Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Movements - Empiricism

• Explores in detail a range of examples which demonstrate how the older paradigm - philosophy as conceptual analysis - is giving way to a more varied set of models of philosophical work
• Each of the featured papers is a previously unpublished contribution by a major scholar

Marking the tercentenary of David Hume's birth, Annette Baier has created an engaging guide to the philosophy of one of the greatest thinkers of Enlightenment Britain. Drawing deeply on a lifetime of scholarship and incisive commentary, she deftly weaves Hume's autobiography together with his writings and correspondence, finding in these personal experiences new ways to illuminate his ideas about religion, human nature, and the social order.

Excerpts from Hume's autobiography at the beginning of each chapter open a window onto the eighteenth-century context in which Hume's philosophy...

Johann Nikolaus Tetens (1736-1807) gehort zu den pragenden Gestalten der europaischen Aufklarung. Er hat die Philosophie John Lockes und David Humes systematisch studiert und fur die epistemologischen und moralphilosophischen Diskussionen der Zeit erschlossen. Tetens' breites Werk wird im vorliegenden Band von renommierten Forschern analysiert.

Models are one of the main instruments in scientific research. Disciplines have developed a different understanding of the notion, function and purpose of models. We thus need a systematic approach in order to understand, to build and to use models. This book gives an insight into the disciplinary modelling know-how and is a starting point to develop a general model approach that generalises and combines for an interdisciplinary use.

Johann Georg Heinrich Feders Schriften bieten einen reprasentativen Einblick in die Entwicklung des philosophischen Denkens, die der deutschsprachige Empirismus zwischen den spaten 1760er und den fruhen 1790er Jahren nahm. Es entsteht ein plastisches Bild der, Neuen Gottinger Wissenschaften wahrend der Spataufklarung. Neben zahlreichen Zeitschriftenbeitragen und Rezensionen werden Auszuge aus schwer zugangigen Monographien prasentiert.

The Quantum of Explanation advances a bold new theory of how explanation ought to be understood in philosophical and cosmological inquiries. Using a complete interpretation of Alfred North Whitehead s philosophical and mathematical writings and an interpretive structure that is essentially new, Auxier and Herstein argue that Whitehead has never been properly understood, nor has the depth and breadth of his contribution to the human search for knowledge been assimilated by his successors. This important book effectively applies Whitehead s philosophy to problems in the...