Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Movements - General

Experimental philosophy is one of the most exciting and controversial philosophical movements today. This book explores how it is reshaping thought about philosophical method. Experimental philosophy imports experimental methods and findings from psychology into philosophy. These fresh resources can be used to develop and defend both armchair methods and naturalist approaches, on an empirical basis. This outstanding collection brings together leading proponents of this new meta-philosophical naturalism, from within and beyond experimental philosophy. They explore how the empirical study of...

This forward-thinking collection presents new work that looks beyond the division between the analytic and continental philosophical traditions-one that has long caused dissension, mutual distrust, and institutional barriers to the development of common concerns and problems. Rather than rehearsing the causes of the divide, contributors draw upon the problems, methods, and results of both traditions to show what post-divide philosophical work looks like in practice.

Ranging from metaphysics and philosophy of mind to political philosophy and ethics, the papers gathered here...

Aristotle s "Poetics "is the first philosophical account of an art form and the foundational text in aesthetics. "The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Aristotle and the Poetics "is an accessible guide to this often dense and cryptic work. Angela Curran introduces and assesses:

• Aristotle s life and the background to the "Poetics

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• the ideas and text of the "Poetics

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• the continuing importance of Aristotle s work to philosophy today.

Aristotle s "Poetics "is the first philosophical account of an art form and the foundational text in aesthetics. "The Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Aristotle and the Poetics "is an accessible guide to this often dense and cryptic work. Angela Curran introduces and assesses:

• Aristotle s life and the background to the "Poetics

"

• the ideas and text of the "Poetics

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• the continuing importance of Aristotle s work to philosophy today.

This book offers a widely interdisciplinary approach to investigating important questions surrounding the cognitive foundations of group attitudes and social interaction. The volume tackles issues such as the relationship between individual and group attitudes, the cognitive bases of group identity and group identification and the link between emotions and individual attitudes.

This volume delves into the links between individual attitudes (such as beliefs, goals and intentions) and how they are reflected in shared attitudes where common belief, collective acceptance, joint...

Tobias Schmohl befasst sich anhand einer grundlagentheoretisch-konzeptuellen Analyse mit dem rhetorischen Steuerungsbegriff, auf dem das klassische fundamentalrhetorische Persuasionsparadigma aufbaut. Er arbeitet zunachst die Basispramissen heraus, die fur dieses Konzept konstitutiv sind, um den eingeschrankten Geltungsbereich der traditionellen Persuasionsvorstellungen sowie die konzeptionellen Limitationen der implizierten Steuerungskonzeption angesichts kommunikativer Komplexitatsbedingungen aufzuzeigen. Vor dem Hintergrund der autopoietischen Systemtheorie werden Anschlussstellen fur...

This volume features a critical evaluation of the recent work of the philosopher, Prof. Raimo Tuomela and it also offers it offers new approaches to the collectivism-versus-individualism debate. It specifically looks at Tuomela's book Social Ontology and its accounts of collective intentionality and related topics.

The book contains eight essays written by expert contributors that present different perspectives on Tuomela's investigation into the philosophy of sociality, social ontology, theory of action, and (philosophical) decision and game theory. In addition, Tuomela himself gives...