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Charting the emergence of female networks via the most prominent modes of communication--gossip, letters, and phones--Schantz brings his study to life with unconventional...

Dieser Band ist eine Sammlung von Vortragen, die auf einer Tagung mit dem Titel "Aktuelle Probleme der Philosophie der Wahrnehmung" gehalten wurden, die im Sommer 2007 an der Universitat Siegen stattfand. Der Band verfolgt das Ziel, den Reichtum und die Lebendigkeit von wichtigen gegenwartigen Debatten in der Philosophie der Wahrnehmung zu dokumentieren. Die Philosophie der Wahrnehmung spielt in verschiedenen philosophischen Kerndisziplinen - in der Metaphysik, in der Erkenntnistheorie, in der Philosophie des Geistes - eine ganz wesentliche Rolle. Die in diesem Band versammelten Aufsatze...

Charting the emergence of female networks via the most prominent modes of communication--gossip, letters, and phones--Schantz brings his study to life with unconventional...

The debate between internalism and externalism has become a focal point of attention both in epistemology and in the philosophy of mind and language. Externalism challenges basic traditional internalist conceptions of the nature of knowledge, justification, thought and language. What is at stake, is the very form that theories in epistemology and the philosophy of mind ought to take. This volume is a collection of original contributions of leading internationalauthors reflecting onthe present state of the art concerning the exciting controversies between internalism and externalism.

International fuhrende Autoren wenden sich in Originalbeitragen dem wichtigsten Problem der Sprachphilosophie zu, der Frage, wie angesichts einflussreicher skeptischer Attacken, die insbesondere von Willard Van Quine und Saul Kripke und ihren Anhangern gegen den Begriff der Bedeutung gefuhrt wurden, die Aussichten zu beurteilen sind, eine haltbare Theorie der Bedeutung zu entwickeln. Die Texte versuchen mithin die grundlegenden Fragen zu beantworten ob es Bedeutungen gibt, wenn ja, was sie sind, und welche Form eine seriose philosophische Theorie der Bedeutung annehmen sollte.

In this collection of original papers, leading international authorities turn their attention to one of the most important questions in theoretical philosophy: what is truth?

To arrive at an answer, two further questions need to be addressed in this context: 1) Does truth possess any essence, any inner nature? and 2) If so, what does this nature consist of?

The present discussion focuses on the antagonism between substantial or robust theories of truth, with correspondence theory taking the lead, and deflationist or minimalist views, which have been commanding an increasing...

"Americans came to fight the Civil War in the midst of a wider cultural world that sent them messages about death that made it easier to kill and to be killed. They understood that death awaited all who were born and prized the ability to face death with a spirit of calm resignation. They believed that a heavenly eternity of transcendent beauty awaited them beyond the grave. They knew that their heroic achievements would be cherished forever by posterity. They grasped that death itself might be seen as artistically fascinating and even beautiful." from Awaiting the Heavenly...