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Princeton University Press Lost in Thought
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Zena Hitz, Winner of the Hiett Prize in the Humanities, The Dallas Institute""Seminary Coop's Notable Books for 2020""A London Lyceum Top Book of the Year""[In Lost in Thought] Hitz is asking the right questions. . . . The question at its heart is disarmingly simple and deeply engaging: What should we do with ourselves."---Jonathan Marks, Wall Street Journal"[An] amazing book." * MC Hammer on Twitter *"Utterly charming."---John Warner, Chicago Tribune"[Lost in Thought] proved a salutary reminder for me, and may for other readers as well, that we should try to make at least a little space . . . for the contemplative learning that drew us into the life of the mind."---James M. Lang, Chronicle of Higher Eduation"Zena Hitz’s Lost in Thought offers a passionate and powerful defense of pure intellectualism and the intrinsic value of the intellectual life."---Steven Mintz, Inside Higher Ed"An inspirational attestation of the ability of intellectual activity to dignify oppressed lives. . . . Much of this book is beautiful."---Sophie Duncan, Literary Review"Hitz’s memoir is profoundly affecting as she describes how academic life made her lose her love of learning before, finally, she found a meaningful path."---Joe Humphreys, Irish Times"Compelling. . . . you’ll probably walk away from this book, as I did, feeling that your inner life has been enlarged."---Roosevelt Montás, Wall Street Journal"Lost in Thought [is] a persuasive defense of learning and intellectual life . . . Hitz’s breadth of knowledge is on display."---Aurelian Craiutu, Los Angeles Review of Books"[Lost in Thought is] full of wonder, full of the joyful smiles of somebody who’s been saved, or saved herself, from empty toils of ledger-sheet learning. In her good-natured way, Hitz chastises the increasing commodification of intellectual endeavor. . . . This is a book to savor in your quietest reading nook. Which is very much the point."---Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Review"Everyone who cares about colleges and universities and their place in American life should read it. [Lost in Thought] confronts familiar and abiding questions about intellectual inquiry in an utterly engaging and profound way. . . . [A] wonderful book."---Flagg Taylor, National Review"In her rich and rewarding book Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life, Professor Zena Hitz argues that the goal of education is not the status or privileges it confers upon us, or even the valuable life skills it demands that we acquire. In line with classical pagan and Christian traditions, she argues that we have a natural desire to understand the world outside of us, and that a true education carefully cultivates this natural love of learning and helps to bring it to its full maturity. . . . [A] rich, timely book, a book educators and students alike would do well to read."---Jennifer A. Frey, Classical Learning Test blog"Lost in Thought [is] an examination of conscience or a manual for discernment for those who care about the intellectual life . . . Lost in Thought is the strongest case for the humanities to appear in years."---Nathaniel Peters, Public Discourse"[Zena Hitz's] account is persuasive, not least because it is personal."---Peter Costello, Irish Catholic"Part autobiography, part defense of impractical intellectualism, and part cultural lament, Lost in Thought forces us to contemplate the ways in which we might salvage thoughtfulness—perhaps not through our universities but in spite of them . . . elegant . . . Hitz’s book is a valuable opportunity."---Charles McNamara, Commonweal"In Lost in Thought, Hitz seeks to revive an appreciation for intellectual pursuit as inherently good and fundamental to human happiness. - Rachel K. Alexander, Tablet Magazine""Lost in Thought is a rhetorical case for the loveliness of learning for its own sake . . . insightful."---Pavlos Papadopoulos, Athwart.org"Very well written and referenced, this book is a reminder that pursuit of the intellectual life, broadly understood, can be of great benefit to individuals and society." * Choice *"[An] important book in which [Hitz] reminds us that the humanities are about humanity, and essentially about cultivating an inner life." * Paradigm Explorer *"One of the most interesting volumes I’ve read this year . . . Lost in Thought mounts a direct challenge to anyone who would collapse contemplative work into a mere prelude to political action, gainful employment, or any other utilitarian pursuit. The development of one’s 'contemplative side,' for lack of a better term, is an end in itself. And for Hitz, it is the cultivation of this distinctly human faculty that lays the groundwork for enduring joy and flourishing, even in the midst of dire personal circumstances."---John Ehrett, Patheos"[Lost in Thought] is best understood as a kind of intellectual pilgrim’s progress: taking us on a tour of the temptations and misunderstandings that prevent us from achieving our nature as thinking beings . . . an absorbing story . . . Lost in Thought helps us to dislodge our dreary preoccupation with transient goods by giving us a glimpse of . . . more lasting satisfactions."---Jenna Silber Storey, Real Clear Books"The best compliment I can give the author of this excellent book is to note that Lost is Thought itself counts as a perfect example of the elusive thing it tries to capture: splendidly useless yet intrinsically valuable thinking in action."---Derek van Zoonen, Nexus Instituut"[A] lovely . . . meditation . . . [in Lost in Thought] Hitz defends learning for its own sake and takes aim polemically at the canard that such learning is “elitist” or draws necessary attention away from the properly activist bent of intellectual inquiry . . . accessible [and] jargon-free."---Matt Dinan, The Hedgehog Review"Zena Hitz’s wonderful book presents a different and refreshing take on these issues. Focusing on what it means to love learning and learning for learning’s sake, she shows us how intellectual activity is part of human flourishing and is essential to our fulfilment."---Joana Correa Monteiro, Forma De Vida"[An] elegant and absorbing argument. . . .The remarkable thing about Lost in Thought is that it makes. . .rather dreary propositions not only palatable but also compelling. Hitz doesn’t just want to persuade you; she wants to win over your heart. . . .You might walk away from it with a little more clarity, a little more conviction, and a little more dedication to what really matters in your life."---Roosevelt Montás, American Political Thought
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Princeton University Press The Art of Discovery
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Zone Books The Normal and the Pathological
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Stanford University Press What Is Real?
Book SynopsisEighty years ago, Ettore Majorana, a brilliant student of Enrico Fermi, disappeared under mysterious circumstances while going by ship from Palermo to Naples. How is it possible that the most talented physicist of his generation vanished without leaving a trace? It has long been speculated that Majorana decided to abandon physics, disappearing because he had precociously realized that nuclear fission would inevitably lead to the atomic bomb. This book advances a different hypothesis. Through a careful analysis of Majorana's article "The Value of Statistical Laws in Physics and Social Sciences," which shows how in quantum physics reality is dissolved into probability, and in dialogue with Simone Weil's considerations on the topic, Giorgio Agamben suggests that, by disappearing into thin air, Majorana turned his very person into an exemplary cipher of the status of the real in our probabilistic universe. In so doing, the physicist posed a question to science that is still awaiting an answer: What is Real?
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MIT Press The Outer Limits of Reason
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Is There a God
Book SynopsisBertrand Russell famously quipped that he didn't believe in God for the same reason that he didn't believe in a teapot in orbit between the earth and Mars: it is a bizarre assertion for which no evidence can be provided. Is belief in God really like belief in Russell's teapot? Kenneth L. Pearce argues that God is no teapot. God is a real answer to the deepest question of all: why is there something rather than nothing? Graham Oppy argues that we should believe that there are none but natural causal entities with none but natural causal propertiesand hence should believe that there are no gods. Beginning from this basic disagreement, the authors proceed to discuss and debate a wide range of philosophical questions, including questions about explanation, necessity, rationality, religious experience, mathematical objects, the foundations of ethics, and the methodology of philosophy. Each author first presents his own side, and then they interact through two rounds of objections and repTrade Review"Kenneth Pearce and Graham Oppy are first-rate philosophers of religion. This book offers an engaging and fruitful dialogue between a theist and an atheist, addressing all key concepts and arguments in the contemporary debate on the existence of God. I recommend the book to all readers who are interested in studying both sides of the debate."Yujin Nagasawa, H. G. Wood Professor of the Philosophy of Religion, University of Birmingham, U.K."This exchange between Oppy and Pearce represents the finest in philosophical inquiry. Together they create a new chandelier with structure and detail as they systematically discuss questions of worldview along the cutting edge of philosophical inquiry. Their exchange is professional, productive, and elegant."Joshua Rasmussen, Department of Philosophy, Azusa Pacific University, U.S.A.Table of ContentsForeword: Worldview comparison and religious commitment, by Helen De Cruz Opening Statements 1. Classical Theism: An Exposition and Defense 2. Are There Any Gods? First Round of Replies 3. Reply to Graham Oppy’s Opening Statement4. Reply to Kenny Pearce’s Opening Statement Second Round of Replies 5. Reply to Graham Oppy's Reply 6. Reply to Kenny Pearces’s Reply
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Oxford University Press Aristotle Topics Book VI
Book SynopsisThis volume presents a new translation of Aristotle''s Topics Book VI by Annamaria Schiaparelli, accompanied by a detailed commentary and textual notes providing insight into the history of the transmission of the text with its variants. In the Topics, Aristotle aims at developing his dialectical method. He introduces the four predicables (property, genus, accident, and definition) which are necessary for the classification and application of the topoi, or commonplaces. Book VI of the Topics is entirely devoted to the discussion of definition, the most extended and refined discussion of this subject handed down to us from the classical period. The concept of definition plays a central role not only in Aristotle''s logic but also in his ontology. Issues connected with definitions emerge constantly throughout his works. Moreover, definitions are at the centre of Platonic philosophy and sparked a lively discussion in philosophy of the Hellenistic and late classical periods.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION I: The Place of the Topics in Aristotle's Corpus II: The Contents of the Topics III: The Four Predicables IV: The Classifications of the Predicables V: The Logical Relations among the Predicables VI: The Predicable Definition VII: Types of Definition and their Rules VIII: The Notion of Causality in the Topics IX: Some Prominent Themes concerning Standard Definitions X: Structure and Interpretations of Book VI of the Topics TRANSLATION COMMENTARY Notes on the Text Appendix: The Predicables Logical Relations Select Bibliography Glossary: English-Greek / Greek-English Indexes
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McGill-Queen's University Press Once upon a Time in the West Essays on the
Book SynopsisWestern civilization is over. So begins Jan Zwicky’s trenchant exploration of the roots of global cultural and ecological collapse. Once Upon a Time in the West documents how a narrow epistemological style has left us blind to critical features of reality, and how the terrifying consequences of that shuttered vision are now unfolding.Trade Review“Zwicky's distinctive voice – warm, wise, sometimes colloquial or cutting – brings together these essays on diverse topics. Her sensibility is of course poetic, but also critical in the best sense: rigorous, probing, and committed. This is an engaging and enlightening portrait of a fine thinker in action.” Mark Kingwell, University of Toronto and author of Singular Creatures: Robots, Rights, and the Politics of Posthumanism“Lyric philosophy of the highest calibre. Jan Zwicky addresses the dilemmas we as a species are faced with today with great lucidity, seamlessly weaving together a wide variety of themes from philosophy, poetry, and ecology. Anyone interested in understanding the more-than-human world and our place in it is bound to find food for thought in these beautifully written and provoking philosophical essays.” Leonor María Martínez Serrano, University of Córdoba and author of Breathing Earth: The Polyphonic Lyric of Robert Bringhurst
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Hawthorn Press Humanity on the Threshold
Book SynopsisHumanity on the Threshold focuses on strengthening human resilience though spiritual development. This lets us see beyond the normal inner and outer limits of consciousness into sound knowledge of the higher self. Deeper wonders of nature can also appear. If boundaries break down without preparation, then mental breakdowns might follow. Guidelines are suggested for working therapeutically with such issues with those experiencing threshold issues.
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Oxford University Press Perception and Idealism An Essay on How the World
Book SynopsisPerception and Idealism examines how perception makes objects manifest to us, and what the world must be like for objects to be manifest in that way. Howard Robinson argues for a version of sense-datum theory about perception and theistic phenomenalism about metaphysical reality.Trade ReviewRobinson's book is clearly and beautifully written, and argumentatively persuasive ... a refreshing blast of curative air breathed into the dank enclosures of Direct Realism, Disjunctivism and Reductive Representationalism. * David Pitt, California State University, Los Angeles *Robinson argues for a kind of idealism, providing well-organized, well-documented discussions of both early modern and recent philosophers' views on the nature of perception and its relationship to the world. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I: How the World Manifests Itself to Us 1: The Causal Argument for Sense-Data, 'Philosophers' Hallucinations', and the Disjunctive Response 2: Naïve Realism and the Argument from Illusion 3: Intentionality and Perception (I): The Fundamental irrelevance of Intentionality to Phenomenal Consciousness 4: Intentionality and Perception (II): Attempts to Articulate the 'Content' and 'Object' Distinction 5: Singular Reference and its Relation to Intentionality 6: Objectivity: How is It Possible? 7: Semantic Direct Realism, Critical Realism, and the Sense-Datum Theory 8: Building the Manifest World Part II: What the World Is, in Itself 9: The Problematic Nature of the Modern Conception of Matter 10: Two Suggestive Berkeleyan Arguments 11: Bishop Berkeley and John Foster on Problems with Physical Realism about Space 12: Mentalist Alternatives to Berkeleyan Theism, and their Failure General Conclusion
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Oxford University Press Aesthetic Testimony
Book SynopsisAesthetic judgements that are formed on the basis of testimony are commonly held to be defective, illegitimate, or otherwise problematic. This book assesses the debate surrounding aesthetic testimony and argues for the surprising conclusion that this widespread view is mistaken. Aesthetic testimony is in no way inferior as a source of judgement when compared to either first-hand aesthetic judgement or testimony concerning non-aesthetic matters. Alongside establishing this position (an extreme form of ''optimism'' concerning aesthetic testimony), Jon Robson also responds to the most prominent arguments for the opposing view (''pessimism'' concerning aesthetic testimony). Along the way, it also re-examines our understanding of the norms which govern both judgement and assertion in aesthetics.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: Optimism and Pessimism 2: Constitutive Pessimism 3: The Presumption of Optimism 4: Pessimism and the Appeal to Cases 5: Optimism and the Appeal to Cases 6: Pessimism, Assertion, and Signalling 7: The Debate Concerning Assertion
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Oxford University Press Two Arguments for the Identity of Indiscernibles
Book SynopsisGonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra presents two arguments for the principle that no two objects can differ only numerically. He shows that the principle cannot be reduced to a triviality, and that restricted versions concerning only qualitative propeties face problems.Trade ReviewThe book contains four new arguments about the Identity of Indiscernibles. * MathSciNet *
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Oxford University Press Movements of the Mind
Book SynopsisMovements of the Mind is about what it is to be an agent. Focusing on mental agency, it integrates multiple approaches, from philosophical analysis of the metaphysics of agency to the activity of neurons in the brain. Philosophical and empirical work are combined to generate concrete explanations of key features of the mind. The book should be relevant and accessible to philosophers and scientists interested in mind and agency.Wu argues that actions have a core psychological structure where attention plays a necessary role in guiding the agent''s response and intentions function as memory for work, a practical memory. Attention and memory are accordingly central parts of an agent''s intentionally doing things. These claims are supported by synthesizing philosophical and empirical work to produce a theory of intention and attention in action. The account explains three phenomena of current philosophical interest: (a) the basis of positively and negatively biased action where attention often leads to implicit bias, (b) the dynamics of deductive reasoning as the focusing of a thinker''s cognitive attention and the development of cognitive skills, and (c) the psychology of introspective access to conscious perceptual experience, making clear when introspection can intelligibly fail and when it can succeed.The book provides a theory of agency, whether human or non-human, along with technical notions of automaticity and control, a theory of attention as selection to guide behavior, an account of intention as memory whose dynamics are revealed in empirical investigation of working memory, explications of sustained attention and vigilance, an explanation of biased behavior driven by biases on attention, normative aspects of attention as a skill, the role of learning in cognitive skill, a theory of deduction as a sharpening of attention, and a psychologically plausible model of introspection that speaks to its accuracy and reliability.Trade ReviewThis book puts forward a theory of action. It synthesises Wayne Wu's extensive work on action and attention going back over a decade, and also substantially extends this foundation... The result is excellent. The book is wide-ranging, systematic, very original, and crammed full of interesting ideas. It draws together scientific work with philosophical argumentation in a way that is both rigorous and unusually readable. I have no doubt that it will be important to thinkers interested in action and attention, as well as philosophers of cognitive science more generally. * Henry Taylor, University of Birmingham, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I 1: The Structure of Acting Appendix 1 2: Attention and Attending Part II 3: Intention as Practical Memory 4: Intending as Practical Remembering Part III 5: Automatic Bias, Experts and Amateurs 6: Deducing, Skill and Knowledge 7: Introspecting Perceptual Experience Epilogue Bibliography
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Oxford University Press The Tinkering Mind Agency Cognition and the
Book SynopsisEpistemic agency is a crucial concept in many areas of philosophy and cognitive sciences. But what is it? The Tinkering Mind argues that epistemic agency has two distinct, incompatible definitions - intentional mental action, or a distinct non-voluntary form of evaluative agency, both of which lead to surprising, counterintuitive consequences.
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Oxford University Press Inc Racial Climates Ecological Indifference An
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDeveloping an ecointersectional analysis, Tuana (philosophy, women's studies, Pennsylvania State Univ.) has produced an elegant, meticulously crafted, deep, and yet accessible text on how racism is entangled in the environmental justice movement. * Choice *Table of ContentsChapter 1 - The Interlocking Domains of Racism and Ecological Indifference Chapter 2 - Racial Climates Chapter 3 - Climate Apartheid: The Forgetting of Race Chapter 4 - Through the Eye of a Hurricane Chapter 5 - Weathering the Climate Conclusion - Cultivating Anthropocenean Sensibilities Acknowledgements References Index
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Oxford University Press By the Light of the Moon
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Oxford University Press Beyond Concepts
Book SynopsisRuth Garrett Millikan presents a highly original account of cognition - of how we get to grips with the world in thought. The question at the heart of her book is Kant''s ''How is knowledge possible?'', but answered from a contemporary naturalist standpoint. The starting assumption is that we are evolved creatures that use cognition as a guide in dealing with the natural world, and that the natural world is roughly as natural science has tried to describe it. Very unlike Kant, then, we must begin with ontology, with a rough understanding of what the world is like prior to cognition, only later developing theories about the nature of cognition within that world and how it manages to reflect the rest of nature. And in trying to get from ontology to cognition we must traverse another non-Kantian domain: questions about the transmission of information both through natural signs and through purposeful signs including, especially, language. Millikan makes a number of innovations. Central to the book is her introduction of the ideas of unitrackers and unicepts, whose job is to recognize the same again as manifested through the jargon of experience. She offers a direct reference theory for common nouns and other extensional terms; a naturalist sketch of conceptual development; a theory of natural information and of language function that shows how properly functioning language carries natural information; a novel description of the semantics/pragmatics distinction; a discussion of perception as translation from natural informational signs; new descriptions of indexicals, demonstratives and intensional contexts; and a new analysis of the reference of incomplete descriptions.Trade ReviewBeyond Concepts is an impressive work of systematic philosophy. * Mikio Akagi, The Philosophical Quarterly *This book is a great philosophical achievement. The breadth and originality of Millikan's view are remarkable. She shows how a naturalistic approach can provide a fresh perspective on central philosophical puzzles and puts forward several new ideas that will engender lively debates. The systematic character of her work is especially impressive - Millikan tackles many different themes, but the various components of her account fit together beautifully and mutually support each other. This book has much to offer to both those already familiar with her work and new readers. * Andrea Onofri, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Brilliant. * Geoffrey Pullum, Chronicle of Higher Education *Table of ContentsPart I 0: Introduction to Part I 1: A Clumpy World 2: Direct Reference for Extensional Terms 3: Introducing Unitrackers and Unicepts 4: Functions of Same-Tracking 5: How Unicepts Get Their Referents 6: Misrepresentation, Redundancy, Equivocity, Emptiness (and Swampman) 7: Some Implications Part II 8: Introduction to Part II 9: Indexicals and Self-Signs 10: An Anatomy of Signs 11: Infosigns and Natural Information 12: Intentional Signs 13: Linguistic Signs 14: Perception, Especially Perception through Language 15: Markers of Identity and Grounded Infosigns 16: Out-side Pragmatics: Descriptions, Quantifiers, Directives Glossary
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Oxford University Press Intuition
Book SynopsisWe know about our immediate environment--about the people, animals, and things around us--by having sensory perceptions. According to a tradition that traces back to Plato, we know about abstract reality--about mathematics, morality, and metaphysics--by having intuitions, which can be thought of as intellectual perceptions. The rough idea behind the analogy is this: while sensory perceptions are experiences that purport to, and sometimes do, reveal how matters stand in concrete reality by making us aware of that reality through the senses, intuitions are experiences that purport to, and sometimes do, reveal how matters stand in abstract reality by making us aware of that reality through the intellect. In this book, Elijah Chudnoff elaborates and defends such a view of intuition. He focuses on the experience of having an intuition, on the justification for beliefs that derives from intuition, and on the contact with abstract reality via intuition. In the course of developing a systematic account of the phenomenology, epistemology, and metaphysics of intuition on which it counts as a form of intellectual perception Chudnoff also takes up related issues such as the a priori, perceptual justification and knowledge, concepts and understanding, inference, mental action, and skeptical challenges to intuition.Trade ReviewChudnoff's treatments of various mental phenomena are phenomenologically astute, epistemologically nuanced, and metaphysically robust . . . Intuition deserves praise as a creative, rigorous, ambitious, and sensitive contribution to our collective effort to understand the nature and scope of our intellectual powers, including those powers ascribed by Platonic rationalists. * John Bengson, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsPART 1: INTUITION EXPERIENCE; PART 2: INTUITIVE JUSTIFICATION; PART 3: INTUITIVE KNOWLEDGE
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Oxford University Press Possibility of Inquiry
Book SynopsisGail Fine presents an original interpretation of a compelling puzzle in ancient philosophy. Meno''s Paradox, which is first formulated in Plato''s Meno, challenges the very possibility of inquiry. Plato replies with the theory of recollection, according to which we all had prenatal knowledge of some range of things, and what we call inquiry involves recollecting what we previously knew; he also illustrates this with his famous cross-examination of an untutored slave about a geometry problem, whose solution the slave is able to discover through inquiry. Hence, contrary to the paradox, inquiry is possible after all. Plato is not the only philosopher to grapple with Meno''s Paradox: so too do Aristotle, the Epicureans, the Stoics, and Sextus. How do their various replies compare with one another, and with Plato''s? How good are any of their replies? In a fascinating fragment preserved in Damascius'' Commentary on the Phaedo, Plutarch briefly considers these questions (though for obvious chronological reasons he doesn''t discuss Sextus). But Fine''s book is the first full-length systematic treatment of the paradox and responses to it. Among the topics discussed are the nature of knowledge; how knowledge differs from mere true belief; the nature of inquiry; varieties of innatism; concepts and meaning; the scope and limits of experience. The Possibility of Inquiry will be of interest to anyone interested in ancient epistemology, in ancient philosophy, or in epistemology.Trade ReviewGail Fine's excellent book is a rich and sophisticated examination of an ancient epistemological puzzle first stated in Plato's Meno . . . This book is an example of philosophically informed scholarship at its very best. It is essential reading for anyone with interests in any aspect of ancient epistemology. * David Bronstein, Mind *Table of Contents1: Introduction Part I: Plato's Meno 2: The Origins of the Problem 3: Meno's Questions and Socrates' Dilemma 4: Socrates' Three-Stage Reply: the First and Second Stages 5: The Third Stage: the Second Statement of The Theory of Recollection Part II: Aristotle and After 6: Aristotelian Inquiry 7: Epicurean Inquiry 8: Stoic Inquiry 9: Plutarch's Account 10: Sceptical inquiry: Sextus and the Stoics 11: Sceptical Inquiry: Sextus and the Epicureans Bibliography Index Locorum Index Nominum General Index
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Oxford University Press Oxford Studies in Metaethics Volume 18
Book SynopsisOxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field. Its broad purview includes work being done at the intersections of ethical theory with metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. The essays included in the series provide an excellent basis for understanding recent developments in the field; those who would like to acquaint themselves with the current state of play in metaethics would do well to start here.Table of ContentsList of Contributors Introduction 1: David Sobel and Steven Wall: The Objectivist Attempt to Appropriate Subjective Value 2: Claire Kirwin: Value Realism and Idiosyncrasy 3: Matthew Chrisman: Inferentialism as an Alternative to Expressivism 4: Jamie Fritz: Unfitting Absent Emotion 5: Thomas Schmidt: How Reasons Determine Moral Requirements 6: Alison Hills: The Normativity of Aesthetics 7: Antti Kauppinen: The Epistemic vs. The Practical 8: Elise Woodard: Epistemic Atonement 9: Eric Sampson: Moorean Arguments against the Error Theory: A Defense 10: Declan Smithies: The Problem of Morally Repugnant Beliefs
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Clarendon Press Hegel and the Transformation of Philosophical
Book SynopsisWilliam F. Bristow presents an original and illuminating study of Hegel''s hugely influential but notoriously difficult Phenomenology of Spirit. Hegel describes the method of this work as a ''way of despair'', meaning thereby that the reader who undertakes its inquiry must be open to the experience of self-loss through it. Whereas the existential dimension of Hegel''s work has often been either ignored or regarded as romantic ornamentation, Bristow argues that it belongs centrally to Hegel''s attempt to fulfil a demanding epistemological ambition. With his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant expressed a new epistemological demand with respect to rational knowledge and presented a new method for meeting this demand. Bristow reconstructs Hegel''s objection to Kant''s Critical Philosophy, according to which Kant''s way of meeting the epistemological demand of philosophical critique presupposes subjectivism, that is, presupposes the restriction of our knowledge to things as they are merely for us. Whereas Hegel in his early Jena writings rejects Kant''s critical project altogether on this basis, he comes to see that the epistemological demand expressed in Kant''s project must be met. Bristow argues that Hegel''s method in the Phenomenology of Spirit takes shape as his attempt to meet the epistemological demand of Kantian critique without presupposing subjectivism. The key to Hegel''s transformation of Kant''s critical procedure, by virtue of which subjectivism is to be avoided, is precisely the existential or self-transformational dimension of Hegel''s criticism, the openness of the criticizing subject to being transformed through the epistemological procedure.Trade ReviewWilliam Bristow has written a superb book... [it] is a brilliant defence of Hegel, indispensable reading for anyone interested in Kant and Hegel, and in Kantian and Hegelian themes in contemporary philosophy. It also presents a breathtaking vision of epistemology. * Paul Franks, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Table of ContentsPART I HEGEL'S OBJECTION ; PART II HEGEL'S TRANSFORMATION OF CRITIQUE
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The University of Chicago Press Conquest of Abundance A Tale of Abstraction
Book Synopsis"Conquest of Abundance" was prepared from drafts of the manuscript left at the author's death, working notes, lectures and articles Feyerabend wrote while the larger work was in progress. It offers up exploration and insights with the charm, and sense of mischief that are his hallmarks.Table of ContentsA note on the editing; Part one: The unfinished manuscript; introduction 1 Achilles' conjecture; 2 xenophanes; 3 Parmenides and the logic of being interlude: On the ambiguity of interpretations; 4 Brunelleschi and the invention of perspective; Part Two: Essays on the manuscript's themes; 1 realism and the historicity of knowledge; 2 has the scientific view of the world a special status compared with other views?; 3 quantum theory and our view of the world; 4 realism; 5 historical comments on realism; 6 what reality? 7 Aristotle. Part contents.
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The University of Chicago Press Embodiment of Reason Kant On Spirit Generation Community Kant on Spirit Generation and Community
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Indiana University Press Bodily Natures
Book SynopsisThe intimate connection between bodies and the environmentTrade ReviewAlaimo offers new insights into feminist thought and theory. Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self is sure to appeal to many students and scholars of literary studies and critical theory. * New Books in Critical Theory *Bodily Natures showcases the distinctive contribution that an ecocritic can make to the field. * Enviromental Ethics *This is a book that should be read by anyone—scholars, students, readers, and anyone else with a body—for it is a marvelous contribution to environmental thinking and to human culture more broadly. December 1, 2010 * American Book Review *Table of Contents1. Bodily Natures2. Eros and X-Rays: Bodies, Class, and "Environmental Justice" 3. Invisible Matters: The Sciences of Environmental Justice4. Material Memoirs: Science, Autobiography, and the Substantial Self5. Deviant Agents: The Science, Culture, and Politics of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity6. Genetics, Material Agency, and the Evolution of Posthuman Environmental Ethics in Recent Science FictionNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Bertrand Russells Theory of Knowledge Routledge Library Editions Russell
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Bertrand Russell On Education Routledge Library Editions Russell
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Cambridge University Press The Empire of Chance
Book SynopsisThe Empire of Chance tells how quantitative ideas of chance transformed the natural and social sciences, as well as daily life, in the last three centuries. It connects the earliest applications of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays into law, medicine polling and baseball.Trade Review'The book provides a welcome introduction to the main historical themes of probability, statistics and inference. It is, at the same time, impressive in its range and subject-matter and in its depth of analysis.' The Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Classical probabilities, 1660–1840; 2. Statistical probabilities, 1820–1900; 3. The inference experts; 4. Chance and life: controversies in modern biology; 5. The probabilistic revolution in physics; 6. Statistics of the mind; 7. Numbers rule the world; 8. The implications of chance; References; Name index; Subject index.
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Cambridge University Press Kant and the Metaphysics of Causality
Book SynopsisThis is a book about Kant's views on causality as understood in their proper historical context. Eric Watkins argues that a grasp of Leibnizian and anti-Leibnizian thought in eighteenth-century Germany helps one to see how the Critical Kant argued for causal principles that have both metaphysical and epistemological elements.Trade Review'… an interesting and important work, which could be one of the two or three most significant works on Kant's theoretical philosophy to be published in the last decade.' Paul Guyer, University of PennsylvaniaTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Causality in Context: 1. Pre-established harmony versus physical influx; 2. Kant's pre-critical theory of causality; Part II. Causality in the Critical Period: 3. Kant's second and third analogies of experience; 4. Kant's model of causality; Part III. Causality and Consequences: 5. The metaphysics of freedom; 6. Kant's reply to Hume: historical and contemporary considerations.
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Cambridge University Press Schleiermacher
Book SynopsisThis volume offers a new translation of the founding text of modern hermeneutics, together with related writings on secular hermeneutics and on language, and an introduction that places the texts in the context of Schleiermacher's philosophy as a whole.Trade Review"This is a most welcome and much needed edition..." Religious Studies ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction; Chronology; Further reading; Note on the text and the translation; 1. Hermeneutics and criticism; 2. General hermeneutics; 3. Schematism and language; Index.
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Silent Sidekick LLC dba Sidekick Press What Do I Know
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Cambridge University Press The Philosophy of Mind
Book SynopsisA deep concern with consciousness and intentionality is one of the several things that has lately moved into the centre of the philosophy of mind. The issue of consciousness is often treated as something distinct from intentionality, but as Tim Crane notes in his incisive new Foreword there is now something of a sea-change. This classic volume may be at least partly responsible for the shift in how philosophy of mind is starting to be understood. Before its first appearance, discussions of consciousness and intentionality in the context of perception were in their infancy. The book was a departure from the way this part of philosophy was conceived. It pointed to new ways to look at the discipline, addressing both the epistemology of mind, and intentionality and consciousness, especially in connection with perception. Showcasing many leading figures in the field, it offers a splendid overview of the issues at stake.Table of ContentsForeword Tim Crane; Introduction Anthony O'Hear; 1. The mind–body problem after fifty years Jaegwon Kim; 2. How to find the neural correlate of consciousness Ned Block; 3. Embodiment and the philosophy of mind Andy Clark; 4. Folk psychology and mental simulation Martin Davies and Tony Stone; 5. Understanding other minds from the inside Jane Heal; 6. Self-knowledge: The wittgensteinian legacy Crispin Wright; 7. Joint attention and the first-person John Campbell; 8. Consciousness as existence Ted Honderich; 9. Setting things before the mind M. G. F. Martin; 10. Perceptual intentionality. Attention and consciousness Naomi Eilan; 11. Experience and reason in perception Bill Brewer; 12. Intentionality as the mark of the mental Tim Crane; 13. Intentionality and interpretation Gregory Mcculloch; 14. Externalism and norms Cynthia Macdonald; 15. Mind, world and value Michael Morris; 16. Mind, knowledge and reality: Themes from kant Quassim Cassam; 17. The modality of freedom Christopher Peacocke; 18. Dualism in action Jennifer Hornsby.
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Cambridge University Press Wisdom
Book SynopsisThis Element addresses questions regarding the nature and acquisition of wisdom by developing and defending a skill theory of wisdom. It develops this theory and defends it against two objections to the effect that there are asymmetries between wisdom and skill.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. A Skill Theory of Wisdom Presented: 1. Wisdom as knowing how to live well; Part II. The Theory Developed: 2. Wisdom and knowing the whys; 3. Wisdom and knowing what matters; Part III. The Theory Defended: 4. The deliberation objection: deliberation about final ends; 5. The feedback objection: feedback for skill acquisition; Conclusion; Appendix; References.
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Cambridge University Press Philosophy of Cosmology and Astrophysics
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Cambridge University Press Modelling Scientific Communities
Book SynopsisThis Element will overview research using models to understand scientific practice. It argues that while these models are epistemically useful, the best way to employ most of them to understand and improve science is in combination with empirical methods and other sorts of theorizing.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The credit economy; 3. The natural selection of science; 4. Social networks and scientific knowledge; 5. Epistemic landscapes; 6. The replication crisis and methodological reform; 7. The replication crisis and methodological reform; Bibliography.
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Cambridge University Press Abstractionism
Book SynopsisThe aim of this Element is to provide an overview of abstractionism in the philosophy of mathematics. The authors distinguish between mathematical abstractionism, which interprets mathematical theories on the basis of abstraction principles, and philosophical abstractionism, which attributes a philosophical significance to mathematical abstractionism. They then survey the main semantic, ontological, and epistemological theses that are associated with philosophical abstractionism. Finally, the authors suggest that the most recent developments in the debate pull abstractionism in different directions.
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Cambridge University Press KnowledgeFirst Epistemology
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Cambridge University Press Climate Science
Book SynopsisThis Element examines how climate scientists have arrived at answers to three key questions about climate change: How much is earth''s climate warming? What is causing this warming? What will climate be like in the future? Resources from philosophy of science are employed to analyse the methods that climate scientists use to address these questions and the inferences that they make from the evidence collected. Along the way, the analysis contributes to broader philosophical discussions of data modelling and measurement, robustness analysis, explanation, and model evaluation.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science
Book SynopsisIn bringing together a global community of philosophers, Global Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science develops novel perspectives on epistemology and philosophy of science by demonstrating how frameworks from academic philosophy (e.g. standpoint theory, social epistemology, feminist philosophy of science) and related fields (e.g. decolonial studies, transdisciplinarity, global history of science) can contribute to critical engagement with global dimensions of knowledge and science. Global challenges such as climate change, food production, and infectious diseases raise complex questions about scientific knowledge production and its interactions with local knowledge systems and social realities. As academic philosophy provides relatively little reflection on global negotiations of knowledge, many pressing scientific and societal issues remain disconnected from core debates in epistemology and philosophy of science. This book is an invitation to broaden agendTable of ContentsIntroduction: Reimagining Epistemology and Philosophy of Science from a Global PerspectivePart I: Rethinking Philosophical Practices1. Philosophy or Philosophies? Epistemology or Epistemologies? 2. Linguistic diversity in Philosophy3. Anti-colonial Feminisms and Their Philosophies of Science: Latin American Issues4. Philosophy of Science in China: Politicized, De-politicized, and Re-politicized5. Experimental PhilosophyPart II: Reconfiguring Scientific Methods6. Developing transdisciplinary practices: an interplay between disagreement and trust 7. Sustainability science as a management science: Beyond the natural-social divide8. "Science Must Fall" and the Call for Decolonization in South Africa 9. Structural Epistemic (In)Justice in Global Contexts10. Excess and indigenous worldview: Philosophising on the problem of method 11. Radical Alterity, Representation, and the Ontological TurnPart III: Negotiating Science in/with Society12. The Democratization of Science13. Science and Values – Multi-Strategic Research and Traditional Saberes14. Science and industry funding15. Innovationism North and South16. Post-truth and science: looking beyond the Global NorthPart IV: Situating the Living World17. Environmental Thinking in African Philosophy: A Defence of Biocentrism using the notion of Nma Ndu18. Cultural Evolution: A Case Study in Global Epistemologies of Science19. What is an appropriate philosophy of human science for 21st century indigenous psychologies?20. On local medical traditions21. Revisiting the question of race and biology in the South African social sciencesPart V: Reimagining Abstract and Physical Worlds22. Philosophical Cartography23. Modelling the apparent spread of science: Some insights from the history of science in Japan24. Buddhist Logic from a Global Perspective 25. Perspectives on the Indian Mathematical Tradition 26. Science as craftwork with integrity Postscript
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Taylor & Francis Ltd What is this thing called Metaethics
Book SynopsisWhat makes something morally right? Where do our ethical standards come from? Are they relative to cultures or timeless and universal? Are there any objective moral facts? What is goodness? If there are moral facts, how do we learn about them? What do we mean when we say someone ought to do something? These are all questions in metaethics, the branch of ethics that investigates the status of morality, the nature of ethical value, the possibility of ethical knowledge, and the meaning of ethical statements. To the uninitiated it can appear abstract and far removed from its two more concrete cousins, ethical theory and applied ethics, yet it is one of the fastest-growing and most exciting areas of ethics.What is this thing called Metaethics? demystifies this important subject and is ideal for students coming to it for the first time. Beginning with a brief overview of metaethics and the development of a conceptual toolkit, Matthew Chrisman introduces and assesses the follTrade ReviewPraise for the First Edition:'This is an outstanding introductory text that combines clear, concise, and detailed coverage of all of the traditional metaethical positions, with original and distinctive treatments of new developments in metaethics, and with a fascinating discussion of how metaethical thinking relates to more broadly normative issues. It will be an excellent resource for students and their teachers alike.' - Michael Brady, University of Glasgow, UKTable of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition Introduction 1. Four Key Issues 2. Naturalism 3. Nonnaturalism 4. Error Theory and Fictionalism 5. Expressivism 6. Summary and Chart 7. Theories That Are Hard to Classify in Traditional Terms 8. Refocusing Metaethics? Glossary of Terms Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Unpacking Sensitive Research
Book SynopsisThe term sensitive research' is applied to a wide range of issues and settings. It is used to denote projects that may involve risk to people, stigmatising topics, and/or require a degree of sensitivity on behalf of the researcher. Rather than take the notion of sensitive research' for granted, this collection unpacks and challenges what the term means. This book is a collective endeavour to reflect on research practices around sensitive research', providing in-depth explorations about what this label means to different researchers, how it is done including the need to be sensitive as a researcher and what impacts this has on methods and knowledge creation. The book includes chapters from researchers who have explored a diverse range of research topics, including sex and sexuality, death, abortion, and learning disabilities, from several disciplinary perspectives, including sociology, anthropology, health services research and interdisciplinary work. The researchers includeTable of Contents1. Introduction: Unpacking sensitive research: a stimulating exploration of an established concept Part 1: Unpacking ‘sensitivity’: the tyranny of established definitions 2. What is ‘sensitive’ about sensitive research? The sensitive researchers’ perspective 3. Relatively normal? Navigating emergent sensitivity in generating and analysing accounts of ‘normality’ 4. Involving young people with life-limiting conditions in research on sex: the intersections of taboo and vulnerability Part 2: ‘Sensitive’ Ethics in action: Research encounters and 'Whose research is this anyway'? 5. Reflecting on asynchronous internet mediated focus groups for researching culturally sensitive issues 6. ‘Working together is like a partnership of entangled knowledge’: exploring the sensitivities of doing participatory data analysis with people with learning disabilities 7. Difficult data: reflections on making knowledge claims in a turmoil of competing subjectivities, sensibilities and sensitivities Part 3: ‘The ideal sensitive researcher’: reflexivity, internalisation and the cost to self? 8. Internalising ‘sensitivity’: vulnerability, reflexivity and death research(ers) 9. Researching perinatal death: managing the myriad of emotions in the field 10. ‘Men, we just deal with it differently’: researching sensitive issues with young men 11. The performance of researching sensitive issues
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Philosophical Essays on Divine Causation
Book SynopsisThis book discusses various aspects of God's causal activity. Traditional theology has long held that God acts in the world and interrupts the normal course of events by performing special acts. Although the tradition is unified in affirming that God does create, conserve, and act, there is much disagreement about the details of divine activity. The chapters in this book fruitfully explore these disagreements about divine causation.The chapters are divided into two sections. The first explores historical views of divine causal activity from the Pre-Socratics to Hume. The second section addresses a variety of contemporary issues related to God's causal activity. These chapters include defenses of the possibility of special acts of God, proposals of models of divine causation, and analyses of divine conservation.Philosophical Essays on Divine Causation will be of interest to researchers and graduate students working in philosophy of religion, philosophicTrade Review"Divine causation and divine agency are crucially important topics in theology and philosophy of religion, and Ganssle’s collection provides both excellent discussions of key historical views and some important proposals on contemporary controversies. Highly recommended for both philosophers of religion and theologians." – William Hasker, Huntington University, USATable of ContentsIntroductionGregory E. Ganssle1. Divine Causal Agency in Classical Greek PhilosophyDonald J. Zeyl2. Divine Causality according to Neo-PlatonismPhillip S. Cary3. Aquinas on Divine Causality W. Matthews Grant4. Three Competing Views of God’s Causation of Creaturely Actions: Aquinas, Scotus and OliviGloria Frost5. Durand and Suarez on Divine CausationJacob Tuttle6. Descartes on Voluntary Action and Universal ConservationJoel Archer and C. P. Ragland7. Leibniz on Divine Causation: Continuous Creation and Concurrence Without Occasionalism Julia Jorati8. Berkeley on Divine Human Agency: A Teleological ReconstrualJames S. Spiegel9. What Hume didn’t Notice about Divine Causation Timothy Yenter10. Defending Special Divine ActsRobert A. Larmer11. Divine Sustaining Causes and the Mind-Body ProblemAngus J. L. Menuge12. Neo-Aristotelian Accounts of Divine CreationPaul M. Gould13. Theistic Conferralism: Consolidating Divine sustenance and Trope Theory Robert K. Garcia14. The Timing of Divine Conservation: Pushes, Nudges, and Merry-go-roundsDavid Vander Laan15. Divine Causation and the Pairing ProblemGregory E. Ganssle
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Taylor & Francis What is Wisdom and Can it be Taught
Book SynopsisWhat is Wisdom and Can it be Taught? uses careful theoretical analysis and a well-argued ontological conception of the human being to present a new âHolistic Wisdom Modelâ, summarizing existing research and presenting fresh insights.Human wisdom is a complex phenomenon. Psychological research in this area has led to a wide range of fragmentary claims and models, and therefore there is a need for theoretical clarification of the field: What is wisdom? How should we study it in the first place? Is it a purely psychological phenomenon, or do we also need philosophy? This book examines these questions, as well as provides a pedagogical review of wisdom to evaluate how people become wise(r) and whether wisdom can be taught. Drawing on findings from a range of educational fields, it shows the crucial features of wisdom-enhancing pedagogies we already know, which are summarized in a âTeaching for Wisdom Modelâ.Written by leading, interdisciplinary scholars, this book illuminates the study of wisdom for researchers, academics, teachers, and students of psychology, philosophy, and education.
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Cambridge University Press Representation and Scepticism from Aquinas to
Book SynopsisIn this book Han Thomas Adriaenssen offers the first comparative exploration of the sceptical reception of representationalism in medieval and early modern philosophy. Descartes is traditionally credited with inaugurating a new kind of scepticism by saying that the direct objects of perception are images in the mind, not external objects, but Adriaenssen shows that as early as the thirteenth century, critics had already found similar problems in Aquinas's theory of representation. He charts the attempts of philosophers in both periods to grapple with these problems, and shows how in order to address the challenges of scepticism and representation, modern philosophers in the wake of Descartes often breathed new life into old ideas, remoulding them in ways that we are just beginning to understand. His book will be valuable for historians interested in the medieval background to early modern thought, and to medievalists looking at continuity with the early modern period.Trade Review'Adriaenssen's rich and detailed study, which carefully evaluates the extant literature (in English, German, French and Italian) and offers subtle interpretations of difficult texts, makes a real contribution to the research on medieval and early modern theories of cognition. It will be indispensable reading for students and scholars working on this topic.' Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. The Veil of Species: 1. Through species to the world. Aquinas and Henry of Ghent; 2. Perception without intermediaries. Olivi's critique of species; 3. Direct realism about perception and beyond. Auriol and Ockham; Part II. The Veil of Cartesian Ideas: 4. Transformations of Cartesianism. Malebranche and Arnauld; 5. Ideas and objects in Desgabets's radical Cartesianism; 6. The solid philosophy of John Sergeant; Part III. Representations and Scepticism: 7. From representation to object; 8. Criteriological problems; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Interpreting Bergson
Book SynopsisBergson was a pre-eminent European philosopher of the early twentieth century and his work covers all major branches of philosophy. This volume of essays is the first collection in twenty years in English to address the whole of Bergson''s philosophy, including his metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of life, aesthetics, ethics, social and political thought, and religion. The essays explore Bergson''s influence on a number of different fields, and also extend his thought to pressing issues of our time, including philosophy as a way of life, inclusion and exclusion in politics, ecology, the philosophy of race and discrimination, and religion and its enduring appeal. The volume will be valuable for all who are interested in this important thinker and his continuing relevance.Trade Review'This collection presents new and promising interpretations of Henri Bergson, revealing the reach of his thought into political science, sociology, aesthetics, and religious studies. Academic readers across the humanities and social sciences will find them accessible and provocative.' Michael Kelly, University of San Diego'In its choice of the most innovative topics in research on Bergson, this book presents an original and at the same time very rich spectrum of the last twenty years of research … Even though they draw on the most canonical texts, the various contributions present highly original interpretations of Bergson's oeuvre and highlight its enduring fertility.' Société des Amis de Bergson Newsletter'This collection is extremely thought-provoking and an excellent resource for scholars as well as students already familiar with his work.' Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews'Critical Essays is an extraordinary contribution to scholarship on Bergson and the history of philosophy and science.' John R. Bagby, MetascienceTable of ContentsIntroduction Alexandre Lefebvre and Nils F. Schott; 1. Bergson's theory of truth Arnaud François; 2. What was 'serious philosophy' for the young Bergson? Giuseppe Bianco; 3. Bergson and naturalism Stéphane Madelrieux; 4. Bergson on the true intellect Leonard Lawlor; 5. Bergson's philosophy of art Mark Sinclair; 6. Bergson, time, and philosophies of life Suzanne Guerlac; 7. Bergson and philosophy as a way of life Keith Ansell-Pearson; 8. Bergson and social theory Alexandre Lefebvre and Melanie White; 9. Bergson and political theory Richard Vernon; 10. Bergson, colonialism, and race Mark Westmoreland; 11. Bergson's philosophy of religion Nils F. Schott.
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Cambridge University Press Scientific Progress
Book SynopsisThis Element extensively surveys the contemporary debate on answering the question of what constitutes cognitive scientific progress. It provides a critical summary of the key literature on the issue over the past fifteen years. It proposes an anti-realist answer to questions whose standards are ultimately subjective.Table of Contents1. The contemporary debate on scientific progress: what constitutes cognitive progress?; 2. On second order cognitive goodness makers: the aim(s) of science; 3. Inventing cognitive progress: a subjectivist, quasi-error theoretic, view; References.
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Palgrave MacMillan UK The Palgrave Kant Handbook Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism
Trade ReviewSelected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2018“A new generation of Kant scholars is on the rise, and this beautifully printed and consummately edited scholarly collection announces their ascendancy with distinctive fanfare. … The essays are extremely readable, impeccably annotated, and abundantly resourceful, so they will be useful both for novice readers finding their way through Kant’s notoriously difficult thicket of concepts and for established scholars seeking reference points sure to spark renewed debate. … Researchers in particular will find this book a critical touchstone.” (J. G. Moore, Choice, Vol. 55 (12), August, 2018)Table of ContentsContents Series Editor’s Preface Preface Notes on Contributors Note on Sources and Key to Abbreviations Introduction: Kant the Revolutionary: Matthew C. Altman Part I. Biographical and Historical Background 1. Kant’s Life: Steve Naragon 2. Kant and His Philosophical Context: The Reception and Critical Transformation of the Leibnizian-Wolffian Philosophy: Manuel Sánchez-Rodríguez Part II. Metaphysics and Epistemology 3. Transcendental Idealism: What and Why?: Paul Guyer 4. Noumenal Ignorance: Why, for Kant, Can’t We Know Things in Themselves?: Alejandro Naranjo Sandoval and Andrew Chignell 5. Kant’s Concept of Cognition and the Key to the Whole Secret of Metaphysics: Chong-Fuk Lau 6. Apperception, Self-Consciousness, and Self-Knowledge in Kant: Dennis Schulting Part III. Logic 7. The Place of Logic within Kant’s Philosophy: Clinton Tolley Part IV. Relation between Theoretical and Practical Reason 8. The Primacy of Practical Reason: Ralph C. S. Walker 9. A Practical Account of Kantian Freedom: Matthew C. Altman 10. Moral Skepticism and the Critique of Practical Reason: David Zapero Part V. Ethics 11. How a Kantian Decides What to Do: Allen W. Wood 12. Duties to Oneself: Oliver Sensen 13. Demandingness, Indebtedness, and Charity: Kant on Imperfect Duties to Others: Kate Moran 14. Kant and Sexuality: Helga Varden 15. Kant in Metaethics: The Paradox of Autonomy, Solved by Publicity: Carla Bagnoli Part VI. Aesthetics 16. Feeling the Life of the Mind: Mere Judging, Feeling, and Judgment: Fiona Hughes 17. On Common Sense, Communicability, and Community: Eli Friedlander 18. Immediate Judgment and Non-Cognitive Ideas: The Pervasive and Persistent in the Misreading of Kant’s Aesthetic Formalism: Jennifer A. McMahon 19. Sublimity and Joy: Kant on the Aesthetic Constitution of Virtue: Melissa McBay Merritt Part VII. Philosophy of Science 20. “Proper Science” and Empirical Laws: Kant’s Sense of Science in the Critical Philosophy: John H. Zammito 21. From General to Special Metaphysics of Nature: Michael Bennett McNulty (with Marius Stan) Part VIII. Philosophy of Religion 22. Kant on Faith: Religious Assent and the Limits to Knowledge: Lawrence Pasternack 23. The Fate of Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: Martin Moors Part IX. Political Philosophy 24. The Critical Legal and Political Philosophy of Immanuel Kant: 25. A Cosmopolitan Law Created by Cosmopolitan Citizens: The Kantian Project Today: Soraya Nour Sckell 26. Kant’s Mature Theory of Punishment, and a First Critique Ideal Abolitionist Alternative: Benjamin Vilhauer Part X. Anthropology, History, and Education 27. Denkungsart in Kant’s Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View: Patrick R. Frierson 28. Kant on Emotions, Feelings, and Affectivity: Alix Cohen 29. The Philosopher as Legislator: Kant on History: Katerina Deligiorgi 30. Becoming Human: Kant’s Philosophy of Education and Human Nature: Robert B. Louden Part XI. The Kantian Aftermath, and Kant’s Contemporary Relevance 31. Kant after Kant: The Indispensable Philosopher: Michael Vater 32. Kant, the Copernican Devolution, and Real Metaphysics: Robert Hanna 33. Contemporary Kantian Moral Philosophy: Michael Rohlf Conclusion: Kant the Philosopher: Matthew C. Altman Index
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Taylor & Francis Habit and the History of Philosophy
Book SynopsisFor Aristotle, habit was a fundamental aspect of human nature; and for William James, it was the enormous flywheel of society. In both the history of philosophy and contemporary research, it is acknowledged as a fundamental topic in ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of action, and phenomenology.This major volume, written by a team of international contributors, is an outstanding collection that offers a thorough and diverse philosophical exploration of habit from the classical period to the modern day. Carefully edited to reflect the breadth of the subject, its 18 chapters are divided into four clear parts: Habit and Ancient Philosophy Habit and Early Modern Philosophy Habit and Modern Philosophy Contemporary Perspectives on Habit. Key topics, debates, and figures are covered such as the emotions, perception, free will, William James, John Dewey, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, John McDowell, and Hubert Dreyfus.HabTable of ContentsIntroduction Jeremy Dunham and Komarine Romdenh-Romluc Part 1: Habit and Ancient Philosophy 1. Socrates on Habituation and Politics: Plato’s Gorgias 509c6-510a4 Leo Catana 2. Guided Practice Makes Perfect Habituation into Full Virtue in Aristotle’s Ethics Karen Margrethe Nielsen 3. Aristotle on the nature of ethos and ethismos Margaret Hampson 4. Making Progress: Epictetus on Habituation John Sellars Part 2: Habit and Early Modern Philosophy 5. Forming the Habit of Thinking Well: Descartes’ Reshaping of the Act of Reasoning Elodie Cassan 6. Habit in Hartley’s Reconciling Project: Between Christian Morality and the Usual Course of Nature Catherine Dromelet 7. Habit and Will in Eighteenth-Century British Philosophy John Wright 8. Kant’s Account of Intellectual Habit and Moral Education Carl Hildebrand Part 3: Habit and Modern Philosophy 9. The Dispositional Account of Habits and Explanation of Moral Action in F.H. Bradley Dina Babushkina 10. Phenomenology as Vocation – A Project Instituted and Habituated by the Will Sara Heinämaa 11. Personal Acts, Habit, and Embodied Agency in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception Justin White 12. Deleuze on Habit and Time; or, How to Get, and How not to Get, from Hume to Bergson Mark Sinclair Part 4: Contemporary Perspectives on Habit 13. Habit and the Spiritual Life: Perspectives from Christian Mysticism and the Philosophy of Religion Simone Kotva 14. Are habits inherited? A possible epigenetic route from Charles Darwin to the contemporary debate Mariagrazia Portera and Mauro Mandrioli 15. The Discourse Ecology Model: Changing the World One Habit at a Time Susan Notess 16. Habit and Practice Clare Carlisle 17. Habit-Formation: What’s in a Perspective? Will Hornett 18. Habits in Perception: A Diachronic Defence of Hyperinferentialism Cathy Legg. Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and Its
Book SynopsisOne of the most pervasive and persistent questions in philosophy is the relationship between the natural sciences and traditional philosophical categories such as metaphysics, epistemology and the mind. Contemporary Philosophical Naturalism and Its Implications is a unique and valuable contribution to the literature on this issue. It brings together a remarkable collection of highly regarded experts in the field along with some young theorists providing a fresh perspective. This book is noteworthy for bringing together committed philosophical naturalists (with one notable and provocative exception), thus diverging from the growing trend towards anti-naturalism.The book consists of four sections: the first deals with the metaphysical implications of naturalism, in which two contributors present radically different perspectives. The second attempts to reconcile reasons and forward-looking goals with blind Darwinian natural selection. The third tackles various probTable of Contents1. Exploring the Post-Darwinian Naturalist Landscape Bana Bashour and Hans D. Muller Section I: Metaphysics Naturalized? 2. Disillusioned Naturalism Alexander Rosenberg 3. Naturalism and the "Linguistic Turn" Paul Horwich Section II: Reasons Naturalized 4. The Evolution of Reasons Daniel C. Dennett 5. The Tangle of Natural Purposes That is Us Ruth Garrett Millikan Section III: Knowledge Naturalized 6. Skill Learning and Conceptual Thought: Making a Way Through the Wilderness Ellen Fridland 7. Nominalism, Naturalism and Materialism: Sellars’ Critical Ontology Ray Brassier 8. Naturalizing Kinds Muhammad Ali Khalidi Section IV: The Human Mind Naturalized 9. Human Uniqueness and the Pursuit of Knowledge: A Naturalistic Account Tim Crane 10. Naturalism and Intentionality Hans D. Muller 11. Can I Be a Good Animal? A Naturalized Account of Virtue Ethics Bana Bashour
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