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Verso Books Futurability: The Age of Impotence and the
Book SynopsisWe live in an age of impotence. Stuck between global war and global finance, between identity and capital, we seem to be incapable of producing that radical change that is so desperately needed. Is there still a way to disentangle ourselves from a global order that shapes our politics as well as our imagination?In his most systematic book to date, renowned Italian theorist Franco Berardi Bifo tackles this question through a solid yet visionary analysis of the three fundamental concepts of Possibility, Potency, and Power. Overcoming any temptation of giving in to despair or nostalgia, Berardi proposes the notion of Futurability as a way to remind us that even within the darkness of our current crisis, still lies dormant the horizon of possibility.Trade ReviewAs a diagnostician, Berardi is among the sharpest. * Slate *Bifo is a master of global activism in the age of depression. His mission is to understand real existing capitalism. Sense the despair of the revolt, enjoy this brilliant 'labour of the negative'! -- Geert Lovink, Founding Director of the Institute of Network Cultures
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Copleston F History of Philosophy Volume 11
Book SynopsisCopleston, an Oxford Jesuit and specialist in the history of philosophy, created his history as an introduction for Catholic ecclesiastical seminaries. The 11-volume series gives an accessible account of each philosopher's work, and explains their relationship to the work of other philosophers.Trade ReviewA monumental history . . . learned, lucid, patient and comprehensive. * New Statesman *We can only applaud at the end of each act and look forward to applauding again at the final curtain. * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsPreface I Contemporary British Philosophy II Some Reflection on Logical Positivism III A Note on Verification IV A Further Note on Verification V The Function of Metaphysics VI On Seeing and Noticing VII The Meaning of the Terms Predicated by God VIII The Human Person in Contemporary Philosophy IX Existentialism: Introductory X Theistic Existentialism XI Aesthetic Existentialism XII A Critical Discussion of Existentialism Index
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Anthem Press Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Colour: A Commentary
Book SynopsisThe book is a first detailed discussion of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Colour, a compilation of writings on the subject from the last fifteen months of his life. The origin and significance of the remarks are explained along with a remark-by-remark guide to what Wittgenstein says. In addition to serving as an account of the thought recorded in the text, the book provides an interpretation of Wittgenstein’s treatment of colour concepts and an account of his distinctive philosophical style. Remarks on Colour is shown to be a good way into the philosophy, to reveal a great deal about how Wittgenstein approaches philosophy, and to bring out features of his thought elided, if not missed, by more general studies, especially those that focus on more finished work.Trade Review‘In this astonishing work of scholarship, Andrew Lugg elucidates and interprets a neglected late work of Wittgenstein’s. Not a summary but an unfolding that sheds light on the text line by line while clearing away the debris of misunderstandings. Wittgenstein emerges as his students, friends and contemporaries knew him, a powerful figure riveted by philosophical questions.’ — Béla Szabados, University of Regina, Canada‘The book is a significant contribution to the philosophy of colour. In the first detailed account of the origins, organization and arguments of Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Colour, Lugg discusses all remarks and argues that, in Wittgenstein’s view, colour concepts display logical necessities and logical impossibilities.’—Mauro L. Engelmann, The Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil‘Lugg's new work is much welcome for scholars and non-scholars interested in Wittgenstein's work in general and in his intriguing and intricate remarks on colors, in particular. I do not know any other material which investigates Wittgenstein's important critical reactions to Goethe's Farbenlehre with such detailed examination. A treatment of what Wittgenstein says remark by remark is a great contribution for all students of philosophy interested in metaphysics, epistemology and aesthetics of colors. Lugg's new book will become a vital reference in virtually any work on Wittgenstein's philosophical development.’ —Marcos Silva, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil.‘This superbly researched and fascinating study of Wittgenstein’s widely neglected Remarks on Colour fills a major gap in Wittgenstein scholarship. Combining meticulous analysis of the text with a deep appreciation of Wittgenstein’s conception of philosophy, it will be welcomed by philosophers, artists, and anyone else with an interest in colour.’ — Dr Mario von der Ruhr, Swansea University, UK‘As Lugg notes in his extremely helpful new book, Wittgenstein observes that his “sentences are all to be read slowly”. Lugg takes Wittenstein at his word and discusses the often enigmatic remarks collected in his posthumous Remarks on Colour one by one. In this brilliantly lucid study of Wittgenstein’s late reflections on colour Lugg does his readers a great service by taking these ideas seriously as contributions to an illuminating examination of what, following Wittgenstein, may be called the “logic” of our colour terms.’ — Joachim Schulte, University of Zurich, Switzerland‘Andrew Lugg’s book is at once an exceedingly close reading and a far-reaching provocation. This careful, deep dive into Remarks on Colour yields a detailed analysis of Wittgenstein’s approach to philosophical questions about colour, while also making a case for Lugg’s own distinctive reflections on Wittgenstein’s work, early to late. — Naomi Scheman, University of Minnesota, USTable of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; Chapter One Wittgenstein on Colour, 1916–1949; Chapter Two Remarks on Colour, Part II; Chapter Three Remarks on Colour, III.1–42; Chapter Four Remarks on Colour, III.43–95; Chapter Five Remarks on Colour, III.96–130; Chapter Six Remarks on Colour, III.131–171; Chapter Seven Remarks on Colour, III.172–229; Chapter Eight Remarks on Colour, III.230–350; Chapter Nine Remarks on Colour, Part I; Chapter Ten Learning from Wittgenstein; Bibliography; Index.
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) Listening and Voice Phenomenologies of Sound
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Harvard University Press Thinking Off Your Feet
Book SynopsisIn an original defense of armchair philosophy, Michael Strevens seeks to restore philosophy to its traditional position as an essential part of the quest for knowledge, by reshaping debates about the nature of philosophical thinking. His approach explores experimental philosophy’s methodological implications and the cognitive science of concepts.Trade ReviewThinking Off Your Feet is an outstanding book that will make a splash. It proposes an original defense of philosophical analysis and of its main tool, the method of cases. It is an impressive defense of armchair philosophy, as it is by and large currently practiced, and is also an important contribution to the cognitive science of concepts. Philosophers as well as psychologists will benefit tremendously from reading this book. -- Edouard Machery, University of PittsburghThis book is beautifully written, powerfully argued, and deeply informed on the psychology. Strevens’s combination of respect for science and for ‘armchair’ philosophy results in a framework for understanding philosophy as a seamless and essential part of the human quest for knowledge. -- Michael Bishop, Florida State University
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) Wittgensteins Philosophical Investigations SUNY
Book SynopsisAn imaginative and exciting exposition of major themes from Wittgenstein''s mature philosophy.An imaginative and exciting exposition of themes from Wittgenstein''s Philosophical Investigations, this book helps readers find their way around the forest of remarks that make up this classic. Chapters on language, mind, color, number, God, value, and philosophy develop a major theme: that there are various kinds of language use-a variety philosophy needs to look at but tends to overlook.
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Penguin Books Ltd Language Truth and Logic
Book SynopsisIf you can''t prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are either true by definition (as in maths), or can be verified by direct experience. Ayer rejected metaphysical claims about god, the absolute, and objective values as completely nonsensical. Ayer was only 24 when he finished LANGUAGE, TRUTH & LOGIC, yet it shook the foundations of Anglo-American philosophy and made its author notorious. It became a classic text, cleared away the cobwebs in philosophical thinking, and has been enormously influential.
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Oxford University Press Analytic Philosophy
Book SynopsisOriginating in the pioneering work of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, G. E. Moore, and Ludwig Wittgenstein in the four decades around the turn of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy established itself in various forms in the 1930s. After the Second World War, it developed further in North America, in the rest of Europe, and is now growing in influence as the dominant philosophical tradition right across the world, from Latin America to East Asia. In this Very Short Introduction Michael Beaney introduces some of the key ideas of the founders of analytic philosophy by exploring certain fundamental philosophical questions and showing how those ideas can be used in offering answers. Considering the work of Susan Stebbing, he also explores the application of analytic philosophy to critical thinking, and emphasizes the conceptual creativity that lies at the heart of fruitful analysis. Throughout, Beaney illustrates why clarity of thinking, precision of expression, and rigour of argumentation are rightly seen as virtues of analytic philosophy. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.Trade ReviewA concise, delightfully accessible, and intellectually stimulating introduction to philosophy in the analytic tradition, especially its formative phase. * Erich Reck, Professor, University of California at Riverside *What a great 'thought-thinking trip'. Beaney gives us a concise, excellent introduction to analytic philosophy, one that takes on the vexed question of saying what analytic philosophy is, and delivers a fine, historically tethered, answer. * Professor Cheryl Misak, University of Toronto *Table of ContentsREFERENCES; FURTHER READING; GLOSSARY; INDEX
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Classics of Analytic Philosophy
Book SynopsisDeals with issues in the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics, and illustrates various approaches to the problems in the analytic tradition.Trade ReviewThe best anthology I know of for a general course on 20th century analytic philosophy. --H. E. Baber, University of San DiegoThis is an absolutely perfect anthology. I was thrilled when I found that Hackett reissued this irreplaceable collection that exactly fits its title. --Michael Losonsky, Colorado State University
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Cambridge University Press Arguing about Gods
Book SynopsisIn this book, Graham Oppy examines arguments for and against the existence of God. He shows that none of these arguments is powerful enough to change the minds of reasonable participants in debates on the question of the existence of God. His conclusion is supported by detailed analyses of the arguments as well as by the development of a theory about the purpose of arguments and the criteria that should be used in judging whether or not arguments are successful. Oppy discusses the work of a wide array of philosophers, including Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, Kant, Hume and, more recently, Plantinga, Dembski, White, Dawkins, Bergman, Gale and Pruss.Table of Contents1. Some preliminary questions addressed; 2. Ontological arguments; 3. Cosmological arguments; 4. Teleological arguments; 5. Pascal's wager; 6. Arguments from evil; 7. Other arguments; 8. Concluding remarks.
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Princeton University Press The Murder of Professor Schlick
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of New Statesman's Books of the Year 2020""A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2021""[A] compelling biography."---Oliver Moody, The Times"[L]ively and accessible. . . . [Edmond’s] research has also uncovered important new biographical information, including about [the Vienna Circle’s] lesser-known female members."---Adam Kirsch, New Yorker"As pacy as a thriller."---Joe Humphreys, Irish Times"[An] exemplary [piece] of intellectual history, doing meticulous justice to the ideas and engrossing about the personalities involved."---Alan Ryan, New Statesman"A clear accessible introduction to the complexities of logical positivism . . . [Edmonds] brilliantly illuminates why and how the philosophy burned so brightly."---Clare Clark, Standpoint"A readable popular history of the Circle that deftly integrates the ideas and lives of its members with the story of the Viennese milieu in which it emerged and its destruction. . . . [Edmonds’] historical narrative is clear, reliable and thoroughly readable – gripping, even, in places."---Tom Stern, Literary Review"A stimulating, scintillating new book on the Vienna Circle."---Daniel Johnson, The Critic"[An] engrossing and eminently readable history of the circle."---David Conway, Jewish Chronicle"[Edmonds manages to] combine the biographical and historical with the philosophical, without getting too technical. . . . It’s quite a poignant book."---Nigel Warburton, FiveBooks"A cracking read."---Diane Coyle, Enlightened Economist"I very much enjoyed this book, and found its direct style refreshing, and I hope it will serve as a model for others. [Edmonds] actually tells you what you want to know!"---Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution"Absorbing. . . . so fascinating and relevant now."---Thomas Filbin, The Arts Fuse"An accessible introduction to the group of philosophers and scientists who formed the influential Vienna Circle in the 20th century. . . . Edmonds tells its story thoughtfully in this fascinating mix of philosophy, biography and cultural history."---David Herman, Jewish Renaissance"Edmonds has written a compelling, captivating, and easily approachable book on the history of the Vienna Circle. He is witty, engaging, knows where to put emphasis, and how to draw lively pictures of those philosophers that are still too often conceived as technically minded abstract logicians. . . .Edmonds’ book will make you understand why the Vienna Circle was so important back in the 1920s, and still important in the 2020s."---Adam Tamas Tuboly, Review of History of Philosophy of Science Books"[A] lively new book. . . .Edmonds draws unexpected connections within the sprawling web of thinkers and artists in interwar Vienna. . . bringing to life the artistic and political flavour of those coffee-house debates"---Jonathan Egid, Times Literary Supplement"An always-readable obituary for the philosophers who sought a common basis for western thought while communism and Nazism were on the bloody rise."---Frederic Raphael, Times Literary Supplement "An informative and pleasurable read. . . .The Murder of Professor Schlick is a must read for anyone interested in the Vienna Circle."---Ambika Natarajan, Austrian History Yearbook
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Penguin Books Ltd Grays Anatomy
Book Synopsis''The most prescient of British public intellectuals'' Pankaj Mishra, Financial TimesUpdated with a new foreword and two new chapters of John Gray''s writing.Why is progress a pernicious myth? Why do beliefs that humanity can be improved end in farce or horror? Is atheism a hangover from Christian faith? John Gray, one of the most iconoclastic thinkers of our time, smashes through civilization''s long cherished beliefs, overturning our view of the world and our place in it.Trade ReviewGray's dissection of modern delusion, cant and wishful thinking is to be welcomed in this moment of convulsion ... This is a book to learn from and argue with -- Ben Wilson * Literary Review *A thoroughly enjoyable book ... These essays cover a remarkable range of topics, from Isaiah Berlin to Damien Hirst, from torture to environmentalism. But their unifying theme is that our naïve belief in the idea of progress has turned modern life into a constant round of shadow-boxing -- David Runciman * Observer *A visionary ... one of the most reliably provocative and heterodox voices in British intellectual life today -- Jonathan Derbyshire * New Statesman *Gray has consistently anticipated the shape of things to come . . . he teaches us that true humanism is to be found in uncertainty and doubt -- Will SelfInvigorating...elegant, witty, incisive... Gray's assault on Enlightenment ideas of progress is timelier than ever -- John Banville * The Guardian *
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Penguin Books Ltd Feline Philosophy
Book Synopsis''Why can''t a human be more like a cat? That is the question threaded through this vivid patchwork of philosophy, fiction, history and memoir ... a wonderful mixture of flippancy and profundity, astringency and tenderness, wit and lament'' Jane O''Grady, Daily Telegraph''When I play with my cat, how do I know she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?'' MontaigneThere is no real evidence that humans ever ''domesticated'' cats. Rather, it seems that at some point cats saw the potential value to themselves of humans. John Gray''s wonderful new book is an attempt to get to grips with the philosophical and moral issues around the uniquely strange relationship between ourselves and these remarkable animals.Feline Philosophy draws on centuries of philosophy, from Montaigne to Schopenhauer, to explore the complex and intimate links that have defined how we react to and behave with this most unlikely ''pet''.At the heart of the book is a sense of gratitude towards cats as perhaps the species that more than any other - in the essential loneliness of our position in the world - gives us a sense of our own animal nature.Trade ReviewThe intellectual cat's pyjamas ... Gray's is the perfect book for the estranging oddness of the pandemic. -- Tim Adams * The Observer *Why can't a human be more like a cat? That is the question threaded through this vivid patchwork of philosophy, fiction, history and memoir ... Feline Philosophy is a wonderful mixture of flippancy and profundity, astringency and tenderness, wit and lament. -- Jane O'Grady * Daily Telegraph *Engaging, amusing, perceptive and untimely, in the most admirable Nietzschean sense. -- Mark Rowlands * New Statesman *An elegant philosophical study of the good life ... one of the most important thinkers alive ... It's a mark of the book's subtlety that you're not quite sure how seriously to take him. -- James Marriott * The Times *A scratching, spitting, and finally purring tour de force. -- Will Self
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Oxford University Press Inc God and Time Essays on the Divine Nature
Book SynopsisGod and Time is a collection of previously unpublished essays written by leading philosophers about God''s relation to time. The essays have been selected to represent current debates written between those who believe God to be atemporal and those who do not. The essays highlight issues such as how the nature of time is relevant to whether God is temporal and how God''s other attributes are compatible with his mode of temporal being. By focusing on the metaphysical aspects of time and temporal existence, God and Time will make a unique contribution to the current resurgence of interest in philosophical theology within the analytic tradition.Trade ReviewExibits a rich spectrum of argument concerning the many-faceted issue of God's relation to time...I found no essay in this anthology that lacked intellectual rigor. Accordingly, the volume should serve as an excellent ancillary text for courses in philosophy of religion that focus on divine attributes...I recommend this collection, and must confess that I cannot begin to do justice to its rich argumentation in such a brief review. * The Journal of Religion *
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OUP Oxford Philosophy and the Historical Perspective
Book SynopsisSome pursue philosophy via its history, while others focus on current debates without reference to the past. But a growing group of philosophers believe historical perspective can contribute to current debates. Philosophy and the Historical Perspective explores the importance of this perspective and investigates the very nature of philosophy.Trade Reviewthis volume contains contributions that genuinely move forward research on the foundations of methodology in the history of philosophy * Sandra Lapointe, McMaster University, Journal of the History of Philosophy *
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Oxford University Press Inc Fatalism and the Logic of Time
Book SynopsisFatalism -- the thesis that something in the past necessitates the entire future -- is often argued for in three ways. One argument is that the truth of propositions about future events makes those events necessary. Another is that infallible divine foreknowledge necessitates all future human acts. The third is that the past history of the world in conjunction with universal causal laws necessitates the entire future. Each of these arguments depends on a premise of the necessity of the past. In Fatalism and the Logic of Time, Linda Zagzebski examines two interpretations of this necessity. One interpretation is the modal necessity of the past, and the other interpretation is the cause of closure of the past. She argues that the combination of the necessity of the past with the transfer of necessity principle is inconsistent with the truth of any proposition about the past that entails a proposition about the future. As such, the problem is much broader than fatalism. It is a problem in the logic of time. All arrows of time, as well as the arrows of physics, arise from the human experience of before and after -- but that experience does not itself require an arrow.
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Clarendon Press Collected Papers
Book SynopsisThis volume contains thirteen papers, including two previously unpublished, by Gareth Evans, a brilliant philosopher who died in 1980 at the age of 34. The treatments of problems about language are here informed by a lively sense of interconnections with issues in metaphysics and the problem of mind, and some of the papers are primarly directed to problems in these fields. Anyone who is concerned with the central questions of philosophy will be interested in this collection.Trade ReviewGareth Evans ... was widely regarded as the most brilliant and exciting philosopher of his generation ... The present volume now collects his previously published papers ... together with two substantial unpublished pieces ... These two papers, like the older ones, exemplify Evans's great virtues--his ability to develop sophisticated arguments with great clarity, his lightly worn technical expertise, and above all his capacity to get to the very heart of philosophical issues. This is analytical philosophy of the very highest quality. Those who already know Evans's work will be grateful to have his scattered papers brought together in this handsome volume; and any professional philosopher or advanced student unfamiliar with his work has an intellectual treat in store. * British Book News *
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Oxford University Press Philosophy without Intuitions
Book SynopsisThe claim that contemporary analytic philosophers rely extensively on intuitions as evidence is almost universally accepted in current meta-philosophical debates and it figures prominently in our self-understanding as analytic philosophers. No matter what area you happen to work in and what views you happen to hold in those areas, you are likely to think that philosophizing requires constructing cases and making intuitive judgments about those cases. This assumption also underlines the entire experimental philosophy movement: only if philosophers rely on intuitions as evidence are data about non-philosophers'' intuitions of any interest to us. Our alleged reliance on the intuitive makes many philosophers who don''t work on meta-philosophy concerned about their own discipline: they are unsure what intuitions are and whether they can carry the evidential weight we allegedly assign to them. The goal of this book is to argue that this concern is unwarranted since the claim is false: it is Trade Reviewa wonderfully clear, largely well-argued case against a central assumption of many contemporary metaphilosophers ... I highly recommend it. * Daniel Cohnitz, Disputatio *engaging and exciting ... Philosophy Without Intutions represents a clear jolt to contemporary metaphilosophical orthodoxy. It is a vivid and powerful call for philosophers to examine their assumptions about philosophy. Anyone interested in the role of intuitions in philosophy or the proper description of contemporary philosophical practice will benefit from studying it. * Jonathan Ichikawa, International Journal for Philosophical Studies *an excellent contribution to the ongoing debate * Stephen Ingram, Metaphilosophy *Table of ContentsPART I: THE ARGUMENT FROM 'INTUITION'-TALK; PART II: THE ARGUMENT FROM PHILOSOPHICAL PRACTICE
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OUP Oxford The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy
Book SynopsisDuring 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 and more scholarly work on the historical contexts in which analytic philosophy developed. This historical turn in analytic philosophy has been gathering pace since the 1990s, and the present volume is the most comprehensive collection of essays to date on the history of analytic philosophy. It contains state-of-the-art contributions from many of the leading scholars in the field, all of the contrTrade ReviewThe Handbook is a large and wonderfully useful resource. * Kevin C. Klement, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsPART ONE: THE ORIGINS OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY; PART TWO: THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY; PART THREE: THEMES IN THE HISTORY OF ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY
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Oxford University Press The Rules of Thought
Book SynopsisThe Rules of Thought develops a rationalist theory of mental content while defending a traditional epistemology of philosophy. Jonathan Jenkins Ichikawa and Benjamin W. Jarvis contend that a capacity for pure rational thought is fundamental to mental content itself and underwrites our quotidian reasoning and extraordinary philosophical engagement alike. Part I of the book develops a Fregean theory of mental content, according to which rational relations between propositions play a central role in individuating contents; the theory is designed to be sensitive not only to Frege''s puzzle and other data that have motivated rationalist conceptions of content, but also to considerations in the philosophy of mind and language that have motivated neo-Russellian views. Part II articulates a theory of the a priori, and shows that, given the framework of Part I, it is very plausible that much philosophical work of interest is genuinely a priori. Notably, it is no part of the picture developed thTrade Reviewan impressive tome . . . that helps to crystallize a framework of ways of thinking and fundamental problems for the philosophy of philosophy . . . provides comprehensive scaffolding for, as well as fresh insights into, the theory of content and epistemology of a sophisticated rationalist conception of philosophy. * Gurpreet Rattan, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsPART I: PROPOSITIONS, FREGEAN SENSE, AND RATIONAL MODALITY; PART II: RATIONALITY, APRIORITY, AND PHILOSOPHY; PART III: INTUITIONS AND PHILOSOPHY
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Oxford University Press Rudolf Carnap Early Writings
Book SynopsisThis volume is the first of a complete edition of the writings of Rudolf Carnap. Translated into English for the first time and supplemented with a detailed introduction, Carnap's early works are contextualised in extensive notes and critically discussed by an international team of scholars who specialize in different aspects of Carnap's thought.Trade Review...enlightening and useful... * Pierre Wagner, Metascience *...the editors have done an excellent job firstly, in making all these texts available to English readers for the first time, and secondly, in making them more understandable thanks to their very rich in-depth analysis. This volume enhances the increasing English literature on the early young Carnap... * Flavio Baracco, Institut Wiener Kreis, Phenomenological Reviews *Table of ContentsForeword Chronology of Carnap's Life Information for the Reader Introduction 1918a: League of Nations - League of States 1921a: Who Forces Laws of Nature to Hold? 1922a: Space: A Contribution to the Theory of Science 1923a: On the Task of Physics and the Application of the Principle of Maximal Simplicity 1924a: Three-Dimensionality of Space and Causality: An Investigation of the Logical Connection Between Two Fictions 1925a: On the Dependence of the Properties of Space on Those of Time 1926a: Physical Concept Formation 1927a: Abstract of Physical Concept Formation Textual Notes
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Oxford University Press The Contradictory Christ Oxford Studies in
Book SynopsisIn this ground-breaking study, Jc Beall shows that the fundamental problem of Christology is simple to see from the role that Christ occupies: the Christ figure is to have the divine and essentially limitless properties of the one and only God but Christ is equally to have the human, essentially limit-imposing properties involved in human nature, limits essentially involved in being human. The role that Christ occupies thereby appears to demand a contradiction: all of the limitlessness of God, and all of the limits of humans. This book lays out Beall''s contradictory account of Jesus Christ and thereby a contradictory Christian theology.Trade ReviewTheologians use different methods to address Christological contradictions. Some contend that they are only apparent contradictions. Others hold the contradictions to be true while eliminating logic from theology. Jc Beall takes a different approach. Beall's approach in The Contradictory Christ is to hold Christological contradictions as real and true while preserving a place for reason and logic in theology. * Aaron Moldenhauer, assistant professor of theology at Concordia University Wisconsin, Reading Religion *Those who have sensed the contradiction of Christ and have been unsatisfied with answers striving for consistency will be pleased with contradictory Christ theology. It is indeed theologically faithful and, for those willing to entertain non-classical logic, logically sound. * Nichole Torbitzky, International Journal of Systematic Theology *Table of Contents1: Contradictory Christology 2: Logic and its Possibilities 3: Seven Virtues 4: Some Objections 5: Measured against Alternative Views 6: Towards the Trinity Bibliography
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Clarendon Press Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation
Book SynopsisDonald Davidson presents a new edition of the 1984 volume which set out his enormously influential philosophy of language. Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation has been a central point of reference and a focus of controversy in the subject ever since, and its influence has extended into linguistic theory, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. This new edition features an additional essay, previously uncollected.The central question which these essays address is what it is for words to mean what they do. Davidson argues that a philosophically instructive theory of meaning should acknowledge the holistic nature of linguistic understanding, in that it should provide an interpretation of all utterances, actual and potential, of a speaker or group of speakers; and that it should not rely upon the concepts it attempts to explain, in that it should be verifiable independently of knowledge of the detailed propositional attitudes of the speaker. Among the topics covered in the essays are theTrade ReviewDavidson, aside from being one of the most influential philosophers of the last century, shares with many of his generation a capacity to write intelligibly. * The Philosophers' Magazine *Table of Contents1. THEORIES OF MEANING AND LEARNABLE LANGUAGES (1965); 6. QUOTATION (1979); 9. RADICAL INTERPRETATION (1973); 13. ON THE VERY IDEA OF A CONCEPTUAL SCHEME (1974); 17. WHAT METAPHORS MEAN (1978)
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Oxford University Press Punishment and Responsibility
This classic collection of essays, first published in 1968, has had an enduring impact on academic and public debates about criminal responsibility and criminal punishment. Forty years on, its arguments are as powerful as ever. H.L.A. Hart offers an alternative to retributive thinking about criminal punishment that nevertheless preserves the central distinction between guilt and innocence. He also provides an account of criminal responsibility that links the distinction between guilt and innocence closely to the ideal of the rule of law, and thereby attempts to by-pass unnerving debates about free will and determinism. Always engaged with live issues of law and public policy, Hart makes difficult philosophical puzzles accessible and immediate to a wide range of readers.For this new edition, otherwise a reproduction of the original, John Gardner adds an introduction engaging critically with Hart''s arguments, and explaining the continuing importance of Hart''s ideas in spite of the inte
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Oxford University Press Metametaphysics
Book SynopsisMetaphysics asks questions about existence: for example, do numbers really exist? Metametaphysics asksquestions about metaphysics: for example, do its questions have determinate answers? If so, are these answers deep and important, or are they merely a matter of how we use words? What is the proper methodology for their resolution? These questions have received a heightened degree of attention lately with new varieties of ontological deflationism and pluralism challenging the kind of realism that has become orthodoxy in contemporary analytic metaphysics. This volume concerns the status and ambitions of metaphysics as a discipline. It brings together many of the central figures in the debate with their most recent work on the semantics, epistemology, and methodology of metaphysics.Trade ReviewMetametaphysics is an excellent collection of papers about the nature and methodology of metaphysics written by the subject's movers and shakers. It will be of great interest to anyone enamored, repulsed, or mystified by metaphysics. * Philosophical Review *Even if you're not a metaphysician - indeed, even if you're deeply suspicious of metaphysics - Metametaphysics is interesting.... Metametaphysics hosts a debate that is much more nuanced than a simple 'skeptics vs. enthusiasts' dichotomy. Skepticism about metaphysics can take different forms and come in different degrees. It is also, unsurprisingly, resistible in a variety of ways. Metametaphysics develops many of the central issues in this dialectic, making it essential reading, not just for the metaphysician, but for the skeptic about metaphysics as well. * Elizabeth Barnes, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of Contents1. Introduction: A Guided Tour of Metametaphysics ; 2. Composition, Colocation, and Metaontology ; 3. Ontological Anti-Realism ; 4. Carnap and Ontological Pluralism ; 5. The Question of Ontology ; 6. The Metaontology of Abstraction ; 7. Superficialism in Ontology ; 8. Ontology and Alternative Languages ; 9. Ambitious, Yet Modest, Metaphysics ; 10. Ways of Being ; 11. Metaphysics after Carnap: The Ghost Who Walks? ; 12. On What Grounds What ; 13. Ontological Realism ; 14. Ontology, Analyticity, and Meaning: The Quine-Carnap Dispute ; 15. Answerable and Unanswerable Questions ; 16. Being, Existence, and Ontological Commitment ; 17. Must Existence-Questions Have Answers?
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Oxford University Press, USA Dispositions and Causes
Book SynopsisIn recent decades, the analysis of causal relations has become a topic of central importance in analytic philosophy. More recently, dispositional properties have also become objects of intense study. Both of these phenomena appear to be intimately related to counterfactual conditionals and other modal phenomena such as objective chance, but little work has been done to directly relate them. Dispositions and Causes contains ten essays by scholars working in both metaphysics and in philosophy of science, examining the relation between dispositional and causal concepts.Particular issues discussed include the possibility of reducing dispositions to causes, and vice versa; the possibility of a nominalist theory of causal powers; the attempt to reduce all metaphysical necessity to dispositional properties; the relationship between dispositions, causes, and laws of nature; the role of causal capacities in explaining the success of scientific inquiry; the grounding of dispositions and causes iTrade Reviewten authors tackle an impressively wide range of topics. * D. H. Mellor, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science *Table of Contents1. The metaphysics of dispositions and causes ; 2. Dispositions, causes, and reduction ; 3. Causal structuralism, dispositional actualism, and counterfactual conditionals ; 4. Leaving things to take their chances: Cause and disposition grounded in chance ; 5. Causal laws, policy predictions, and the need for genuine powers ; 6. How is scientific analysis possible? ; 7. Agent-causal power ; 8. Structural properties revisited ; 9. Causal nominalism ; 10. Why do the laws explain why? ; References
£102.00
Oxford University Press The Philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe
Book SynopsisOne of the most important philosophers of recent times, Elizabeth Anscombe wrote books and articles on a wide range of topics, including the ground-breaking monograph Intention. Her work is original, challenging, often difficult, always insightful; but it has frequently been misunderstood, and its overall significance is still not fully appreciated. This book is the first major study of Anscombe''s philosophical oeuvre. In it, Roger Teichmann presents Anscombe''s main ideas, bringing out their interconnections, elaborating and discussing their implications, pointing out objections and difficulties, and aiming to give a unified overview of her philosophy. Many of Anscombe''s arguments are relevant to contemporary debates, as Teichmann shows, and on a number of topics what Anscombe has to say constitutes a powerful alternative to dominant or popular views. Among the writings discussed are Intention, ''Practical Inference'', ''Modern Moral Philosophy'', ''Rules, Rights and Promises'', ''OTrade Reviewlucid, insightful, and thoroughly well informed by a familiarity with Anscombe's daunting range of philosophical writings ... a worthy tribute to Anscombe's legacy. * Duncan Richter, International Journal of Philosophical Studies *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Historical Turn in Analytic Philosophy History of Analytic Philosophy
Book SynopsisA collection of new essays by established scholars and younger practitioners exploring why analytic philosophy is now looking towards its history.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Foreword Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Analytic Philosophy and Philosophical History; Erich H. Reck PART I: CASE STUDIES 1. Philosophy and the Tide of History: Bertrand Russell's Role in the Rise of Analytic Philosophy; Stewart Candlish 2. Taking the Measure of Carnap's Philosophical Engineering: Metalogic as Metrology; Alan Richardson 3. Quine and the Aufbau : The Possibility of Objective Knowledge; Peter Hylton 4. Ryle's Conceptual Cartography; Julia Tanney PART II: BROADER THEMES 5. Frege, Lotze, and Boole; Jeremy Heis 6. Frege or Dedekind? Towards a Reevalution of Their Legacies; Erich H. Reck 7. Psychology, Epistemology, and the Problem of the External World: Russell and Before; Gary Hatfield 8. C. I. Lewis and the Analyticity Debate; Thomas Baldwin PART III: METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS 9. Analytic Philosophy and History of Philosophy: The Development of the Idea of Rational Reconstruction; Michael Beaney 10. History and the Future of Logical Empiricism; A. W. Carus 11. What is the Good of Philosophical History?; Michael Kremer 12. The Owl of Minerva: Is Analytic Philosophy Moribund?; Hans-Johann Glock Index
£85.49
Palgrave MacMillan UK The RussellBradley Dispute and its Significance for Twentieth Century Philosophy History of Analytic Philosophy
Book SynopsisIn the early twentieth century, an apparently obscure philosophical debate took place between F.H. Bradley and Bertrand Russell. The outcome was momentous: the demise of British Idealism and the rise of analytic philosophy. Stewart Candlish examines afresh this formative period in twentieth-cenutry thought and comes to some surprising conclusions.Trade Review'What Candlish achieves is not only a detailed exploration of the philosophical dispute between Russell and Bradley (that is, between Analytical Philosophy and its immediate ancestor), but also an explanation of why that dispute is philosophically and historically significant. As such it is not only revealing about why Russell attached great importance to Bradley's criticisms; it is also compelling as a case for why those of us continuing to pursue the Russellian project have much to learn from revisiting the dispute.' - Graham Stevens, Department of Philosophy, University of Manchester 'Stewart Candlish's elegant, iconoclastic study of the Bradley/Russell dispute puts the arguments, the stakes, and the outcome into an entirely new perspective. It should be required reading for anyone even tempted by a Whiggish interpretation of the history of recent philosophy.' - James W. Allard, Department of History and Philosophy, Montana State University 'This excellent analysis of the dispute between Russell and Bradley makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the origins of twentieth-century philosophy. Anchored in a detailed knowledge of the texts it advances beyond more simplistic versions of their disagreement to offer new and important analyses of the points at issue between these two great philosophers. It is a book that all subsequent scholars will need to take account of. The writing is as clear and precise as it is fluid and engaging.' - William Mander, Harris Manchester College, Oxford University 'Candlish offers an important contribution to the debate over British idealism and the origins of Analytic Philosophy, the clarity of which shows the benefits of teaching his material - a benefit which, he concedes, Bradley's obscure writings did not receive.' - Andy Hamilton, Durham University 'Stewart Candlish's book is to be warmly welcomed for its careful and instructive analyses Throughout the book, Candlish does a superb job in distinguishing what needs to be distinguished, in clarifying the philosophical problems, in charting the development of the relevant views of both Russell and Bradley, and in sorting out the confusions and misunderstandings on both sides.' Michael Beaney, Collingwood and British Idealism Studies 'This is a rich book...it is at once a valuable contribution to our understanding of the dispute between Russell and Bradley and to our understanding of the philosophical subject matter of that dispute.' - Jeff Speaks, Australian Journal of Philosophy 'Candlish's careful and insightful reexamination of a crucial episode in the early history of analytic philosophy is a very important addition to the existing literature on Bradley, Russell, and our recent past...It is highly recommended to anyone even slightly tempted by the idea that philosophy should leave its history behind.' - Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Philosophie '[a] thoughtful, careful, and gracefully written book.' - James Levine, Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsTable of ContentsPreface The Stereotypical Picture of the Russell/Bradley Dispute Finding a Way into Bradley's Metaphysics Judgment Truth Grammar and Ontology Relations Decline and Fall Bibliography Index
£94.99
Palgrave MacMillan UK G.F. Stout and the Psychological Origins of Analytic Philosophy History of Analytic Philosophy
Book SynopsisSeries Editor's Foreword Preface Introduction 1. Judgement and the Emergence of Logical Realism in Britain 2. From Descriptive Psychology to Analytic Philosophy (1888-1899) 3. Psychologism and the Problem of Error (1899-1907) 4. Judgement, Propositional Attitudes and the Proposition (1908-1944) 5. Tropes and Predication Conclusion Bibliography IndexTrade Review“This book is one recent product of her work on this subject, which first saw light as a dissertation, then in a series of papers, and now appears in a revised and expanded version of her early work for the History of Analytic Philosophy series … . The perspective van der Schaar brings here is … a valuable addition to the detailed account of the early development of analytic philosophy at Cambridge.” (Consuelo Preti, Journal of the History of Analytical Philosophy, Vol. 4 (3), 2016)Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Foreword Preface Introduction 1. Judgement and the Emergence of Logical Realism in Britain 2. From Descriptive Psychology to Analytic Philosophy (1888-1899) 3. Psychologism and the Problem of Error (1899-1907) 4. Judgement, Propositional Attitudes and the Proposition (1908-1944) 5. Tropes and Predication Conclusion Bibliography Index
£42.74
Palgrave MacMillan UK New Waves in Metaethics New Waves in Philosophy
Book SynopsisMetaethics occupies a central place in analytical philosophy, and the last forty years has seen an upsurge of interest in questions about the nature and practice of morality. This collection presents original and ground-breaking research on metaethical issues from some of the very best of a new generation of philosophers working in this field.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Series Editors' Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction; M.Brady Non-Naturalist Ethical Realism; W.Fitzpatrick Naturalistic Metaethics at Half Price; J.Gert In Defence of Moral Error Theory; J.Olson The Myth of Moral Fictionalism; T.Cuneo & S.Christy Metaethics and the Philosophy of Language; M.Chrisman How not to Avoid Wishful Thinking; M.Schroeder Internal Reasons and the Motivating Intuition; J.Markovits Beyond Wrong Reasons: The Buck-Passing Account of Value; U.Heuer A Wrong Turn to Reasons?; P.Väyrynen Shmagency Revisited; D.Enoch The Authority of Social Norms; N.Southwood Moral Epistemology; A.Hills Aesthetics, Objectivity and Particularism; S.Mckeever & M.Ridge Index
£42.74
Palgrave MacMillan UK Thuggee Banditry and the British in Early NineteenthCentury India Cambridge Imperial and PostColonial Studies
Book SynopsisIn the early twentieth century, an apparently obscure philosophical debate took place between F.H. Bradley and Bertrand Russell. The outcome was momentous: the demise of British Idealism and the rise of analytic philosophy. Stewart Candlish examines afresh this formative period in twentieth-cenutry thought and comes to some surprising conclusions.Trade Review'What Candlish achieves is not only a detailed exploration of the philosophical dispute between Russell and Bradley (that is, between Analytical Philosophy and its immediate ancestor), but also an explanation of why that dispute is philosophically and historically significant. As such it is not only revealing about why Russell attached great importance to Bradley's criticisms; it is also compelling as a case for why those of us continuing to pursue the Russellian project have much to learn from revisiting the dispute.' - Graham Stevens, Department of Philosophy, University of Manchester 'Stewart Candlish's elegant, iconoclastic study of the Bradley/Russell dispute puts the arguments, the stakes, and the outcome into an entirely new perspective. It should be required reading for anyone even tempted by a Whiggish interpretation of the history of recent philosophy.' - James W. Allard, Department of History and Philosophy, Montana State University 'This excellent analysis of the dispute between Russell and Bradley makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the origins of twentieth-century philosophy. Anchored in a detailed knowledge of the texts it advances beyond more simplistic versions of their disagreement to offer new and important analyses of the points at issue between these two great philosophers. It is a book that all subsequent scholars will need to take account of. The writing is as clear and precise as it is fluid and engaging.' - William Mander, Harris Manchester College, Oxford University 'Candlish offers an important contribution to the debate over British idealism and the origins of Analytic Philosophy, the clarity of which shows the benefits of teaching his material - a benefit which, he concedes, Bradley's obscure writings did not receive.' - Andy Hamilton, Durham University 'Stewart Candlish's book is to be warmly welcomed for its careful and instructive analyses Throughout the book, Candlish does a superb job in distinguishing what needs to be distinguished, in clarifying the philosophical problems, in charting the development of the relevant views of both Russell and Bradley, and in sorting out the confusions and misunderstandings on both sides.' Michael Beaney, Collingwood and British Idealism Studies 'This is a rich book...it is at once a valuable contribution to our understanding of the dispute between Russell and Bradley and to our understanding of the philosophical subject matter of that dispute.' - Jeff Speaks, Australian Journal of Philosophy 'Candlish's careful and insightful reexamination of a crucial episode in the early history of analytic philosophy is a very important addition to the existing literature on Bradley, Russell, and our recent past...It is highly recommended to anyone even slightly tempted by the idea that philosophy should leave its history behind.' - Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Philosophie '[a] thoughtful, careful, and gracefully written book.' - James Levine, Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsTable of ContentsPreface The Stereotypical Picture of the Russell/Bradley Dispute Finding a Way into Bradley's Metaphysics Judgment Truth Grammar and Ontology Relations Decline and Fall Bibliography Index
£85.49
Palgrave MacMillan UK Perspicuous Presentations Essays on Wittgensteins Philosophy of Psychology
Book SynopsisThis anthology focuses on the extraordinary contributions Wittgenstein made to several areas in the philosophy of psychology. Danièle Moyal-Sharrock translates papers by eminent French Wittgensteinians, and brings them together with more familiar specialists on Wittgenstein's philosophical psychology, revealing a surprising degree of consensus.Table of ContentsNotes on the Contributors List of Abbreviations of Works by Wittgenstein Introduction; D.Moyal-Sharrock Wittgenstein on Fear; J.V.Canfield Wittgensteinian Grammar & Philosophy of Mind; S.Chauvier The Importance of Being Thoughtful; L.Hertzberg Wittgenstein on 'experiencing meaning'; J.Bouveresse Revisiting 'The Unconscious'; J.Coulter & W.Sharrock Wittgenstein and the Foundations of Cognitive Psychology; R.Harré Dispositions or Capacities? Wittgenstein's Social Philosophy of Mind; C.Chauviré The Myth of the 'Outer': Wittgenstein's Redefinition of Subjectivity; S.Laugier Patterns in the Weave of Life: Wittgenstein's 'Lebensmuster'; J.Rosat Wittgenstein on 'The sort of explanation one longs for'; F.Cioffi Wittgenstein on Psychological Certainty; D.Moyal-Sharrock Criteria and Defeasibility: When Good Evidence is not Good Enough E.J.Loomis 'Tennis Without a Ball': Wittgenstein on 'Secondary Sense'; M.Hark The Cradle of Language: Making Sense of Bodily Connexions; S.J.Cowley Getting Clear About Perspicuous Representations: Wittgenstein, Baker & Fodor; D.D.Hutto
£85.49
Palgrave MacMillan UK Violence and Social Justice
Book SynopsisViolence and injustice are two major political problems facing the world today. Offering a fresh, innovative analysis of the concept of violence, this book presents an original insight into the nature of injustice. Addressing three key questions, it forces us to rethink the scope and aims of a theory of social justice.Trade Review'...the clear exposition of his liberal position makes this book a valuable contribution for political theorists trying to understand these critically important questions....In providing such a clear and thoughtful addition to this discussion, he has done a major service to contemporary political theory.' - Contemporary Political TheoryTable of ContentsIntroduction The Concept of Violence Violence and Integrity Violence by Omission Violence and Intentionality Four Faces of Violence Why is Violence Bad? Violence and Social Justice Exploitation, Injustice and Violence Violence for Justice Conclusion Bibliography
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Columbia University Press Apoha
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is a landmark work in apoha theory and Indian epistemology and logic. The most distinguished contemporary scholars in this field have collaborated on a set of essays notable not only for their philological erudition and philosophical acuity but also for the fact that they engage one another so productively. Together they illuminate this topic more than any previous scholarship. Essential reading. -- Jay Garfield, author of Pointing at the Moon: Buddhism, Logic, Analytic Philosophy This volume hugely advances our understanding of one of the most complex and elusive doctrines of the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tradition while at the same time giving contemporary philosophers and cognitive scientists some novel resources for thinking through basic problems in the understanding of language and cognition. These essays represent not only exemplary philological interpretations of Sanskrit and Tibetan philosophical texts but also venturesome and philosophically sophisticated attempts to understand what this first-millennium doctrine might teach us today. This collection is sure to be a touchstone for future work in several fields, including Buddhist philosophy, the philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, and studies in Buddhism and cognitive science. -- Dan Arnold, author of Buddhists, Brahmins, and Belief: Epistemology in South Asian Philosophy of Religion A generous addition to the field of Buddhist logic and epistemology as well as a brilliant exemplar of the virtues and incalculable value of rigorous scholarly discourse... South method and impeccable style. Philosophy East and West Every entry shows an impressive degree of scholarship and sophistication in thinking, and all the entries are well written. Journal of American Oriental SocietyTable of ContentsPreface Introduction, by Arindam Chakrabarti and Mark Siderits 1. How to Talk About Ineffable Things: Dignaga and Dharmakirti on Apoha, by Tom Tillemans 2. Dignaga's Apoha Theory: Its Presuppositions and Main Theoretical Implications, by Ole Pind 3. Key Features of Dharmakirti's Apoha Theory, by John D. Dunne 4. Dharmakirti's Discussion of Circularity, by Pascale Hugon 5. Apoha Theory as an Approach to Understanding Human Cognition, by Shoryu Katsura 6. The Apoha Theory as Referred to in the Nyayamanjari, by Masaaki Hattori 7. Constructing the Content of Awareness Events, by Parimal G. Patil 8. The Apoha Theory of Meaning: A Critical Account, by Prabal Kumar Sen 9. Apoha as a Naturalized Account of Concept Formation, by Georges Dreyfus 10. Apoha, Feature-Placing, and Sensory Content, by Jonardon Ganeri 11. Funes and Categorization in an Abstraction-Free World, by Amita Chatterjee 12. Apoha Semantics: Some Simpleminded Questions and Doubts, by Bob Hale 13. Classical Semantics and Apoha Semantics, by Brendan S. Gillon 14. Srughna by Dusk, by Mark Siderits Bibliography List of Contributors Index
£80.00
Columbia University Press Apoha
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis is a landmark work in apoha theory and Indian epistemology and logic. The most distinguished contemporary scholars in this field have collaborated on a set of essays notable not only for their philological erudition and philosophical acuity but also for the fact that they engage one another so productively. Together they illuminate this topic more than any previous scholarship. Essential reading. -- Jay Garfield, author of Pointing at the Moon: Buddhism, Logic, Analytic Philosophy This volume hugely advances our understanding of one of the most complex and elusive doctrines of the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tradition while at the same time giving contemporary philosophers and cognitive scientists some novel resources for thinking through basic problems in the understanding of language and cognition. These essays represent not only exemplary philological interpretations of Sanskrit and Tibetan philosophical texts but also venturesome and philosophically sophisticated attempts to understand what this first-millennium doctrine might teach us today. This collection is sure to be a touchstone for future work in several fields, including Buddhist philosophy, the philosophy of language and philosophy of mind, and studies in Buddhism and cognitive science. -- Dan Arnold, author of Buddhists, Brahmins, and Belief: Epistemology in South Asian Philosophy of Religion A generous addition to the field of Buddhist logic and epistemology as well as a brilliant exemplar of the virtues and incalculable value of rigorous scholarly discourse... South method and impeccable style. Philosophy East and West Every entry shows an impressive degree of scholarship and sophistication in thinking, and all the entries are well written. Journal of American Oriental SocietyTable of ContentsPreface Introduction, by Arindam Chakrabarti and Mark Siderits 1. How to Talk About Ineffable Things: Dignaga and Dharmakirti on Apoha, by Tom Tillemans 2. Dignaga's Apoha Theory: Its Presuppositions and Main Theoretical Implications, by Ole Pind 3. Key Features of Dharmakirti's Apoha Theory, by John D. Dunne 4. Dharmakirti's Discussion of Circularity, by Pascale Hugon 5. Apoha Theory as an Approach to Understanding Human Cognition, by Shoryu Katsura 6. The Apoha Theory as Referred to in the Nyayamanjari, by Masaaki Hattori 7. Constructing the Content of Awareness Events, by Parimal G. Patil 8. The Apoha Theory of Meaning: A Critical Account, by Prabal Kumar Sen 9. Apoha as a Naturalized Account of Concept Formation, by Georges Dreyfus 10. Apoha, Feature-Placing, and Sensory Content, by Jonardon Ganeri 11. Funes and Categorization in an Abstraction-Free World, by Amita Chatterjee 12. Apoha Semantics: Some Simpleminded Questions and Doubts, by Bob Hale 13. Classical Semantics and Apoha Semantics, by Brendan S. Gillon 14. Srughna by Dusk, by Mark Siderits Bibliography List of Contributors Index
£25.50
Columbia University Press Freedom and the Self Essays on the Philosophy of
Book SynopsisContemporary philosophers assess the late author's ideas on fatalism, free will, and art.Trade ReviewCahn and Eckhert have here assembled a very fine collection of essays on philosophical themes in the work of the acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, whose philosophical talents are only just being recognized. Philosophers interested in the topic of fatalism should take special note, as well as those interested in Wallace's work more generally. -- Patrick Todd, University of Edinburgh In the last decade, Wallace scholarship has often confined itself to narrow corridors, covering and re-covering excursions that have become increasingly familiar. This collection opens up a new wing of the critical mansion, not only building up our understanding of Wallace's important early engagement with Taylor but also pressing his investigations toward lively new dialogues with John McFarlane, David Lewis, Archilochus, Richard Rorty, and many others. -- Stephen J. Burn, University of Glasgow Philosophically rigorous... This collection of essays provides insight into the philosophical career of celebrated author Wallace and serves as a good introduction to the metaphysical problems surrounding determinism, time travel, and free will. Recommended for all libraries. Library Journal Recommended. Choice An impressive anthology of seminal scholarship. The Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert 1. David Foster Wallace and the Fallacies of "Fatalism," by William Hasker 2. Wallace, Free Choice, and Fatalism, by Gila Sher 3. Fatalism and the Metaphysics of Contingency, by M. Oreste Fiocco 4. Fatalism, Time Travel, and System J, by Maureen Eckert 5. David Foster Wallace as American Hedgehog, by Daniel R. Kelly 6. David Foster Wallace on the Good Life, by Nathan Ballantyne and Justin Tosi List of Contributors Index
£56.00
Columbia University Press Freedom and the Self Essays on the Philosophy of
Book SynopsisContemporary philosophers assess the late author’s ideas on fatalism, free will, and art.Trade ReviewCahn and Eckhert have here assembled a very fine collection of essays on philosophical themes in the work of the acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, whose philosophical talents are only just being recognized. Philosophers interested in the topic of fatalism should take special note, as well as those interested in Wallace's work more generally. -- Patrick Todd, University of Edinburgh In the last decade, Wallace scholarship has often confined itself to narrow corridors, covering and re-covering excursions that have become increasingly familiar. This collection opens up a new wing of the critical mansion, not only building up our understanding of Wallace's important early engagement with Taylor but also pressing his investigations toward lively new dialogues with John McFarlane, David Lewis, Archilochus, Richard Rorty, and many others. -- Stephen J. Burn, University of Glasgow Philosophically rigorous... This collection of essays provides insight into the philosophical career of celebrated author Wallace and serves as a good introduction to the metaphysical problems surrounding determinism, time travel, and free will. Recommended for all libraries. Library Journal Recommended. Choice An impressive anthology of seminal scholarship. The Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction, by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert 1. David Foster Wallace and the Fallacies of "Fatalism," by William Hasker 2. Wallace, Free Choice, and Fatalism, by Gila Sher 3. Fatalism and the Metaphysics of Contingency, by M. Oreste Fiocco 4. Fatalism, Time Travel, and System J, by Maureen Eckert 5. David Foster Wallace as American Hedgehog, by Daniel R. Kelly 6. David Foster Wallace on the Good Life, by Nathan Ballantyne and Justin Tosi List of Contributors Index
£19.80
University of Illinois Press John Dewey and the Philosophy and Practice of
Book SynopsisInspiring new techniques for engaging students with democratic idealsTrade Review"Fishman and McCarthy each bring unique tools to their classroom inquiries, and the results are wonderfully readable and illuminating. Their work and humanity point the way for educators to act against civic decline and for civic renewal." --Ira Shor, professor of composition and rhetoric, City University of New York Graduate School"The study is a superb inquiry: a model for how philosophy should consider the 'problems of men' and how teaching and research should be conducted. Highly recommended."--Choice "Those who have enjoyed Fishman and McCarthy's earlier collaborations that stir fine philosophy, serious classroom practice, and careful empirical study into a savory stew will find their latest offering to their taste. I also recommend this most recent work to those who have not yet had the pleasure."--Teachers College Record “Reads like a conversation with someone who not only knows Dewey's thinking well but also is not afraid to experiment with these ideas.”--Education and Culture
£38.56
Indiana University Press The Essential Peirce Volume 2
Book SynopsisPresents 29 texts, beginning with "Immortality in the Light of Synechism", in which the author proposes synechism, tendency to regard everything as continuous, as a key advance over the 3 'isms' materialism, idealism, and dualism, and ending with the author's unfinished investigations of the relative merits of different kinds of reasoning.
£25.19
MIT Press Ltd Truth in Husserl Heidegger and the Frankfurt
Book SynopsisAn innovative, ambitious, tradition-crossing study drawing on the work of Husserl, Heidegger, Horkheimer, Adorno, and Habermas to propose a new and transformative concept of truth.The idea of truth is a guiding theme for German continental philosophers from Husserl through Habermas. In this book, Lambert Zuidervaart examines debates surrounding the idea of truth in twentieth-century German continental philosophy. He argues that the Heideggerian and critical theory traditions have much in common—despite the miscommunication, opposition, and even outright hostility that have prevailed between them—including significant roots in the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl. Zuidervaart sees the tensions between Heideggerian thought and critical theory as potentially generative sources for a new approach to the idea of truth. He argues further that the “critical retrieval” of insights from German continental philosophy can shed light on current debates in analytic
£36.10
University of Notre Dame Press New Rhetoric The
Book SynopsisThe New Rhetoric is founded on the idea that since ""argumentation aims at securing the adherence of those to whom it is addressed, it is, in its entirety, relative to the audience to be influenced"", says Chaïm Perelman and L. Olbrechts-Tyteca. They rely for their theory of argumentation on the twin concepts of universal and particular audiences.Trade Review". . . a readable English translation of this highly influential work in which Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca point out historical and systematic inadequacies in much of contemporary logic and methodology." —The Review of Metaphysics"It is difficult to see how any rhetorician, rhetorical critic, logician interested in verbal logic, or student of either philosophical or popular argument can claim full competence without familiarity with this work. It challenges the orthodoxies of all and suggests fresh modes of inquiry to all." —The Quarterly Journal of Speech"An important work representing the recent increase of interest in rhetorical studies among Continental scholars. . . . The interest of philosophers of the rank of Perelman and Olbrechts-Tyteca in rhetoric marks a significant break from the influence of Ramus and Descartes upon Western philosophy's concept of reason and reasoning. An important work, highly recommended." —Choice"One of the best features of the book is that the authors have not merely described kinds of argument used in persuasive discourse, but have constantly shown how such arguments can be countered—and not merely by one's saying 'but that doesn't follow logically'. Even if we abandon the slogan 'deductive or defective' we are not required to abandon all criticism of nondeductive arguments. The non-logical has its own logic." —Mind"An important book, which should initiate re-estimation of the importance of a liberal art central to antiquity and the Renaissance, latterly eclipsed by the . . . logic of science and mathematics. . . . Dealing primarily with the written word, the authors analyze the constant and the variables in all argumentation, whether addressed to a universal audience or to one's self. Perelman claims that this work marks a break with a concept of reason which has dominated Western thought for three centuries. In 550 pages, he makes a good case for the claim." —The Key Reporter“Readers will find this volume a fascinating and firm first step toward the solution of some important philosophical problems."—Philosophy and Rhetoric
£27.99
Taylor & Francis Pragmatic Perspectives in Phenomenology
Book SynopsisPragmatic Perspectives in Phenomenology offers a complex analysis of the pragmatic theses that are present in the works of leading phenomenological authors, including not only Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, as it is often the case within Hubert Dreyfusâ tradition, but also Husserl, Levinas, Scheler, and Patocka. Starting from a critical reassessment of existing pragmatic readings which draw especially on Heideggerâs account of Being-in-the-world, the volumeâs chapters explore the following themes as possible justifications for speaking about the pragmatic turn in phenomenology: the primacy of the practical over theoretical understanding, criticism of the representationalist account of perception and consciousness, and the analysis of language and truth within the context of social and cultural practices. Having thus analyzed the pragmatic readings of key phenomenological concepts, the book situates these readings in a larger historical and thematic context and introduces themes that until now have been overlooked in debates, including freedom, alterity, transcendence, normativity, distance, and self-knowledge. This volume seeks to refresh the debate about the phenomenological legacy and its relevance for contemporary thought by enlarging the thematic scope of pragmatic motives in phenomenology in new and revealing ways. It will be of interest to advanced students and scholars of phenomenology who are interested in moving beyond the analytic-continental divide to explore the relationship between practice and theory.Trade Review"There are some excellent papers here that not only articulate the pragmatic turn in the history of phenomenology, but offer much-needed insight into the problems associated with long-standing pragmatic interpretations of the works of Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Husserl." – Phenomenological Reviews"The debate over the pragmatic turn in phenomenology is of the utmost significance since it will determine the future of the movement, and in this volume prominent philosophers examine the key positions and arguments that have been developing over at least a decade." – Michael D. Barber, St. Louis University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction: Localizing the Pragmatic Turn in Phenomenology Ondřej Švec and Jakub Čapek Part I: Contemporary Pragmatic Readings of Phenomenology1. On Layer Cakes: Heidegger’s Normative Pragmatism RevisitedMark Okrent2. Heidegger’s Pragmatist ReadersThomas Nenon3. Primordiality and the Pragmata. A Critical Assessment of Rorty’s Challenge to Heideggerian NostalgiaAndreas Beinsteiner4. Two Forms of Practical Knowledge in Being and TimeTucker McKinney5. Discursive Intentionality as Embodied Coping. A Pragmatist Critique of Existential PhenomenologyCarl B. SachsPart II: Pragmatic Readings Challenged by the History of the Phenomenology6. The Limits of Dreyfus’ View of Husserl: Intentionality, Openness, and praxisWitold Płotka7. On Dreyfus’ Naturalization of Phenomenological Pragmatism: Misleading Dichotomies, and the Counter-Concept of IntentionalitySophie Loidolt8. Perceptual Faith beyond Practical Involvement: Merleau-Ponty and His Pragmatist ReadersJakub Čapek9. Max Scheler and PragmatismZachary Davis10. From Circumspection to InsightEddo EvinkPart III: Opening up Perspectives11. Freedom and The Theoretical AttitudeJames Mensch12. The Primacy of Practice and the Pervasiveness of DiscourseOndřej Švec13. Making Sense of Human Existence (Heidegger on the Limits of Practical Familiarity)Mark Wrathall14. Exemplary Necessity: Heidegger, Pragmatism, and ReasonSteven Crowell
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Random House USA Inc The Empiricists
Book SynopsisThe rise and fall of British Empiricism is philosophy''s most dramatic example of pushing premises to their logical--and fatal--conclusions. Born in 1690 with the appearance of Locke''s Essay, Empiricism flourished as the reigning school until 1739 when Hume''s Treatise strangled it with its own cinctures after a period of Berkeley''s optimistic idealism. The Empiricists collects the key writings on this important philosophy, perfect for those interested in learning about this movement with just one book.
£15.29
Taylor & Francis Ltd Elizabeth Anscombe 4vol. set
Book Synopsis
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University of California Press Elements of Critical Theory
Book SynopsisPerspectives in Criticism offers a comprehensive exploration of the philosophy of literary criticism, providing a framework for understanding the relationship between critical analysis and value evaluation. Initially designed to introduce students to critical developments in the theory of value, this volume delves into two key areas of critical theory: analysis and evaluation. The book addresses the confusion among students, often torn between contradictory methods proposed by different instructors, and provides clarification on how critical faults and merits should be assessed. It emphasizes that criticism, as a practice, requires not only intuition but a rigorous understanding of its underlying theories and mechanics. The author argues that theory is not frivolous but serves as the grammar of critical practice, helping critics avoid arbitrary decisions while fostering a deeper, more structured approach to literary analysis. The volume also reflects on the importance of understanding theory as an essential tool for criticism, countering the tendency to treat theory as impractical. The author suggests that, much like grammar in language, theory in criticism offers the rules that guide the creative freedom of the critic. The text advocates for the democratization of criticism, encouraging critics to embrace the full scope of their intellectual freedom, while also acknowledging the influence of established pedagogical practices. This work is designed not only to critique existing methods but also to offer fresh insights into how critical theory can enhance the practice of literary evaluation. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1952.
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University of California Press Elements of Critical Theory
Book Synopsis
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University of California Press A Study in Wittgensteins Tractatus
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1961.
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