Who Am I? Who Is She?: A Naturalistic, Holistic, Somatic Approach to Personal Identity
ISBN: 9783110320046 / Angielski / Twarda / 331 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are 'persons' physical things, members of the species homo sapiens which exist solely in materialist form, continuous in structure with other living things? Or is the issue a more complex one: are there more dimensions to being a person than mere physical, biological existence? These are matters of interest and discussion in many fields of study in this age of individuality. In this wide-ranging essay, the author addresses various aspects of the issue, including the history of self and identity. The ancient tradition of dualism is rejected in favour of a straightforward holistic and... Are 'persons' physical things, members of the species homo sapiens which exist solely in materialist form, continuous in structure with other livin... |
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694,04 zł |
Art of Philosophy: A Selection of Jerzy Perzanowski's Works
ISBN: 9783110321630 / Angielski / Twarda / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jerzy Perzanowski's ideas were based on an original blend of logic and ontology in what he called onto/logic, where the slash is meant to suggest a quotient of ontology by logic. Perzanowski began as a logician, his early works being on modal logic, then gradually shifted his interest to "logical philosophy," meaning not so much philosophy of logic as philosophy informed by logic. Perzanowski was a rare breed of analytical philosopher who thought that a philosophical "theory of everything" was worthwhile. In this systematic spirit, he began with method. He presented his "method of total... Jerzy Perzanowski's ideas were based on an original blend of logic and ontology in what he called onto/logic, where the slash is meant to suggest a... |
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585,56 zł |
Moore's Paradox: A Critique of Representationalism
ISBN: 9783110371031 / Angielski / Twarda / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The word belief is widely assumed to designate a special class of mental states, the attitude of representing something as being the case. This book providesa critique of representationalism by focusing on the role that psychological concepts play in language, the way in which they are used in practice. Offering an alternative conception of their meaning, it finds a new way to deal with Moore s Paradox. "The word belief is widely assumed to designate a special class of mental states, the attitude of representing something as being the case.... |
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477,09 zł |
New Scholasticism Meets Analytic Philosophy
ISBN: 9783868385458 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent decades saw a revival of interest in Aristotelian and Scholastic thought, particularly among analytic philosophers. Neo-Aristotelians, Analytic Scholastics, and Analytical Thomists have made significant contributions to several fields within contemporary philosophy, including metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science. This volume of new essays brings together some of the leading thinkers of this movement to address such topics as materiality, causation, possibility, privation, and dispositionality. The contributors are Rani Lill Anjum, Edward Feser, Uwe Meixner,... Recent decades saw a revival of interest in Aristotelian and Scholastic thought, particularly among analytic philosophers. Neo-Aristotelians, Analy... |
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308,15 zł |
Object-Oriented Philosophy: The Noumenon's New Clothes
ISBN: 9780957529595 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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118,19 zł |
Themes from Wittgenstein and Quine
ISBN: 9789042039124 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The volume contains new essays on Wittgenstein and on Quine. Six essays discuss crucial aspects of Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics: Wittgenstein's ontological quietism in relation to the realism vs. anti-realism debate, his thesis that mathematical propositions are rules of grammar, his perspectives on the nature of numbers, and on equinumerosity and surveyability, his treatment of mathematical formulas, and his disagreements with Brouwer over the infinite and the law of excluded middle. Six essays are dedicated to the philosophy of Willard Van Orman Quine: they discuss Quine's...
The volume contains new essays on Wittgenstein and on Quine. Six essays discuss crucial aspects of Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics: Wittgenst...
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251,67 zł |
The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy
ISBN: 9780198747994 / Angielski / Miękka / 1184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the course of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy developed into the dominant philosophical tradition in the English-speaking world. In the last two decades, it has become increasingly influential in the rest of the world, from continental Europe to Latin America and Asia. At the same time there has been deepening interest in the origins and history of analytic philosophy, as analytic philosophers examine the foundations of their tradition and question many of the assumptions of their predecessors. This has led to greater historical self-consciousness among analytic philosophers...
During the course of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy developed into the dominant philosophical tradition in the English-speaking world. In ...
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161,66 zł |
Telling What She Thinks: Semantics and Pragmatics of Propositional Attitude Reports
ISBN: 9783110438802 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book aims at analyzing semantic values of proper names occurring in belief reports. The focus is on the discussion about Frege's puzzle concerning belief reports. The goal is to analyze Frege's puzzle without giving up semantic innocence. To this end, a pragmatic analysis named 'VarCA analysis' is proposed. This book aims at analyzing semantic values of proper names occurring in belief reports. The focus is on the discussion about Frege's puzzle concer... |
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433,69 zł |
Spectrum of Mind: An Inquiry into the Principles of the Mind and the Meaning of Life
ISBN: 9780692379493 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this thought-provoking book, author Michael Yang tackles some of life's fundamental questions that have given philosophers pause for centuries. The book will transform your understanding of reality in multiple aspects: 1.) Explain the basic principle that differentiation always causes separation, creation of knowledge causes loss of information. Similarly consciousness means sense of separation; 2.) Human mind activities can be explained through two parallel tendencies, namely, the actualization of potential and the search of reunification. This explains a large portion of the roots of... In this thought-provoking book, author Michael Yang tackles some of life's fundamental questions that have given philosophers pause for centuries. ... |
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44,82 zł |
Advances in Experimental Philosophy and Philosophical Methodology
ISBN: 9781474223218 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The rise of experimental philosophy is generating pressing methodological questions for philosophers. Can findings from experimental studies hold any significance for philosophy as a discipline? Can philosophical theorizing be improved through consideration of such studies? Do these studies threaten traditional philosophical methodology?
Advances in Experimental Philosophy and Philosophical Methodology addresses these questions, presenting a variety of views on the potential roles experimental philosophy might play in philosophical debate. Featuring contributors from... The rise of experimental philosophy is generating pressing methodological questions for philosophers. Can findings from experimental studies hold any ...
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656,16 zł |
Philosophy of Science: Key Concepts
ISBN: 9781474245234 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Science has made a huge impact on human society over hundred years, but how does it work? How do scientists do the things they do? How do they come up with the theories? How do they test them? How do they use these theories to explain phenomena? How do they draw conclusions from them about how the world might be? Now updated, this second edition of Philosophy of Science: Key Concepts looks at each of these questions and more. Taking in turn the fundamental theories, processes and views lying at the heart of the philosophy of science, this engaging introduction illuminates the... Science has made a huge impact on human society over hundred years, but how does it work? How do scientists do the things they do? How do they come... |
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126,14 zł |
Philosophy of Science: Key Concepts
ISBN: 9781474245241 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Science has made a huge impact on human society over hundred years, but how does it work? How do scientists do the things they do? How do they come up with the theories? How do they test them? How do they use these theories to explain phenomena? How do they draw conclusions from them about how the world might be? Now updated, this second edition of Philosophy of Science: Key Concepts looks at each of these questions and more. Taking in turn the fundamental theories, processes and views lying at the heart of the philosophy of science, this engaging introduction illuminates the... Science has made a huge impact on human society over hundred years, but how does it work? How do scientists do the things they do? How do they come... |
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479,50 zł |
Philosophy in a Meaningless Life: A System of Nihilism, Consciousness and Reality
ISBN: 9781474247702 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Philosophy in a Meaningless Life provides an account of the nature of philosophy which is rooted in the question of the meaning of life. It makes a powerful and vivid case for believing that this question is neither obscure nor obsolete, but reflects a quintessentially human concern to which other traditional philosophical problems can be readily related; allowing them to be reconnected with natural interest, and providing a diagnosis of the typical lines of opposition across philosophy's debates. James Tartaglia looks at the various ways philosophers have tried to avoid the... Philosophy in a Meaningless Life provides an account of the nature of philosophy which is rooted in the question of the meaning of life. It ... |
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656,16 zł |
Portraits of Wittgenstein
ISBN: 9781472589781 / Angielski / Twarda / 928 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Portraits of Wittgenstein is a major collection of memoirs and reflections on one of the most influential and yet elusive personalities in the history of modern philosophy, Ludwig Wittgenstein. Featuring a wealth of illuminating and profound insights into Wittgenstein's extraordinary life, this unique collection reveals Wittgenstein's character and power of personality more vividly and comprehensively than ever before.
Portraits of Wittgenstein is a major collection of memoirs and reflections on one of the most influential and yet elusive personalities in t... |
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Wittgenstein and Early Analytic Semantics: Toward a Phenomenology of Truth
ISBN: 9780739199541 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book assesses the respective prospects of two competing methodological approaches to the study of meaning and communication, as well truth and inference, each figuring prominently within the analytic tradition of philosophy of language. The first, 'logistical' approach is characterized by the employment of de-compositional logical analysis designed to resolve various theoretically problematic semantic and logical puzzles. The representative proponents of this approach are the three great early analytic philosophers (Frege, Russell, and the early Wittgenstein). The second,...
This book assesses the respective prospects of two competing methodological approaches to the study of meaning and communication, as well truth and in...
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494,11 zł |
Methods in Analytic Philosophy: A Contemporary Reader
ISBN: 9781474228206 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do you do philosophy? Do you believe according to the evidence? Make inferences? Or conduct a scientific-based thought experiment? This up-to-date and easy to navigate... How do you do philosophy? Do you believe according to the evidence? Make inferences? Or conduct a scientific-based thought experiment? |
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132,77 zł |
Methods in Analytic Philosophy: A Contemporary Reader
ISBN: 9781474228220 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do you do philosophy? Do you believe according to the evidence? Make inferences? Or conduct a scientific-based thought experiment? This up-to-date and easy to navigate... How do you do philosophy? Do you believe according to the evidence? Make inferences? Or conduct a scientific-based thought experiment? |
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398,48 zł |
Truth: A Contemporary Reader
ISBN: 9781474213301 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the first time Truth: A Contemporary Reader brings together the essays that have shaped two aspects of a fundamental philosophical topic: the nature of truth and the value of truth. Featuring 24 essays from 1878 to 2016, this up-to-date reader includes seminal work by leading figures in contemporary analytic philosophy. It charts the development of the central 'grand proposals' about the nature of truth, and subsequently how their influence gradually diminished in face of new theories developed in the 20th and 21st-centuries. The reader also demonstrates how truth is often... For the first time Truth: A Contemporary Reader brings together the essays that have shaped two aspects of a fundamental philosophical topic... |
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211,94 zł |
Truth: A Contemporary Reader
ISBN: 9781474213295 / Angielski / Twarda / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the first time Truth: A Contemporary Reader brings together the essays that have shaped two aspects of a fundamental philosophical topic: the nature of truth and the value of truth. Featuring 24 essays from 1878 to 2016, this up-to-date reader includes seminal work by leading figures in contemporary analytic philosophy. It charts the development of the central 'grand proposals' about the nature of truth, and subsequently how their influence gradually diminished in face of new theories developed in the 20th and 21st-centuries. The reader also demonstrates how truth is often... For the first time Truth: A Contemporary Reader brings together the essays that have shaped two aspects of a fundamental philosophical topic... |
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807,58 zł |
The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Consciousness
ISBN: 9781474229012 / Angielski / Twarda / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From Descartes and Cartesian mind-body dualism in the 17th century though to 21st-century concerns about artificial intelligence programming, The Bloomsbury Companion to the Philosophy of Consciousness presents a compelling history and up-to-date overview of this burgeoning subject area. Acknowledging that many of the original concepts of consciousness studies are found in writings of past thinkers, it begins with introductory overviews to the thought of Descartes through to Kant, covering Brentano's restoration of empiricism to philosophical psychology and the major figures... From Descartes and Cartesian mind-body dualism in the 17th century though to 21st-century concerns about artificial intelligence programming, Th... |
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908,52 zł |