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Penguin Random House LLC A Study of Concepts
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MIT Press Subjectivity and Selfhood Investigating the FirstPerson Perspective A Bradford Book
Book SynopsisWhat is a self? Does it exist in reality or is it a mere social construct—or is it perhaps a neurologically induced illusion? The legitimacy of the concept of the self has been questioned by both neuroscientists and philosophers in recent years. Countering this, in Subjectivity and Selfhood, Dan Zahavi argues that the notion of self is crucial for a proper understanding of consciousness. He investigates the interrelationships of experience, self-awareness, and selfhood, proposing that none of these three notions can be understood in isolation. Any investigation of the self, Zahavi argues, must take the first-person perspective seriously and focus on the experiential givenness of the self. Subjectivity and Selfhood explores a number of phenomenological analyses pertaining to the nature of consciousness, self, and self-experience in light of contemporary discussions in consciousness research.Philosophical phenomenology—as developed by Husserl, Heidegger, Sart
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MR - University of Notre Dame Press Body and Mind
Book SynopsisWidely used in philosophy courses, this succinct study explores the problem of determining the relation between the body and mind. In that philosophy seeks to explain man's place and action in nature, Campbell asserts that our assessment of the body-mind problem affects our perspectives on metaphysics, epistemology, ethics and the natural sciences.Trade Review“[This] book is intended as an introduction to the mind-body problem, and it fulfills this task admirably. It is written clearly . . . but, most importantly, the author manages to communicate some of the intellectual excitement of doing philosophy. If anything, it is this sort of work that should be the responsible answer to the clamor for ‘relevance.’” —Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review/Revue canadienne de philosophie
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Pennsylvania State University Press Between Genealogy and Epistemology
Book SynopsisTrade Review“May offers a clear and cogent response to the question which other philosophers have most often found troubling in Foucault's work: how can Foucault's genealogies of power/knowledge in the human sciences be justified?”—Joseph Rouse,Wesleyan University“In spite of the immense industry of Foucault scholarship, Todd May has managed to write a very trim study that shows how Foucault avoids certain self-referential paradoxes almost always brought against him: in particular, the perils of relativism and the normalization of discourse. The result is notably uncluttered.”—Joseph Margolis,Temple University
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Yale University Press Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern
Book SynopsisIn this meditation on the nature and purpose of hermeneutics, Gerald Bruns argues that hermeneutics is not just a contemporary theory. It is an extended family of questions about understanding and interpretation that have multiple and conflicting histories from before the beginning of writing.
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Yale University Press Hermeneutics as Politics
Book SynopsisA critique of postmodern thought, reissued in a special 15th anniversary edition. In a new foreword, Robert Pippin argues that the work has rightfully achieved the status of a classic, and he seeks to illuminate the underpinnings of postmodernist thought.Trade Review"Perhaps the most original and philosophically important critical account of hermeneutics - of its philosophical status and historical development - to appear since Gadamer's Truth and Method." Choice "A philosophical polemic of the highest order written in a language of unfailing verve and precision... It will repay manyfold the labour of a slow and considered reading." J. M. Coetzee, Upstream
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ABC-CLIO SecondHand Knowledge
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Palgrave Macmillan Hermeneutics the Bible and Literary Criticism Studies in Literature and Religion
Book SynopsisThe essays in this collection fall into three groups. The contributors represent a wide range of academic disciplines and religious traditions, providing significant pointers for further developments in Biblical criticism and interpretation theory.Table of ContentsGeneral Editors Preface - Notes on the Contributors - PART 1: PHILOSOPHICAL ACCOUNTS OF INTERPRETATION - The Autonomous Text, the Hermeneutical Self, and Divine Rhetoric; D.Klemm - Interpretation and the Bible. The Dialectic of Concept and Content in Interpretative Practice; B.Polka - Revelation and Understanding: A Defense of Tradition; R.Forsman - PART 2: THE INTERPRETATION OF SCRIPTURE WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE WORK OF AUSTIN FARRER - The Stuff of Revelation. Austin Farrer's Doctrine of Inspired Images; I.Dalferth - Making it Plain. Austin Farrer and the Inspiration of Scripture; G.Loughlin - The Sin of Reading: Austin Farrer, Helen Gardner and Frank Kermode on the Poetry of St Mark; H.Hauge - PART 3: INTERPRETATIVE PRACTICE: BIBLICAL TESTS AND THEMES - Wrestling with the Angel. A Study in Historical and Literary Interpretation; J.Rogerson - The Dialogic Discourse of Psalms; H.Levine - God's Presence and the Paradox of Freedom; B.Zelechow - Retracing a Writerly Text: In the Footsteps of a Midrashic Sequence on the Creation of the Male and the Female; R.Salmon & G.E.Alster - Index
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SCM Press The Recalcitrant Imago Dei
Book SynopsisThe Recalcitrant Imago Dei offers a critical discussion of naturalism, the idea that all phenomena can be explained by the physical sciences.Trade Review'The Recalcitrant Imago Dei is a wonderful read. Chapter by chapter, Moreland systematically sets forth how naturalism denies what is so obvious about ourselves, which is that we are conscious, rational souls that have the power to make undetermined choices for purposes. The power of the book lies in the way that it makes clear how human beings becomeunrecognizable once naturalism has worked them over. Through page after page of careful argument, Moreland shows all of us how deeply unnatural the naturalist account of ourselves is.' -- Stewart Goetz, St Ursinus College.'Materialistic naturalism has, for some years, been the received wisdom in philosophy, as well as amongst much of the educated public. Many serious philosophical arguments have been brought against this ideology, but usually in a series of separate controversies. Professor Moreland’s great service is to bring all these objections together, whilst adding his own original contributions, in a very effective anti-naturalist polemic. He shows us that the materialist world picture cannot accommodate the most basic phenomena of human life: It has no place for consciousness, free will, rationality, the human subject or any kind of intrinsic value. Materialism does not disprove these human realities, it is simply incapable of accounting for them in any remotely plausible way. I would add to the list of its failures that naturalism lacks even a coherent account of the physical world itself. Professor Moreland makes a very good case for saying that, as a serious world view, naturalism is a non-starter: more traditional, theistic philosophies fare much better in the face both of the phenomena and of argument.' -- Howard Robinson, University Professor in Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest.J.P. Moreland’s new book is a tour de force. In six clear, concise and tightly argued chapters, he raises profound objections to the attempts of modern naturalistic philosophers to accommodate human consciousness, free will, rationality, selfhood and morality within a purely physical world-view. He thereby significantly enhances the intellectual appeal of a theistic alternative. All open-minded-metaphysicians, philosophers of mind and philosophical theologians should read this book -- E. J. Lowe, Professor of Philosophy, Durham UniversityMoreland;s book is a masterpiece of clear, compelling, accessible arguments against naturalism, and a powerful defense of a Christian understanding of persons. This should be required reading for anyone interested in the philosophy of human nature and the debate between theism and naturalism today.’ -- Charles Taliaferro, St Olaf Collage
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Penguin Publishing Group Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology Expanded Second Edition
Book SynopsisToday man's mind is under attack by all the leading schools of philosophy. We are told that we cannot trust our senses, that logic is arbitrary, that concepts have no basis in reality. Ayn Rand opposes that torrent of nihilism, and she provides the alternative in this eloquent presentation of the essential nature--and power--of man's conceptual faculty. She offers a startlingly original solution to the problem that brought about the collapse of modern philosophy: the problem of universals. This brilliantly argued, superbly written work, together with an essay by philosophy professor Leonard Peikoff, is vital reading for all those who seek to discover that human beings can and should live by the guidance of reason.Table of ContentsIntroduction to Objectivist Epistemology - Ayn Rand Edited by Harry Binswanger and Leonard PeikoffExpanded Second EditionForeword to the First Edition by Ayn Rand1. Cognition and Measurement2. Concept-Formation3. Abstraction from Abstractions4. Concepts of Consciousness5. Definitions6. Axiomatic Concepts7. The Cognitive Role of Concepts8. Consciousness and IdentitySummary: The Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy by Leonard PeikoffAppendix - Excerpts from the Epistemology Workshops:Foreword to the Second Edition by Leonard PeikoffPreface by Harry BinswangerAppendix ContentsAppendixIndex
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iUniverse The Evolution of Energy and Meaning Empirical Idealism The Notebooks of G E Roseberry
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iUniverse Objectivism and the Corruption of Rationality A Critique of Ayn Rands Epistemology
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Lexington Books Machiavelli and Epicureanism
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the influence of Epicurean physics on the argument developed in Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy. Towards this end, the full philosophical history and origins of atomist philosophy are investigated during the first three chapters. Plato's critique of the atomist philosophy, from his dialogue the Parmenides, is a part of that investigation. In fact, Plato provides a refutation of the atomist philosophy in the Parmenides. A significant amount of scholarship has been accomplished that demonstrates the currents of Lucretian atomism in Machiavelli's Florence. Evidence is supplied as to Machiavelli's exposure to the Lucretian text, and the book then proceeds to investigate the transformational arguments of the Discourses On Livy itself. Machiavelli's Discourses are saturated with terminology that is borrowed from physics: materia' (Matter), corpo' (body), forma' (form), accidente' (accident). English translators have usually employed some theory as to which tradition of physics Machiavelli is relying upon, in order to conduct their translations. By borrowing the terminology of Lucretian physics, Machiavelli becomes able to conceive of the people in a political society as something less than human: as matter' or materia without form. In my analysis of Machiavelli's deployment of the concepts from Lucretian physics, it is attempted to unveil the brutality that is inherent in Machiavelli's new definitions of the elements of politics, and the general hostility of his political science to the Aristotelian concept of the human being as political animal. The classical physics of Aristotle, which Machiavelli has rejected for a model, indicates the forward looking momentum of natural beings. For Aristotle, nature intends human political society as the arena for human fulfillment. In Aristotelian physics, nature aims at an end in generation, i.e. at a culmination of the natural being in its proper condition of excellence. For human beings, this is justice, the quality of relationships that makes happiness possible. In Machiavelli, a new politicized physics is revealed. In Machiavelli's model, the human beings of formed matter are repeatedly sent, through new institutions and methods of government, back to their beginnings', i.e. to a condition of isolation, destitution, injury, and pain. The last chapter of the book concludes with an examination of the particular institutions and methods that Machiavelli holds out to us for employment, if his new vision of a republic is to be realized.Trade ReviewMachiavelli imparted new meanings to the moral vocabulary of the ancients. Virtù, for example, means nearly the opposite when used by Machiavelli (acquisitive success) as when used by Aristotle (self-restraint). Roecklein does a service by tracing this vocabulary to Epicurean philosophy, of which Machiavelli is said to be a proponent. Thus words like accidente, materia, and corpo carry substantive significance and must be retained in translations, Roecklein argues. Before turning to Machiavelli, Roecklein devotes three chapters to explicating Machiavelli's supposed sources: Parmenides, Epicurus, and Lucretius. The book is actually more about them than about Machiavelli. But the parts on Machiavelli are quite bold and cutting, as Roecklein attacks head on the republican interpretations of Quentin Skinner and J. G. A. Pocock. Machiavelli is anti-democratic because he commandeers language and discountenances the perceptual world of ordinary people. His political science is anti-deliberative, since choice causes corruption and decline. His new modes and orders are an assault on human dignity and claims to justice for the sake of order, and so on. A valuable addition to Machiavelli scholarship. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections. * CHOICE *Roecklein's arguments for the influence of Lucretius on Machiavelli are compelling. . . . The greater contribution of the volume will be to the study of Epicurean-Lucretian atomism and its legacies, rather than assessment of Machiavelli's political philosophy. * Polis *For anyone interested in studying the atomistic and epicurean matrix of Machiavelli’s political thought, and hence of a part of modernity, this book is important because it shows how it is the principal reference which guides Machiavelli in the construction of his philosophical categories and in the polemic against other philosophical traditions. * Storia del Pensiero Politico *Robert Roecklein has given us a superb study of Machiavelli's political theory and its relation to classical philosophy. By connecting Machiavelli to Epicurean thought, he shows a new layer of his political theory and argues that his relation to both modernity and antiquity need to be rethought. Rocklein's book is important in showing us that we can take much more from Machiavelli's thought than contemporary scholarship has allowed. In so doing, he provides us with a revealing interpretation of Machiavelli, a thinker who has been as misunderstood as much as he has been demonized. -- Michael J. Thompson, Associate Professor of Political Science, William Paterson UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Plato’s Refutation of Eleatic Atomism in the Parmenides Chapter 2: Epicurus: Political Philosopher Chapter 3: Lucretius’ Aggressive Rhetoric Chapter 4: Machiavelli’s Discourses: the Birth of Neo-Epicureanism Chapter 5: The Life of the Spirit in Machiavelli’s Republic
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Skepticism and the Veil of Perception
Book SynopsisOne of the central questions of philosophy has been that of how we know that the objects perceive are real. The author develops a theory of awareness in which perception gives us an awareness of objects, not mental representations, and we have non-inferential knowledge of the objects' properties.Trade ReviewThis essay is useful for its clear, accessible discussion of standard skeptical arguments and its critical review of the major arguments for sense-data. Huemer's discussion of those matters is comprehensive and engaging. * Mind: A Quarterly Review of Philosophy *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Analytical Contents Chapter 2 Figures Chapter 3 Preface Chapter 4 Introduction: The Problem of Perceptual Knowledge Chapter 5 The Lure of Radical Skepticism Chapter 6 Easy Answers to Skepticism Chapter 7 A Version of Direct Realism Chapter 8 A Version of Foundationalism Chapter 9 Objections to Direct Realism Chapter 10 An Objection to Indirect Realism: The Problem of Spatial Properties Chapter 11 The Direct Realist's Answer to Skepticism
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Disagreement
Book SynopsisRegardless of who you are or how you live your life, you disagree with millions of people on an enormous number of topics from politics, religion and morality to sport, culture and art.Trade Review"A fine introduction to the issues surrounding disagreement, this text will engage students with its lively prose and lucid thought."Ernest Sosa, Rutgers University"Frances's commitment to working with realistic examples makes for a kind of contact with everyday intellectual life that can seem missing in much of the professional literature on disagreement. Although the book is designed for students, it also gave me new things to think about."David Christensen, Brown UniversityTable of ContentsList of Stories Introduction Part 1: Basics of Disagreement 1. Genuine vs. Illusory Disagreement 2. Easier Questions about Disagreement 3. Harder Questions about Disagreement 4. Expert Testimony and Higher-Order Evidence 5. Peers, Inferiors, and Superiors 6. Some Results 7. The Peer Rule and the Superior Rule 8. Disagreement over Facts, Values, And Religion 9. Disagreement over Beliefs vs. Actions 10. What We Should Believe vs. What We Actually Believe 11. Response to Disagreement vs. Subsequent Level Of Confidence 12. What It Means To Realize Disagreement 13. The Disagreement Question Refined 14. Disagreement with One vs. Disagreement with Many 15. Some More Results 16. Study Questions and Problems Part 2: Conciliatory or Steadfast? 1. Introduction 2. Revising the Three Rules Of Thumb 3. Rethinking Judgments about Peers And Superiors 4. More Revision: Confidence Level vs. Evidence Level 5. When You Have No Idea Who is in the Better Position 6. Split Experts 7. Special Case: Religious Belief 8. Some Results 9. Questions on Uniqueness, Independence, and Peerhood Uniqueness Independence Conditional Peers and Superiors Feldman’s Questions 10. Does Disagreement Lead To Skepticism? 11. The Disagreement Question Revisited 12. Study Questions and Problems Index
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