |
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The Skeptic Way: Sextus Empiricus's Outlines of Pyrrhonism
ISBN: 9780195092134 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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607,24 |
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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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110,44 |
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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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668,42 |
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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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339,70 |
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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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189,16 |
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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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758,76 |
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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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909,25 |
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The Theory of Knowledge: A Thematic Introduction
ISBN: 9780195094664 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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489,20 |
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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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712,46 |
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Readings in Social and Political Philosophy
ISBN: 9780195095180 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This updated edition of a well-established anthology of social and political philosophy combines extensive selections from classical works with significant recent contributions to the field, many of which are not easily available. Its central focus is on the liberal currents in modern Western political thought--variants of classical liberalism, modern liberalism, and libertarianism--with specific focus on differing conceptions of political obligation, freedom, distributive justice, and representative democracy.
The text is organized into four thematic sections: Political Obligation and... This updated edition of a well-established anthology of social and political philosophy combines extensive selections from classical works with signif...
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730,64 |
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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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724,03 |
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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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191,48 |
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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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418,41 |
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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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200,74 |
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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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221,57 |
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Moral Discourse and Practice: Some Philosophical Approaches
ISBN: 9780195096699 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 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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795,03 |
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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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724,03 |