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Oxford University Press The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation
Book SynopsisOne of the earliest and best-known of Bentham's works, the Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation sets out a profound and innovative philosophical argument. This definitive edition includes both the late H. L. A. Hart's classic essay on the work and a new introduction by F. Rosen.Trade ReviewDr Schofield's editorial work is exemplary, and greatly assists the reader. The editor's labours and scholarship are much to our profit. These writings add significantly to our knowledge of Bentham ... the paperback reissue of the definitive text of the Collected Works edition is very welcome. * Peter Nicholson, University of York, Political Studies, Vol. 45, No. 1, March '97 *
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Clarendon Press Willing and Nothingness Schopenhauer as Nietzsches Educator
Book SynopsisThis text illuminates Nietzsche's philosophy by examining his relationship with Schopenhauer. The eight essays examine Nietzsche's changing conceptions in response to the work of the thinker he called his "great teacher". Also provided is a critical piece Nietzsche wrote about Schopenhauer in 1868.Trade Review...this book teaches us that there is still much more to discover about Nietzsche...and provides new perspectives on his work. * Ruth Abbey, New Nietzsche Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Schopenhauer as Nietzsche's Educator ; 2. On Knowledge, Truth, and Value: Nietzsche's Debt to Schopenhauer and the Development of his Empiricism ; 3. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche on the Redemption of Life through Art ; 4. Nietzsche's Use and Abuse of Schopenhauer's Moral Philosophy for Life ; 5. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Temperament and Temporality ; 6. Schopenhauer and Nietzsche: Honest Atheism, Dishonest Pessimism ; 7. Self and Morality in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche ; 8. The Paradox of Fatalism and Self-Creation in Nietzsche ; Appendix 1: Friedrich Nietzsche 'On Schopenhauer' ; Appendix 2: Nietzsche's References to Schopenhauer ; Notes on the Contributors ; Bibliography ; Index
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Clarendon Press The Philosophy of Schopenhauer
Book SynopsisA revised and enlarged version of Bryan Magee's study of Schopenhauer. It contains a brief biography of Schopenhauer, a systematic exposition of his thought, and a critical discussion of the problems to which it gives rise and of its influence on a wide range of thinkers and artists.Trade ReviewFrom the reviews of the first edition:"This is a book of many virtues and few vices ... The book reads well. It deserves to be well read ... surpass[es] all current English-language treatments of Schopenhauer" Schopenhauer-Jahrbuchambitious ... highly readable ... Magee moves with confidence and ability among the connecting structures of philosophy, the history of ideas, the arts, and human psychology. * Philosophical Quarterly *Maggee's study should, however, not merely be reviewed but also read; for it is thorough, lucid and wide-ranging ... a substantial work." Times Higher Education SupplementBryan Magee's book is ... to be welcomed as the most illuminating and admirable study of Schopenhauer's philosophy yet to appear in English * Wagner *He sets about the task of explaining Schopenhauer's ideas with a commitment and enthusiasm all too rare in philosophical writing, and succeeds admirably in communicating his excitement to the reader. * Philosophy and Psychology *This is a wide-ranging book and Mr Magee's enthusiasm makes it stimulating. * The Economist *Table of ContentsPART I: ; PART II:
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Clarendon Press Kants Theory of Imagination Bridging Gaps in Judgement and Experience Oxford Philosophical Monographs
Book SynopsisSarah Gibbons here departs from previous scholarship on Kant by demonstrating the centrality of imagination to Kant's philosophy as a whole. She shows that imagination performs a vital function in `bridging gaps' between the different elements of cognition and experience. Thus, the role imagination plays in Kant's works expresses his fundamental insight into the complexity of human cognition.Trade ReviewThis work goes well beyond many books on the Critique of Judgement in the breadth and importance of the issues it raises. * Paul Guyer, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism *Her work is ... a further addition to the growing body of "psychological Kant interpretation". * International Philosophical Quarterly *Gibbons's strength is her ability to explore and synthesize a wide range of material, both in terms of content and works, in order to elaborate a more complete picture of imagination than is available in any single work ... Gibbons's book is a welcome addition to the literature on Kant. * The Review of Metaphysics *She does not attempt to provide a definitive account of imagination, she instead invites the reader to accompany her on 'an open-ended journey' devoted to exploring the ways that imagination plays a crucial role in Kant's thinking. ... a tantalizing book, one that contains a considerable number of insights. * British Journal of the History of Philosophy *
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Oxford University Press, USA Logical Papers A Selection
Book SynopsisA selection translated and edited with an introduction by G.H.R. Parkinson.
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Oxford University Press Past Present and Future
Book SynopsisSurveys and extens work that has been done in the past two years on 'tense logic' and is a sequel to the author's book, Time and Modality.Trade Review...Prior's work definitely deserves to reach a wider audience than the one it currently has, and one only hopes that the recent reprint of PPF will help in this respect. * Fabrice Correia Humana.Mente *
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Oxford University Press Hegels Development Towards the Sunlight
Book SynopsisShows how Hegel gradually discovers philosophy and the necessiy of personal commitment as a philosopher.
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Oxford University Press Treatise of Human Nature
Book SynopsisDavid Hume''s Treatise of Human Nature, composed before the author was twenty-eight years old, was published in 1739 and 1740. In revising the late L.A. Selby-Bigge''s edition of Hume''s Treatise Professor Nidditch corrected verbal errors and took account of Hume''s manuscript amendments. He also supplied the text of the Abstract of the Treatise following the original 1740 edition and provided an apparatus of variant readings.Trade ReviewThese Oxford University Press editions have been meticulously collated from various exatant versions. Each text has an excellent introduction including an overview of Hume's thought and an account of his life and times. Even the difficult, and rarely commented-on, chapters on space and time are elucidated. There are also useful notes on the text and glossary. These scholarly new editions are ideally adapted for a whole range of readers, from beginners to experts. * Jane O'Grady, Catholic Herald *More up-to-date both on general and on political philosophy than anything else I know ... be careful to buy an edition such as the Oxford one which contains at the end the Abstract, which is Hume's own summary and simplification of his main ideas. * Spectator *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION BOOK I: OF THE UNDERSTANDING; BOOK I: OF THE UNDERSTANDING; BOOK II: OF THE PASSIONS; BOOK III: OF MORALS; APPENDIX; ABSTRACT OF TREATISE; TEXTUAL NOTES; INDEX
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Oxford University Press HEGELS DEVELOPMENT C Night Thoughts Jena 18011806
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Oxford University Press, USA An Autobiography
Book SynopsisAn Autobiography
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Oxford University Press Learning from Six Philosophers Volume 2
Book SynopsisJonathan Bennett engages with the thought of six great thinkers of the early modern period: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume. His chief focus is on the words they wrote. What problem is being tackled? How exactly is the solution meant to work? Does it succeed? If not, why not? What can be learned from its success or failure?Trade ReviewIts discussion of the various modern philosophers is fairly compact and orderly ... a clear and engaging discussion of central issues in early modern metaphysics and epistemology * Mind *Very interesting and profitable to read * Michael Ayers, Times Literary Supplement *A noteworthy feature of the book is the continuously powerful presence of an authorial self ... This book will be widely read and discussed both for its virtues and, I trust, like the works it discusses, for its faults * Michael Ayers, Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsVOLUME 1 ; VOLUME 2
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Oxford University Press From Kant to Hilbert Volume 1
Book SynopsisImmanuel Kant''s Critique of Pure Reason is widely taken to be the starting point of the modern period of mathematics while David Hilbert was the last great mainstream mathematician to pursue important nineteenth cnetury ideas. This two-volume work provides an overview of this important era of mathematical research through a carefully chosen selection of articles. They provide an insight into the foundations of each of the main branches of mathematics--algebra, geometry, number theory, analysis, logic and set theory--with narratives to show how they are linked. Classic works by Bolzano, Riemann, Hamilton, Dedekind, and Poincare are reproduced in reliable translations and many selections from writers such as Gauss, Cantor, Kronecker and Zermelo are here translated for the first time. The collection is an invaluable source for anyone wishing to gain an understanding of the foundation of modern mathematics.Table of Contents1. George Berkeley (1965-1753) ; 2. Colin MacLaurin (1698-1746) ; 3. Jen LeRond D'Alembert (1717-1783) ; 4. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) ; 5. Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728-1777) ; 6. Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848) ; 7. Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) ; 8. Duncan Gregroy (1813-1844) ; 9. Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871) ; 10. William Rowan Hamilton (1805-1865) ; 11. George Boole (1815-1864) ; 12. James Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897) ; 13. William Kingdon Clifford (1845-1879) ; 14. Arthur Cayley (1821-1895) ; 15. Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914)
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Oxford University Press Spinoza on Philosophy Religion and Politics
Book SynopsisSpinoza''s Theologico-Political Treatise is simultaneously a work of philosophy and a piece of practical politics. It defends religious pluralism, a republican form of political organisation, and the freedom to philosophise, with a determination that is extremely rare in seventeenth-century thought. But it is also a fierce and polemical intervention in a series of Dutch disputes over issues about which Spinoza and his opponents cared very deeply. Susan James makes the arguments of the Treatise accessible, and their motivations plain, by setting them in their historical and philosophical context. She identifies the interlocking theological, hermeneutic, historical, philosophical, and political positions to which Spinoza was responding, shows who he aimed to discredit, and reveals what he intended to achieve. The immediate goal of the Treatise is, she establishes, a local one. Spinoza is trying to persuade his fellow citizens that it is vital to uphold and foster conditions in which theyTrade ReviewSusan James's book on Spinozaâs Theological-Political Treatise is a magnificent work of historical and contextually focused philosophical scholarship. Anyone interested in Spinoza, the Dutch Republic, or early modern philosophy would profit by reading it. James richly situates Spinozaâs Treatise in its proper context and thereby illuminates Spinozaâs thought in a profound way. The Spinoza that emerges here is not the abstract metaphysician of the Ethics, but a savvy political thinker addressing the particulars of his time and place. In all, this book should fundamentally alter the way we think of this great text and, more broadly, the issues it addresses. * Journal of the History of Philosophy *Though countless scholars have written about the Theologico-Political Treatise, none have covered it so clearly and comprehensively. This is a valuable book on an important text. It is that rare thing: an impressive work of research and philosophical thinking which can also function as a guide for students and a resource for scholars. It should be the first book consulted by anyone who seeks to understand what Spinoza is arguing for, and why he argues for it, in his most puzzling text. * Beth Lord, The Philosophical Quarterly *a magnificent work of historical and contextually focused philosophical scholarship. * Eugene Marshall, Journal of the History of Philosophy *Table of ContentsPART I. REVELATION; PART 2. DEMYSTIFYING THE BIBLE; PART 3. MEETING THE DEMANDS OF A RELIGIOUS LIFE; PART 4. THE POLITICS OF TRUE RELIGION
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Oxford University Press The Early Modern Subject
Book SynopsisThe Early Modern Subject explores the understanding of self-consciousness and personal identity--two fundamental features of human subjectivity--as it developed in early modern philosophy. Udo Thiel presents a critical evaluation of these features as they were conceived in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He explains the arguments of thinkers such as Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, Wolff, and Hume, as well as their early critics, followers, and other philosophical contemporaries, and situates them within their historical contexts. Interest in the issues of self-consciousness and personal identity is in many ways characteristic and even central to early modern thought, but Thiel argues here that this is an interest that continues to this day, in a form still strongly influenced by the conceptual frameworks of early modern thought. In this book he attempts to broaden the scope of the treatment of these issues considerably, covering more than a hundred years of philosophical debate inTrade ReviewThiels book is a tremendously rich source on early modern debates regarding consciousness and personal identity. This book is the first pick for everyone who wants to gain insight into the abundance of early modern discussions of these topics. * Christian Barth, Philosophy in Review *Thiel's Early Modern Subject is essential reading for any scholar interested in self-consciousness and personal identity. The book is of interest to ancient and medieval specialists and contemporary philosophers will find the work of use as well given that the early modern framework dominates current discussion of these issues. A welcome feature is the extensive discussion of not only the canonical figures of the period ... but alos less prominent figures of the period. ... This expansive approach captures a real sense of liveliness in the early modern debate. * Angela M. Coventry, Mind *Table of ContentsPART I: THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BACKGROUND; PART II: LOCKE'S SUBJECTIVIST REVOLUTION; PART III: PROBLEMS WITH LOCKE. CRITIQUE AND DEFENCE; PART IV: SUBJECTIVITY AND IMMATERIALIST METAPHYSICS OF THE MIND; PART V: SUSBSTANCE, APPERCEPTION AND IDENTITY: LEIBNIZ, WOLFF, AND BEYOND; PART VI: BUNDLES AND SELVES: HUME IN CONTEXT
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Oxford University Press British Idealism
Book SynopsisW. J. Mander presents the first ever synoptic history of British Idealism, the philosophical school which dominated English-language philosophy from the 1860s through to the early years of the following century. Offering detailed examination of the origins, growth, development, and decline of this mode of thinking, British Idealism: A History restores to its proper place this now almost wholly forgotten period of philosophical history. Through clear explanation of its characteristic concepts and doctrines, and paying close attention to the published works of its philosophers, the volume provides a full-length history of this vital school for those wishing to fill a gap in their knowledge of the history of British Philosophy, while its detailed notes and bibliography will guide the more dedicated scholar who wishes to examine further their distinctive brand of philosophy. By covering all major philosophers involved in the movement (not merely the most famous ones like Bradley, Green, McTrade Reviewthe first really comprehensive and systematic overview of the British Idealist movement to date . . . an authoritative and immensely detailed synopsis of the movement as a whole, including, for any potential research students, a splendid biographical resource . . . a welcome and extremely well-done history . . . it provides a valuable and detailed corrective to the way British philosophy has constructed its own historical self-image in the later twentieth century. * Andrew Vincent, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 26/03/12 *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Beginnings and Influences ; 3. The History of Philosophy ; 4. The Metaphysics of the Absolute ; 5. Idealist Philosophy of Religion ; 6. The Idealist Ethic of Social Self-Realisation ; 7. Idealist Political and Social Philosophy ; 8. Idealist Logic ; 9. Aesthetics and Literature ; 10. Developments in Idealist Metaphysics ; 11. Developments in Idealist Philosophy of Religion ; 12. Developments in Idealist Logic ; 13. Developments in Idealist Ethics ; 14. Developments in Idealist Political and Social Philosophy ; 15. The After-Life of Idealism ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Hegels Critique of Kant
Book SynopsisSally Sedgwick presents a fresh account of Hegel''s critique of Kant''s theoretical philosophy. She argues that Hegel offers a compelling critique of and alternative to the conception of cognition that Kant defended in his ''Critical'' period. The book examines key features of what Kant identifies as the ''discursive'' character of our mode of cognition, and considers Hegel''s reasons for arguing that these features condemn Kant''s theoretical philosophy to scepticism as well as dualism. Sedgwick goes on to present in a sympathetic light Hegel''s claim to derive from certain Kantian doctrines clues to a superior form of idealism, a form of idealism that better captures the nature of our cognitive powers and their relation to objects.Trade ReviewHegel's Critique of Kant is a well-written attempt to make a plausible case for Hegel's reasons for diverging from Kant, and it is mandatory reading for anybody interested in the complex, multifaceted relation between Hegel and Kant. * Dennis Schulting, Kant-Studien *her careful development of the Hegelian criticism of Kant's theoretical philosophy makes available wholly new and helpful ways of seeing the relation between these philosophers ... penetrating, patient, and generous book. * Sebastian Rand, Critique *The volume is clearly written, impressively argued, and transparently structured. * Journal of the History of Philosophy *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Intuitive versus Discursive Forms of Understanding in Kant's Critical Philosophy: Introduction ; 2. Organic Unity as the 'True Unity' of the Intuitive Intellect ; 3. Hegel on the 'Subjectivity' of Kant's Idealism ; 4. Hegel on the Transcendental Deduction of the First Critique ; 5. Subjectivity as Part of an Original Identity ; 6. The Question-Begging Nature of Kantian Critique: Kant on the Arguments of the Antinomies ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Kierkegaard
Book SynopsisA clear introduction to the major works of Kierkegaard that highlights the Lutheran framework of Kierkegaard's thought, and combines exposition of the philosophical, theological, and historical context of his works with an engaging critical dialogue that brings Kierkegaard into debate with twenty-first-century thought.Trade ReviewWith her very engaging style, and commitment to honest and= open dialogue with subject and reader alike, Hampson is never dull. * John Saxbee, Church Times *Placed in his Lutheran context (instead of air-lifted up into 'philosophy') the Dane is beguiling once more. * Oxford Today *This book is not only a fitting tribute to Kierkegaard and an absorbing and stimulating introduction to his work, but, in its breadth on learning and wisdom, reflects the spirit of the man himself. * Susan Halstead, Curator of Czech, Slovak, and Lusatian Studies at the British Library *Readers searching for a general introduction to some of the Lutheran aspects of Kierkegaard's most celebrated writings will find a welcome companion with Daphne Hampson. * Church of England Newspaper *Functioning on different levels, this book will have a broad appeal to many different kinds of reader. Hampson wonderfully orchestrates a critical dialogue with Kierkegaard in a way that provides ample demonstration of the importance of his thought today. This highly readable work represents a valuable contribution to Kierkegaard studies. * Jon Stewart, Associate Research Professor, Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre, Copenhagen *A marvel of scholarship. Hampson is one of the few interpreters of Kierkegaard able to take account of both the philosophical and theological backdrop of Kierkegaards thought. Clear, comprehensive, and elegantly written, one of the book's most important merits is the success Hampson enjoys in locating Kierkegaard within his own Lutheran tradition. * Gordon Marino, Professor of philosophy; Director, Hong Kierkegaard Library, St Olaf's College *A delightful powerful new book on Kierkegaard. Acknowledging his radical conservatism, insisting against Kierkegaard on the need for collective responses to social injustice, Hampson nonetheless writes in a spirit of critical friendship. Combining a forthright accessible style with real scholarship and familiarity with Kierkegaard's personal, intellectual and spiritual struggles, she brings him vividly to life for our time. * David Wood, Professor of philosophy, Vanderbilt University *Setting Kierkegaard in his intellectual context, this book guides readers through the key texts, identifying and debating the questions they provoke. Hampson has inspired many students to engage with this most demanding of writers. Her book will both attract new readers and serve as a stimulating refresher to those familiar with Kierkegaard's writings. * George Pattison, Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, Oxford University *Hampson writes accessibly when situating and contrasting Kierkgaard amid the flux of the history of ideas. * Joshua Furnal, Church of England Newspaper *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Why Read Kierkegaard? ; 1. Kierkegaard's Intellectual Context ; 2. Fear and Trembling ; 3. Philosophical Fragments ; 4. The Concept Angst ; 5. Love's Deeds ; 6. Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments ; 7. The Sickness unto Death ; 8. Practice in Christianity ; 9. The Point of View for Kierkegaard's Work as an Author
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OUP Oxford The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics
Book SynopsisPhilosophical ethics consists in the human endeavour to answer rationally the fundamental question of how we should live. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics explores the history of philosophical ethics in the western tradition from Homer until the present day. It provides a broad overview of the views of many of the main thinkers, schools, and periods, and includes in addition essays on topics such as autonomy and impartiality. The authors are international leaders in their field, and use their expertise and specialist knowledge to illuminate the relevance of their work to discussions in contemporary ethics. The essays are specially written for this volume, and in each case introduce the reader to the main lines of interpretation and criticism that have arisen in the professional history of philosophy over the past two or three decades.Trade ReviewEssential * W. Simkulet, Choice *Table of ContentsPreface ; List of Contributors ; 1. Homeric Ethics ; 2. Plato's Ethics ; 3. Aristotle's Ethics ; 4. Epicurus: Freedom, Death, and Hedonism ; 5. Cynicism and Stoicism ; 6. Ancient Scepticism ; 7. Platonic Ethics in Later Antiquity ; 8. Thomism ; 9. The Franciscans ; 10. Later Christian Ethics ; 11. Nature, Law, and Natural Law ; 12. Seventeenth Century Moral Philosophy: Self-Help, Self-Knowledge, and the Devil's Mountain ; 13. Rousseau and Ethics ; 14. Utilitarianism: Bentham and Rashdall ; 15. Rationalism ; 16. Rational Intuitionism ; 17. Moral Sense and Sentimentalism ; 18. Butler's Ethics ; 19. Hume's Place in the History of Ethics ; 20. Adam Smith ; 21. Kant's Moral Philosophy ; 22. Kantian Ethics ; 23. Post-Kantianism ; 24. Hegel and Marx ; 25. J. S. Mill ; 26. Sidgwick ; 27. British Idealist Ethics ; 28. Ethics in the Analytic Tradition ; 29. Free Will ; 30. Emotion and the Emotions ; 31. Happiness, Suffering, and Death ; 32. Autonomy ; 33. Egoism, Partiality, and Impartiality ; 34. Conscience, Guilt, and Shame ; 35. Moral Psychology and Virtue ; 36. Justice, Equality, and Rights ; 37. Styles of Moral Relativism: A Critical Family Tree ; 38. Moral Metaphysics ; 39. Constructing Practical Ethics ; Index
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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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Clarendon Press Hegel
Book SynopsisThe present reissue of Wallace''s translation of Hegel''s Philosophy of Mind includes the Zusatze or lecture-notes which, in the collected works, accompany the first section entitled Subjective Mind and which Wallace omitted from his translation. Professor J. N. Findlay has written a Foreword and this replaces Wallace''s introductory essays.
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Oxford University Press, USA Problems from Locke
Book SynopsisJ. L. Mackie selects for critical discussion six related topics which are prominent in John Locke''s Essay Concerning Human Understanding: the distinction between primary and secondary qualities; representative theories of perception; substance, real essence, and nominal essence; abstract ideas, universals, and the meaning of general terms; identity, especially personal identity; and the conflict between empiricism and the doctrine of innate ideas. He examines Locke''s arguments carefully, but his chief interest is in the problems themselves, which are important for our attempt to decide what sort of world we live in and how we can defend our claim to know about it.The book shows that on most of these topics, views close to Locke''s are more defensible than has commonly been supposed, but that there is nonetheless a tension in Locke''s thought between extreme empiricism and common-sense or scientific realism. Whereas Locke''s immediate successors, Berkeley and Hume, and many later thin
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Oxford University Press Analysis and Metaphysics
Book SynopsisAll developed human beings possess a practical mastery of a vast range of concepts, including such basic structural notions as those of identity, truth, existence, material objects, mental states, space, and time; but a practical mastery does not entail theoretical understanding. It is that understanding which philosophy seeks to achieve. In this book one of the most distinguished of living philosophers, assuming no previous knowledge of the subject on the part of the reader, sets out to explain and illustrate a certain conception of the nature of analytical philosophy.Professor Strawson draws on his many years of teaching at Oxford University, during which he refined and developed what he regards as the most productive route to understanding the fundamental structure of human thinking. Among the distinctive features of his exposition are the displacement of an older, reductive conception of philosophical method (the ideal of ''analysing'' complex ideas into simpler elements) in favourTrade Review'The book provides a valuable account of contemporary analytic philosophy and consequently would be useful to upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty members who are unfamiliar with the analytic tradition in philosophy.' M.A. Michael, University of Nevada, Choice, Jan '93'The discussion throughout the book - presented in Strawson's characteristically clear, careful and dry style - is subtle and at times intricate ... the book should be of interest for the initiated philosopher ... Strawson's introduction provides a sustained and interesting defense of an approach to philosophizing which is still very much alive.' Dorit Bar-on, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Philosophia, Vol. 23, No. 1-4 , July 1994Table of ContentsAnalytical philosophy - two analogies; reduction or connection? - basic concepts; Moore and Quine; logic, epistemology, ontology; sensible experience and material objects; classical empiricism - the inner and the outer - action and society; truth and knowledge; meaning and understanding - structural semantics; causation and explanation; freedom and necessity.
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Oxford University Press Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Book SynopsisTwo hundred years after his death, Kant remains one of the most important modern philosophers. The Prolegomena is the ideal introduction to Kant''s unique account of the nature human knowledge, according to which we actively shape the world as we know it. This new edition of Kant''s own summary of his philosophy is designed specially for students. Guenter Zoeller assumes no prior knowledge of the Prolegomena and provides an extensive and comprehensive introduction which explores Kant''s life, the origin and reception of the Prolegomena, the organization of the work, its principal arguments, and its philosophical significance. This edition also includes detailed notes to aid student understanding, as well as a chronology, a glossary and an annotated bibliography.Table of ContentsPART 1: INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL; PART 2: PROLEGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE METAPHYSICS; PART 3: SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS; PART 4: REFERENCE MATERIAL
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Oxford University Press Immanuel Kant
Book SynopsisIn this classic text, Kant sets out to articulate and defend the Categorical Imperative - the fundamental principle that underlies moral reasoning - and to lay the foundation for a comprehensive account of justice and human virtues. This new edition and translation of Kant''s work is designed especially for students. An extensive and comprehensive introduction explains the central concepts of Groundwork and looks at Kant''s main lines of argument. Detailed notes aim to clarify Kant''s thoughts and to correct some common misunderstandings of his doctrines.Table of ContentsPART 1: INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL ; PART 2: THE TEXT
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Oxford University Press An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding
Book SynopsisOxford Philosophical Texts Series Editor: John Cottingham The Oxford Philosophical Texts series consists of authoritative teaching editions of canonical texts in the history of philosophy from the ancient world down to modern times. Each volume provides a clear, well laid out text together with a comprehensive introduction by a leading specialist, giving the student detailed critical guidance on the intellectual context of the work and the structure and philosophical importance of the main arguments. Endnotes are supplied which provide further commentary on the arguments and explain unfamiliar references and terminology, and a full bibliography and index are also included. The series aims to build up a definitive corpus of key texts in the Western philosophical tradition, which will form a reliable and enduring resource for students and teachers alike. David Hume''s aim in writing An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding (1748) was to introduce his philosophy to a European culture in Trade ReviewTom Beauchamp has produced two excellent editions, which will remain the standard editions of both Enquiries for years to come. An enormous amount of research has gone into this edition. . . Tom Beauchamp [has given] thirty years of devotion to the writings of Hume brought to . . . a splendid conclusion, . . . Beauchamp has attended to "the extreme Accuracy of Style" that Hume demanded and has produced reliable texts of the two enquires, edited to the highest standards. * O. M. Brack, Eighteenth-Century Scotland *Table of ContentsPART 1: INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL ; PART 2: THE TEXT ; PART 3: SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL
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Oxford University Press, USA Normativity and Norms Critical Perspectives on Kelsenian Themes
Book SynopsisHans Kelsen's legal philosophy and legal theory is regarded by many in the field as the most influential theory in this century. This volume makes available some of the best work extant on Kelsens' theory, including papers newly translated into English.Trade Reviewa collection of essays thoroughly edited by Stanley Paulson and Bonnie Litschewski Paulson ... Within this review, it is impossible to give a complete overview of this rich discussion and to relate it to other Kelsenian debates. Fortunately, this is done by Stanley Paulson's instructive introduction ... well chosen collection. * Nils Jansen, Cambridge Law Journal, 1999 *Centring on the themes closely tied to the most influential legal philosophy and legal theory of the century, this book comprises articles by the best writers in the field, selected and edited by the Paulsons. What is more, the leading authority on Kelson's theory, Stanley Paulson, has contributed a rich and suggestive introduction to the volume. * Robert Alexy, University of Kiel *This book, on Kelsen and beyond, underscores the role of the normativity of the law in the work of the greatest legal philosopher of our century. * Paolo Comanducci, University of Genoa *Normativity and Norms is a singlularly distinguished painstakingly edited collection that represents an estimable contribution to international research on Kelson's work. * Ralf Dreier, University of Gottingen *Once again we are indebted to the Paulsons for the light shed by their masterly scholarship and by their encouragment of other scholars upon the work of a thinker of unique significance in twentieth-century social and practical philosophy. * John Finnis, University College, Oxford University *Stanley and Bonnie Paulson have brought together an invaluable set of papers that offers not only deep insight into the thinking of one of our preeminent legal philosophers, but also a fresh appreciation of the incomparable impact Kelson's work has had on this century's debates on legal philosophy. Many of these texts are original contributions or have been translated into English for the first time. * Lukas H. Meyer, University of Bremen *This is the most insightful selection of writings about Hans Kelsen's important theory, edited by the best expert on the subject. All serious students of the Pure Theory of Law will simply have to read it. * Aleksander Peczenik, University of Lund *This remarkable volume brings together some of the most important work on legal positivism written in this century, including newer essays by eminent scholars in the field. And in an introductory essay, Stanley L. Paulson provides an illuminating account of the major strengths and attendant shortcomings of Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law. In short, the volume is indispensable reading for anyone interested not just in the theory of legal positivism but in legal theory generally. * Alexander Somek, University of Vienna *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ; Introduction ; PART I. INTELLECTUAL DEBTS ; 1. Foreword to the Second Printing of Main Problems in the Theory of Public Law (1923) ; 2. Kelsen's Earliest Legal Theory: Critical Constructivism ; PART II. NORMATIVITY AND THE SCOPE OF KELSEN'S THEORY ; 3. Kelsen Visited ; 4. Kelsen's Theory of the Basic Norm ; 5. The Basic Norm of a Society ; 6. The Law as Pure 'Sollen' sui generis ; 7. The Reception of Norms and Open Legal Systems ; PART III. THE NORMATIVITY PROBLEMATIC: KANTIAN ARGUMENTS VERSUS KELSEN WITHOUT KANT ; [PART III] A. A KANTIAN OR NEO-KANTIAN DIMENSION IN THE PURE THEORY OF LAW? ; 8. Pure Theory of Law, 'Labandism', and Neo-Kantianism. A Letter to Renato Treves ; 9. A Neo-Kantian Theory of Legal Knowledge in Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law ; 10. The Hypothesis of the Basic Norm: Hans Kelsen and Hermann Cohen ; 11. On the Transcendental Import of Kelsen's Basic Norm ; [PART III] B. KELSEN WITHOUT KANT ; 12. Some Confusions Surrounding Kelsen's Concept of Legal Validity ; 13. Two Models of Legal Validity: Hans Kelsen and Francisco Suarez ; 14. The Purity of the Pure Theory ; 15. Methodological Syncretism in Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law ; PART IV. TOWARD A THEORY OF LEGAL NORMS ; [PART IV] A. RAMIFICATIONS OF KELSEN'S POST-1960 SHIFT ; 16. An Antinomy in Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law ; 17. Normativism or the Normative Theory of Legal Science: Some Epistemological Problems ; 18. Norm Conflicts: Kelsen's View in the Late Period and a Rejoinder ; [PART IV] B. ON THE EXPRESSIVE CONCEPTION OF NORMS ; 19. Is and Ought ; 20. The Expressive Conception of Norms ; 21. The Expressive Conception of Norms: An Impasse for the Logic of Norms ; PART V. POWERS, LEGAL POWERS, AND EMPOWERING NORMS ; 22. Kelsen and Legal Power ; 23. Reflections on Science, Law, and Power ; 24. Voluntary Obligations and Normative Powers ; 25. Legal Powers ; 26. Powers and Power-Conferring Norms ; PART VI. ON THE THEORY OF PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW ; 27. Monism and Dualism in the Theory of International Law, (1938) ; 28. Sovereignty, (1962) ; 29. Kelsen's Doctrine of the Unity of Law ; List of Contributors ; Index of Subjects ; Index of Names
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Oxford University Press From Moral Theology to Moral Philosophy Cicero and Visions of Humanity from Locke to Hume
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Oxford University Press, USA John Calvins Ideas
Book SynopsisThis is a major study of the theological thought of John Calvin, which examines his central theological ideas through a philosophical lens, looking at issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Ethics. The study, the first of its kind, is concerned with how Calvin actually uses philosophical ideas in his work as a theologian and biblical commentator. The book also includes a careful examination of those ideas of Calvin to which the Reformed Epistemologists appeal, to find grounds and precedent for their development of `Reformed Epistemology'', notably the sensus divinitatis and the internal testimony of the Holy Spirit.Trade ReviewThe book offers both a creative contribution to Calvin studies, and a wonderfully spirited engagement with contemporary philosophy of religion in the analytic tradition. * Ben Myers, Faith and Theology *Helm's book is unique. As far as I know there is nothing like it. For that reason alone, anyone interested in the thought of John Calvin must include it in his library. * Reformation21 - The Online Magazine of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals *An immensely helpful book ... Helm's book is unique. As far as I know there is nothing like it. For that reason alone, anyone interested in the thought of John Calvin must include it in his library ... No one who reads it will have read anything quite like it before. * Scott Oliphint, Westminster Theological Journal *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. God 'in Se' and 'quoad nos' ; 2. The Trinity ; 3. The Extra ; 4. Providence and Evil ; 5. The Soul ; 6. Free Will ; 7. Divine Accommodation ; 8. Natural Theology and the Sensus Divinitatis ; 9. Revelation ; 10. The Angels ; 11. The Power Dialectic ; 12. Equity, Natural Law, and Common Grace ; 13. Faith, Atonement, and Time
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Oxford University Press, USA David Hume
Book SynopsisRussell Hardin presents a new explication of David Hume''s moral and political theory. With Hume, he holds that our normative views can be scientifically explained but they cannot be justified as true. Hume argued for the psychological basis of such views. In particular, he argued for sympathy as the mirroring of the psychological sensations and emotions of others. By placing Hume in the developing tradition of social science, as a strong forerunner of his younger friend Adam Smith, Hardin demonstrates Hume''s strong strategic sense, his nascent utilitarianism, his powerful theory of convention as a main source of social and political order, and his recognition of moral and political theory as a single enterprise.Trade ReviewWorthy of hearty recommendation. * Lee Hardy, The Review of Metaphysics *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1. Hume's Place in History ; 2. Moral Psychology ; 3. Strategic Analysis ; 4. Convention ; 5. Political Theory ; 6. Justice As Order ; 7. Utilitarianism ; 8. Value Theory ; 9. Retrospective ; References ; Endnotes
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Oxford University Press Writings on the Poor Laws
Book SynopsisIn the essays presented in this volume, Bentham lays down the theoretical principles from which he develops his proposals for reform of the English poor laws in response to the perceived crisis in poor relief in the mid-1790s. These ideas were to be a significant influence on the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834.Trade ReviewTo finally have access to these original writings in as close a form as possible to their author's original intent will be of great service to all scholars working on the history of ideas about social welfare. English Historical ReviewTable of ContentsEditorial Introduction; Table of Cases Calling for Relief; Essays on the Subject of the Poor Laws; Pauper Systems Compared; Observations on the Poor Bill; Appendices; Index of Subjects; Index of Names
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Oxford University Press Papers on Time and Tense
Book SynopsisThis is a new edition, revised and expanded, of a seminal work in the logic and philosophy of time, originally published in 1968. Arthur N. Prior (1914-1969) was the founding father of temporal logic. His work has attracted increased attention in the decades since his death: its influence stretches beyond philosophy and logic to computer science and formal linguistics. Prior''s fundamental ideas about the logic of time are presented here along with his investigations into the formal properties of time and tense. Already in 1969 Prior had been planning a new edition of Papers on Time and Tense, to incorporate his more recent work. Because of his untimely death this plan was never followed through--till now. Seven important papers have been added to the original selection, as well as a comprehensive bibliography of his work and an illuminating interview with his widow, Mary Prior, about his life and work. In addition, the Polish logic which made the original book difficult for many readeTrade Review[An] excellent collection. Every paper is densely argued and challenging * Philosophy Journal, Vol. 82 *Table of Contents1. LIFE AND WORK OF ARTHUR N. PRIOR: 'AN INTERVIEW WITH MARY PRIOR'
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Clarendon Press Leviathan After 350 Years Mind Association Occasional Series
Book SynopsisA volume of essays that reconsider the significance of Thomas Hobbes's masterpiece after three and a half centuries. They develop themes on Leviathan such as: the place of the last of Hobbes's treatises in the scheme of Hobbes's political writings; and the connections between biblical and political authorities.Table of ContentsPART ONE: LEVIATHAN AMONG HOBBES'S POLITICAL WRITINGS ; PART TWO: PASSION AND POLITICS ; PART THREE: BIBLICAL AND POLITICAL AUTHORITY
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Clarendon Press David Hume An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding
Book Synopsisabout Hume: David Hume (1711-1776) is one of the greatest of philosophers. Today he probably ranks highest of all British philosophers in terms of influence and philosophical standing. His philosophical work ranges across morals, the mind, metaphysics, epistemology, and aesthetics; he had broad interests not only in philosophy as it is now conceived but in history, politics, economics, religion, and the arts. He was a master of English prose. about the Clarendon Hume Edition: The Clarendon Hume will include all of his works except his History of England and minor historical writings; it will be the only thorough critical edition, and will provide a far more extensive scholarly treatment than any previous editions. This edition (which has been in preparation since the 1970s) offers authoritative annotation, bibliographical information, and indexes, and draws upon the major advances in textual scholarship that have been made since the publication of earlier editions--advances both in theTrade ReviewTom Beauchamp has produced two excellent editions, which will remain the standard editions of both Enquiries for years to come. An enormous amount of research has gone into this edition. . . Tom Beauchamp [has given] thirty years of devotion to the writings of Hume brought to . . . a splendid conclusion, . . . Beauchamp has attended to "the extreme Accuracy of Style" that Hume demanded and has produced reliable texts of the two enquires, edited to the highest standards. * O. M. Brack, Eighteenth-Century Scotland *Table of ContentsIntroduction: A History of the Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING ; Editor's Annotations ; Glossary ; Appendices ; References ; Hume's Index ; Editor's Index
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Oxford University Press Humes Morality
Book SynopsisRachel Cohon offers an original interpretation of the moral philosophy of David Hume, focusing on two areas. Firstly, his metaethics. Cohon reinterprets Hume''s claim that moral distinctions are not derived from reason and explains why he makes it. She finds that Hume did not actually hold three Humean claims: 1) that beliefs alone cannot move us to act, 2) that evaluative propositions cannot be validly inferred from purely factual propositions, or 3) that moral judgments lack truth value. According to Hume, human beings discern moral virtues and vices by means of feeling or emotion in a way rather like sensing; but this also gives the moral judge a truth-apt idea of a virtue or vice as a felt property. Secondly, Cohon examines the artificial virtues. Hume says that although many virtues are refinements of natural human tendencies, others (such as honesty) are constructed by social convention to make cooperation possible; and some of these generate paradoxes. She argues that Hume sees Trade ReviewThe position [Cohon] defends and the arguments she deploys should be of interest to anyone interested in Hume's ethics and sentimentalist views generally. It is an excellent addition to the recent flurry of first-rate Hume scholarship. * Guy Fletcher, The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 241 (Oct 2010) *One has to admire the spirit, the inventiveness, the concern for the text, and the engagement with other views that Cohon displays. * Annette C. Baier, Mind 119 d *the very best book on Hume's ethics * Eric Schliesser, New APPS Blog *Rachel Cohon provides an excellent, detailed, scholarly and thorough analysis of Hume's moral theory... Her book is a 'must read' for anyone working in Hume's ethics and moral theory generally. * Christine Swanton, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *[a] very fine book ... There is a great deal to be said about Cohon's interpretation. I predict that her book will be a staple of discussion of Hume's ethics for years to come ... Hume's Morality presents a powerful case for a new and important reading of Hume on the artificial virtues, and challenging its conclusions will be very hard work. * James A. Harris, British Journal for the History of Philosophy *Table of ContentsPART I: FEELING VIRTUE; PART II: FABRICATING VIRTUE
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Oxford University Press The JeNeSaisQuoi in Early Modern Europe Encounters with a Certain Something
Book SynopsisWhat is the je-ne-sais-quoi? How-if at all-can it be put into words? In addressing these questions, Richard Scholar offers the first full-length study of the je-ne-sais-quoi and its fortunes in early modern Europe. He describes the rise and fall of the expression as a noun and as a topic of debate, examines its cluster of meanings, and uncovers the scattered traces of its ''pre-history''. The je-ne-sais-quoi is often assumed to belong purely to the realm of the literary, but in the early modern period it serves to articulate problems of knowledge in natural philosophy, the passions, and culture, and for that reason it is approached here from an interdisciplinary perspective. Placing major figures of the period such as Montaigne, Shakespeare, Descartes, Corneille, and Pascal alongside some of their lesser-known contemporaries, Scholar argues that the je-ne-sais-quoi serves above all to capture first-person encounters with a ''certain something'' that is as difficult to explain as its efTrade ReviewThoughtful and erudite work [...] Nothing less than a stunning scholarly achievement [...] Above all, Scholars book shows how our drive to delineate the boundaries of the comprehensible must remain intrinsically connected to contemporary methods of inquiry and understanding, and why the early modern period is one of the most fruitful areas of inquiry for making this connection. * TEMS, H-France Review *Richard Scholar's book is a cheerful and exhaustive attempt to describe this phenomenon, readily - and consciously - embracing its inarticulability even while exploring nearly every corner of its territory...I applaud...Scholar's willingness, throughout the book, to attempt to explain something that by definition cannot be explained: as his own argument clearly shows, if you know what it is, it's not what you're looking for * David M. Posner, Renaissance Quarterly *[a] wonderfully rich and challenging study of the je-ne-sais-quoi. It is extraordinary how [...] relatively little work has been done on the provenance and history of the term. This book fills the gap triumphantly, covering fields as diverse as theology, natural science, poetry, philosophy, and theatre * Nicholas Hammond, Modern Language Review *riveting...I try to keep an eye on the university press ads because occasionally great delights and surprises turn up ...The history of the je- ne-sais-quoi tells us a good deal about how human beings inhabit the world. * Jenny Diski, LRB *Richard Scholar's wonderfully rich and challenging study of the je-ne-sais-quoi ... the elegance, detail and...scholarship of Scholar's book. * Nicholas Hammond, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge *Table of ContentsPART I: WORD HISTORY ; 1. A Modish Name ; PART II: CRITICAL HISTORIES ; 2. A Secret of Nature? Descartes and the Philosophers ; 3. The Stroke of Passion: Pascal and the Poets ; 4. A Sign of Quality: Bouhours and the Polite Circle ; PART III: PRE-HISTORY ; 5. A Certain Something: Montaigne ; 6. Beyond Pre-history: The Case of Shakespeare
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Clarendon Press Spinoza and Spinozism
Book SynopsisStuart Hampshire, one of the most eminent British philosophers of the twentieth century, will be perhaps best remembered for his work on the seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza, all of which is gathered now in this volume. Among the great thinkers of modern times, only Spinoza created a complete system of philosophy that rivals Plato''s. Few other thinkers have felt so strongly ''the desire to have a unitary view of the world and of man''s place within it'' - a desire that led Spinoza to make crucial contributions to every major philosophical topic: the nature of knowledge and freedom, the existence of God, ethics and politics, mind and matter, pleasure and perception. Hampshire''s classic 1951 introductory book Spinoza pioneered the revival of interest in him in the English-speaking world. It remains the best introduction, and it is reprinted here in its revised edition. But what gives particular interest to this new volume is the first publication of Hampshire''s last work ''SpinTrade ReviewReview from previous edition still widely considered the best introduction to Spinoza * The Guardian *Table of ContentsSpinoza and Spinozism ; Spinoza ; Spinoza and the Idea of Freedom
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Oxford University Press Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion
Book SynopsisThe Hegel Lectures SeriesSeries Editor: Peter C. Hodgson Hegel''s lectures have had as great a historical impact as the works he himself published. Important elements of his system are elaborated only in the lectures, especially those given in Berlin during the last decade of his life. The original editors conflated materials from different sources and dates, obscuring the development and logic of Hegel''s thought. The Hegel Lectures series is based on a selection of extant and recently discovered transcripts and manuscripts. The original lecture series are reconstructed so that the structure of Hegel''s argument can be followed. Each volume presents an accurate new translation accompanied by an editorial introduction and annotations on the text, which make possible the identification of Hegel''s many allusions and sources. Lectures on the Philosophy of ReligionOne-Volume Edition, The Lectures of 1827Hegel''s Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion represent the final and in some ways tTrade Review...indispensable to serious students of Hegel. * Nicholas Walker, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
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Oxford University Press Hegel
Book SynopsisThe Hegel Lectures SeriesSeries Editor: Peter C. Hodgson Hegel''s lectures have had as great a historical impact as the works he himself published. Important elements of his system are elaborated only in the lectures, especially those given in Berlin during the last decade of his life. The original editors conflated materials from different sources and dates, obscuring the development and logic of Hegel''s thought. The Hegel Lectures series is based on a selection of extant and recently discovered transcripts and manuscripts. Lectures from specific years are reconstructed so that the structure of Hegel''s argument can be followed. Each volume presents an accurate new translation accompanied by an editorial introduction and annotations on the text, which make possible the identification of Hegel''s many allusions and sources. Hegel''s Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion represent the final and in some ways the decisive element of his entire philosophical system. His conception and exTrade Review...indispensable to serious students of Hegel. * Nicholas Walker, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
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Oxford University Press, USA Everything in Its Right Place
Book SynopsisIn Everything in Its Right Place, Joseph Almog develops the unitarian and universalist metaphysics of Spinoza. Spinoza''s ground zero thesis is that Nature is one and all. Everything (including God, mathematics, morals, our own thoughts) finds its place within Spinoza''s (capital N) Nature. It is the place that each thing occupies within the grid of Nature-from God on down the cosmic tree of being-that determines its fundamental (lowercase n) nature. For Spinoza, one''s nature is determined by one''s place in Nature or, in terms of the fundamental axiom of the book-the Nature-unfolding axiom: the nature of x=Nature at x.Almog''s reading of Spinoza is distinct in its understanding of the deductive abstractions of part I-II of the Ethics by means of the concrete illustrations of Spinoza''s intended subject matter in his political writings, where he tells us directly (i) what Nature is and (ii) how man''s nature is not a separate kingdom from the Nature-kingdom but merely an unfolding ofTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction - why, what and how Spinoza? ; Chapter 2 Nature is one ; Chapter 3 Nature is all ; Chapter 4 Man as a force of Nature-desire, acting and the metaphysics of politics ; Chapter 5 Life by the light of Nature: Love of God and partaking in infinity ; Acknowledgments ; Index
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Oxford University Press Hegels Naturalism
Book SynopsisTerry Pinkard draws on Hegel''s central works as well as his lectures on aesthetics, the history of philosophy, and the philosophy of history in this deeply informed and original exploration of Hegel''s naturalism. As Pinkard explains, Hegel''s version of naturalism was in fact drawn from Aristotelian naturalism: Hegel fused Aristotle''s conception of nature with his insistence that the origin and development of philosophy has empirical physics as its presupposition. As a result, Hegel found that, although modern nature must be understood as a whole to be non-purposive, there is nonetheless a place for Aristotelian purposiveness within such nature. Such a naturalism provides the framework for explaining how we are both natural organisms and also practically minded (self-determining, rationally responsive, reason-giving) beings. In arguing for this point, Hegel shows that the kind of self-division which is characteristic of human agency also provides human agents with an updated versionTrade Revieworiginal and very clear * Robert Pippin, Times Literary Supplement *In 2003-2004, Terry Pinkard, a leading scholar on Hegel, received the Humboldt prize for lifetime achievement. His current work, Hegels Naturalism: Mind, Nature, and the Final Ends of Life (2012), attempts an overview of Hegels thought under the aegis of Naturalism. It is written in a very clear fashion, with the notes allowing Hegel to speak for himself in lengthy quotations and sending the reader to the wide literature on Hegel. * Robert E. Wood, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly *Pinkard's book develops a powerful, attractive reading of Hegel's conception of spirit. While offering a wealth of insights and novel perspectives on concrete details from different parts of Hegelâs system, it manages at the same time to make emerge a convincing overall picture of spirit as an open-ended, continuously struggling activity aiming at the final end of being at one with itself against all odds. * Julia Peters, Mind19/11/2015 *Table of ContentsPreface ; Introduction ; Part One ; Chapter 1: Disenchanted Aristotelian Naturalism ; A: Hegel's Aristotelian Turn ; 1: Animal Life ; 2: The Inwardness of Animal Life ; B: From Animal Subjectivity to Human Subjectivity ; C: Animal Life and the Will ; Chapter 2: Self-Consciousness in the Natural World ; A: Animal and Human Awareness ; B: Consciousness of the World ; C. Self-Consciousness ; 1: Being at Odds with Oneself in Desire ; 2: The Attempt at Being at One with Oneself as Mastery Over Others ; 3. Masters, Slaves and Freedom ; 4: The Truth of Mastery and Servitude ; 5: Objectivity, Intuition and Representation ; Part Two ; Chapter 3: The Self-Sufficient Good ; A: Actualized Agency: The Sublation of Happiness ; B: The Actually Free Will ; C: The Impossibility of Autonomy and the "Idea" of Freedom ; D. Being at One with Oneself as a Self-Sufficient Final End ; Chapter 4: Inner Lives and Public Orientation ; A. Failure in Forms of Life ; B. The Phenomenology of a Form of Life ; C. Greek Tensions, Greek Harmony ; D: Empire and the Inner Life ; Chapter Five: Public reasons, Private Reasons ; A. Enlightenment and Individualism ; B: Morality and Private Reasons ; C. Ethical Life and Public Reasons ; Chapter Six: The Inhabitable Alienation of Modern Life ; A: Alienation as Uninhabitability ; 1: Diderot's Dilemma ; 2: Civil Society and the Balance of Interests ; 3: Making the Sale and Getting at the Truth ; B: Power: the Limits of Morality in Politics ; 1. Bureaucratic Democracy? ; 2: The Nation State? ; Chapter Seven: Conclusion: Hegel as a Post-Hegelian ; A. Self-Comprehension ; 1: Hegelian Amphibians ; 2: Second Nature and Wholeness ; B: Final Ends?
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Oxford University Press Attention Is Cognitive Unison
Book SynopsisSome psychological phenomena can be explained by identifying and describing the processes that constitute them. Others cannot be explained in that way. In this book, Christopher Mole gives a precise account of the metaphysical difference that divides these two categories and shows that, when current psychologists attempt to explain attention, they assign it to the wrong one.Trade ReviewMole carefully and clearly makes his case, offering readers two different approaches to attention. Thorough and convincing, Mole links his theory to consciousness, intentionality, causation, and much else. This is an important book for professionals and graduate students of philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Highly Recommended. * CHOICE *Table of Contents1. Highlights of a Difficult History ; 1.1 The Preliminary Identification of Our Topic ; 1.2 Three Approaches ; 1.3 Bradley's Protest ; 1.4 James's Disjunctive Theory ; 1.5 The Source of Bradley's Dissatisfaction ; 1.6 Behaviourism and After ; 1.7 Heirs of Bradley in the Twentieth Century ; 2. The Underlying Metaphysical Issue ; 2.1 Explanatory Tactics ; 2.2 The Basic Distinction ; 2.3 Metaphysical Categories and Taxonomies ; 2.4 Adverbialism, Multiple Realizability, and Natural Kinds ; 2.5 Adverbialism and Levels of Explanation ; 2.6 Taxonomies and Supervenience Relations ; 3. Rejecting the Process First View ; 3.1 Supervenience-Failure ; 3.2 The Modal Commitments of The Process-First View ; 3.3 The Interference Argument - A Putative Problem for Adverbialist Accounts ; 3.4 Conclusion ; 4. Cognitive Unison ; 4.1 Introduction ; 4.2 The Problem with Attitude Based Adverbialism ; 4.3 Gilbert Ryle and Alan White ; 4.4 White's Argument Against Disposition-Based Adverbialism ; 4.5 The Cognitive Unison Theory ; 4.6 Tasks ; 4.7 Cognitive Processes ; 4.8 Potential Service of a Task ; 4.9 Superordinate Tasks ; 4.10 Some Features of the Theory ; 4.11 Divided Attention ; 4.12 Degrees of Attention and Merely Partial Attention ; 4.13 Summary ; 5. The Causal Life of Attention ; 5.1 Mental Causation ; 5.2 How to Respond to Mental Causation Objections ; 5.3 The Causal Role of Attention ; 5.4 Attention as an enabling condition ; 5.5 Counterfactuals ; 5.6 The Causal Relevance of Attention per se ; 5.7 Counterfactuals and Causally Relevant Properties ; 5.8 Objections to Counterfactual Analysis of Causation and of Causal Relevance ; 5.9 The Extrinsicness of Unison ; 5.10 The Privative Character of Unison and The Problem of Absence Causation ; 5.11 Causal Exclusion ; 5.12 Summary ; 6. Consequences for Cognitive Psychology ; 6.1 Psychology and Metaphysics ; 6.2 The Metaphysical Commitments of the Process-Identifying Project ; 6.3 The Diverse Explanatory Construals of Current Psychological Results ; 6.4 Reasons for Deflation ; 6.5 Inductively Unreliable Properties ; 6.6 Questions Without Answers ; 6.7 The Positive Payoff ; 7. Philosophical Work for The Theory of Attention ; 7.1 Putting Attention to Philosophical Work ; 7.2 Attention and Reference ; 7.3 Attention and Consciousness ; 7.4 Prospects for Optimism ; Notes ; References
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Oxford University Press Schiller as Philosopher
Book SynopsisFred Beiser, renowned as one of the world''s leading historians of German philosophy, presents a brilliant new study of Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), rehabilitating him as a philosopher worthy of serious attention. Beiser shows, in particular, that Schiller''s engagement with Kant is far more subtle and rewarding than is often portrayed. Promising to be a landmark in the study of German thought, Schiller as Philosopher will be compulsory reading for any philosopher, historian, or literary scholar engaged with the key developments of this fertile period.Trade Review...Beiser's championing of Schiller as a philosopher puts much other critical literature to shame. Its perspicacity and its lucidity are very welcome. * Paul Bishop Seminar *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Early Philosophy ; 2. An Objective Aesthetic ; 3. Grace and Dignity ; 4. Argument and Context of the Asthetische Briefe ; 5. Dispute with Kant ; 6. Autonomy versus Enlightenment ; 7. The Philosophy of Freedom ; 8. Theory of Tragedy ; Appendix 1: Rhetoric and Philosophy in Schiller's Essays ; Appendix 2: The Neo-Kantian Interpretation of Schiller ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Self Ancient and Modern Insights about Individuality Life AndDeath
Book SynopsisRichard Sorabji presents a brilliant exploration of the history of our understanding of the self, which has remained elusive and mysterious throughout the spectacular development of human knowledge of the outside world. He ranges from ancient to contemporary thought, Western and Eastern, to reveal and assess the insights of a remarkable variety of thinkers. He discusses a set of topics which are at the heart of our understanding of ourselves: personal identity; memory; the importance of seeing one''s life as a whole; the relation between self, intellect, will, and agency; self-awareness; the stream of consciousness; embodiment; death and survival. He rejects the view, found in various philosophical and religious writings, that the self is an illusion, and develops his own original conception of the self as essential to our ownership of our experience and our apprehension of the world.Trade ReviewSo rich and complex a work as this can hardly be expected to elicit the complete agreement of any reader, but I am persuaded that it will prove intellectually fecund for all. * Péter Lautner RHIZAI *Table of ContentsI. EXISTENCE OF SELF AND PHILOSOPHICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE IDEA; II. PERSONAL IDENTITY OVER TIME; III. PLATONISM: IMPERSONAL SELVES, BUNDLES, AND DIFFERENTIATION; IV. IDENTITY AND PERSONA IN ETHICS; V. SELF-AWARENESS; VI. OWNERLESS STREAMS OF CONSCIOUSNESS REJECTED; VII. MORTALITY AND LOSS OF SELF
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Clarendon Press A Comment on the Commentaries and a Fragment on Government The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham
Book SynopsisIn the two related works in this volume, Bentham offers a detailed critique of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-9). He provides important refelctions on the nature of law, and more particularly on the nature of customary and statute law, and on judicial interpretation.Table of ContentsA COMMENT ON THE COMMENTARIES; A FRAGMENT ON GOVERNMENT
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Oxford University Press Leibniz Body Substance Monad
Book SynopsisDaniel Garber presents an illuminating study of Leibniz''s conception of the physical world. Leibniz''s commentators usually begin with monads, mind-like simple substances, the ultimate building-blocks of the Monadology. But Leibniz''s apparently idealist metaphysics is very puzzling: how can any sensible person think that the world is made up of tiny minds? In this book, Garber tries to make Leibniz''s thought intelligible by focusing instead on his notion of body. Beginning with Leibniz''s earliest writings, he shows how Leibniz starts as a Hobbesian with a robust sense of the physical world, and how, step by step, he advances to the monadological metaphysics of his later years. Much of the book''s focus is on Leibniz''s middle years, where the fundamental constituents of the world are corporeal substances, unities of matter and form understood on the model of animals. For Garber monads only enter fairly late in Leibniz''s career, and when they enter, he argues, they do not displace Trade ReviewDaniel Garbers book is an important contribution. * Tamás Demeter, Philosopy in Review QUOTE LOADED 21/01/2013 *Garber has written a remarkable book. * Francoise Monnoyeur, The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 60 No. 241 (Oct 2010) *Garber has delivered an unusually rich and subtle reading of Leibniz... his meticulous story of the development of Leibniz's thought about substance and body from his early years up through the middle years, and in particular his insightful description of the ways in which considerations of unity, persistence, and activity led Leibniz to realize that substantial forms have something to contribute to physics, is by far the best account we have of this subject... an immensely valuable contribution to the literature. Its combination of first-rate scholarship and provocative interpretive theses will make it essential reading for specialists working on Leibniz's metaphysics. It would be a shame, however, if it were read only by specialists. For the story it tells is an engaging one. * Stephen Puryear, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *impressive and brilliantly argued ... a fascinating journey through Leibniz's view (or views) of the physical world and its metaphysical grounding from his earliest years to the end of his life. There can be no doubt that the resulting study constitues a milestone contribution which will mark the direction of the debate on Leibniz's theories of substance and of the ontological status of bodies for many years to come. * Maria Rosa Antognazza, Nuncius: Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science *With a powerful mix of original scholarship, textual analysis, and contextualization, Daniel Garber closes a case he has been building for nearly thirty years against the myth of Leibniz as "a dogmatic who from his early years to the end of his life lived in an austere and immaterial world of spiritual substances". * Geoffrey Gorham, Isis *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. First Thoughts ; 2. Reforming Mechanism: Unity ; 3. Reforming Mechanism: Body and Force, Matter and Form (I) ; 4. Reforming Mechanism: Body and Force, Matter and Form (II) ; 5. Complete Individual Concepts, Non-Communication and Causal Connection ; 6. Divine Wisdom and Final Causes ; 7. Leibnizian Phenomenalisms ; 8. Enchanting the World: "...after many corrections and forward steps in my thinking" ; 9. Monads, Bodies and Corporeal Substances: The Endgame ; Epilogue ; Bibliography ; Index
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OUP Oxford The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy
Book SynopsisThe Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences. The Oxford Handbook of Continental Philosophy is the definitive guide to the major themes of the continental European tradition in philosophy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Brian Leiter and Michael Rosen have assembled a stellar group of contributors who provide a thematic treatment of continental philosophy, treating its subject matter philosophically and not simply as a series of museum pieces from the history of ideas. The scope of the volume is broad, with discussions covering a wide range of phiTrade ReviewReview from previous edition This voluminous handbook is a very welcome tool that brings out many fundamental aspects of continental philosophy and puts them in a new light in order to show their importance and relevance...All of the essays are of a very high caliber , strive toward as much clarity as possible, and do not sacrifice nuances or overlook difficulties. The scholarship of the contributors is impeccable...In sum, this handbook is a remarkable achievement...If a case had to made about the relevance, originality, and fruitfulness of the continental approaches, this handbook makes it rather convincingly and brilliantly. * Pol Vandevelde, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Excellent essays * Simon Glendinning, Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsPART I: PROBLEMS OF METHOD; PART II: REASON AND CONSCIOUSNESS; PART III: HUMAN BEING
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Oxford University Press, USA Empiricism Perceptual Knowledge Normativity and Realism Essays on Wilfrid Sellars Mind Association Occasional Series
Book SynopsisThe ten essays in this collection were written to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the lectures which became Wilfrid Sellars''s Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind, one of the crowning achievements of 20th-century analytic philosophy. Both appreciative and critical of Sellars''s accomplishment, they engage with his treatment of crucial issues in metaphysics and epistemology. The topics include the standing of empiricism, Sellars''s complex treatment of perception, his dissatisfaction with both foundationalist and coherentist epistemologies, his commitment to realism, and the status of the normative (the logical space of reasons and the manifest image). The volume shows how vibrant Sellarsian philosophy remains in the 21st century.Trade ReviewWillem deVries has brought together a number of commanding figures in contemporary philosophy, offering careful scholarly articles on a wide range of themes from Sellars. The papers fit together well, covering several themes and writings from Sellars, and frequently providing complementary coverage of certain topics. * Jack C. Lyons, Mind *This collection of essays is an important contribution to the understanding of Sellars's thought. William deVries has brought together a number of commanding figures in contemporary philosophy, offering careful scholarly articles on a wide range of themes from Sellars. The papers fit together well, covering several themes and writings from Sellars, and frequently providing complementary coverage of certain topics. * Jack C. Lyons, Mind *Table of ContentsIntroduction ; 1. Why Is Sellars's Essay Called Empiricism and the Philosophy of Mind? ; 2. Pragmatism, Inferentialism, and Modality in Sellars's Arguments against Empiricism ; 3. Perception, Imagination and Demonstrative Reference: A Sellarsian Account ; 4. Some Sellarsian Myths ; 5. Brandom's Two-Ply Error ; 6. The Tortoise and the Serpent: Sellars on the Structure of Empirical Knowledge ; 7. On the Structure of Sellars' Naturalism with a Normative Turn ; 8. Getting Beyond Idealisms ; 9. Functions Between Reasons and Causes: On Picturing ; 10. On Sellars' Two Images Of The World ; Notes
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Oxford University Press SLAVES OF THE PASSIONS
Book SynopsisLong claimed to be the dominant conception of practical reason, the Humean theory that reasons for action are instrumental, or explained by desires, is the basis for a range of worries about the objective prescriptivity of morality. As a result, it has come under intense attack in recent decades. A wide variety of arguments have been advanced which purport to show that it is false, or surprisingly, even that it is incoherent. Slaves of the Passions aims to set the record straight, by advancing a version of the Humean theory of reasons which withstands this sophisticated array of objections. Mark Schroeder defends a radical new view which, if correct, means that the commitments of the Humean theory have been widely misunderstood. Along the way, he raises and addresses questions about the fundamental structure of reasons, the nature of normative explanations, the aims of and challenges facing reductive views in metaethics, the weight of reasons, the nature of desire, moral epistemology, Trade Reviewrefreshingly sincere...Schroeder should be praised for paying unprecedented attention to the formal structure of all the standard Humean and ant-Humean arguements, and illuminating the foggier corners of the debate * Constantine Sandis, Times Literary Supplement *inventive, and deserving of attention. * A. W. Price, Philosophy *Table of Contents1. Reasons and the Humean Theory ; 2. Background Conditions ; 3. Incoherence and Chauvinism ; 4. Reduction of the Normative ; 5. Too Many Reasons ; 6. Too Few Reasons ; 7. Weighting for Reasons ; 8. Desire ; 9. Motivation, Knowledge, and Virtue ; 10. Instrumentalism ; 11. Why Be Humean?
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