Introducing Persons: Theories and Arguments in the Philosophy of the Mind
ISBN: 9780415045124 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stimulating introduction to the most central and interesting issues in the philosophy of mind. Topics covered include dualism versus the various forms of materialism, personal identity and survival, and the problem of other minds.
Stimulating introduction to the most central and interesting issues in the philosophy of mind. Topics covered include dualism versus the various forms...
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The Other Side of Language: A Philosophy of Listening
ISBN: 9780415049276 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study argues that our philosophy is grounded in only half a language, in which the power of discourse is deployed and the strength of listening ignored, that we are inhabitants of a culture that knows how to speak but not how to listen and so we constantly mistake warring monologues for genuine dialogue. It seeks to redress that balance by examining the other side of language - listening. Synthesising the insights of Wittgenstein, Heidegger and Gadamer, among many others, an argument is put forward for the replacement of the silent silence of traditional Western thought with the rich...
This study argues that our philosophy is grounded in only half a language, in which the power of discourse is deployed and the strength of listening i...
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Wittgenstein: Rethinking the Inner
ISBN: 9780415091770 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The idea of the Inner is central to our concept of a person and so lies at the heart of all interaction. But how should this concept be understood? What do we mean when we wonder what is going on inside our heads? Clearly the inner world is not literally inside our heads, but if not, where is it? Although the idea of the Inner is central to our comprehension of ourselves, what does it actually mean?
The idea of the Inner is central to our concept of a person and so lies at the heart of all interaction. But how should this concept be understood? Wh...
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Rethinking Imagination
ISBN: 9780415091930 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pulling together a collection of richly informative essays Rethinking Imagination addresses competing sets of ideas, oscillating between the modern and post-modern, creativity and sublimity, progress and apocalypse, democracy and redemption Enlightenment and Romanticism and reason and imagination. Aiming to thematise these debates from the perspective of the imagination, Rethinking Imagination takes two directions. The first addresses a socio-cultural interpretation in which the distinguishing figures of modernity can be viewed as continuing differentiation and... Pulling together a collection of richly informative essays Rethinking Imagination addresses competing sets of ideas, oscillating between the... |
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The Mind and its World
ISBN: 9780415093309 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text provides an introduction to a cluster of contemporary controversies in the area of the philosophy of mind and language. Since Descartes, the mind has been thought to be in the head, separable from the world and even from the body it inhabits. Here, the author considers the latest debates in philosophy and cognitive science about whether the thinking subject actually requires an environment in order to be able to think. He explores the argument from Descartes, through Locke, Frege and Wittgenstein up to the present day. He then offers an original defence of his own version of...
This text provides an introduction to a cluster of contemporary controversies in the area of the philosophy of mind and language. Since Descartes, the...
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What Is an Animal?
ISBN: 9780415095563 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a unique interdisciplinary challenge to assumptions about animals and animality deeply embedded in our own ways of thought, and at the same time exposes highly sensitive and largely unexplored aspects of the understanding of our common humanity.
This book offers a unique interdisciplinary challenge to assumptions about animals and animality deeply embedded in our own ways of thought, and at th...
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A Materialist Theory of the Mind
ISBN: 9780415100311 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Breaking new ground in the debate about the relation of mind and body, David Armstrong's classic text - first published in 1968, remains a compelling and comprehensive statement of the view that the mind is material or physical. In the preface to this new edition, the author reflects on the book's impact and considers it in the light of subsequent developments. He also provides a bibliography of all the key writings to have appeared in the materialist debate.
Breaking new ground in the debate about the relation of mind and body, David Armstrong's classic text - first published in 1968, remains a compelling ...
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Content and Consciousness
ISBN: 9780415104319 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dennett's classic introduction to the philosophy of mind.
Dennett's classic introduction to the philosophy of mind.
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Aquinas on Mind
ISBN: 9780415113069 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book shows how the mature writings of Thomas Aquinas, although written in the 13th century, have much to offer the modern philosophical reader concerned with the nature of the human mind and the relationship between intellect and will, body and soul. Anthony Kenny makes accessible those parts of Aquinas' system which are of enduring value. He presupposes no knowledge of Latin or of medieval history, and relates Aquinas' system to a tradition of philosophy of mind inaugurated in the Anglo-American community by Wittgenstein and Ryle.
This book shows how the mature writings of Thomas Aquinas, although written in the 13th century, have much to offer the modern philosophical reader co...
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Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem: In Defence of Interaction
ISBN: 9780415115049 / Angielski / Twarda / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based upon the Kenan Lectures that Karl Popper delivered at Emory University, Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem raises problems connected with human freedom, creativity, rationality, and the relationship between human beings and their actions. These are what Popper calls big issues - too big for easy answers, but too important to be ignored.
Based upon the Kenan Lectures that Karl Popper delivered at Emory University, Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem raises problems connected with human...
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Mental Conflict
ISBN: 9780415115575 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As earthquakes expose geological faults, so mental conflict reveals tendencies to rupture within the mind. Dissension is rife not only between people but also within them, for each of us is subject to a contrariety of desires, beliefs, motivations, aspirations. What image are we to form of ourselves that might best enable us to accept the reality of discord, or achieve the ideal of harmony?
Greek philosophers offer us a variety of pictures and structures intended to capture the actual and the possible either within a reason that fails to be resolute, or within a split soul that houses a... As earthquakes expose geological faults, so mental conflict reveals tendencies to rupture within the mind. Dissension is rife not only between people ...
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Viroid Life: Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman Condition
ISBN: 9780415154352 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nietzsche's vision of the 'overman' continues to haunt the postmodern imagination. His call that 'man is something that must be overcome' can no longer be seen as simple rhetoric. Our experiences of the hybrid realities of artificial life have made the 'transhuman' a figure that looks over us all. Inspired by this vision, Keith Ansell Pearson sets out to examine if evolution is 'out of control' and machines are taking over.
In a series of six fascinating perspectives, he links Nietzsche's thought with the issues at stake in contemporary conceptions of evolution from the biological to the... Nietzsche's vision of the 'overman' continues to haunt the postmodern imagination. His call that 'man is something that must be overcome' can no longe...
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Death and Philosophy
ISBN: 9780415191449 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Death and Philosophy considers these questions with different perspectives varying from the existentialist - deriving from Camus, Heidegger or Sartre, to the English speaking analytic tradition of Bernard Williams or Thomas Nagel; to non-wester approaches such as are exemplified in the Tibetan Book of the Dead and in Daoist thought; to perspectives influenced by Lucretious, Epicurus and Nietzsche.
Death and Philosophy will be of great interest to philosphers, or those studying religion and theology, buts its clarity and scope ensures it will be accessible to anyone who... Death and Philosophy considers these questions with different perspectives varying from the existentialist - deriving from Camus, Heidegger o...
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Marxism and Human Nature
ISBN: 9780415191470 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author of this book defends the theory that human nature is in fact an historical phenomenon. Drawing on the work of Marx and Hegel, he develops a historical account of human needs and powers which provides the basis for a distinctive form of Marxist humanism. According to this view, human beings are not merely passive individual consumers; they are active, social and productive beings. The first half of the book explores the role work plays in our lives and how it contributes to our fulfilment. The moral and social implications of these ideas are analyzed in the second half in the...
The author of this book defends the theory that human nature is in fact an historical phenomenon. Drawing on the work of Marx and Hegel, he develops a...
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Speculations : Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art
ISBN: 9780415225601 / Angielski / Twarda / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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On Humour
ISBN: 9780415251204 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Does humour makes us human, or do the cats and dogs laugh along with us? On Humour is a fascinating and beautifully written book on what philosophy can tell us about humour and about what it is to be human. Simon Critchley probes some of the most perennial but least understood features of humour, such as our tendency to laugh at animals and our bodies, why we mock death with comedy and why we think it's funny when people act like machines. He also looks as the darker side of humour, as rife in sexism and racism, and argues that is important for reminding of us of people we would rather not...
Does humour makes us human, or do the cats and dogs laugh along with us? On Humour is a fascinating and beautifully written book on what philosophy ca...
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On Being Authentic
ISBN: 9780415261227 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thought-provoking and with an astonishing range of references, On Being Authentic is a gripping journey into the self. Beginning with Socrates and Augustine, Charles Guignon argues that being authentic is to have a sincere story to tell.
Thought-provoking and with an astonishing range of references, On Being Authentic is a gripping journey into the self. Beginning with Socrates and Aug...
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The Importance of Being Understood: Folk Psychology as Ethics
ISBN: 9780415272438 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Importance of Being Understood argues for an alternative to traditional accounts in contemporary philosophy of the power of folk psychology to explain our actions and beliefs. Morton examines key concepts in moral psychology including motive, belief and simulation, arguing that folk psychology plays a vital role in building co-operation between individuals. He challenges many contemporary philosophical assumptions about its usefulness for understanding our actions and beliefs and shows that folk psychology can make an important contribution to understanding ethics.
The Importance of Being Understood argues for an alternative to traditional accounts in contemporary philosophy of the power of folk psychology to exp...
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Strangers, Gods and Monsters : Interpreting Otherness
ISBN: 9780415272575 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume looks at how human identity is shaped by three powerful but enigmatic forces. Often overlooked in accounts of how we think about ourselves and others, Richard Kearney shows, with the help of examples and illustrations, how the human outlook on the world is formed by the mysterious triumvirate of strangers, gods and monsters.
This volume looks at how human identity is shaped by three powerful but enigmatic forces. Often overlooked in accounts of how we think about ourselves...
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Strangers, Gods and Monsters: Interpreting Otherness
ISBN: 9780415272582 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Strangers, Gods and Monsters is a fascinating look at how human identity is shaped by three powerful but enigmatic forces. Often overlooked in accounts of how we think about ourselves and others, Richard Kearney skilfully shows, with the help of vivid examples and illustrations, how the human outlook on the world is formed by the mysterious triumvirate of strangers, gods and monsters.
Throughout, Richard Kearney shows how Strangers, Gods and Monsters do not merely reside in myths or fantasies but constitute a central part of our cultural unconscious. Above all, he argues... Strangers, Gods and Monsters is a fascinating look at how human identity is shaped by three powerful but enigmatic forces. Often overlooked i...
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