Analytical philosophy and Logical Positivism Books
Oxford University Press Inc Wittgenstein and the Mystical: Philosophy as an Ascetic Practice
Book SynopsisThis book attempts to reconcile the analytic philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein with those issues that consumed his personal life and which lay outside the confines of analytic philosophy: his "religious disposition," his ascetic lifestyle, and his concern with the mystical. Sontag reveals the influence of the mystical on Wittgenstein's life and philosophy, his respect for Augustine, Kierkegaard, and William James, and the profound effect of Tolstoy's religious writings on the development of his philosophy.
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Prometheus Books Contemporary Analytic and Linguistic Philosophies
Book SynopsisThis new, second edition of the popular college textbook offers the beginning philosophy student a comprehensive introduction to several aspects of one of the most influential schools of thought in the twentieth century. Professor Klemke begins by pointing out the distinctions among the various types of analytic and linguistic philosophies, while emphasizing that they all arose as a response to the formerly predominant school of absolute idealism. After a prologue section containing a representative exposition of idealism by Josiah Royce, the following sections show the radically new philosophical approach of the analytic school in its various guises: realism and common sense (G. E. Moore); logical atomism (Bertrand Russell); logical positivism (A. J. Ayer); conceptual analysis (Gilbert Ryle, G. E. Moore, John Wisdom); logico-metaphysical analysis (Gustav Bergman, W. V. Quine); linguistic analysis (J. L. Austin, P. F. Strawson, J. R. Searle); and the recent development of new realism (Saul Kripke, Hilary Putnam, Tyler Burge, Richard N. Boyd).
£16.99
Prometheus Books Virtue Ethics: An Introduction
Book SynopsisIn this fresh evaluation of Western ethics, noted philosopher Richard Taylor argues that philosophy must return to the classical notion of virtue as the basis of ethics. To ancient Greek and Roman philosophers, ethics was chiefly the study of how individuals attain personal excellence, or "virtue," defined as intellectual sophistication, wisdom, strength of character, and creativity. With the ascendancy of the Judeo-Christian ethic, says Taylor, this emphasis on pride of personal worth was lost. Instead, philosophy became preoccupied with defining right and wrong in terms of a divine lawgiver, and the concept of virtue was debased to mean mere obedience to divine law. Even today, in the absence of religious belief, modern thinkers unwittingly continue this legacy by creating hairsplitting definitions of good and evil. Taylor points out that the ancients rightly understood the ultimate concern of ethics to be the search for happiness, a concept that seems to have eluded contemporary society despite unprecedented prosperity and convenience. Extolling Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Taylor urges us to reread this brilliant and still relevant treatise, especially its emphasis on an ethic of aspiration.
£14.39
Centre for the Study of Language & Information The Possibility of Language: Internal Tensions in
Book SynopsisIn this volume, Maria Cerezo examines Wittgenstein's "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" as a response to some of Frege's and Russell's logical problems. In analyzing the tractarian conditions for the possibility of language, she explains the two main theories of the proposition in "Tractatus": the truth-functions theory and the picture theory. Cerezo shows that Wittgenstein initially separates the account of the structure of a proposition from the expression of its expression. However, contrary to his intention, the combination of these theories creates new difficulties, since the requirements of each theory cannot be fully respected by the others. Cerezo also argues that Wittgenstein's theory of language cannot be fully understood unless attention is paid to his theory of expression and his doctrine of projection by the metaphysical subject.
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc Bertrand Russell: The Colours of Pacifism
Book SynopsisBertrand Russell: The Colours of Pacifism analyzes the tenacious commitment of one of the twentieth century’s most extraordinary intellectuals to the cause of civilization, progress, and human rights. Through his active and pragmatic pacifism, Russell sought to confront the problems stemming from the unstable and dramatic political conditions of his age: the beginning of the Great War, the establishment of the League of Nations, the rise of totalitarian regimes, the outbreak of the Second World War, the dawn of the Atomic Age, the escalation of the Cold War, the weakness of the United Nations, and the need for world government. His reflections on the subject of peace, which constitute the main focus of this book, led him into dialogue with some of the greatest figures of his time, including Romain Rolland, Albert Einstein, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, Leon Trotsky, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Nikita Khrushchev, and John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Shining new light on a lifelong preoccupation in Russell’s work and thinking, this essay is a landmark study that will appeal to students, scholars, and anyone curious about the philosopher’s engagement with the world around him.Table of ContentsIdeas and Models of Modern Pacifism – Bertrand Russell Witness for Peace – Between Fear and Hope in the Atomic Age – Bibliography – Index.
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Permuted Press Animal Wisdom Word Search
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Rowman & Littlefield International Performative Contradiction and the Romanian
Book SynopsisThe Romanian Revolution of 1989 ended 42 years of Communist rule. It was the bloodiest revolution in a Warsaw Pact country, culminating in the overthrow and execution of Nicolae Ceaușescu. However, there was no major democratic reform and power remained in the hands of key figures from the old regime. This has led many theorists to question the authenticity of the entire revolution. Performative Contradiction and the Romanian Revolution focuses-in on the circumstances which led to these accusations. It argues that the notion of an authentic revolution, as a conceptual paradigm, is neither a sufficient, appropriate, nor useful tool for an analysis of the events in Romania. Engaging with the work of theorists including Stieglar, Agamben, Baudrillard, Badiou, Spinoza and Derrida it argues that performative contradiction is a more useful theoretical model for exploring this event. Applying the concept to specific cases within the revolution, the book demonstrates the power of performative contradiction as an analytic tool.Trade ReviewWithin the concluding section of the book, Bogdan demonstrates that performative contradiction, as a conceptual paradigm, proves a “productive and versatile” tool, which can be successfully employed to examine a variety of recent events, ranging from the Arab Spring and the current tensions within the European Union to the ongoing refugee crisis (190). Reading this volume, one becomes more and more aware that performative contradiction is indeed a useful tool, which not only enables new insights into the intricacies of the bloody revolution of 1989 in Romania, but also allows new approaches to worrisome phenomena facing the present day world. * Slavic Review *Authenticity has always been a problematic concept for politics, not least when applied to the idea of revolution, where the claim to authentic actions and beliefs, like the repudiation of the inauthentic, often obscures more than it reveals. Jolan Bogdan brilliantly proves as much in this provocative exploration of the Romanian Revolution of 1989, developing the notion of performative contradiction as a compellingly productive alternative to questions about authenticity that have typically been the focus of historical and philosophical treatments of this same moment. But in drawing on an impressively wide range of traditions and thinkers, Bogdan not only illuminates the world-historical significance of events in Romania, but also demonstrates how a sharpened attention to performative contradiction might have far-reaching and surprising implications for our understanding of the political today. -- Emilio Sauri, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston, USAIn Performative Contradiction and the Romanian Revolution Jolan Bogdan makes an original and compelling analysis that shows how the deep ambiguities and paradoxes that freight revolutionary situations threaten to render inadequate our philosophical and political vocabularies. The in-depth account of the Romanian revolution is complemented by a fascinating study of the collective psyche of a people under a totalitarian regime and an astute reflection on the nature of violence. The book is a significant contribution to current theoretical and political debate and will be a valuable interpretive resource for the student of history, politics and philosophy. -- Elina Staikou, Associate Lecturer, University of Westminster, UKDrawing on philosophy, psychoanalysis, and ethics, Jolan Bogdan’s Performative Contradiction and the Romanian Revolution closely examines some of the key events around the Romanian Revolution of 1989 and its aftermath, offering a powerful use of critical theory as a tool for interpretation. Bogdan’s work is not simply historical analysis, but rather an investigation of how critical theory can be applied as an incisive and sensitive tool of historical and contemporary analysis, helping us to understand peculiar phenomena such as the contemporary nostalgia in Romania for communism and the lingering cult of personality around Ceauşescu. Throughout, Bogdan approaches challenging and complicated texts with great care, making them accessible as tools for interpretation, while articulating the subtleties and richness embodied in these texts in her analysis of performative contradiction. -- Kevin Richards, Associate Professor, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, author of Derrida Reframed: A Guide for the Visual Arts StudentTable of ContentsIntroduction – On the fractured narrative of the Romanian revolution / 1. Performative contradiction: structuralist and poststructuralist perspectives / 2. The performance of authenticity: philosophers question the revolution / 3. The problem with the “event”: Badiou’s split loyalties / 4. Nostalgia for the old regime: a Freudian interpretation / 5. Pro-natal legislation and the systematic destruction of intimacy / 6. The interruption of mourning: on forbidden burials / 7. On violence: can the revolution be saved? / Conclusion : Other examples / Bibliography / 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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Rowman & Littlefield International Experimental Philosophy: A Critical Study
Book SynopsisOver the past one and a half decades, the scope of experimental philosophy (x-phi) has expanded significantly. Experimental research programmes now cover almost all areas of philosophy, including epistemology, the philosophy of language, action theory, and the free will debate, to name just a few. This volume introduces the reader to these new developments in an accessible and systematic way. It explains how x-phi differs from traditional views of philosophy, investigates in depth how it uses empirical evidence to support philosophical conclusions of various kinds, and introduces the reader to both the most widely discussed experimental studies and the latest advancements in the field. As a critical study, it also examines the various criticisms that x-phi has received over the years and seeks, tentatively, to adjudicate them.Trade ReviewFifteen years ago, experimental philosophy shook the foundations of philosophy: century-old methods were challenged; revolutionary ideas were discussed; and a new future for philosophy was sketched. In his outstanding book, Experimental Philosophy: A Critical Study, Nikil Mukerji provides a compelling, insightful , and accessible assessment of the experimental-philosophy revolution. Experimental Philosophy: A Critical Study should be required reading for anyone interested in the cutting edge of contemporary philosophy. -- Edouard Machery, Professor and Director of the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of PittsburghThis is a very valuable introduction into experimental philosophy which clarifies both the scope and the limits of this highly relevant field. The book deserves to be widely read. -- Christoph Lütge, Professor and Chair of Business Ethics, Technical University of MunichIn this new introduction to experimental philosophy, Nikil Mukerji locates the field in relation to traditional philosophy, and he does this via a favorite tool of traditional philosophy – distinctions. Mukerji distinguishes several different programs within experimental philosophy, and he shows how the different programs bear on traditional philosophical debates and methods. The book is a manifestly illuminating introduction to the field, which also serves admirably to sharpen debates for researchers working in the field. -- Shaun Nichols, Sherwin Scott Professor of Philosophy, University of ArizonaTable of ContentsPreface / Acknowledgements / Introduction / 1. The Armchair and the Laboratory / 2. Experimentally Informed Arguments / 3. Experimental Studies / 4. Objections / 5. Conclusion / References / Index
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Lexington Books Wittgenstein's Tractatus
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1921, Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is one of the most influential—and one of the most obscure—philosophical works of the twentieth century. Duncan Richter’s new translation of and commentary on the Tractatus help the reader understand the text and directs the reader to relevant secondary literature. To avoid imposing any particular interpretation on the text, this translation is as literal as possible while honoring Wittgenstein's wishes about how his words should be rendered in English. For similar reasons, Richter more often quotes than paraphrases the selected secondary sources, which represent a variety of opinions on what Wittgenstein meant. This book also includes an introduction by Richter and a bibliography. Like the Tractatus itself, this is not a textbook but a version of the text designed for those who want to read and understand it for themselves.Trade Review"A unique kind of guide. It will be greatly helpful to students and others trying to understand one of the most significant and most difficult philosophical works of the twentieth century. I only wish a book like Richter's had been available when I first tried to read the Tractatus." -- Cora Diamond, University of Virginia"Richter has done the world of Wittgenstein studies a real service. His new edition of the Tractatus will no doubt be an invaluable resource not just to students, but to their teachers as well. Besides providing a judicious and transparent new translation, Richter has assembled a wealth of signposts to prominent discussions and controversies in the secondary literature on this vexingly fascinating little book. I look forward to having my own copy and keeping it close by." -- David Cerbone, West Virginia University"Professor Richter's annotated edition of the Tractatus contains a new translation and an expertly curated selection from over 60 years of secondary literature interpreting and assessing Wittgenstein's seminal work. It will be an asset to bewildered students and scholars alike." -- James C. Klagge, Virginia Tech"Richter's new translation and innovative commentary offers both students and experienced readers of the Tractatus a new way of engaging with this difficult text. Unlike almost all other introductions, which defend one leading interpretation and attack the others, he draws on many of the best previous interpretations of each passage in the text. By modeling how to engage with Tractatus interpretation, Richter's book helps its readers to think for themselves about the Tractatus." -- David G. Stern, University of IowaTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgements IntroductionTractatus Logico-PhilosophicusDedicationEpigraphPreface Main TextBibliographyAbout the Author
£69.30
Lexington Books Wittgenstein's Tractatus
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1921, Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is one of the most influential—and one of the most obscure—philosophical works of the twentieth century. Duncan Richter’s new translation of and commentary on the Tractatus help the reader understand the text and directs the reader to relevant secondary literature. To avoid imposing any particular interpretation on the text, this translation is as literal as possible while honoring Wittgenstein's wishes about how his words should be rendered in English. For similar reasons, Richter more often quotes than paraphrases the selected secondary sources, which represent a variety of opinions on what Wittgenstein meant. This book also includes an introduction by Richter and a bibliography. Like the Tractatus itself, this is not a textbook but a version of the text designed for those who want to read and understand it for themselves.Trade Review"A unique kind of guide. It will be greatly helpful to students and others trying to understand one of the most significant and most difficult philosophical works of the twentieth century. I only wish a book like Richter's had been available when I first tried to read the Tractatus." -- Cora Diamond, University of Virginia"Richter has done the world of Wittgenstein studies a real service. His new edition of the Tractatus will no doubt be an invaluable resource not just to students, but to their teachers as well. Besides providing a judicious and transparent new translation, Richter has assembled a wealth of signposts to prominent discussions and controversies in the secondary literature on this vexingly fascinating little book. I look forward to having my own copy and keeping it close by." -- David Cerbone, West Virginia University"Professor Richter's annotated edition of the Tractatus contains a new translation and an expertly curated selection from over 60 years of secondary literature interpreting and assessing Wittgenstein's seminal work. It will be an asset to bewildered students and scholars alike." -- James C. Klagge, Virginia Tech"Richter's new translation and innovative commentary offers both students and experienced readers of the Tractatus a new way of engaging with this difficult text. Unlike almost all other introductions, which defend one leading interpretation and attack the others, he draws on many of the best previous interpretations of each passage in the text. By modeling how to engage with Tractatus interpretation, Richter's book helps its readers to think for themselves about the Tractatus." -- David G. Stern, University of IowaTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgements IntroductionTractatus Logico-PhilosophicusDedicationEpigraphPreface Main TextBibliographyAbout the Author
£28.50
Lexington Books On Philosophy, Intelligibility, and the Ordinary:
Book SynopsisRandy Ramal argues that philosophers have a hermeneutical responsibility to the intelligibility of everyday life. Furthermore, they need to go the hard way to fulfill it, which entails overcoming the temptation to turn philosophy into a normative discipline, while also appreciating the need to limit the philosopher’s engagement with the world to explicating the coherent sense that everyday life has, and to recovering that sense when life’s intelligibility is challenged by unwarranted skepticism. In On Philosophy, Intelligibility, and the Ordinary: Going the Bloody Hard Way, the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead is central to Ramal’s endeavor to demonstrate the need to separate the hermeneutical responsibility of philosophy from the normative aspects of responsibility. While showing the futility of labeling Whitehead as a purely disinterested philosopher who abandons the idea that ordinariness is relevant to good philosophical thinking, Ramal frames this discussion within a larger, in-depth engagement with a vast number of thinkers, philosophers, and literary figures whose works touch on the question of the ordinary. The latter include Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the empiricists, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, J.L. Austin, Anthony Flew, the Ideal-Language philosophers, Jacques Derrida, Richard Rorty, Stanley Cavell, Hilary Putnam, Cora Diamond, Peter Singer, Michel de Certeau, Stanley Rosen, Richard Dawkins, J.M. Coetzee, and David Foster Wallace.Trade Review"This book is a very timely reminder that philosophers must avoid practicing philosophy as a normative discipline. Everyone can and should argue for what he or she considers to be right and true and important. But this should not be confused with philosophizing. The main responsibility of philosophy lies in questions of sense and intelligibility, as Ramal argues with Wittgenstein, Cavell and Phillips. It must be oriented to the ordinary, to the life-world in which we know from our common practice what we mean by our concepts. Whenever philosophers confuse their own rational constructions with the reality they seek to reconstruct, they commit the fallacy of logical inversion. Whitehead, Rorty, Rosen, and many others have fallen into this trap, as Ramal demonstrates in detail. His clear, wide-ranging, and well-argued book sharpens the eye for the blind alleys into which philosophy gets if it does not avoid this fallacy." -- Ingolf U. Dalferth, Claremont Graduate University"This is a courageous book in the sense that Ramal is arguing against the widespread view that philosophy’s task is largely (or exclusively) normative. By contrast, Ramal thinks that philosophy’s primary responsibility is to provide intelligibility. Relying primarily on Wittgenstein and Whitehead (but also on several other authors), Ramal thinks that philosophers should be primarily concerned with clarifying discourse, rather than with offering normative guidance. This thesis is explored with respect to a wide range of topics: ordinary language, experience, theism/atheism, the lives of nonhuman animals, etc. Whatever one’s own stance, one is enlightened by Ramal’s work in the effort to articulate the proper method of philosophy as a discipline. His fear is that by jumping prematurely or in the wrong way into normative concerns, philosophers might be forgoing one of their essential tasks." -- Daniel A. Dombrowski, Seattle UniversityTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1: On Ordinariness and Philosophy’s Responsibility to IntelligibilityChapter 2: Speculating on being in the world alongside Plato and AristotleChapter 3: Courting Ordinary Language with the Ideal Language PhilosophersChapter 4: Negotiating Ordinary Experience with the EmpiricistsChapter 5: Rubbing Shoulders with Wittgenstein on Ordinary Realism Chapter 6: Inverting the Logic of Ordinary Atheism with Flew and the New AtheistsChapter 7: Animalizing Philosophy with Derrida and Coetzee Conclusion: Final ThoughtsBibliographyIndexAbout the Author
£76.50
Anthem Press Wittgenstein Rehinged
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together thirteen papers on hinge epistemology written by Annalisa Coliva and published after her influential monographs Moore and Wittgenstein. Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense (2010), Extended Rationality. A Hinge Epistemology (2015). By mixing together Wittgenstein scholarship and systematic philosophy, they illuminate the significance of hinge epistemology for current debates on skepticism, relativism, realism and anti-realism, as well as alethic pluralism, and envision its possible extension to the epistemology of logic. Along the way, other varieties of hinge epistemology, such as Moyal-Sharrock’s, Pritchard’s, Williams’ and Wright’s, are considered, both with respect to Wittgenstein scholarship and in their own right.Trade Review“Over the last decade, the topic of hinge epistemology has become central to many key debates in epistemology. Annalisa Coliva’s work has played a seminal role in this welcome development. This timely book brings together the pioneering articles of Coliva on the interrelated topics of Wittgensteinian hinge epistemology, scepticism, relativism, and anti-realism. The book is essential reading both for those interested in the latest developments in epistemology and readers who wish to have a more in depth understanding of Wittgenstein and his last work, On Certainty.” — Maria Baghramian, School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, Ireland.“Coliva is a careful and thorough scholar of Wittgenstein, as well as an epistemologist well-versed in the contemporary debates. The reader will learn much both from her discussion of Wittgenstein, as well from Coliva’s detailed elaboration of her own ‘extended rationality’ conception of perceptual warrant and its place in the contemporary epistemological landscape.” — Genia Schönbaumsfeld, Professor of Philosophy, University of Southampton, UK. “This collection of essays by one of the pioneers of Hinge Epistemology situates and delineates the importance of Wittgenstein in mainstream epistemology. Professor Coliva’s expertise in both On Certainty and epistemology enables her to navigate between the two with depth and breadth, making unprecedented critical connections between the two, and giving both new lives.” — Daniele Moyal-Sharrock, Professor of Philosophy, President of the British Wittgenstein Society, University of Hertfordshire, UK.“This volume brings together the rich and important body of recent work that Annalisa Coliva has written on hinge epistemology. It will be essential reading for anyone working in contemporary epistemology." — Duncan Pritchard, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, USA. “I think her approach to Wittgenstein is distinctive and interesting, and certainly makes a useful contribution to the literature on him and on epistemology’. But that would read a bit clumsily as a blurb: I would be happy for you to recast this as ‘Coliva’s approach to her subject matter is distinctive and interesting, and she makes a very useful contribution to the literature both on Wittgenstein and on epistemology”. — Richard Gaskin, Professor of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, UK.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Acknowledgements; Credits; Part I In Quest of a Wittgensteinian Hinge Epistemology, Chapter One, Which Hinge Epistemology?; Chapter Two, Which Hinge Epistemology between Animal, Biscopic, and Constitutivist?; Chapter Three, “I Know,” “I Know,” “I Know”: Hinge Epistemology, Invariantism, and Skepticism; Chapter Four, Propositional and Doxastic Hinge Assumptions; Chapter Five, Are There Mathematical Hinges?; Part II Hinge Epistemology, Anti-Realism, and Relativism, Chapter Six, What Anti-realism About Hinges Could Possibly Be; Chapter Seven, Relativism and Hinge Epistemology; Chapter Eight, Was Wittgenstein an Epistemic Relativist?; Chapter Nine, Rituals, Philosophy, Science, and Progress: Wittgenstein on Frazer; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index
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Anthem Press Extending Hinge Epistemology
Book SynopsisHinge Epistemology is rapidly becoming one of the most exciting areas of epistemology and Wittgenstein studies. In connecting these two fields it brings a revived energy to both, opening them up to fresh developments. The essays in this volume extend the subject in terms of both depth and breadth. They present new voices and challenges within hinge epistemology. They explore new applications and directions of hinge epistemology, particularly as it relates to the philosophy of mind, society, ethics, and the history of ideas.Trade Review‘Edited by two leading authorities on Wittgenstein’s philosophy, this volume further extends and consolidates the burgeoning research programme on ‘hinge epistemology’. The epistemic lessons to be derived from reflection on the epistemology of certainty are opened out to domains beyond the purely epistemic such as, politics, ideology, the extended individual, etc.’ — Dr. Nigel Pleasants, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Sociology, University of Exeter, UK.‘Never before have epistemologists been so genuinely interested in Wittgenstein’s later work as in recent years. Extending Hinge Epistemology brings together insightful essays by some of the leading scholars in the field and will be essential reading for anyone seeking to go beyond the mere exegesis of On Certainty.’ — Nuno Venturinha, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal.‘Hinge Epistemology: Fastening the Hinges, Opening the Door provides a further demonstration of the wide-ranging significance of Wittgenstein’s thoughts on knowledge, doubt and certainty for philosophical epistemology and for our thinking about human life more generally. The authors, comprising both established experts in the field and more up-and- coming scholars, develop the approach of hinge epistemology in fruitful ways, bringing out its relevance to multiple areas of human thought and activity, including religion, politics, scepticism and enactivism, as well as considering the extent to which the approach was prefigured in the work of earlier philosophers such as David Hume and Thomas Reid. The volume constitutes a valuable contribution to contemporary epistemology and Wittgenstein studies.’ — Dr Mikel Burley, Associate Professor of Religion and Philosophy, University of Leeds, UK.This book is an impressive collection of essays on hinge epistemology that provide clarification on both existing debates and original interventions. This collection brings together well-known names in hinge epistemology with newer voices engaging with a range of philosophical areas and presenting a range of philosophical positions — Samuel Laves, Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Filosofia, Lisbon, Portugal.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Fastening the Hinges, Opening the Door; Part I Fastening the Hinges, Chapter One Wittgenstein’s Hinge Certainty, Danièle Moyal-Sharrock; Chapter Two Exploring Quasi-Fideism, Duncan Pritchard; Chapter Three Which Hinge Epistemology between Animal, Biscopic and Constitutivist? Annalisa Coliva; Chapter Four Something Animal, Something Unpredictable: On the Difficulty of Finding the Beginning and Not Trying to Go Further Back, Paul Standish; Chapter Five Closure-Based Scepticism and Epistemic Restrictions: A Dialectical Approach to Hinge Epistemology, Xavier Maréchal; Chapter Six ‘Hinges’ of Trust: Wittgenstein on the Other Minds Problem, Jasmin Trächtler; Part II Opening the Door, Chapter Seven Political Hinge Epistemology, Chris Ranalli; Chapter Eight Collective Thought and Collective Trust, Michel Le Du; Chapter Nine Deep Impact: Wittgenstein’s Enduring Enactivist Legacy, Victor Loughlin; Chapter Ten In Defence of a Reidian Moderate View of Our Hinge Commitments, Angélique Thébert; Chapter Eleven Consider the Squirrel: Hume as Hinge Epistemologist, Constantine Sandis; Index
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Anthem Press Wittgenstein on Other Minds
Book SynopsisConstantine Sandis has been working on Wittgenstein's approach to other minds for over a decade. This volume collects his best writings on the topic. It sketches a picture of Wittgenstein's approach to understanding others which explains how his anti-scepticism with regard to the philosophical problem of other minds' is not only compatible with but also supported by his scepticism concerning the real-life difficulty of understanding others (and vice versa).While each individual essay focuses on particular issues in Wittgenstein (including philosophical anthropology, interpersonal psychology, communication theory, and animal minds), they collectively paint a picture of what he takes the real problem of other minds to be, how to overcome it, and the limitations of our understanding.The book not only offers a fresh exegesis of Wittgenstein's public and private writings on these matters but also proceeds to show the relevance of Wittgenstein beyond the remit of philosophy and the academy as a whole. These include issues in ethology, anthropology, AI intelligibility, psychology, and intercultural studies.
£72.00
Anthem Press Language Mind and Value
Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of 15 essays on important themes in Wittgenstein's philosophy, divided into three sections. The first section is about philosophy of language, in particular Wittgenstein's key idea of linguistic normativity. The second section is mainly concerned with important Wittgensteinian contributions to the philosophy of mind and action: his analysis of sensation language, the concept of understanding, the explanation of human behaviour and the concept of knowledge. The final section focusses on questions of value, mainly in aesthetics, but also in ethics and religion.
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Imprint Academic Logic, Truth and Meaning: Writings of G.E.M.
Book SynopsisThis fourth and final volume of writings by Elizabeth Anscombe reprints her Introduction to Wittgenstein''s Tractatus, together with a number of later essays on thought and language in which she explores issues of reason, representation, truth and existence. As with previous volumes this gathers hitherto inaccessible publications and previously unpublished texts. Singly and collectively the four volumes provide for a broader and deeper understanding of the thought of one of the twentieth century''s most important anglophone philosophers.
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Imprint Academic Logic, Truth and Meaning: Writings of G.E.M.
Book SynopsisThis fourth and final volume of writings by Elizabeth Anscombe reprints her Introduction to Wittgenstein''s Tractatus, together with a number of later essays on thought and language in which she explores issues of reason, representation, truth and existence. As with previous volumes this gathers hitherto inaccessible publications and previously unpublished texts. Singly and collectively the four volumes provide for a broader and deeper understanding of the thought of one of the twentieth century''s most important anglophone philosophers.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Peirce: A Guide for the Perplexed
Book SynopsisCharles Sanders Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, is a hugely important and influential thinker in the history of American philosophy. His philosophical interests were broad and he made significant contributions in several different areas of thought. Moreover, his contributions are intimately connected and his philosophy designed to form a coherent and systematic whole. Peirce: A Guide for the Perplexed is a clear and thorough account of Peirce's life and thought, his major works and ideas, providing an ideal guide to this important and complex thinker. The book introduces all the key concepts and themes in Peirce's thought, exploring his contributions to logic, pragmatism, truth, semiotics and metaphysics and demonstrating how his ideas developed into a coherent system of thought. Geared towards the specific requirements of students who need to reach a sound understanding of Peirce's ideas, the book serves as a clear and concise introduction to his philosophy. This is the idea companion to study of this most influential and challenging of thinkers.Trade ReviewPeirce has a new way to think about things and de Waal describes this quite well. -- Jesse J. Thomas * Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies *Table of Contents1: Life and Work Chapter 2: Logic Chapter 3: The Doctrine of the Categories Chapter 4: Semiotics Chapter 5: Philosophy of Science Chapter 6: Pragmatism but Not Practicalism Chapter 7: A Pragmatist Theory of Truth Chapter 8: The Perpetual Fight against Nominalism Chapter 9: The Impact of Darwin Chapter 10: Mathematics Chapter 11: Mind and Self Chapter 12 (Conclusion): The Architectonic Philosopher Bibliography Notes Index
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St Augustine's Press A Study in Wittgenstein's Tractatus
Book SynopsisThe series, "Wittgenstein Studies", collects together many of the major texts of recent years, making available books that have proved relevant to the study of Wittgenstein. This title is from the second collection in the series. In this study of Wittgenstein's "Tractatus", Alexander Maslow tries to clarify some of its more obscure pronouncements and interpret the philosophy underlying the work as a whole. Influenced by the logical positivism of Mortiz Schlick, and by Russell and Ramsey, the author's interpretation is that Wittgenstein's basic philosophy is a kind of Kantian phenomenology. He also examines Wittgenstein's solipsism and mysticism.Trade Review"One of the earliest, most neglected, and most thorough works covering several important aspects of the Tractatus." - Plochmann and Lawson, 'Terms in their Propositional Contexts in Wittgenstein's Tractatus'
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St Augustine's Press Limits Of Analysis
Book SynopsisPhilosophy in the twentieth century has been dominated by the urge for analysis, a methadology that is supposed to be comparable in clarity and correctness to scientific thought. In this brilliant and devestating attack on such exaggerated claims, Stanley Rosen demonstrates how analysis alone lacks the power to approach the deepest and most important philosophical questions. He thus provides us with a new deeper understanding of the nature and limits of analytic thinking.Trade Review'The growing importance of reason in philosophy concerns Stanley Rosen in this essay. Rosen's primary objective is to defend Plato and classical philosophy against Martin Heidegger's radical existentialist criticism. . . . Many critics of Heidegger consider his dubious politics during the early days of Nazi rule irrelevant to the understanding of his work. Rosen argues, on the contrary, that Heidegger's philosophy helps explain his initial enthusiasm for, and later submission to, the Nazi regime. The argument yields genuine insight into the connection between philosophical and political nihilism. Furthermore, exposing the evil consequences of nihilistic thought adds to his stout defense of the classical tradition.' - Elliot Feingold, Book Week 'Those who ignore his book do so at their peril. It vigorously poses issues which have been too long neglected by both political scientists and political theorists.' - R. L. Nichols, American Political Science Review 'This is an impressive book. . . . Part of the interest of this book resides in its structure, which analyses moments in the history of ideas to sketch a systematic critique of theoretical and practical reason.' - Times Literary Supplement
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Models and Idealizations in Science: Artifactual
Book SynopsisThis book provides both an introduction to the philosophy of scientific modeling and a contribution to the discussion and clarification of two recent philosophical conceptions of models: artifactualism and fictionalism. These can be viewed as different stances concerning the standard representationalist account of scientific models. By better understanding these two alternative views, readers will gain a deeper insight into what a model is as well as how models function in different sciences.Fictionalism has been a traditional epistemological stance related to antirealist construals of laws and theories, such as instrumentalism and inferentialism. By contrast, the more recent fictional view of models holds that scientific models must be conceived of as the same kind of entities as literary characters and places. This approach is essentially an answer to the ontological question concerning the nature of models, which in principle is not incompatible with a representationalist account of the function of models. The artifactual view of models is an approach according to which scientific models are epistemic artifacts, whose main function is not to represent the phenomena but rather to provide epistemic access to them. It can be conceived of as a non-representationalist and pragmatic account of modeling, which does not intend to focus on the ontology of models but rather on the ways they are built and used for different purposes. The different essays address questions such as the artifactual view of idealization, the use of information theory to elucidate the concepts of abstraction and idealization, the deidealization of models, the nature of scientific fictions, the structural account of representation and the ontological status of structures, the role of surrogative reasoning with models, and the use of models for explaining and predicting physical phenomena.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Theories, Models, and Scientific Representations (Alejandro Cassini and Juan Redmond).- Chapter 2. An Artifactual Perspective on Idealization: Constant Capacitance and the Hodgkin and Huxley Model (Natalia Carrillo and Tarja Knuuttila).- Chapter 3. Informative Models: Idealization and Abstraction (Mauricio Suárez and Agnes Bolinska).- Chapter 4. Deidealized Models (Alejandro Cassini).- Chapter 5. Scientific Representation as Ensemble-Plus-Sanding-for: A Moderate Fictionalist Account (José A. Díez).- Chapter 6. Seven Myths About the Fiction View of Models (Roman Frigg and James Nguyen).- Chapter 7. Bridging the Gap: The Artefactual View Meets the Fiction View of Models (Fiora Salis).- Chapter 8. Models as Hypostatizations: The Case of Supervaluationism in Semantics (Manuel García-Carpintero).- Chapter 9. Structural Representation and the Ontology of Models (Otávio Bueno).- Chapter 10. Representation and Surrogate Reasoning: A Proposal from Dialogical Pragmatism (Juan Redmond).- Chapter 11. Prediction and Explanation by Theoretical Models:An Instrumentalist Stance (Andrés Rivadulla).- Chapter 12. Commented Bibliography on Models and Idealizations (Alejandro Cassini).- Name Index.- Subject Index.-
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Metasemantics and Intersectionality in the
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the impact of misinformation and the role of truth in political struggle. It develops a theory of objective truth for political controversy over topics such as racism and gender, based on the insights of intersectionality, the Black feminist theory of interlocking systems of oppression. Truth is defined using the tools of model theory and formal semantics, but the theory also captures how social power dynamics strongly influence the operation of the concept of truth within the social fabric. Systemic ignorance, propagated through false speech and misinformation, sustains oppressive power structures and perpetuates systemic inequity. Truth tends to empower marginalized groups precisely because oppressive systems are maintained through systemic ignorance. If the truth sets people free, then power will work to obscure it. Hence, the rise of misinformation as a political weapon is a strategy of dominant power to undermine the political advancement of marginalized groups.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Truth in Political StruggleChapter 2: Politically Contested TerminologyChapter 3: On the Possibility of Semantic CorruptionChapter 4: Toward a Conception of Misinformation as Epistemic ViolenceChapter 5: Model-Theoretic Semantics for Politically Contested TerminologyChapter 6: Toward an Intersectional MetasemanticsChapter 7: Power and Regimes of TruthChapter 8: An Analytic Philosopher’s Unified Theory of IntersectionalityChapter 9: Intersectional Metasemantic AdequacyChapter 10: A Metasemantics for IntersectionalityChapter 11: Situated Knowledge and the Regime of Truth
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG On the Epistemology of Data Science: Conceptual
Book SynopsisThis book addresses controversies concerning the epistemological foundations of data science: Is it a genuine science? Or is data science merely some inferior practice that can at best contribute to the scientific enterprise, but cannot stand on its own? The author proposes a coherent conceptual framework with which these questions can be rigorously addressed. Readers will discover a defense of inductivism and consideration of the arguments against it: an epistemology of data science more or less by definition has to be inductivist, given that data science starts with the data. As an alternative to enumerative approaches, the author endorses Federica Russo’s recent call for a variational rationale in inductive methodology. Chapters then address some of the key concepts of an inductivist methodology including causation, probability and analogy, before outlining an inductivist framework. The inductivist framework is shown to be adequate and useful for an analysis of the epistemological foundations of data science. The author points out that many aspects of the variational rationale are present in algorithms commonly used in data science. Introductions to algorithms and brief case studies of successful data science such as machine translation are included. Data science is located with reference to several crucial distinctions regarding different kinds of scientific practices, including between exploratory and theory-driven experimentation, and between phenomenological and theoretical science. Computer scientists, philosophers and data scientists of various disciplines will find this philosophical perspective and conceptual framework of great interest, especially as a starting point for further in-depth analysis of algorithms used in data science. Trade Review“Readers are taken on a journey where they will discover step-by-step methodologies for data-driven research. Judiciously, each key concept of data science is concisely defined, and examples and the when, why, and how to use them are provided. … I fully recommend it.” (Thierry Edoh, Computing Reviews, February 7, 2023)Table of ContentsPreface.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Inductivism.- Chapter 3. Phenomenological Science.- Chapter 4. Variational Induction.- Chapter 5. Causation As Difference Making.- Chapter 6. Evidence.- Chapter 7. Concept Formation.- Chapter 8. Analogy.- Chapter 9. Causal Probability.- Chapter 10. Conclusion.- Index.
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Springer International Publishing AG Women in the History of Analytic Philosophy:
Book SynopsisThis book contains a selection of papers from the workshop Women in the History of Analytic Philosophy held in October 2019 in Tilburg, the Netherlands. It is the first volume devoted to the role of women in early analytic philosophy. It discusses the ideas of ten female philosophers and covers a period of over a hundred years, beginning with the contribution to the Significs Movement by Victoria, Lady Welby in the second half of the nineteenth century, and ending with Ruth Barcan Marcus’s celebrated version of quantified modal logic after the Second World War. The book makes clear that women contributed substantially to the development of analytic philosophy in all areas of philosophy, from logic, epistemology, and philosophy of science, to ethics, metaphysics, and philosophy of language. It illustrates that although women's voices were no different from men's as regards their scope and versatility, they had a much harder time being heard. The book is aimed at historians of philosophy and scholars in gender studiesTable of ContentsINTERNAL NOTE: See the file "ob.Contents.pdf" in the attachments tab.
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Springer International Publishing AG Wittgenstein's Tractatus at 100
Book SynopsisThe 100th anniversary of the first publication of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus is celebrated by a collection of original papers by well-known experts on various aspects of one of the greatest works of philosophy in the twentieth century.Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 Resolution Re-examined 3 Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and the Epistemology of Logic 4 Ethics in the Tractatus: A Condition of the Possibility of Meaning? 5 On the Transcendental Ethics of the Tractatus 6 Metaphysics and Magic: Echoes of the Tractatus in Wittgenstein’s ‘Remarks on Frazer’ 7 The Tractatus and the Carnapian Conception of Syntax 8 “The Only Strictly Correct Method of Philosophy”: Logical Analysis and Anti-Metaphysical Dialectic 9 Wittgenstein’s Tractatus in Context: Modernity and its Critique 10 The Tractatus and Modernism: Dialectics, Apocalypse, and Ethics
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De Gruyter Frege: Aufsätze zur Logik und Sprachphilosophie
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De Gruyter Begriff, Bewusstsein und Bedeutung
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De Gruyter Uncertain Values: An Axiomatic Approach to Axiological Uncertainty
Book SynopsisHow ought you to evaluate your options if you're uncertain about what's fundamentally valuable? A prominent response is Expected Value Maximisation (EVM)—the view that under axiological uncertainty, an option is better than another if and only if it has the greater expected value across axiologies. But the expected value of an option depends on quantitative probability and value facts, and in particular on value comparisons across axiologies. We need to explain what it is for such facts to hold. Also, EVM is by no means self-evident. We need an argument to defend that it’s true. This book introduces an axiomatic approach to answer these worries. It provides an explication of what EVM means by use of representation theorems: intertheoretic comparisons can be understood in terms of facts about which options are better than which, and mutatis mutandis for intratheoretic comparisons and axiological probabilities. And it provides a systematic argument to the effect that EVM is true: the theory can be vindicated through simple axioms. The result is a formally cogent and philosophically compelling extension of standard decision theory, and original take on the problem of axiological or normative uncertainty.
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De Gruyter Talking About Thinking: Language, Thought, and
Book SynopsisOur ability to attribute mental states to others ("to mentalize") has been the subject of philosophical and psychological studies for a very long time, yet the role of language acquisition in the development of our mentalizing abilities has been largely understudied. This book addresses this gap in the philosophical literature. The book presents an account of how false belief reasoning is impacted by language acquisition, and it does so by placing it in the larger context of the issue, how language impacts cognition in general. The work provides the reader with detailed and critical literature reviews, and draws on them to argue that language acquisition helps false belief reasoning by boosting the ability to create schemata that facilitate processing of information in some social contexts. According to this framework, it is a combination of syntactic clues and cultural narratives that helps the child to solve the classic false belief task. The book provides a novel, original account of how language helps false belief reasoning, while also giving the reader a broad, precise and well-documented picture of the debate around some of the most fundamental issues in social cognition.
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De Gruyter Ontology of Divinity
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Springer International Publishing AG Philippa Foot on Goodness and Virtue
Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on controversial issues that stem from Philippa Foot’s later writings on natural goodness which are at the center of contemporary discussions of virtue ethics. The chapters address questions about how Foot relates judgments of moral goodness to human nature, how Foot understands happiness, and addresses objections to her framework from the perspective of empirical biology. The volume will be of value to any student or scholar with an interest in virtue ethics and analytic moral philosophy.Trade Review“It is no understatement to say that Hacker-Wright’s collection lifts up critical engagement with Foot’s naturalism to an entirely new level and therefore represents required reading for anyone who intends to work on it in the future.” (Sascha Settegast, Zeitschrift für Ethik und Moralphilosophie, Vol. 2, 2019)Table of Contents1 Introduction: From Natural Goodness to Morality John Hacker-Wright 2 The Grammar of Goodness in Foot’s Ethical Naturalism Rosalind Hursthouse 3 How to be an Ethical Naturalist Jennifer A. Frey 4 Practically Self-Conscious Life Matthias Haase 5 Traditional Naturalism Kristina Gehrman 6 “Why Should I?”: Can Foot Convince the Skeptic? Anselm W. Müller 7 The Deep and the Shallow Gavin Lawrence 8 Foot’s Grammar of Goodness Micah Lott 9 Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism and the Evolutionary Objection: Rethinking the Relevance of Empirical Science Parisa Moosavi
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Faultless Disagreement: A Defense of
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann The Big Typescript
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Was Ist Gewalt?: Philosophische Untersuchungen Zu
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Exploring Fictional Truth: Content,
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann The Modalities of Essence and Ground
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Peter Lang AG What Does It Look Like?: Wittgenstein’s
Book SynopsisThis book is the first part of a comprehensive study of Wittgenstein’s conception of language description. Describing language was no pastime occupation for the philosopher. It was hard work and it meant struggle. It made for a philosophy that required Wittgenstein’s full attention and half his life. His approach had always been working on himself, on how he saw things. The central claim of this book is that nothing will come of our exegetical efforts to see what Wittgenstein's later philosophy amounts to if his work on describing language is not given the place and concern it deserves. The book shows what his philosophy might begin to look like in the light of critical questions around his interest to see the end of the day with descriptions, and these things only.Table of ContentsNot a common way of looking – The problematic of philosophy is the problematic of the point – Wittgenstein’s Copernican revolution – A strange method – A big gap in Wittgenstein’s thinking
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Lit Verlag Man as Pet: Breeding and Optimization in
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Springer Der theoretische Krankheitsbegriff und die Krise
Book SynopsisDas biomedizinische Verständnis der modernen (Schul-)Medizin darf als Resultat einer seit über 160 Jahren andauernden Ver-Naturwissenschaftlichung der Medizin verstanden werden. Infolgedessen resümiert Petra Lenz eine „Krise der Medizin“, die sich im Vertrauensverlust der Menschen in das Medizinsystem zeigt. Es wird gezeigt, dass der theoretische Krankheitsbegriff als sinnspezifischer Faktenbegriff der Naturwissenschaften nicht als Hoffnungsträger für Medizin und Gesundheitspolitik infrage kommt, sondern erst durch ihn medizinethische und gesundheitspolitische Herausforderungen entstehen. Trade Review“... In einem Überblick von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart stellt Petra Lenz in ihrer Arbeit exemplarische Stationen dar ...” (Dominik Baltes, in: Zeitschrift für Medizinische Ethik, Jg. 66, Heft 3, 2020)Table of ContentsKulturelle und medizinhistorische Antwortversuche auf die Frage nach der Krankheit.- Die philosophische Diskussion um den Krankheitsbegriff.- Die Krise der Medizin als Folge der Orientierung an einem theoretischen Krankheitsbegriff.- Die Erklärungslücke am Beispiel der Migräne.- Der Krankheitsbegriff im Klammergriff der Rationalitäten.- Vorschlag zum Umgang mit gegenwärtigen Herausforderungen durch die Moderne Medizin.
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Brill Fink Wittgensteins Hegel
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Brill Mentis Analysis and Explication in 20th Century
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New Era Publications International APS Investigations
Book SynopsisMany people go through life in a rather hit-or-miss fashion, casting about for ideas to explain why their projects improve or decline, why they are successful or why they are not. Guessing and "hunches," however, are not very reliable. And without the knowledge of how to actually investigate situations, good or bad, and get the true facts, a person is set adrift in a sea of unevaluated data. Accurate investigation is, in fact, a rare commodity. Man's tendency in matters he doesn't understand is to accept the first proffered explanation, no matter how faulty. Thus investigatory technology had not actually been practiced or refined. However, L. Ron Hubbard made a breakthrough in the subject of logic and reasoning which led to his development of the first truly effective way to search for and consistently find the actual causes for things. Knowing how to investigate gives one the power to navigate through the random facts and opinions and emerge with the real reasons behind success or failure in any aspect of life. By really finding out why things are the way they are, one is therefore able to remedy and improve a situation-any situation. This is an invaluable technology for people in all walks of life.
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