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State University of New York Press Saying Peace
Book SynopsisOffers an immanent critique of Levinas''s core philosophical proposals by reference to his allegedly eurocentric statements.Levinas''s big idea is that our lived sense of moral obligation occurs in an immediate experience of the otherness of the Other, and that moral meaning is grounded in alterity rather than identity. Yet he also held what seemed an inconsiderate, or "eurocentric," view of other cultural traditions. In Saying Peace, Jack Marsh explores this problem, testing the coherence and adequacy of Levinas''s central philosophical claims. Using a twofold method of reconstruction and critique, Marsh conducts a holistic immanent evaluation of Levinas''s major works, showing how the problem of eurocentrism, and abiding ambiguities in Levinas''s political and religious thought, can be traced back to specific problems in his general philosophical methodology. Marsh offers an original analysis of Levinas''s method that verifies and extends existing critical work by Jacques Derrida, Robert Bernasconi, Judith Butler, and others. This is the first book to foreground the normative question of chauvinism in Levinas''s work, and the first to perform a holistic critical diagnosis of his general philosophical method.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Just the Arguments
Book SynopsisPhilosophy starts with questions, but attempts at answers are just as important, and these answers require reasoned argument. Cutting through notoriously dense and verbose philosophical prose, this book sets 100 famous and influential arguments in context, including key quotations, to provide a sense of style and approach.Trade Review“A useful resource for an undergraduate library, this book also would be suitable for undergraduate courses, particularly introduction to philosophy, logic, and critical thinking. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and general readers.” (Choice, 1 September 2012)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xiv Introduction: Show Me the Arguments 1 Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone Part I Philosophy of Religion 7 1 Aquinas' Five Ways 9 Timothy J. Pawl 2 The Contingency Cosmological Argument 18 Mark T. Nelson 3 The Kalam Argument for the Existence of God 22 Harry Lesser 4 The Ontological Argument 25 Sara L. Uckelman 5 Pascal's Wager 28 Leslie Burkholder 6 James' Will to Believe Argument 32 A. T. Fyfe 7 The Problem of Evil 35 Michael Bruce and Steven Barbone 8 The Free Will Defense to the Problem of Evil 37 Grant Sterling 9 St. Anselm on Free Choice and the Power to Sin 40 Julia Hermann 10 Hume's Argument against Miracles 44 Tommaso Piazza 11 The Euthyphro Dilemma 49 David Baggett 12 Nietzsche's Death of God 52 Tom Grimwood 13 Ockham's Razor 57 Grant Sterling Part II Metaphysics 59 14 Parmenides' Refutation of Change 61 Adrian Bardon 15 McTaggart's Argument against the Reality of Time 64 M. Joshua Mozersky 16 Berkeley's Master Argument for Idealism 68 John M. DePoe 17 Kant's Refutation of Idealism 70 Adrian Bardon 18 The Master Argument of Diodorus Cronus 73 Ludger Jansen 19 Lewis' Argument for Possible Worlds 76 David Vander Laan 20 A Reductionist Account of Personal Identity 79 Fauve Lybaert 21 Split-Case Arguments about Personal Identity 86 Ludger Jansen 22 The Ship of Theseus 88 Ludger Jansen 23 The Problem of Temporary Intrinsics 90 Montserrat Bordes 24 A Modern Modal Argument for the Soul 93 Rafal Urbaniak and Agnieszka Rostalska 25 Two Arguments for the Harmlessness of Death 99 Epicurus' Death is Nothing to Us Argument 99 Steven Luper Lucretius' Symmetry Argument 100 Nicolas Bommarito 26 The Existence of Forms: Plato's Argument from the Possibility of Knowledge 102 Jurgis (George) Brakas 27 Plato, Aristotle, and the Third Man Argument 106 Jurgis (George) Brakas 28 Logical Monism 111 Luis Estrada-González 29 The Maximality Paradox 115 Nicola Ciprotti 30 An Argument for Free Will 119 Gerald Harrison 31 Frankfurt's Refutation of the Principle of Alternative Possibilities 121 Gerald Harrison 32 Van Inwagen's Consequence Argument against Compatibilism 123 Grant Sterling 33 Fatalism 125 Fernando Migura and Agustin Arrieta 34 Sartre's Argument for Freedom 128 Jeffrey Gordon Part III Epistemology 131 35 The Cogito Arguments of Descartes and Augustine 133 Descartes' Cogito 133 Joyce Lazier Augustine's "Si fallor, sum"Argument (If I Am Mistaken, I Exist) 135 Brett Gaul 36 The Cartesian Dreaming Argument for External-World Skepticism 137 Stephen Hetherington 37 The Transparency of Experience Argument 142 Carlos Mario Muñoz-Suárez 38 The Regress Argument for Skepticism 146 Scott Aikin 39 Moore's Anti-Skeptical Arguments 152 Matthew Frise 40 The Bias Paradox 154 Deborah Heikes 41 Gettier's Argument against the Traditional Account of Knowledge 156 John M. DePoe 42 Putnam's Argument against Cultural Imperialism 159 Maria Caamaño 43 Davidson on the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme 162 George Wrisley 44 Quine's Two Dogmas of Empiricism 169 Robert Sinclair 45 Hume and the Problem of Induction 174 Hume's Problem of Induction 174 James E. Taylor Hume's Negative Argument concerning Induction 176 Stefanie Rocknak 46 Argument by Analogy in Thales and Anaximenes 180 Giannis Stamatellos 47 Quine's Epistemology Naturalized 183 Robert Sinclair 48 Sellars and the Myth of the Given 188 Willem A. deVries 49 Sellars' "Rylean Myth" 193 Willem A. deVries 50 Aristotle and the Argument to End All Arguments 198 Toni Vogel Carey Part IV Ethics 201 51 Justice Brings Happiness in Plato's Republic 203 Joshua I. Weinstein 52 Aristotle's Function Argument 208 Sean McAleer 53 Aristotle's Argument that Goods are Irreducible 211 Jurgis (George) Brakas 54 Aristotle's Argument for Perfectionism 214 Eric J. Silverman 55 Categorical Imperative as the Source for Morality 217 Joyce Lazier 56 Kant on Why Autonomy Deserves Respect 221 Mark Piper 57 Mill's Proof of Utilitarianism 223 A. T. Fyfe 58 The Experience Machine Objection to Hedonism 229 Dan Weijers 59 The Error Theory Argument 232 Robert L. Muhlnickel 60 Moore's Open Question Argument 237 Bruno Verbeek 61 Wolff's Argument for the Rejection of State Authority 240 Ben Saunders 62 Nozick's Taxation Is Forced Labor Argument 242 Jason Waller 63 Charity is Obligatory 244 Joakim Sandberg 64 The Repugnant Conclusion 247 Joakim Sandberg 65 Taurek on Numbers Don't Count 249 Ben Saunders 66 Parfit's Leveling Down Argument against Egalitarianism 251 Ben Saunders 67 Nozick's Wilt Chamberlain Argument 254 Fabian Wendt 68 Liberal Feminism 258 Julinna C. Oxley 69 Moral Status of Animals from Marginal Cases 263 Julia Tanner 70 The Ethical Vegetarianism Argument 265 Robert L. Muhlnickel 71 Thomson and the Famous Violinist 269 Leslie Burkholder 72 Marquis and the Immorality of Abortion 273 Leslie Burkholder 73 Tooley on Abortion and Infanticide 275 Ben Saunders 74 Rachels on Euthanasia 277 Leslie Burkholder Part V Philosophy of Mind 281 75 Leibniz' Argument for Innate Ideas 283 Byron Kaldis 76 Descartes' Arguments for the Mind–Body Distinction 290 Dale Jacquette 77 Princess Elisabeth and the Mind–Body Problem 297 Jen McWeeny 78 Kripke's Argument for Mind–Body Property Dualism 301 Dale Jacquette 79 The Argument from Mental Causation for Physicalism 304 Amir Horowitz 80 Davidson's Argument for Anomalous Monism 308 Amir Horowitz 81 Putnam's Multiple Realization Argument against Type-Physicalism 311 Amir Horowitz 82 The Supervenience Argument against Non-Reductive Physicalism 314 Andrew Russo 83 Ryle's Argument against Cartesian Internalism 318 Agustin Arrieta and Fernando Migura 84 Jackson's Knowledge Argument 320 Amir Horowitz 85 Nagel's "What Is It Like to Be a Bat" Argument against Physicalism 324 Amy Kind 86 Chalmer's Zombie Argument 327 Amy Kind 87 The Argument from Revelation 330 Carlos Mario Muñoz-Suárez 88 Searle and the Chinese Room Argument 334 Leslie Burkholder Part VI Science and Language 337 89 Sir Karl Popper's Demarcation Argument 339 Liz Stillwaggon Swan 90 Kuhn's Incommensurability Arguments 341 Liz Stillwaggon Swan and Michael Bruce 91 Putnam's No Miracles Argument 344 Liz Stillwaggon Swan 92 Galileo's Falling Bodies 346 Liz Stillwaggon Swan 93 Eliminative Materialism 348 Charlotte Blease 94 Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument 350 George Wrisley 95 Fodor's Argument for Linguistic Nativism 355 Majid Amini 96 Fodor and the Impossibility of Learning 359 Majid Amini 97 Quine on the Indeterminacy of Translation 362 Robert Sinclair 98 Davidson's Argument for the Principle of Charity 367 Maria Caamaño 99 Frege's Argument for Platonism 370 Ivan Kasa 100 Mathematical Platonism 373 Nicolas Pain Appendix A: Learning the Logical Lingo 377 Appendix B: Rules of Inference and Replacement 378 Notes on Contributors 380 Index 391
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John Murray Press Nietzsche A Complete Introduction Teach Yourself
Book SynopsisWritten by Dr Roy Jackson, who is Course Leader in Religion, Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Gloucestershire, Nietzsche: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics in clear jargon-free English, and then providing added-value features like summaries of key books, and even lists of questions you might be asked in your seminar or exam.The book uses a structure that mirrors the way Nietzsche is studied on many university courses, with chapters looking at Nietzsche''s life, The Birth of Tragedy, the revaluation of all values, the will to power, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, truth and perspectivism, religion, politics, and Nietsche''s legacy
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC I and Thou
Book Synopsis''The publication of Martin Buber''s I and Thou was a great event in the religious life of the West.'' Reinhold NiebuhrMartin Buber was a prolific and influential teacher and writer, who taught philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem from 1939 to 1951. Having studied philosophy and art at the universities of Vienna, Zurich and Berlin, he became an active Zionist and was closely involved in the revival of Hasidism. Recognised as a landmark of twentieth century intellectual history, I and Thou is Buber''s masterpiece. In this book, his enormous learning and wisdom are distilled into a simple, but compelling vision. It proposes nothing less than a new form of the Deity for today, a new form of human being and of a good life. In so doing, it addresses all religious and social dimensions of the human personality. Translated by Ronald Gregor SmithTrade ReviewMentioned in Viv Martin's article: "Buber accepts that both modes of relating are necessary. He states 'without It a man cannot live. But he who lives with It alone is not a man'" * Journal of Medical Ethics *"A revelation... It is a book to be read through and pondered, and then read again." —The Times Literary Supplement * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsTranslator's Preface \ Part I \ Part II \ Part III \ Postscript \ Notes.
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Edinburgh University Press The Gothic and Theory
Book SynopsisThis collection provides a thorough representation of the early and ongoing conversation between Gothic and theory philosophical, aesthetic, psychological and cultural.
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Edinburgh University Press NietzscheS Unfashionable Observations
Book SynopsisA guide to the whole of Nietzsche's understudied early masterpiece
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Edinburgh University Press NietzscheS on the Genealogy of Morality
Book SynopsisA philosophically sophisticated introduction to Nietzsche's most widely read book, for readers coming On the Genealogy of Morality and Nietzsche's thought in general for the first time.
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Edinburgh University Press Philosophy Rights and Natural Law
Book SynopsisOver his long and illustrious career, Knud Haakonssen has explored the role of natural law in formulating doctrines of obligation and rights in accordance with the interests of early modern polities and churches. These 13 new essays acknowledge Haakonssen's immense academic achievement and give us new insights in this field.
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Edinburgh University Press The SpinozaMachiavelli Encounter
Book SynopsisVittorio Morfino draws out the implications of the dynamic Spinoza Machiavelli encounter by focusing on the concepts of causality, temporality and politics. This allows him to think through the relationship between ontology and politics, leading to an understanding of history as a complex and plural interweaving of different rhythms.
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Edinburgh University Press Diagrammatic Immanence
Book SynopsisRocco Gangle addresses the methodological questions raised by a commitment to immanence in terms of how diagrams may be used both as tools and as objects of philosophical investigation. Gangle integrates insights from Spinoza, Pierce and Deleuze in conjunction with the formal operations of category theory.
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Manchester University Press Marxism and America: New Appraisals
Book SynopsisIn Marxism and America, an accomplished group of scholars reconsiders the relationship of the United States to the theoretical tradition derived from Karl Marx.In brand new essays that cover the period from the nineteenth century, when Marx wrote for American newspapers, to the present, when a millennial socialism has emerged inspired by the presidential campaigns of Bernie Sanders, the contributors take up topics ranging from memory of the Civil War to feminist debates over sexuality and pornography. Along the way, they clarify the relationship of race and democracy, the promise and perils of the American political tradition and the prospects for class politics today.Marxism and America sheds new light on old questions, helping to explain why socialism has been so difficult to establish in the United States even as it has exerted a notable influence in American thought.Trade Review'Full of spirited and cogent arguments, prodigiously researched and vivaciously told, Marxism and America is tailor-made for activists and scholars of the present moment.' Alan Wald, University of Michigan'At last, a collection on Marxism in the United States that pays serious attention to women, sexuality and feminism.' Nancy Holmstrom, Rutgers University 'A talented group of writers. Anyone interested in understanding the past and present of the left in the United States — from Eugene Debs to W. E. B. Du Bois through AOC and Bernie Sanders — should read this book!' Bhaskar Sunkara, editor, Jacobin ‘This insightful, compelling collection shines fresh light on the vital importance of the American experience to understanding Marxist thought, as well as the value of Marxian analysis to understanding the history and social movements of the United States.’ Jonathan Bell, UCL'Filled with surprising insights, these beautifully researched essays on a wide range of topics demonstrate the importance and the diversity of Marxist-inspired politics and ideas in American history. At a moment of resurgence for the left, they are a wonderful resource.' Kimberly Phillips-Fein, New York University -- .Table of ContentsPreface – Nelson LichtensteinIntroduction: the Marx–America dialectic – Christopher Phelps and Robin Vandome1 The blue and the gray and the red: Marxism and Civil War memory – Matthew E. Stanley 2 “What is the correct revolutionary proletarian attitude toward sex?”: red love and the Americanization of Marx in the interwar years – Jesse F. Battan3 Marxism and Americanism: A. J. Muste, Louis Budenz, and an “American approach” before the Popular Front – Leilah Danielson4 Women, the family, and sexuality in U.S. Communist Party publications: refashioning Marxism for the Popular Front era – Jodie Collins5 Rethinking Karl Marx: American liberalism from the New Deal to the Cold War – Andrew Hartman6 Black Marxism off the color line: W. E. B. Du Bois and Oliver Cromwell Cox as democratic theorists – Paul M. Heideman7 “Not picketing in front of bra factories”: Marxism, feminism, and the Weather Underground – Sinead McEneaney8 A people’s history of Howard Zinn: radical popular history and its readers – Nick Witham9 Class, commodity, consumption: theorizing sexual violence during the feminist sex wars of the 1980s – Mara Keire10 Will the revolution be podcast? Marxism and the culture of “millennial socialism” in the United States – Tim Jelfs11 Does the American experience refute Marxism? – Kim MoodyIndex
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Manchester University Press Marxism and America: New Appraisals
Book SynopsisIn Marxism and America, an accomplished group of scholars reconsiders the relationship of the United States to the theoretical tradition derived from Karl Marx.In brand new essays that cover the period from the nineteenth century, when Marx wrote for American newspapers, to the present, when a millennial socialism has emerged inspired by the presidential campaigns of Bernie Sanders, the contributors take up topics ranging from memory of the Civil War to feminist debates over sexuality and pornography. Along the way, they clarify the relationship of race and democracy, the promise and perils of the American political tradition and the prospects for class politics today.Marxism and America sheds new light on old questions, helping to explain why socialism has been so difficult to establish in the United States even as it has exerted a notable influence in American thought.Trade Review'Full of spirited and cogent arguments, prodigiously researched and vivaciously told, Marxism and America is tailor-made for activists and scholars of the present moment.' Alan Wald, University of Michigan'At last, a collection on Marxism in the United States that pays serious attention to women, sexuality and feminism.' Nancy Holmstrom, Rutgers University 'A talented group of writers. Anyone interested in understanding the past and present of the left in the United States — from Eugene Debs to W. E. B. Du Bois through AOC and Bernie Sanders — should read this book!' Bhaskar Sunkara, editor, Jacobin ‘This insightful, compelling collection shines fresh light on the vital importance of the American experience to understanding Marxist thought, as well as the value of Marxian analysis to understanding the history and social movements of the United States.’ Jonathan Bell, UCL'Filled with surprising insights, these beautifully researched essays on a wide range of topics demonstrate the importance and the diversity of Marxist-inspired politics and ideas in American history. At a moment of resurgence for the left, they are a wonderful resource.' Kimberly Phillips-Fein, New York University -- .Table of ContentsPreface – Nelson LichtensteinIntroduction: the Marx–America dialectic – Christopher Phelps and Robin Vandome1 The blue and the gray and the red: Marxism and Civil War memory – Matthew E. Stanley 2 “What is the correct revolutionary proletarian attitude toward sex?”: red love and the Americanization of Marx in the interwar years – Jesse F. Battan3 Marxism and Americanism: A. J. Muste, Louis Budenz, and an “American approach” before the Popular Front – Leilah Danielson4 Women, the family, and sexuality in U.S. Communist Party publications: refashioning Marxism for the Popular Front era – Jodie Collins5 Rethinking Karl Marx: American liberalism from the New Deal to the Cold War – Andrew Hartman6 Black Marxism off the color line: W. E. B. Du Bois and Oliver Cromwell Cox as democratic theorists – Paul M. Heideman7 “Not picketing in front of bra factories”: Marxism, feminism, and the Weather Underground – Sinead McEneaney8 A people’s history of Howard Zinn: radical popular history and its readers – Nick Witham9 Class, commodity, consumption: theorizing sexual violence during the feminist sex wars of the 1980s – Mara Keire10 Will the revolution be podcast? Marxism and the culture of “millennial socialism” in the United States – Tim Jelfs11 Does the American experience refute Marxism? – Kim MoodyIndex
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Anti-Education
Book SynopsisAN NYRB Classics OriginalIn 1869, at the age of twenty-four, the precociously brilliant Friedrich Nietzsche was appointed to a professorship of classical philology at the University of Basel. He seemed marked for a successful and conventional academic career. Then the philosophy of Schopenhauer and the music of Wagner transformed his ambitions. The genius of such thinkers and makers?the kind of genius that had emerged in ancient Greece?this alone was the touchstone for true understanding. But how was education to serve genius, especially in a modern society marked more and more by an unholy alliance between academic specialization, mass-market journalism, and the militarized state? Something more than sturdy scholarship was called for. A new way of teaching and questioning, a new philosophy . . .What that new way might be was the question Nietzsche broached in five vivid, popular public lectures in Basel in 1872.Anti-Educationpresents a provocative and timely reckoning with what remains one of the central challenges of the modern world.
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Discourse on Voluntary Servitude
Book SynopsisAn elegant English version of La Boetie's Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, which is both a key to understanding much of Montaigne and a major piece of early modern political thought. --Timothy Hampton, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of California, BerkeleyTrade ReviewAn excellent translation: clear, crisp and accurate. The introduction is also a helpful contextualization of the text, Boétie's relation to Montaigne, and a brief discussion of the history of this important text on non-cooperation in the 20th-Century. I highly recommend it for courses in the history of political theory and of non-cooperation as a means of regime change. --James Tully, Department of Political Science, University of VictoriaA powerful rendition of La Boetie's soldierly prose (as Montaigne would have it). . . . With this unassuming book, the authors have not only offered a solid introduction to Étienne de La Boétie and his legacy, but also passed on to us a living document (Harry Kurz) which may yet find resonance in our own troubled times. --Jeremie Korta, Harvard University, in Sixteenth Century Journal
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Quercus Publishing The Story of Philosophy: A History of Western
Book SynopsisThe Story of Philosophy sees philosophy for what it is: a passionate, exhilarating quest for human understanding that cannot be reduced to dry categories or simple definitions. It's a story with plot twists, a murder, accidental discoveries, disastrous love affairs, geniuses, idiots, monks, and vagabonds. At the heart of it all are the ideas and obsessions that have captured great thinkers from the very beginning. Packed with intriguing anecdotes and fascinating detail, James Garvey and Jeremy Stangroom bring us face to face with the most important philosophers in western history. Rigorous, refreshingly free of academic jargon, and highly accessible, this is the ideal introduction for anyone who wants to gain a new perspective on philosophy's biggest thoughts.Trade Review'An invaluable introduction to the topic ... offers clarity, insight and the occasional dash of wit' Scotland on Sunday. * Scotland on Sunday *Table of ContentsIntroduction. The Beginning of Philosophy: The Greek Miracle; The First Philosophers; The Love of Wisdom; Purpose. Hellenes & Romans: Cynics, Stoics and Sceptics; Atomists and Epicureans. Religion: Faith and Reason; The Scholastics. Knowledge: Renaissance and Enlightenment; Reason; Experience. Modern Matters: Politics; Idealism; Right and Wrong. Current Concerns: Nihilism and Existentialism; Continental Philosophy; Analysis; Mind and Matter. Postscript: The Future. Further Reading. Index. Acknowledgements.
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Collective Ink Advaita Made Easy
Book SynopsisWho are you? What happens when you die? Is there a God? Is the universe created? Advaita is a teaching with a tradition of thousands of years which provides totally reasonable answers to all such questions. This essential introduction from the acclaimed author of numerous books on the subject will demonstrate why it is so successful.
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Atlantic Books Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go
Book SynopsisWhat would the ancient Greek philosopher make of the twenty-first-century Google headquarters?A dazzling exploration of the role of ancient philosophy in modern life from the acclaimed writer and thinker.Imagine that Plato came to life in the twenty-first century and embarked on a multi-city speaking tour. How would he mediate a debate between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a 'tiger mum' on how to raise the perfect child? How would he handle the host of a right-wing news program who denies there can be morality without religion? What would Plato make of Google, and of the idea that knowledge can be crowdsourced rather than reasoned out by experts? Plato at the Googleplex is acclaimed thinker Rebecca Newberger Goldstein's dazzling investigation of these conundra. With a philosopher's depth and erudition and a novelist's imagination and wit, Goldstein probes the deepest issues confronting us by allowing us to eavesdrop on Plato as he takes on the modern world; it is a stunningly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden role in today's debates on religion, morality, politics and science.Trade ReviewThis could be one of the best ever demonstrations of the value and utility of philosophy. Richly insightful, beautifully written, it is at once introduction, exploration, and application, revealing the fascination and significance of philosophical ideas and their relevance to life. Like the Plato who figures largely here, Goldstein has both literary and philosophical gifts of the highest order: the combination is superb. -- A.C. Grayling * author of The God Argument *Felicitously written, impressively researched, insightful, important, entertaining, independent-minded and glowing with intelligence... Plato is brought marvellously to life and relevance in these passionate pages. -- Colin McGinn * Wall Street Journal *A wonderful book - enjoyably readable, full of stimulating insights and refreshing observations, unintimidatingly erudite, and salted with a gentle wit. -- Harry Frankfurt * author of On Bullshit *An important and amazing book. Goldstein beautifully combines the skills of a distinguished novelist with breathtaking philosophical scholarship. -- Hilary Putnam, John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities Emeritus, Harvard UniversityLong awaited... Rebecca Goldstein manages to be so funny and right -- Stephen Fry
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Headline Publishing Group Instant Philosophy: Key Thinkers, Theories,
Book SynopsisInstant Philosophy pulls together all the pivotal philosophical knowledge and thought into one concise volume. Each page contains a discrete 'cheat sheet', which tells you the most important facts in bite-sized chunks, meaning you can become an expert in an instant. From Nietzsche to Nozick, empiricism to solipsism, Pascal's wager to Ockham's razor, every key figure, discovery or idea is explained with succinct and lively text and graphics. Perfect for the knowledge hungry and time poor, this collection of graphic-led lessons makes philosophy interesting and accessible. Everything you need to know is here. Table of ContentsIntroduction • Thales - Natural Philosophy • Lao Tzu - Daoism • Pythagoras - Numbers • Buddha - Suffering • Confucius the Golden Rule • Heraclitus - Change • Zeno - Motion/Paradox • Protagoras - Sophism • Democritus - Materialism • Socrates - Socratic Method • Socrates - Euthanasia • Plato - Universals/the Cave • Plato - Moral Realism/the Ring of Gyges • Plato - the Ideal State • Plato - Art and Lies • Diogenes - Cynicism • Aristotle - Virtue • Aristotle - Teleology • Aristotle - Citizenship • Aristotle - Catharsis • Aristotle - Friendship • Zhuang Zi - Illusion • Epicurus - Moderation • Epicurus - Death • Epicurus - Evil • Cicero - Just War • Seneca - Stoicism • St Irenaeus - the Irenaean Theodicy • St Augustine - Sin • Hypatia - Paganism • Boethius - Christian Ethics • Bodhidharma - Zen • Avicenna/Averroes/Khayyam - the Arabic Enlightenment • St Anselm - the Ontological Argument • St Aquinas - Scholasticism • St Aquinas - the Cosmological Argument • Ockham - Ockham's Razor • Erasmus - Humanism • Machiavelli - Realpolitik • More - Utopia • Montaigne - Scepticism (epistemology) • Bacon - Scientific Method • Hobbes - the State of Nature • Descartes - Certainty • Descartes - Rationalism • Descartes - Dualism • Descartes - the Trademark Argument • Pascal - Pascal's Wager • Spinoza - Monism • Locke - Empiricism • Locke - Tolerance • Locke - Personal Identity • Leibniz - Principle of Sufficient Reason • Leibniz - Possible Worlds • Berkeley - Idealism • Yamamoto Tsunetomo - Bushido • Hume - Hume's Fork • Hume - the Is-Ought • Gap/Sentimentalism • Hume - Induction • Hume - Argument from Design/Teleological Argument • Hume - Miracles • Rousseau - Romanticism • Adam Smith - the Free Market • Voltaire - Deism • Kant - Transcendental Idealism • Kant - Deontology • Kant - Rights • Kant - the Sublime • Kant - the Argument from Morality • Burke - Conservatism • Paine - Revolution • Bentham - Utilitarianism • Bentham - Animal Rights • Wollstonecraft - the Rights of Women • Hegel - the Dialectic • Schopenhauer - Pessimism • Feuerbach - Anthropomorphism • Stirner - Egoism • Mill - Rule Utilitarianism • Mill - The Principle of Harm • Mill - Democracy • Darwin/Wallace - Evolution • Kierkegaard - Angst • Thoreau - Civil Disobedience • Marx - Alienation • Marx - Superstructure • C. S. Pierce - Pragmatism • William James - Free Will • William James - Belief • Kropotkin/Bakhunin - Anarchism • Nietzsche - Nihilism • Nietzsche - Will to Power • Husserl - Intentionality • Bergson - Vitalism • Duhem/Quine - Scientific Hypotheses • McTaggart - Time • Russell - Mathematics • Russell - Non-existence • Russell - Other Minds • Saussure - Structuralism • Moore - the Naturalistic Fallacy • Clive Bell - Significant Form • Heidegger - Being • Collingwood - Art and Emotion • Wittgenstein - Saying and Showing • Wittgenstein - Private Language • Hempel - Hempel's Ravens • Goodman - Grue • Marcuse - Consumerism • Hayek - Spontaneous Order • Skinner - Behaviourism • Ayer - Verificationism • Popper - the Open Society • Ryle - Category Mistakes • Sartre - Authenticity • Arendt - Totalitarianism • Levinas - the Other • Quine - Naturalism • Quine/Sapir-Whorf - Conceptual Schemes/Constructivism • Simone de Beauvoir - Feminism • Simone Weil - Salvation • Popper - Falsification • Ayer/Hare - Emotivism/Prescriptivism • Turing - Artificial Intelligence • Camus - the Absurd • Berlin - Liberty • Smart - Mind-Brain Identity • Gadamer - Hermeneutics • Debord - Situationism • Gettier - Knowledge • Barthes - Death of the Author • Hilary Putnam - Solipsism/Brains in Vats • Hilary Putnam - Functionalism • Rawls - Veil of Ignorance • Kuhn - Paradigms • Foucault - Power and Surveillance • Foucault - Sex • Judith Jarvis Thompson - Abortion • Antony Flew - Religious Language • Derrida - Deconstruction • Rorty - Anti-realism • Plantinga - Faith • Searle - the Chinese Room • Kate Millet - Patriarchy • Nagel - Qualia • Nozick - Libertarianism • Nozick - the Pleasure Machine • Dennett - Zombies • Baudrillard - Hyperreality • Parfit - the Tele-transporter • Parfit - Environmentalism/the Repugnant Conclusion • Churchland - Folk Psychology/Eliminative Materialism • McKinnon/Dworkin - Pornography • Singer - Effective Altruism • Singer - Speciesism • Chalmers - Pan-psychism • Philippa Foot - the Trolley Problem • Jaegwon Kim - Epiphenomenalism • Judith Butler - Gender • Bostrom - Transhumanism • Glossary and Further Reading.
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Reaktion Books Descartes: The Renewal of Philosophy
Book SynopsisA critical biography of René Descartes, whose first principle (“I think therefore I am.”) reshaped modern philosophy. Often called ‘the father of modern philosophy’, René Descartes’ contributions to philosophy, mathematics and natural science set the intellectual agenda for the seventeenth century. In this biography and assessment of his works, based on the most up-to-date research, Steven Nadler follows Descartes from his early years and education in France to the Dutch Republic, where he lived most of his adult life, to his final months as tutor to Queen Christina of Sweden.Nadler shows how Descartes’ ‘renewal’ of philosophy involved a transformation in both the way in which philosophy is done and the fundamental understanding of the cosmos, the natural world and human nature. His work was a springboard for many of the metaphysical and epistemological problems that continue to engage philosophers today. 'Steven Nadler’s outstanding biography achieves a fine balance of life, ideas and context, allowing Descartes’s philosophy to emerge from its eclectic seventeenth-century milieu in all its dazzling originality and strangeness. Lucid, compelling and unfailingly judicious, this is a marvelous new study of a magisterial modern thinker.' — Clare Carlisle Tresch, King’s College London
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Collective Ink Towards Speculative Realism: Essays and Lectures
Book SynopsisThese writings chart Harman's rise from Chicago sportswriter to co-founder of one of Europe's most promising philosophical movements: Speculative Realism. In 1997, Graham Harman was an obscure graduate student covering Chicago sporting events for a California website. Unpublished in philosophy at the time, he was already a popular conference speaker on Heidegger and related themes. Little more than a decade later, as the author of stimulating and highly visible books on continental philosophy, he was Associate Vice Provost for Research at the American University in Cairo, and a key member of the Speculative Realist movement along with Ray Brassier, Iain Hamilton Grant, and Quentin Meillassoux. This fascinating collection of eleven essays and lectures from 1997-2009, anchored by Harman's rebellious transformation of Heideggerian philosophy, show the evolution of his object-oriented metaphysics from its early days into an increasingly developed philosophical position. Each chapter is preceded by Harman's delightful and witty scene-setting commentary.
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Granta Books How To Read Derrida
Book Synopsis'Deconstruction is not neutral. It intervenes' Jacques Derrida An idiosyncratic and highly controversial French philosopher, Jacques Derrida inspired profound changes in disciplines as diverse as law, anthropology, literature and architecture. In Derrida's view, texts and contexts are woven with inconsistencies and blindspots that provide us with a chance to think in new ways about, among other things, language, community, identity and forgiveness. Derrida's suggestions for 'how to read' lead to a new vision of ethics and a new concept of responsibility. Penelope Deutscher discusses extracts from the full range of Derrida's work, including Of Grammatology, Dissemination, Limited Inc, The Other Heading: Reflections on Europe, Monolinguism of the Other, Given Time and Force of Law.Trade ReviewDeconstruction is not neutral. It intervenes' Jacques Derrida
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Notting Hill Editions Thus Spake Zarathustra: A New Translation by
Book SynopsisIn Thus Spake Zarathustra, Nietzsche conducts his protagonist through his great journey of life - the quest for meaning, and fulfilment, and for a way to live with the knowledge of death. In this faithful new translation by Michael Hulse, Zarathustra is revealed in all his bold and ironic splendour, as a man who strives to find a way to live - joyfully - in a secular world. Luminous and ecstatic, Thus Spake Zarathustra is a grand celebration of perilous, beautiful, human life by one of the most important philosophers in history.Trade Review"It is often said that poetry is what is lost in translation. Given that Michael Hulse is both a major poet and one of the great translators of German literature, it is not surprising that he has done full justice to Thus Spake Zarathustra. English-speaking readers are indebted to him for a sparkling, transparent, rendering of Nietzsche's poetic philosophical masterpiece." - Raymond Tallis
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Watkins Media Limited Zombie University
Book SynopsisWhat if we have lost the ability to think straight? And what if this is why the shocking injustices of contemporary life go unchallenged in spite of being widely acknowledged? And what if the university, the institution that is supposed to help us to think, is in on the act? In this polemical account of how universities are failing both their students and society, Sinead Murphy shows how the Zombie University of the twenty-first century is keeping us down rather than raising us up, and asks whether, in spite of everything, it could be brought back to life, and whether we could dare to think again.
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Watkins Media Limited How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got
Book Synopsis"Beautifully written and bursting with spirit, How to Read Like a Parasite is destined to be vital reading." - Matthew McManus, author of Nietzsche and the Politics of Reaction How to Read Like a Parasite overturns the whitewashed and defanged version of Nietzsche that has been made popular by generations of translators and academic philosophers who have presented his work as apolitical and without a core reactionary agenda. The central argument of the book is that Nietzsche’s philosophy does have a center, and that the left learns a great deal from Nietzsche when we read him as driven by a highly sophisticated reactionary political vision that informs all his major concepts and ideas. The most important Nietzschean concepts — from perspectivism, ressentiment, eternal return to the pathos of distance — are analyzed in the historical context in which Nietzsche lived and wrote, and several case-studies of prominent left-Nietzscheans from Jack London, Gilles Deleuze, Wendy Brown to Huey Newton are discussed. How to Read Like a Parasite makes a persuasive case for how we can overcome Nietzsche’s damaging influence on the left, showing us how to read and understand his work without becoming victims of it.Trade Review“A compelling picture of the ways that Nietzscheanism hijacks the left.”"Beautifully written and bursting with spirit, How to Read Like a Parasite is destined to be vital reading.""Written with clarity and force, sensitive to historical context and covering an extensive array of the Nietzsche literature, this book animates a new standard in reading Nietzsche.”"Exemplary... Tutt’s evaluation of the consequences of Nietzschean politics is more lucid than Left Nietzscheans might wish.""Today, in our age of quick new Right or new Left dismissals, such a stance is needed more than ever.""Tutt’s book sets a new standard for understanding how to read Nietzsche from the political left.""The conclusion of How to Read Like a Parasite is that a ruthless, even “parasitical” critique of Nietzsche, who cannot be ignored but must be constantly confronted head on, is the key to overcoming the destruction of reason in our time."
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Temple Lodge Publishing Friedrich Schiller and the Future of Freedom:
Book Synopsis‘The primary task of this book is to build a bridge to a deeper understanding of Schiller himself who, along with Goethe and Novalis, was one of the great spiritual forerunners and trailblazers of anthroposophy.’ – Sergei O. Prokofieff --- Planned as the second volume in a trilogy on Novalis, Schiller and Goethe, Friedrich Schiller and the Future of Freedom is much more than a conventional biography. Prokofieff shines new light on Schiller’s character and destiny, helping to establish his position as a crucial antecedent to Rudolf Steiner in the spiritual history of humanity. He also defines Schiller’s task in the context of the achievements of Goethe and Novalis at the end of the eighteenth century, an extraordinary period that saw a seminal transformation in the philosophical and artistic landscape. --- Following the recent publication of The Riddle of Dmitri – which explores Schiller’s unfinished drama Demetrius – Prokofieff returns here to the theme in the framework of Schiller’s life and extensive body of work. In timely fashion, he conveys Schiller’s mediating role between Central and Eastern Europe, indicating how he came ‘near to the soul of the Russian people through an idealism imbued with his entirely self-created moral power and his fiery enthusiasm for everything in the world that is true, beautiful and good’.Table of ContentsPreface – I. Schiller’s Spiritual Task between Goethe and Novalis – II. Friedrich Schiller and the Future of Freedom – 1. The Ideal of Freedom and Its Spiritual Origin – 2. The Battle for Human Freedom – 3. Schiller’s Premature Death and its Spiritual–Historical Consequences – III. Friedrich Schiller’s Demetrius Fragment as a Drama of the Human I – Addendum to Part III: On the Figure of Mikhail Romanov – In Place of an Epilogue: ‘Goethe’s Science according to Schiller’s Method’ – Appendix – 1. Examples for the Relationship between the Aesthetic Letters and The Philosophy of Freedom – 2. Schiller on the ‘Fall of Man’ and Freedom – 3. Evidence of Schiller’s Spiritual Character in his Own Work – Novalis on Friedrich Schiller – Rudolf Steiner: Excerpt from the Lecture of 18 December 1920 – Rudolf Steiner: ‘Friedrich Schiller’ – References and Notes – Bibliography of Works by Rudolf Steiner
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Perspectiva Collective Wisdom in the West: Beyond the shadows
Book SynopsisThis book contemplates current crises guided by a core Buddhist teaching: the roots of deepest suffering lie in what we grasp most tightly. Thus, tightly held ideas from 'the enlightenment' - rationality, individuality, equality and secularity - are considered as sources of suffering: technocracy, broken politics and 'moral acrimony'. Freedom lies not in accepting or rejecting these views, but in seeing where they've become dogmas, feeding cultural addiction to certainty and control. Liam Kavanagh is an embodied cognitive scientist, deeply influenced by Zen, who directs research at Life Itself, a community of people for a wiser, weller world. Past work in development economics convinced him that recognising and unlearning ideology is the most important step towards imagining futures worth creating. He helps create opportunities for this by organising residential learning communities, dialogues between Science and Zen, and contemplative activist groups.Trade Review‘In this important and timely book, dense with insight, Liam succeeds where many others have failed, to not only accurately diagnose the root causes of the brokenness that so many of us intuit at the heart of Western scientific materialism, but to indicate the path towards a remedy. Courageously and compassionately teasing apart the roots of our attachments to reason, individuality and equality – notions we would often prefer to take as read, so painful are they to explore – Liam skilfully navigates the reefs and shoals of our reactivity, creating a space for real understanding and a new turning of the wheel of cultural evolution. In this work, Liam models the solution he proposes, by drawing in equal measure on wisdom arising from his own direct, first person meditative investigation, balanced by intellectual rigour and a thorough grasp of developments in neuroscience, psychology and the history and philosophy of science’ -- Brother Phap Linh, Dharma Teacher, Plum Village Zen Monastery‘This is a brave and important book for our time, a time when we direly need to find the wisdom to overcome such identities and divisions, and find each other, freely and together’ -- Professor Rupert Read, former UK national spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion and author of Wittgenstein’s Liberatory Philosophy
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De Gruyter Lange and Nietzsche
The Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung (MTNF) presents outstanding monographic interpretations by scholars, active in various academic fields, of Nietzsche’s work as a whole or of specific themes and aspects. These works are written mostly from a philosophical, literary, communication science, sociological or historical perspective. The publications reflect the current state of research on Nietzsche’s philosophy, on his sources, on his relationship with his predecessors and contemporaries and on the influence of his writings. The volumes are peer-reviewed.
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De Gruyter Recht und Frieden in der Philosophie Kants: Akten
Book SynopsisDie fünf Bände enthalten die Hauptvorträge und eingeladene Beiträge der panels des X. Internationalen Kant-Kongresses, der 2005 in Sao Paolo stattfand.Table of ContentsBand 1: HauptvorträgeMario Caimi: Comments on the Conception of Imagination in the Critique of Pure Reason; Bernd Dörflinger: Die Rolle der Gottesidee in Kants Konzeption des ethischen Gemeinwesens; Michel Fichant: L’Amphibologie des concepts de la réflexion: la fin de l’ontologie; José Arthur Giannotti: The Unveiling of Meaning; Paul Guyer: Proving Ourselves Free; Otfried Höffe: Kants universaler Kosmopolitismus; Jean-François Kervegan: Remarques sur la théorie kantienne de la normativité, en particulier juridique; Patricia Kitcher: Kant’s ‘I think’; Silvestro Marcucci: Le «savant»Kant âgé de trente ans; António Marques: Unity and Diversity of Transcendental Reflection in Kant; François Marty: L'être commun éthique, peuple de Dieu sous des lois morales. Sur le chemin de la paix perpétuelle; Claude Piché: Le concept de phénoménologie chez Kant et Reinhold; Valerio Rohden: Neue Überlegungen zu Kants Kritik an einem praktischen Solipsismus; Marcus Willaschek: Kant on the Necessity of Metaphysics; Howard Williams: Why Kant is not a HobbesianBand 2Sektion I: Der vorkritische KantSektion II: Kants theoretische PhilosophieBand 3Sektion III: Kants praktische PhilosophieSektion IV: Kants ÄsthetikBand 4Sektion V: Kants GeschichtsphilosophieSektion VI: Kants ReligionsphilosophieSektion VII: Kants Rechts-, Staats- und politische PhilosophieBand 5Sektion VIII: Kants AnthropologieSektion IX: Kants LogikSektion X: Kants Opus postumumSektion XI: Kant und die zeitgenössische KritikSektion XII: Kant und der deutsche IdealismusSektion XIII: Transformationen kantischer PhilosophieSektion XIV: Kant im Kontext der Gegenwartsphilosophie
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Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Devouring One's Own Tail: Autopoiesis in
Book SynopsisDrawing on continental philosophy, Devouring One’s Own Tail examines culture and society as a type of ouroboros. Inspired by Niklas Luhmann’s theories on social systems, this book examines the concept of autopoiesis, or self-creation, as it relates to society and culture. Approaching the concept from a variety of fields—philosophy, philology, aesthetics, linguistics, archaeology, and religious and media studies—the contributors present the products of humanity as self-referential, self-sustaining, and self-creating systems. Through four sections, the book addresses the philosophical concept of autopoiesis and its relations to creativity, destruction, and self-organization; autopoiesis in literature and art history; autopoiesis in religion; and autopoiesis in historiography, cognitive linguistics, and social media. Whether exploring Hegel’s theory of knowledge or the viral spread of conspiracy theories on the internet, the authors concentrate on the ouroboros-like nature of their subjects in the ways they feed off of themselves.Table of ContentsIntroduction: “All That Is Straight Lies” (Vojtech Kolman)Part I: Methods of Self-Creation The Method Is Justified by Its Outcome (Miroslav Petrícek)From Boundaries to Interfaces: Autopoietic Systems and the “Ontology of Motion” (Martin Procházka)“I am the Combat”: Hegel’s Dramatic Theory of Knowledge (Vojtech Kolman)Part 2: Narratives of Self-Creation and Self-DestructionAutopoiesis and “Pure Culture of Death Instinct”: Creativity as a Suicidal Project (Josef Vojvodík)The Dark Side of the End of Art (Tomáš Murár)The Author in the Making: Ethos, Posture, and Self-Creation (Josef Šebek)A Negative Autopoietic Principle in French Interpretations of Hegel – Breton, Sartre, Bataille (Eva Voldrichová-Beránková)Part 3: Religion and Education as Autopoietic ProjectsLuhmann’s Religious Carnival and the Limits of Communication (Tereza Matejcková)Historical Transformations of Christianity and Luhmann’s Theory of Autopoietic Systems (Tomáš Halík)On Universities and Contemporary Society: The Issue of Trust (Jakub Jirsa)Part 4: Society in an Autopoietic PerspectiveAn Autopoieticist Vision of Society: Luhmann’s Social System Theory and the Understanding of Medieval Transformation (Tomáš Klír)Participatory Sense-Making through Bodies: Self-Organizing Principles in the Continuity of Life and Mind (Eva Lehecková and Jakub Jehlicka)Conspiracy Theories and Disinformation as Viruses in Social Media (Josef Šlerka)Aspiring Autopoiesis and Its Troubles: What Else Is Produced When the Nation Is Reproduced (Ondrej Slacálek)
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Aarhus University Press Denmark’s Catalyst: The Life and Letters of
Book SynopsisDenmark’s Catalyst: The Life and Letters of N.F.S. Grundtvig is the last book in the 6-volume series ‘N.F.S. Grundtvig. Works in English.’ Translator Edward Broadbridge joins forces with Grundtvig scholar Hans Raun Iversen in this new biography of the most influential Dane in modern Denmark. Grundtvig (1783-1872) was a pastor, pedagogue, poet, politician, and philosopher all rolled into one. Best known internationally for his concepts of a people’s (folk) high school, of ‘learning for life’ and of ‘lifelong learning’, in Denmark he is equally famous as the nation-builder and champion of ‘the common good’ – Denmark’s modern watchword.This comprehensive, illustrated biography is supplemented by 70 letters tracing Grundtvig’s personal experiences first-hand in surprisingly honest terms, including his love life, his depressions, and his four trips to England.
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Broadview Press Ltd Good Reasons for Better Arguments: Introduction
Book SynopsisThis text introduces university students to the philosophical ethos of critical thinking, as well as to the essential skills required to practice it. The authors believe that Critical Thinking should engage students with issues of broader philosophical interest while they develop their skills in reasoning and argumentation. The text is informed throughout by philosophical theory concerning argument and communication—from Aristotle's recognition of the importance of evaluating argument in terms of its purpose to Habermas's developing of the concept of communicative rationality. The authors' treatment of the topic is also sensitive to the importance of language and of situation in shaping arguments, and to the necessity in argument of some interplay between reason and emotion. Unlike many other texts in this area, then, Good Reasons for Better Arguments helps to explain both why argument is important and how the social role of argument plays an important part in determining what counts as a good argument.If this text is distinctive in the extent to which it deals with the theory and the values of critical thinking, it is also noteworthy for the thorough grounding it provides in the skills of deductive and inductive reasoning; the authors present the reader with useful tools for the interpretation, evaluation and construction of arguments. A particular feature is the inclusion of a wide range of exercises, rich with examples that illuminate the practice of argument for the student. Many of the exercises are self testing, with answers provided at the back of the text; others are appropriate for in-class discussion and assignments.Challenging yet accessible, Good Reasons for Better Arguments brings a fresh perspective to an essential subject.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements1. CRITICAL THINKING: WHAT AND WHY What’s in a Name? Critical Thinking and the Search for Good Reasons Who’s to Say What a Good Reason Is? Good Reasons, Better Arguments and Rationality Rational Discourse: Giving Reasons Communicatively Rational Speech Acts, or Good Reasons for Better Arguments Communicative Norms: Expectations and Obligations Comprehensibility Sincerity Transparent Persuasion: The Goal of Better Arguments A Brief Overview of this BookExercises 2. ARGUMENTS Critical Thinking Skills, Phase 1: Argument Structure and Construction The Argument: Form and Function Arguments and Non-arguments Arguments and Opinions Arguments, Explanations and Definitions Units of Meaning Standard Form for Simple Arguments Enthymemes and the Principle of Charity Standard Form for Complex Arguments Expressing Yourself in Argument FormExercises 3. LANGUAGE Language as Context Definitions: Explaining Meaning Definitions: Arguing Meaning Paradigm Case/Counter-example Genus/Differentia Understanding Conditionals and the Relationship of Implication Language and the Gap between Intention and Communication Ambiguity Vagueness Euphemism and Hyperbole Jargon and Obfuscation Disempowering Language Linguistic Considerations in the Construction of Your Own ArgumentsExercises 4. GOOD ARGUMENTS Phase 2: Evaluating Arguments Arguments, Arguers and Conclusions: Where to Start Your Evaluation Facts, Values and Opinions: Are They All Open to Evaluation? The Normativity of Argument Evaluation What Are Good Enough Arguments Good Enough For? General Criteria of Argument Evaluation Acceptability Relevance Sufficiency Cogency: The Overall Judgement A Few More Words on Expressing Yourself in Argument FormExercises 5. BAD ARGUMENTS Fallacy-Spotting and Building a Better Argument Dubious Premises Premises that Mean Too Much, or Not Enough Premises Bearing Illicitly Imported Assumptions Irrelevance Irrelevant Attacks on the Source of Opinion Illegitimate Manipulation of Emotion Changing the Subject Improper Appeals to Authority Hasty Conclusions and Suppressed Evidence Building a Better ArgumentExercises 6. DEDUCTION Three Modes of Argumentation Aspects of Deductive Reasoning Validity Categorical Logic Translation Venn Diagrams Immediate Inferences Syllogisms Fallacies of Distribution and Other Violations of the Rules for Syllogisms Propositional Logic The Strengths and Weaknesses of DeductionExercises 7. INDUCTION Induction and Reasoning from Observation Enumerative Induction Representative Sampling and Justified Confidence in Induction Reasoning about Causation Types of Causes Inductive Justification and Scientific MethodsExercises 8. PRACTICAL REASONING The Scope of Practical Reasoning Intersubjectivity, Open-endedness and Criterial Reasoning Conductive Reasoning Reasoning from Analogy Communicative Rationality: The Sufficiency Criterion in Practical ReasoningExercises Answers to Selected ExercisesAppendix A: Procedure for Standardizing Complex ArgumentsAppendix B: Procedure for Expressing Yourself in Argument FormIndex
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Harvard University Press Dignity
Book SynopsisDignity plays a central role in thinking about law and human rights, but there is sharp disagreement about its meaning. Combining conceptual precision with a broad historical background, Rosen puts these controversies in context and offers a novel, constructive proposal. He also answers a puzzling question: why treat the dead with dignity?
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Princeton University Press How to Drink
Book SynopsisTrade Review"It is always good to find a new book on the shelves that regards wine with both pleasure and common sense, including a good deal about manners and drunkenness. . . . [How to Drink is] an enjoyable read and . . . makes good, genial sense at a time when wine is now being taken far too seriously as a subject to be put under a microscope rather than be sloshed into a glass."---John Mariani, Forbes"[How to Drink is] a fetching translation . . . I recommend it, as much for its hints about drinking ‘sustainably and with discrimination’ as for its wry warnings about excess."---Roger Kimball, Spectator US"[A] lively modern rendition . . . [How to Drink] mashes up a How to Win Friends and Influence People Under the Influence sort of self-help book, a snapshot of a binge-drinking culture 500 years ago and a personal airing of grievances through the lens of one entertaining, wildly self-contradictory and extremely cantankerous tutor."---Ben O’Donnell, WineSpectator.com"If you can escape the world for a couple of days, bring this delightful book with you and cue up your Pandora 'Circa 1500' playlist . . . a balance of elegance and boisterousness."---Lana Bortolot, Forbes"Fontaine has done a good job in resurrecting an amusing enough oeuvre for those who enjoy exploring such highways and byways."---Peter Jones, Classics for All"[How to Drink] serves as relevant social commentary for today, railing, with wit and humor, against toxic masculinity and overindulgence while providing advice on how to win drinking games. It’s a great addition to your bartending library."---Matt Kettman, Santa Barbara Independent"I found this book fascinating . . . I recommend How to Drink for anyone who enjoys history, the social aspects of alcohol, and the fact that some things never seem to change through the ages!" * TheBrewholder.com *"I adored this quirky little book. It’s half a millennium old and relevant. It’s vulnerably human, capricious, mercurial, inconsistent, wise, ridiculous, passionate and poetic. It’s unintentionally hilarious."---Tamlyn Currin, jancisrobinson.com"[How to Drink] is a witty, entertaining and well produced book, whose editor/translator is clearly well-matched to the subject-matter: in Fontaine’s capable hands, Obsopoeus is anything but an acquired taste."---Gary Vos, The Journal of Classics Teaching"This is a fun little book; it is also a scholarly edition of a little-known sixteenth-century didactic poem, accompanied by an eminently readable translation—an unusual and commendable combination. . . . We should be thankful to Michael Fontaine for undertaking this edition and translation, and to Princeton University Press for publishing it. . . . Obsopoeus might well be proud of how his poem has been presented to twenty-first-century readers."---David Money, Neo-Latin News
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Princeton University Press Against Political Equality
Book SynopsisTrade Review"An insightful guide to a mode of thinking becoming ever stronger in a China that has turned strongly against liberalism."---Rana Mitter, Financial Times"Sprawling and ambitious. . . . A great accomplishment."---Russell Arben Fox, The Review of Politics"An important contribution to contemporary Confucian political theory."---Sungmoon Kim, The Review of Politics
£23.75
Cornell University Press Hegel and the Hermetic Tradition
Book SynopsisGlenn Alexander Magee's pathbreaking book argues that Hegel was decisively influenced by the Hermetic tradition, a body of thought with roots in Greco-Roman Egypt. Magee traces the influence on Hegel of such Hermetic thinkers as Baader, Böhme, Bruno...Trade ReviewBecause Hegel claimed to have attained wisdom rather than to be seeking it, Magee cannot count him as a philosopher... He draws evidence from both his work and his life. * Reference and Research Book News *
£21.84
MB - Cornell University Press Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle
Book SynopsisThis long-awaited reissue of the 1969 Cornell edition of Alfarabi's Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle contains Muhsin Mahdi's substantial original introduction and a new foreword by Charles E. Butterworth and Thomas L. Pangle. The three parts of the...Trade Review"Alfarabi is now considered to be the founder of Muslim philosophy, and proves to be not simply the bridge for carrying over the thought of Aristotle and Plato into Western thought but a man of great originality. . . . Muhsin Mahdi makes clear that Alfarabi is not a popularizer but a man of great subtlety of thought and one who discerns the significance of Plato unmixed with Neo-Platonic philosophy."—Choice"Alfarabi's Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle will be of incomparable value to those who are interested in the way in which the major ideas of Plato and Aristotle had been accepted, understood, and developed by the Muslim thinkers within the confines of the Islamic cultural milieu before these great philosophical ideas were introduced into the mainstream of scholastic philosophy in the West."—Philosophy East and West
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Stanford University Press The Complete Essays of Montaigne
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Stanford University Press God Death and Time Meridian Crossing Aesthetics
Book SynopsisThis book consists of transcripts from two lecture courses on ethical relation Levinas delivered at the Sorbonne. In seeking to explain his thought to students, he utilizes a clarity and an intensity altogether different from his other writings.Trade Review"Whether or not one agrees with Levinas's unique reading and criticism of Western philosophy and theology, this book must be appreciated for its radical approach to ethics and theology. It deserves careful engagement by all Christian theologians and ehticists whose common intellectual background is the very target of Levinas's criticism."—Theological Studies"This book serves as a supplement to Levinas's other works. . . . Whether or not on agrees with Levinas's unique reading and criticism of Western philosophy and theology, this book must be appreciated for its radical approach to ethics and theology. It deserves careful engagement by all Christian theologians and ethicists whose common intellectual background is the very target of Levinas's criticism."—Theological Studies"There is no other primary source that would be a more accessible introduction to Levinas's work."—Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsTranslator's Foreword; Foreword Jacques Rolland; Part I. Death and Time: Initial Questions; What do we know of death; The death of the other [D'Autrui] and my own; An obligatory passage: Heidegger; The analytic of Dasein; Dasein and death; The death and totality of Dasein; Being-toward-death as the origin of time; Death, anxiety, and fear; Time considered on the basis of death; Inside Heidegger: Bergson; The radical question: Kant against Heidegger; A reading of Kant (continued); How to think nothingness?; Hegel's response: the science of logic; Reading Hegel's science of logic (continued); From the science of logic to the phenomenology; Reading Hegel's phenomenology (continued); The scandal of death: from Hegel to Fink; Another thinking of death: Starting from Bloch; A reading of Bloch (continued); A reading of Bloch: Toward a conclusion; Thinking about death on the basis of time; To conclude: Questioning again; Part II. God and Onto-Theo-Logy: Beginning with Heidegger; Beginning and meaning; Being and world; To think God on the basics of ethics; The same and the other; The subject-object correlation; The question of subjectivity; Kant and the transcendental ideal; Signification as saying; Ethical subjectivity; Transcendence, idolatry, and secularization; Don Quixiote: bewitchment and hunger; Subjectivity as an-archy; freedom and responsibility; The ethical relationship as a departure; The extra-ordinary subjectivity of responsibility; The sincerity of the saying; Glory of the infinite and witnessing; Witnessing and ethics; From consciousness to prophetism; In praise of insomnia; Outside of experience: the Cartesian idea of the infinite; A God 'transcendent to the point of absence'; Postscript Jacques Rolland; Notes.
£21.59
Stanford University Press Being Singular Plural Meridian Crossing
Book SynopsisThis book, by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers, rethinks community and the very idea of the social. Nancy's fundamental argument is that being is always "being with," that "I" is not prior to "we," that existence is essentially co-existence.Trade Review"[An] imporatant and timely book."—Philosophy in Review"Nancy is indeed one of the most interesting thinkers in France today."—Common KnowledgeTable of ContentsPreface 1. Of being singular plural 2. War, right, sovereignty - Techne 3. Eulogy for the Mele;e 4. The surprice of the event 5. Human excess 6. Cosmos Baselius Notes.
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Zone Books Expressionism in Philosophy
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£27.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to African Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis volume of newly commissioned essays provides comprehensive coverage of African philosophy, ranging across disciplines and throughout the ages. Offers a distinctive historical treatment of African philosophy. Covers all the main branches of philosophy as addressed in the African tradition. Includes accounts of pre-colonial African philosophy and contemporary political thought. Trade Review"This collection is destined to become the classic guide to the distinctive issues of concern to African philosophers today and in the past. The essays also reveal critical challenges African philosophies raise for ‘exceptionalist’ and ‘triumphalist’ tendencies in Western philosophy. This is a lively and intriguing text for undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in many disciplines." Sandra Harding, University of California, Los Angeles "Professor Wiredu has brought together the leading scholars of African philosophy, and provided us with up-to-date assessments of such vital topics as the history of African philosophy, African philosophy and postcolonial studies, and the relationship between world view and critical thinking. This is a balanced and judicious collection that exposes the student to all the major issues and schools." Ivan Karp, Emory University "The extensive bibliography confirms the existence of African philosophy and supports the argument for its rightful place alongside other philosophies. . . The essays in this book are informative and compelling. The book is a product of commendable effort and provides its readers with much enlightenment." African Studies Review “…this Companion goes beyond evaluating African philosophy spoken, written, sung, danced, sculpted, or painted prior to itself; it becomes itself the most complete and thoughtful anthology of African thought, the area’s most valuable work published as yet.” Heythrop JournalTable of ContentsPart I: Introduction:. African Philosophy In Our Time. Part II. History:. 1. Egypt: The Ancient History Of African Philosophy: Theophile Obenga, San Francisco State University. 2. African Philosophers In The Greco-Roman Era: D. A. Masolo, University Of Louisville, Kentucky. 3. Pre-Colonial African Philosophy In Arabic: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, University Of Dakar And Northwestern University, Chicago. 4. Some Nineteenth Century African Political Thinkers: Pieter Boele Van Hensbroek, University Of Groningen, The Netherlands. 5. Africana Philosophy: Origins And Prospects: Lucius Outlaw, Vanderbilt. 6. Contemporary Anglophone African Philosophy: A Survey: Barry Hallen, Harvard And Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia. 7. Philosophy In South Africa Under And After Apartheid: Percy More, University Of Durban-Westville, South Africa. 8. Philosophy In North Africa: Mourad Wahba, Ain Shams University, Cairo. 9. The Light And The Shadow: Zera Yacob And Walda Heywat: Two Ethiopian Philosophers Of The 17th Century:. Claude Sumner, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. 10. Zara Yacob And Traditional Ethiopian Philosophy: Teodros Kiros, Dubois Institute, Harvard. 11. Wilhelm Anton Amo: 1703-1758: W. E. Abraham, University Of California, Santa Cruz. 12. Amo’s Critique Of Descartes’ Philosophy Of Mind: Kwasi Wiredu, University Of South Florida, Tampa. 13. Albert Luthuli, Steve Biko And Nelson Mandela: The Philosophical Basis Of Their Thought And Practice: Mabogo P. More, University Of Durban-Westville, South Africa. 14. Franz Fanon: 1925-1961: Teodros Kiros, Dubois Institute, Harvard. 15. Theory And The Actuality Of Existence: Fanon And Cabral: Tsenay Serequeberhan. 16. Alexis Kagame 1912 –1981: Life And Thought: Liboire Kagabo, University Of Burundi. 17. Post-Independence African Political Philosophy: Olufemi Taiwo, University Of Washington, Seattle. Part III: Methodological Issues:. 18. Some Methodological Controversies In African Philosophy: A. G. Bello, University Of Ibadan, Nigeria. 19. Sage Philosophy: Its Methodology, Results, Significance And Future: Kibuji M. Kalumba, Ball State University, Indiana. Part IV: Logic, Epistemology And Metapysics:. 20. Logic In The Acholi Language: Victor Ocaya, University Of Botswana. 21. Yoruba Moral Epistemology: Barry Hallen, Morehouse College. 22. Ifa: An Account Of A Divination System And Some Concluding Epistemological Questions: Olufemi Taiwo, Seattle University, Washington. 23. Toward A Theory Of Destiny: Segun Gbadegesin, Howard University, Washington D.C. 24. On The Normative Conception Of A Person: Ifeanyi Menkiti, Wellesley College, Ma. 25. Concepts Of A Person In Africa: A Critical Survey: Didier Kaphagawani, Chancellor College, Malawi. 26. Quasi-Materialism: A Contemporary African Philosophy Of Mind: Safro Kwame, Lincoln University, Pennsylvania. Part V: The Philosophy Of Religion:. 27. Religion In African Culture: Some Conceptual Issues: Olusegun Oladipo, University Of Ibadan, Nigeria. 28. Okot P'bitek's Critique Of Western Scholarship On African Religion: Samuel O. Imbo, Hamline University, Minnesota. 29. Islam In Africa: Examining The Notion Of An African Identity Within The Islamic World: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, University Of Dakar, And Northwestern University, Chicago. Part VI: Ethics And Aesthetics:. 30. Some African Reflections On Biomedical And Environmental Ethics: Banyuy Tangwa, University Of Cameroon. 31. Ethics And Morality In Yoruba Culture: John Bewaji, University Of West Indies. 32. Aesthetic Inquiry And The Music Of Africa: Kofi Agawu, Yale. 33. Art And Community: A Social Conception Of Beauty And Individuality: Nkiru Nzegwu, University Of New York, Binghamton. 34. The Many-Layered Aesthetics Of African Art: Ajume Wingo, University Of Massachusetts. Part VII: Politics:. 35. Government By Consensus: Analysis Of A Traditional Democracy: Wamala, Makerere University, Uganda. 36. Democracy, Kingship And Consensus: A South African Perspective: Joe Teffo, University Of The North, South Africa. 37. Fellowship Associations As Foundation Of Social Democracy In Africa: Ajume Wingo, University Of Massachusetts. 38. Economic Globalism, Deliberative Democracy And The State In Africa: George Carew. 39. Nationalism, Ethnicity And Violence: Ali Mazrui, University Of New York, Binghamton. 40. African Communalism And Western Communitarianism: A Comparison: Dismas Masolo, University Of Kentucky. 41. Human Rights In The African Context: Francis M. Deng, Brookings Institution Washington D.C. 42. The Politics Of Memory And Forgetting After Apartheid: Pieter Duvenage, University Of The North, South Africa. 43. The Question Of An African Jurisprudence: Some Hermeneutic Reflections: John Murungi, Towson State University. Part VIII: Special Topics:. 44. Knowledge As A Development Issue: Paulin Hountondji, University Of Benin. 45. African Philosophy And African Literature: Kwame Appiah, Harvard. 46. Philosophy And Literature In Francophone Africa: Jean Godefroy Bidima, Paris, Translated By Nicholas De Warren, Wellesley College, Massachusetts. 47. Feminism And Africa: Impact And Limits Of The Metaphysics Of Gender: Nkiru Nzegwu, University Of New York, Binghamton. Index
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Stanford University Press Badiou by Badiou
Book SynopsisAn accessible introduction to Badiou's key ideas In this short and accessible book, the French philosopher Alain Badiou provides readers with a unique introduction to his system of thought, summed up in the trilogy of Being and Event, Logics of Worlds, and The Immanence of Truths. Taking the form of an interview and two talks and keeping in mind a broad audience without any prior knowledge of his work, the book touches upon the central concepts and major preoccupations of Badiou's philosophy: fundamental ontology, mathematics, politics, poetry, and love. Well-chosen examples illuminate his thinking in regards to being and universality, worlds and singularity, and the infinite and the absolute, among other topics. A veritable tour de force of pedagogical clarity, this new student-friendly work is perhaps the single best general introduction to the work of this prolific and committed thinker. If, for Badiou, the task of philosophy consists in thinking through the truths of our time, the texts collected in this small volume could not be timelier.Trade Review"Badiou by Badiou synthesizes Badiou's key ideas with a personal touch, inviting readers into his presentation of what philosophy is and his highly original way of philosophizing. Badiou is brilliant at making anyone want to engage with philosophical questions."—Emily Apter, author of Unexceptional Politics"This book captures the latest developments in Alain Badiou's thought, while providing an excellent introduction for new readers. Badiou by Badiou, his most legible work, is a riveting tour of the domains of art, love, politics, and science."—Héctor Hoyos, author of Things with a History"Badiou proves himself again to be, like Socrates, a corrupter of the youth. With this clear entry point into his metaphysical project, Badiou demonstrates the dangerously transformative character of philosophy."—Jodi Dean, author of Comrade"As the 21st century shapes up to be all about ends, Badiou challenges us to think ab novo. This latest installment of his firebrand philosophy will ignite youth even among those who think its time has passed."—Joan Copjec, author of Imagine There's No WomanTable of ContentsPart One: Event, Truths, Subject Part Two: Philosophy Between Mathematics and Poetry Part Three: Ontology and Mathematics
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University of Minnesota Press Scale Theory: A Nondisciplinary Inquiry
Book SynopsisA pioneering call for a new understanding of scale across the humanities How is it possible that you are—simultaneously—cells, atoms, a body, quarks, a component in an ecological network, a moment in the thermodynamic dispersal of the sun, and an element in the gravitational whirl of galaxies? In this way, we routinely transform reality into things already outside of direct human experience, things we hardly comprehend even as we speak of DNA, climate effects, toxic molecules, and viruses. How do we find ourselves with these disorienting layers of scale? Enter Scale Theory, which provides a foundational theory of scale that explains how scale works, the parameters of scalar thinking, and how scale refigures reality—that teaches us how to think in terms of scale, no matter where our interests may lie. Joshua DiCaglio takes us on a fascinating journey through six thought experiments that provide clarifying yet provocative definitions for scale and new ways of thinking about classic concepts ranging from unity to identity. Because our worldviews and philosophies are largely built on nonscalar experience, he then takes us slowly through the ways scale challenges and reconfigures objects, subjects, and relations. Scale Theory is, in a sense, nondisciplinary—weaving together a dizzying array of sciences (from nanoscience to ecology) with discussions from the humanities (from philosophy to rhetoric). In the process, a curious pattern emerges: attempts to face the significance of scale inevitably enter terrain closer to mysticism than science. Rather than dismiss this connection, DiCaglio examines the reasons for it, redefining mysticism in terms of scale and integrating contemplative philosophies into the discussion. The result is a powerful account of the implications and challenges of scale, attuned to the way scale transforms both reality and ourselves.Trade Review "Scale Theory is an exceptionally astute and lucid remapping of the concept of scale. Working through a lively set of thought experiments, Joshua DiCaglio invents a scalar theory to move beyond conventional—often reductive and parochial—understandings of scale. From the not-so-simple conceptual and material status of objects, to questions of process, relations, and consciousness, to the scalar repercussions for subjects, experience, and the very practices of interpretation, DiCaglio delineates and performs a far-reaching scale theory for the predicaments of the present."—Peter C. van Wyck, Concordia University, Montréal "There are few more important, and few more difficult topics to study, than the role of scale in society and nature. This is why I’m so damn thankful for Joshua DiCaglio’s, Scale Theory. He assembles a clear and systematic theory of scale and then demonstrates how its practice can transform our understanding of ourselves and our perceptions of the world. It’s really more than a book; it’s a vision, a guide, and a provocation to help us better navigate a world that exceeds our capacity to understand it."—Phillip Thurtle, author of Biology in the Grid: Graphic Design and the Envisioning of Life "Enthralling."—Leonardo "DiCaglio’s evidence disrupts the frame of situated knowledge."—Science as Culture Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Learning to ScalePart I. Algorithms for a Theory of Scale1. Distance and Resolution: The First Experiential Origin of Scale2. Measurement and Perspective: The Second Experiential Origin of Scale3. Scope and Accumulation: The Third Experiential Origin of Scale4. To the Bottom: The First Thought Experiment in Scale5. From the Top: The Second Thought Experiment in Scale6. In the Scalar Simulation: The Third Thought Experiment in ScalePart II. Configurations for a Theory of Scale7. In-formations of the Whole: Scalar Configurations of Objects8. I Am the Transhuman Cosmos: Scalar Configurations of Subjects9. Cutting and Claiming Everything: Scalar Configurations of RelationsPart III. Rhetorical Technologies for a Theory of Scale10. Mapping the Vast Unknowing: The Science of Scale, the Scale of Science11. The Cosmos Seeing Itself: Representations of Scale, Scales of Representation12. Transformations by Involution: The Contemplative Practices of Scale, Scaling ContemplationAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
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Princeton University Press Philosophy of Physics
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Maudlin's book . . . should have been subtitled ‘Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Quantum Theory (But Were Afraid to Ask)’ . . . its plain presentation style makes it a good introductory book for students and non-specialists. In short, it is highly recommended for anybody interested in quantum theory." * Notre Dame Philosophy Reviews *"The book is a must for the serious reader of both philosophy and Physics."---P. R. S. Carvalho, Zentralblatt MATH
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City Lights Books Spinoza
Book SynopsisSpinoza's theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology, with a single infinite substance, and all beings as the modes of being his substance. This book, which presents Spinoza's main ideas in dictionary form, has as its subject the opposition between ethics and morality, and the link between ethical and ontological propositions. His ethics is an ethology, rather than a moral science. Attention has been drawn to Spinoza by deep ecologists such as Arne Naess, the Norwegian philosopher; and this reading of Spinoza by Deleuze lends itself to a radical ecological ethic. As Robert Hurley says in his introduction, Deleuze opens us to the idea that the elements of the different individuals we compose may be nonhuman within us. One wonders, finally, whether Man might be defined as a territory, a set of boundaries, a limit on existence. Gilles Deleuze, known for his inquiries into desire, language, politics, and power, finds a kinship between Spinoza and Nietzsche. He writes, Spinoza did not believe in hope or even in courage; he believed only in joy and in vision ...he more than any other gave me the feeling of a gust of air from behind each time I read him, of a witch's broom that he makes one mount. Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was a French philosopher whose writings influenced many philosophical disciplines such as literary theory, post-structuralism, and postmodernism. He also taught philosophy at the University of Paris at Vicennes. Robert Hurley was a translator for many French philosophers including Michael Foucault (History of Sexuality), Gilles Deleuze, and George Bataille (Theory of Religion).
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Bamboo Leaf Press Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy
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University of Minnesota Press Kierkegaard
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Self-Realization Fellowship,U.S. Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita An Introduction to
Book SynopsisTHE YOGA OF THE BHAGAVAD GITA sheds a fascinating light on the true intent of India''s beloved scripture. Yogananda shows how the warriors doing battle on the field of Kurukshetra are intended metaphorically to represent the negative tendencies of the human ego pitted against the divine qualities latent in each soul. He describes how each of us, through applying the profound wisdom of yoga, can achieve material and spiritual victory on the battlefield of daily life.This concise and inspiring new book is a compilation of selections from Paramahansa Yogananda''s in-depth, critically acclaimed - volume translation of and commentary on the Bhagavad Gita (God Talks With Arjuna). It presents truth-seekers with an ideal introduction to the Gita''s timeless and universal teachings - the liberating path of right action and meditation to achieve a permanent state of higher consciousness.Along with its companion volume The Yoga of Jesus, this book will appeal to anyone interested in the time-prov
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