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Religion and Science
ISBN: 9780195115512 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this timely work, Russell, philosopher, agnostic, mathematician, and renowned peace advocate, offers a brief yet insightful study of the conflicts between science and traditional religion during the last four centuries. Examining accounts in which scientific advances clashed with Christian doctrine or biblical interpretations of the day, from Galileo and the Copernican Revolution, to the medical breakthroughs of anesthesia and inoculation, Russell points to the constant upheaval and reevaluation of our systems of belief throughout history. In turn, he identifies where similar debates...
In this timely work, Russell, philosopher, agnostic, mathematician, and renowned peace advocate, offers a brief yet insightful study of the conflicts ...
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81,10 |
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The Problems of Philosophy
ISBN: 9780195115529 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Bertrand Russell was one of the greatest logicians since Aristotle, and one of the most important philosophers of the past two hundred years. As we approach the 125th anniversary of the Nobel laureate's birth, his works continue to spark debate, resounding with unmatched timeliness and power.
The Problems of Philosophy, one of the most popular works in Russell's prolific collection of writings, has become core reading in philosophy. Clear and accessible, this little book is an intelligible and stimulating guide to those problems of philosophy which often mistakenly lead to its... Bertrand Russell was one of the greatest logicians since Aristotle, and one of the most important philosophers of the past two hundred years. As we ap...
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65,61 |
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Suffering and Moral Responsibility
ISBN: 9780195115994 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this original study, Jamie Mayerfeld undertakes a careful inquiry into the meaning and moral significance of suffering. Understanding suffering in hedonistic terms as an affliction of feeling, he addresses difficulties associated with its identification and measurement. He then turns to an examination of the duty to relieve suffering: its content, its weight relative to other moral considerations, and the role it should play in our lives. Among the claims defended in the book are that suffering needs to be distinguished from both physical pain and the frustration of desire, that...
In this original study, Jamie Mayerfeld undertakes a careful inquiry into the meaning and moral significance of suffering. Understanding suffering in ...
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271,86 |
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Classics of Philosophy: Volume I: Ancient and Medieval
ISBN: 9780195116458 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 478 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Classics of Philosophy: Volume I, Ancient and Medieval covers the works of philosophers from Thales to William of Ockham. Ideal for courses in ancient or ancient and medieval philosophy, it includes twenty-nine works--seven of them complete--by thirteen philosophers as well as fragments from the Pre-Socratics. A lucid introduction, including a brief biographical sketch, accompanies each of the featured philosophers.
Also look for Classics of Philosophy: Volume II, Modern and Contemporary, which covers the works of philosophers from Descartes to Rawls. In addition, there... Classics of Philosophy: Volume I, Ancient and Medieval covers the works of philosophers from Thales to William of Ockham. Ideal for courses i...
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493,16 |
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Classics of Philosophy: Volume II: Modern and Contemporary
ISBN: 9780195116465 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 816 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Classics of Philosophy: Volume II, Modern and Contemporary covers the works of philosophers from Descartes to Rawls. Ideal for courses in modern and contemporary philosophy, it includes forty-eight extensive selections--seventeen of them complete--from twenty-nine philosophers. This collection offers an unrivaled introduction to the major works of these periods. A lucid introduction, including a brief biographical sketch, accompanies each of the featured philosophers.
Also look for Classics of Philosophy: Volume I, Ancient and Medieval, which covers the works of... Classics of Philosophy: Volume II, Modern and Contemporary covers the works of philosophers from Descartes to Rawls. Ideal for courses in mod...
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388,28 |
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Russell's Hidden Substitutional Theory
ISBN: 9780195116830 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book explores an important central thread that unifies Russell's thoughts on logic in two works previously considered at odds with each other, the Principles of Mathematics and the later Principia Mathematica. This thread is Russell's doctrine that logic is an absolutely general science and that any calculus for it must embrace wholly unrestricted variables. The heart of Landini's book is a careful analysis of Russell's largely unpublished "substitutional" theory. On Landini's showing, the substitutional theory reveals the unity of Russell's philosophy of logic and...
This book explores an important central thread that unifies Russell's thoughts on logic in two works previously considered at odds with each other, th...
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740,07 |
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Socrates Dissatisfied: An Analysis of Plato's Crito
ISBN: 9780195116847 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Socrates Dissatisfied, Weiss argues against the prevailing view that the Laws are Socrates' spokesmen. She reveals and explores many indications that Socrates and the Laws are, both in style and substance, adversaries: whereas the Laws are rhetoricians who defend the absolute authority of the Laws, Socrates is a dialectician who defends--in the Crito no less than in the Apology--the overriding claim of each individual's own reason when assiduously applied to questions of justice. It is only for the sake of an unphilosophical Crito, Weiss suggests, that Socrates...
In Socrates Dissatisfied, Weiss argues against the prevailing view that the Laws are Socrates' spokesmen. She reveals and explores many indic...
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635,25 |
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The Logic of Strategy
ISBN: 9780195117158 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Edited by three leading figures in the field, this exciting volume presents cutting-edge work in decision theory by a distinguished international roster of contributors. These mostly unpublished papers address a host of crucial areas in the contemporary philosophical study of rationality and knowledge. Topics include causal versus evidential decision theory, game theory, backwards induction, bounded rationality, counterfactual reasoning in games and in general, analyses of the famous common knowledge assumptions in game theory, and evaluations of the normal versus extensive form formulations...
Edited by three leading figures in the field, this exciting volume presents cutting-edge work in decision theory by a distinguished international rost...
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337,08 |
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Skepticism about the External World
ISBN: 9780195117196 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Do we know or even have evidence that external material objects exist? Drawing powerfully on techniques from both analytic and continental philosophy, Butchvarov offers a strikingly original approach to this perennial issue. He argues that only a direct realist view of perception--the view that in perception we are directly aware of material objects--has any hope of providing a compelling response to the skeptic. The seemingly insuperable problem for direct realism has always been to explain hallucination, dreaming, and other situations where the object of awareness is not a really...
Do we know or even have evidence that external material objects exist? Drawing powerfully on techniques from both analytic and continental philosophy,...
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439,57 |
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A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths about Science
ISBN: 9780195117264 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Cultural critics say that "science is politics by other means," arguing that the results of scientific inquiry are profoundly shaped by the ideological agendas of powerful elites. They base their claims on historical case studies purporting to show the systematic intrusion of sexist, racist, capitalist, colonialist, and/or professional interests into the very content of science. In this hard-hitting collection of essays, contributors offer crisp and detailed critiques of case studies offered by the cultural critics as evidence that scientific results tell us more about social context than...
Cultural critics say that "science is politics by other means," arguing that the results of scientific inquiry are profoundly shaped by the ideologica...
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262,54 |
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Morality Without Foundations
ISBN: 9780195117318 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Morality Without Foundations investigates fundamental metaethical questions about the meaning, truth, and justification of moral thought and discourse. Mark Timmons maintains that all versions of descriptivism in ethics, particularly certain accounts of moral realism, fail. He argues instead that a correct metaethical theory should embrace some version of non-descriptivism. Timmons defends what he calls "assertoric non-descriptivism" which, unlike traditional non-descriptivist views, holds that moral sentences are typically used to make genuine assertions. In defending this view, he...
Morality Without Foundations investigates fundamental metaethical questions about the meaning, truth, and justification of moral thought and ...
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430,26 |
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Beginning Philosophy
ISBN: 9780195117813 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Beginning Philosophy provides an introduction to the fundamental philo sophical problems in a straight-forward, reader-friendly style. It cov ers logic and reasoning, theory of knowledge, the nature of the extern al world, the mind/body problem, ethics, free will, the existence of G od, and the problem of evil. It contains both extensive quotes from hi storical figures, such as Aquinas, Hume and Descartes, and references to some philosophical-minded, non-philosophers, such as Dostoevski and Carl Sagan.
Beginning Philosophy provides an introduction to the fundamental philo sophical problems in a straight-forward, reader-friendly style. It cov ers logi...
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801,51 |
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The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory
ISBN: 9780195117899 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give ris e to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, aesthetic pleasure or spiritual yearning? These questions tod ay are among the most hotly debated issues among scientists and philos ophers, and we have seen in recent years superb volumes by such eminen t figures as Francis Crick, Daniel C. Dennett, Gerald Edelman, and Rog er Penrose, all firing volleys in what has come to be called the consc iousness wars. Now, in The Conscious Mind, philosopher David J. Chalme rs offers a cogent analysis of...
What is consciousness? How do physical processes in the brain give ris e to the self-aware mind and to feelings as profoundly varied as love or hate, ...
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111,08 |
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Skepticism: A Contemporary Reader
ISBN: 9780195118278 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Recently, new life has been breathed into the ancient philosophical topic of skepticism. The subject of some of the best and most provocative work in contemporary philosophy, skepticism has been addressed not only by top epistemologists but also by several of the world's finest philosophers who are most known for their work in other areas of the discipline.
Skepticism: A Contemporary Reader brings together the most important recent contributions to the discussion of skepticism. Covering major approaches to the skeptical problem, it features essays by Anthony Brueckner, Keith... Recently, new life has been breathed into the ancient philosophical topic of skepticism. The subject of some of the best and most provocative work in ...
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458,16 |
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Pragmatism and Classical American Philosophy: Essential Readings and Interpretive Essays
ISBN: 9780195118308 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 720 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Classical American philosophy has both contemporary and historical significance. It provides direct, imaginative, and critical insights into our contemporary global society, its massive and pressing problems, and its possibilities for real improvement. Pragmatism and Classical American Philosophy, 2/e, provides the resources necessary to understand and act on these insights. Revised and greatly expanded in this second edition, it offers a comprehensive account of classical American philosophy and pragmatism, presenting the essential writings of all the major figures of the...
Classical American philosophy has both contemporary and historical significance. It provides direct, imaginative, and critical insights into our conte...
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855,60 |
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Studies in Scientific Realism
ISBN: 9780195118650 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book offers a superbly clear analysis of the standard arguments for and against scientific realism. In surveying claims on both sides of the debate, Kukla organizes them in ways that expose unnoticed connections. He identifies broad patterns of error, reconciles seemingly incompatible positions, and discovers unoccupied positions with the potential to influence further debate. Kukla's overall assessment is that neither the realists nor the antirealists may claim a decisive victory.
This book offers a superbly clear analysis of the standard arguments for and against scientific realism. In surveying claims on both sides of the deba...
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728,43 |
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Morality, Mortality: Volume I: Death and Whom to Save from It
ISBN: 9780195119114 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Why is death bad for us, even on the assumption that it involves the absence of experience? Is it worse for us than prenatal nonexistence? Kamm begins by considering these questions, critically examining some answers other philosophers have given. She explores in detail suggestions based on our greater concern over the loss of future versus past goods and those based on the insult to persons which death involves. In the second part, Kamm deals with the question, "Whom should we save from death if we cannot save everyone?" She considers whether and when the numbers of lives we can save matter...
Why is death bad for us, even on the assumption that it involves the absence of experience? Is it worse for us than prenatal nonexistence? Kamm begins...
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232,21 |
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Scientific Inquiry: Readings in the Philosophy of Science
ISBN: 9780195119763 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Scientific Inquiry: Readings in the Philosophy of Science features an impressive collection of classical and contemporary readings on a wide range of issues in the philosophy of science. The volume is organized into six sections, each with its own introduction, and includes a general introduction that situates the philosophy of science in relation to other areas of intellectual inquiry. The selections focus on the main issues in the field, including the structure of scientific theories, models of scientific explanation, reductionism, historicist challenges to the objectivity of...
Scientific Inquiry: Readings in the Philosophy of Science features an impressive collection of classical and contemporary readings on a wide ...
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612,17 |
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The Trial and Execution of Socrates: Sources and Controversies
ISBN: 9780195119800 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Socrates is one of the most important yet enigmatic philosophers of all time; his fame has endured for centuries despite the fact that he never actually wrote anything. In 399 B.C.E., he was tried on the charge of impiety by the citizens of Athens, convicted by a jury, and sentenced to death (ordered to drink poison derived from hemlock). About these facts there is no disagreement. However, as the sources collected in this book and the scholarly essays that follow them show, several of even the most basic facts about these events were controversial in antiquity, and the questions persist...
Socrates is one of the most important yet enigmatic philosophers of all time; his fame has endured for centuries despite the fact that he never actual...
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493,16 |
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Scientific Controversies: Philosophical and Historical Perspectives
ISBN: 9780195119879 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Traditionally it has been thought that scientific controversies can always be resolved on the basis of empirical data. Recently, however, social constructionists have claimed that the outcome of scientific debates is strongly influenced by non-evidential factors such as the rhetorical prowess and professional clout of the participants. This volume of previously unpublished essays by well-known philosophers of science presents historical studies and philosophical analyses that undermine the plausibility of an extreme social constructionist perspective while also indicating the need for a...
Traditionally it has been thought that scientific controversies can always be resolved on the basis of empirical data. Recently, however, social const...
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740,07 |