Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Metaphysics

Place has become a widespread concept in contemporary work in the humanities, creative arts, and social sciences. Yet in spite of its centrality, place remains a concept more often deployed than interrogated, and there are relatively few works that focus directly on the concept of place as such. The Intelligence of Place fills this gap, providing an exploration of place from various perspectives, encompassing anthropology, architecture, geography, media, philosophy, and the arts, and as it stands in relation to a range of other concepts.

Drawing together many of the key...

In eighteenth-century England, the encounter between humans and other animals took a singular turn with the discovery of the great apes and the rise of bourgeois pet keeping. These historical changes created a new cultural and intellectual context for the understanding and representation of animal-kind, and the nonhuman animal has thus played a significant role in imaginative literature from that period to the present day.

In Homeless Dogs and Melancholy Apes, Laura Brown shows how the literary works of the eighteenth century use animal-kind to bring abstract philosophical,...

The book focuses on Heidegger's thoughtful repetition of early Greek thinking, and his receptive attention to the fragments of the Presocratics from our contemporary age. Their thought has a special value for him as the heritage which must be repeated anew in order to bring us back to the question of being and to open before us new avenues for existence. The author raises questions which help us to understand Heidegger as a thinker. He presents a deep analysis of Heidegger's interpretations of the Presocratics and contributes to a new, insightful understanding of Heideggerian...

"The Mask: A Primer on the Myth of Reality" analyzes, explains and illustrates that what we refer to as "the world" is not independent of our perceptual apparatus, but is rather an abstraction: a collectively shared, individually refined conceptual "mask" that we ourselves impose on the dynamic flow of human sensory experience to render it comprehensible and, to a limited degree, manageable. The Mask is 280 pages long, it references great literature ranging from Moby Dick (the book derives its name from an Ahab quote: "All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. . . . If a man...

On one view, the neo-Humean view, there is nothing intrinsic about, say, negative charge, that makes its bearers have the power to repel other negatively charged particles. Rather,...

This volume offers an introduction to consciousness research in philosophy, psychology and neuroscience, from a philosophical perspective and with an emphasis on the history of ideas and core concepts. It starts out by examining consciousness as a modern mystery. It then introduces the philosophy of mind and the mind-body problem, and continues with exploring psychological, philosophical and neuroscientific approaches to mind and consciousness. It then presents a discussion of mysterianist views of consciousness in response to what can seem like insurmountable scientific challenges to the...

This series of volumes is meant to extend the scope of what we can formalize in classical predicate logic, and in doing so see the real limitations of what can be done.

The first section of this volume presents classical predicate logic with equality.

In the second section. that logic is extended to formalize reasoning that involves adverbs and relative adjectives by viewing those as modifiers of simpler predicates. What is normally taken to be an atomic predicate, such as "barking loudly," can then have internal structure. Reasoning that involves conjunctions of terms, as in...

"The Mask: A Primer on the Myth of Reality" analyzes, explains and illustrates that what we refer to as "the world" is not independent of our perceptual apparatus, but is rather an abstraction: a collectively shared, individually refined conceptual "mask" that we ourselves impose on the dynamic flow of human sensory experience to render it comprehensible and, to a limited degree, manageable. The Mask is 280 pages long, it references great literature ranging from Moby Dick (the book derives its name from an Ahab quote: "All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. . . . If a man...

But that was just the beginning.

In Beyond Biocentrism, acclaimed biologist Robert Lanza, one of TIME Magazine's "100 Most Influential People in 2014," and leading astronomer Bob Berman, take the reader on an intellectual thrill-ride as they re-examine everything we thought we knew about life, death, the universe, and the nature of reality itself.

The first step is acknowledging that our existing model of reality is looking increasingly creaky in the face of recent...