Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Methodology

In order to determine whether two participants in a discussion are in real dis/agreement, one must compare their propositions. Comparison presupposes yardsticks in common. This work thematises such yardsticks, in that it demonstrates the existence, content and factual significance of a relatively well-delimited set of proposition types and proposition patterns, with their accompanying tenability criteria and motivating interests. It is for philosophers, legal theorists, lawyers, and linguists.

• Gives a lively presentation of an -A to Z- of 26 fascinating and influential thought experiments from philosophy and science
  
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Dieses Referenzwerk vermittelt einen reprasentativen und verlasslichen Uberblick uber die antike, mittelalterliche und neuzeitliche Geschichte des philosophischen Begriffs der Wahrheit. Ein ahnlich umfassendes und zugleich nicht nur fur Fachphilosophen, sondern auch fur Interessierte und Studierende anderer Fachbereiche konzipiertes Werk zur Geschichte dieses zentralen philosophischen Begriffs gibt es bislang noch nicht.

Im Einzelnen werden behandelt: die Geschichte des philosophischen Wahrheitsbegriffs in der griechischen Antike, im philosophischen Neuplatonismus, in der Bibel und...

Thema des Buches sind verschiedene Zugange zur Geschichte der Philosophie, namlich narrative, philologische, hermeneutische und systematische, samt den zugehorigen Prinzipien der Beurteilung, gerade auch im Blick auf das rechte Verstandnis heute noch relevanter Probleme. Dabei wird die Dialektik als Form der Rekonstruktion von Ideenentwicklungen in ihrer Bedeutung am Beispiel von Problemlagen, Explikationsformen, Losungsvorschlagen und Denkfaden der abendlandischen Philosophie vorgefuhrt, von Parmenides' Methode der Wahrheit bis zur logischen Semantik der Gegenwart, von Platons Idee...

Searching for rigor and a clear grasp of the essential features of their objects of investigation, philosophers are often driven to exaggerations and harmful simplifications. According to Ludwig Wittgenstein's provocative suggestion, this has to do with confusions relating to the status of philosophical statements. The Struggle against Dogmatism elucidates his view that there are no theses, doctrines, or theories in philosophy. Even when this claim is taken seriously, explanations of what it means are problematic--typically involving a relapse to theses. This book makes...

Karl Raimund Popper's (1902-1994) magnum opus, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934), was fundamental to the development of critical rationalism. Critical rationalism reveals why knowledge is fallible and proposes that progress in knowledge results from hypothesis formation and disproof. This compendium mimics the structure of the Logic of Scientific Discovery to comment on specific themes from the perspective of current understanding.