
ilość książek w kategorii: 120636
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Moral Reality
ISBN: 9780195137132 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. We typically assume that the standard for what is beautiful lies in the eye of the beholder. Yet this is not the case when we consider morality; what we deem morally good is not usually a matter of opinion. Such thoughts push us toward being realists about moral properties, but a cogent theory of moral realism has long been an elusive philosophical goal. Paul Bloomfield here offers a rigorous defense of moral realism, developing an ontology for morality that models the property of being morally good on the property of being physically healthy. The model is assembled systematically; it...
We typically assume that the standard for what is beautiful lies in the eye of the beholder. Yet this is not the case when we consider morality; what ...
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cena:
76,14 |
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Hegel's Dialectical Logic
ISBN: 9780195138290 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This clear, accessible account of Hegelian logic makes a case for its enormous seductiveness, its surprising presence in the collective consciousness, and the dangers associated therewith. Offering comprehensive coverage of Hegel's important works, Bencivenga avoids getting bogged down in short-lived scholarly debates to provide a work of permanent significance and usefulness.
This clear, accessible account of Hegelian logic makes a case for its enormous seductiveness, its surprising presence in the collective consciousness,...
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267,19 |
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Morals from Motives
ISBN: 9780195138375 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Morals from Motives develops a virtue ethics inspired more by Hume and Hutcheson's moral sentimentalism than by recently-influential Aristotelianism. It argues that a reconfigured and expanded "morality of caring" can offer a general account of right and wrong action as well as social justice. Expanding the frontiers of ethics, it goes on to show how a motive-based "pure" virtue theory can also help us to understand the nature of human well-being and practical reason.
Morals from Motives develops a virtue ethics inspired more by Hume and Hutcheson's moral sentimentalism than by recently-influential Aristote...
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cena:
211,24 |
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Facing the Future: Agents and Choices in Our Indeterminist World
ISBN: 9780195138788 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Here is an important new theory of human action, a theory that assumes actions are founded on choices made by agents who face an open future. It is a theory that makes indeterminism not only intelligible but illuminating. Tools from philosophy of language and philosophical logic help generate a full-scale account of agents "seeing to it that." The authors then proceed to clarify a variety of action-related topics such as determinism vs. indeterminism, imperatives, promises, strategies, joint agency, "could have done otherwise," deontic constructions, and assertions about a not yet settled...
Here is an important new theory of human action, a theory that assumes actions are founded on choices made by agents who face an open future. It is a ...
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681,84 |
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Simulating Minds: The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Mindreading
ISBN: 9780195138924 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. People are minded creatures; we have thoughts, feelings and emotions. More intriguingly, we grasp our own mental states, and conduct the business of ascribing them to ourselves and others without instruction in formal psychology. How do we do this? And what are the dimensions of our grasp of the mental realm? In this book, Alvin I. Goldman explores these questions with the tools of philosophy, developmental psychology, social psychology and cognitive neuroscience. He refines an approach called simulation theory, which starts from the familiar idea that we understand others by putting...
People are minded creatures; we have thoughts, feelings and emotions. More intriguingly, we grasp our own mental states, and conduct the business of a...
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267,19 |
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Effortless Action: Wu-Wei as Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China
ISBN: 9780195138993 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book presents a systematic account of the role of the personal spiritual ideal of wu-wei--literally "no doing," but better rendered as "effortless action"--in early Chinese thought. Edward Slingerland's analysis shows that wu-wei represents the most general of a set of conceptual metaphors having to do with a state of effortless ease and unself-consciousness. This concept of effortlessness, he contends, serves as a common ideal for both Daoist and Confucian thinkers. He also argues that this concept contains within itself a conceptual tension that motivates the development of early...
This book presents a systematic account of the role of the personal spiritual ideal of wu-wei--literally "no doing," but better rendered as "effortles...
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507,13 |
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The Heart of Islamic Philosophy: The Quest for Self-Knowledge in the Teachings of Afdal Al-Din Kashani
ISBN: 9780195139136 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book introduces the work of an important medieval Islamic philosopher who is little known outside the Persian world. Afdal al-Din Kashani was a contemporary of a number of important Muslim thinkers, including Averroes and Ibn al-Arabi. Kashani did not write for advanced students of philosophy but rather for beginners. In the main body of his work, he offers especially clear and insightful expositions of various philosophical positions, making him an invaluable resource for those who would like to learn the basic principles and arguments of this philosophical tradition but do not have a...
This book introduces the work of an important medieval Islamic philosopher who is little known outside the Persian world. Afdal al-Din Kashani was a c...
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565,36 |
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Future Pasts: The Analytic Tradition in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
ISBN: 9780195139167 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This collection of previously unpublished essays presents a new approach to the history of analytic philosophy--one that does not assume at the outset a general characterization of the distinguishing elements of the analytic tradition. Drawing together a venerable group of contributors, including John Rawls and Hilary Putnam, this volume explores the historical contexts in which analytic philosophers have worked, revealing multiple discontinuities and misunderstandings as well as a complex interaction between science and philosophical reflection.
This collection of previously unpublished essays presents a new approach to the history of analytic philosophy--one that does not assume at the outset...
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cena:
434,91 |
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Philosophical Questions: Readings and Interactive Guides
ISBN: 9780195139839 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Philosophical Questions: Readings and Interactive Guides, James Fieser and Norman Lillegard make classic and contemporary philosophical writings genuinely accessible to students by incorporating numerous pedagogical aids throughout the book. Presenting the readings in manageable segments, they provide commentaries that elucidate difficult passages, explain archaic or technical terminology, and expand upon allusions to unfamiliar literature and arguments. In addition, "First Reactions" discussion questions, study questions, logic boxes, and chapter summaries require students to delve more...
In Philosophical Questions: Readings and Interactive Guides, James Fieser and Norman Lillegard make classic and contemporary philosophical writings ge...
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cena:
360,33 |
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A Historical Introduction to Philosophy: Texts and Interactive Guides
ISBN: 9780195139846 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Offering a unique pedagogical apparatus, A Historical Introduction to Philosophy: Texts and Interactive Guides provides selections from the most influential primary works in philosophy from the Presocratics through the twentieth century, integrating them with substantial commentary and study questions. It offers extensive treatment of the Hellenistic and Renaissance periods--which are typically given only minimal coverage in other anthologies--and devotes substantial chapters to nineteenth- and twentieth-century philosophy. The selections are organized historically and are presented in short...
Offering a unique pedagogical apparatus, A Historical Introduction to Philosophy: Texts and Interactive Guides provides selections from the most influ...
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672,47 |
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Merit, Aesthetic and Ethical
ISBN: 9780195140248 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. To "look good" and to "be good" have traditionally been considered two very different notions. Indeed, philosophers have seen aesthetic and ethical values as fundamentally separate. Now, at the crossroads of a new wave of aesthetic theory, Marcia Muelder Eaton introduces this groundbreaking work, in which a bold new concept of merit where being good and looking good are integrated into one.
To "look good" and to "be good" have traditionally been considered two very different notions. Indeed, philosophers have seen aesthetic and ethical va...
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763,36 |
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Ending Life: Ethics and the Way We Die
ISBN: 9780195140279 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Margaret Pabst Battin has established a reputation as one of the top philosophers working in bioethics today. This work is a sequel to Battin's 1994 volume The Least Worst Death. The last ten years have seen fast-moving developments in end-of-life issues, from the legalization of physician-assisted suicide in Oregon and the Netherlands, to a furor over proposed restrictions of scheduled drugs used for causing death, and the development of "NuTech" methods of assistance in dying. Battin's new collection covers a remarkably wide range of end-of-life topics, including suicide...
Margaret Pabst Battin has established a reputation as one of the top philosophers working in bioethics today. This work is a sequel to Battin's 1994 v...
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201,93 |
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Virtue in the Cave: Moral Inquiry in Plato's Meno
ISBN: 9780195140767 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this radical new interpretation of Plato's Meno, Roslyn Weiss exposes the farcical nature of the slave-boy-demonstration and challenges the widely held assumption that the Meno introduces "Platonic" metaphysical and epistemological innovations into an otherwise "Socratic" dialogue. She shows that the Meno is intended as a defense not of all inquiry but of moral inquiry alone, and that it locates the validity of Socratic method in its ability to arrive not at moral knowledge but at the far more modest moral true belief. Through a careful, and provocative, reading of Plato's Meno, Weiss...
In this radical new interpretation of Plato's Meno, Roslyn Weiss exposes the farcical nature of the slave-boy-demonstration and challenges the widely ...
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542,07 |
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Virtue Epistemology: Essays in Epistemic Virtue and Responsibility
ISBN: 9780195140774 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Virtue epistemology is an exciting, new movement receiving an enormous amount of attention from top epistemologists and ethicists; this pioneering volume reflects the best work in that vein. Featuring superb writing from contemporary American philosophers, it includes thirteen never before published essays that focus on the place of the concept of virtue in epistemology. In recent years, philosophers have been debating how this concept functions in definitions of knowledge. They question the extent to which knowledge is both normative (i.e., with a moral component) and non-normative, and...
Virtue epistemology is an exciting, new movement receiving an enormous amount of attention from top epistemologists and ethicists; this pioneering vol...
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cena:
600,31 |
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The Architecture of Reason: The Structure and Substance of Rationality
ISBN: 9780195141122 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The literature on theoretical reason has been dominated by epistemological concerns, treatments of practical reason by ethical concerns. This book overcomes the limitations of dealing with each separately. It sets out a comprehensive theory of rationality applicable to both practical and theoretical reason. In both domains, Audi explains how experience grounds rationality, delineates the structure of central elements, and attacks the egocentric conception of rationality. He establishes the rationality of altruism and thereby supports major moral principles. The concluding part describes the...
The literature on theoretical reason has been dominated by epistemological concerns, treatments of practical reason by ethical concerns. This book ove...
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716,77 |
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Metarepresentations: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
ISBN: 9780195141146 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series concerns metarepresentation: the construction and use of representations that represent other representations. Metarepresentations are ubiquitous among human beings, whenever we think or talk about mental states or linguistic acts, or theorize about the mind or language. This volume collects previously unpublished studies on the subject by an interdisciplinary group of contributors, including Daniel Dennett, Alvin Goldman, Keith Lehrer, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby.
This volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series concerns metarepresentation: the construction and use of representations that represe...
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914,78 |
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Metarepresentations: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
ISBN: 9780195141153 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series concerns metarepresentation: the construction and use of representations that represent other representations. Metarepresentations are ubiquitous among human beings, whenever we think or talk about mental states or linguistic acts, or theorize about the mind or language. This volume collects previously unpublished studies on the subject by an interdisciplinary group of contributors, including Daniel Dennett, Alvin Goldman, Keith Lehrer, Leda Cosmides and John Tooby.
This volume in the Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science series concerns metarepresentation: the construction and use of representations that represe...
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635,25 |
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The Voice of Reason: Fundamentals of Critical Thinking
ISBN: 9780195141221 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Lively, comprehensive, and contemporary, The Voice of Reason: Fundamentals of Critical Thinking covers three principal areas: thought and language, systematic reasoning, and modes of proof. It employs highly accessible explanations and a multitude of examples drawn from social issues and various academic fields, showing students and other readers how to construct and criticize arguments using the techniques of sound reasoning.
The Voice of Reason examines the traditional elements of the field and also explores new ground. The first section of the book elucidates the... Lively, comprehensive, and contemporary, The Voice of Reason: Fundamentals of Critical Thinking covers three principal areas: thought and lan...
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625,88 |
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The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality
ISBN: 9780195141580 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Editor James Fetzer presents an analytical and historical introduction and a comprehensive bibliography together with selections of many of Carl G. Hempel's most important studies to give students and scholars an ideal opportunity to appreciate the enduring contributions of one of the most influential philosophers of science of the 20th century.
Editor James Fetzer presents an analytical and historical introduction and a comprehensive bibliography together with selections of many of Carl G. He...
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cena:
341,73 |
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Consciousness and Cognition
ISBN: 9780195141818 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Our thinking about consciousness and cognition is dominated by a certain very natural conception. This conception dictates what we take the fundamental questions about consciousness and cognition to be as well as the form that their answers must take.
In this book, Michael Thau shows that, despite its naturalness, this conception begins with and depends upon a few fundamental errors. Exorcising these errors requires that we completely reconceive the nature of both consciousness and cognition as well as the fundamental problems each poses. Thau proceeds by discussing three famous and... Our thinking about consciousness and cognition is dominated by a certain very natural conception. This conception dictates what we take the fundamenta...
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cena:
337,08 |