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State University Press of New York (SUNY) Religion among We the People Conversations on Democracy and the Divine Good
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) God and the Self in Hegel Beyond Subjectivism SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Mindfulness
Book SynopsisWritten in 1938/9, Mindfulness (translated from the German Besinnung) is Martin Heidegger''s second major being-historical treatise. Here, Heidegger develops some of his key concepts and themes including truth, nothingness, enownment, art and Be-ing and discusses the Greeks, Nietzsche and Hegel at length. In addition to the main text, the text also includes two further important essays, A Retrospective Look at the Pathway' (1937/8) and ''The Wish and the Will (On Preserving What is Attempted)'' (1937/8), in which Heidegger surveys his unpublished works and discusses his relationship to Catholic and Protestant Christianity and reflects on his life''s path. This is a major translation of a key text from one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century, now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations Series.Trade ReviewThis is a central text for coming to terms with Heidegger's thinking ... The translation itself mirrors and maintains the haunting character of the German text. The Translators' Foreword is a masterpiece in setting the stage and opening up the possibilities for the English to stay true to the Heideggerian project of thinking the truth of be-ing. * Kenneth Maly, University of Wisconsin, USA *Table of ContentsTranslator's Foreword I. Introduction II. Leaping Ahead unto the Uniqueness of Be-ing III. Philosophy IV. On Projecting-Open Be-ing V. Truth and Knowing Awareness VI. Be-ing VII. Be-ing and Man VIII. Be-ing and Man IX. Anthropomorphism X. History XI. Technicity XII. 'History' and Technicity XIII. Be-ing and Power XIV. Be-ing and Being XV. The Thinking of Be-ing XVI. The Forgottenness of Be-ing XVII. The History of Be-ing XVIII. Gods XIX. Errancy XX. On the History of Metaphysics XXI. The Metaphysical 'Why-Question' XXII. Be-ing and 'Becoming' XXIII. Being as Actuality XXIV. Be-ing and 'Negativity' XXV. Being and Thinking, Being and Time XXVI. A Gathering into Being Mindful XXVII. The Be-ing-Historical Thinking and the Question of Being XXVIII. The Be-ing-Historical Concept of Metaphysics Appendix I: A Retrospective Look at the Pathway Appendix II: The Wish and the Will Editor's Epilogue
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Edinburgh University Press Michel Serres
Book SynopsisChristopher Watkin provides a true overview of Serres' thinking. Using diagrams to explain Serres' thought, the first half of the book carefully explores Serres' 'global intuition'and 'figures of thought'. The second half examines Serres' revolutionary contributions to the areas of language, objects and ecology.
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Edinburgh University Press French Philosophy Today
Book SynopsisAlain Badiou, Quentin Meillassoux, Catherine Malabou, Michel Serres and Bruno Latour: this comparative, critical analysis shows the promises and perils of new French philosophy's reformulation of the idea of the human.
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Edinburgh University Press Affirmation and Resistance in Spinoza
Book SynopsisOffers a powerful and influential interpretation of Spinoza's conatus
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Edinburgh University Press The DeleuzeLucretius Encounter
Book SynopsisScholarship has ignored one of the more formative influences on Deleuze: Lucretian atomism. Filling a significant gap in Deleuze Studies, Ryan J. Johnson tells the story of the Deleuze-Lucretius encounter that begins and ends with a powerful claim: Lucretian atomism produced Deleuzianism.
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Edinburgh University Press Deleuze in Childrens Literature
Book SynopsisJane Newland focuses on children's texts by some of the authors who fascinate Deleuze, including Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Lewis Carroll, Andre Dhtel, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio and Michel Tournier. They are explored across chapters on central Deleuzian concepts: pure repetition, becoming, cartographies, stuttering and nonsense.
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Edinburgh University Press Indexicalism
Book SynopsisProposes a radical new metaphysics where reality is not substantive but indexical.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Fictions
Book SynopsisFrom ancient philosophy to contemporary theories of fiction, it is a common practice to relegate illusory appearances to the realm of the non-existent, like shadows on the wall of Plato's cave. Contrary to this traditional mode of drawing a metaphysical distinction between reality and fiction, Markus Gabriel argues that the realm of the illusory, fictional, imaginary and conceptually indeterminate is as real as it gets. Being in touch with reality need not and cannot require that we overcome appearances in order to grasp a meaningless reality which exists out there', outside and maybe even beyond our minds. Human mindedness (Geist) exists in the mode of fictions through which we achieve self-consciousness. This novel approach provides a fresh perspective on our existence as subjects who lead their lives in the light of self-conceptions. Fictionsalso develops a social ontology according to which the social unfolds as a constant renegotiation of dissent, of different points of view onto the same reality. Thus we cannot ever hope to ground human society in a fiction-free realm of objective transactions. However, this does not mean that truth and reality are somehow outdated concepts. On the contrary, we need to enlarge our conception of reality so that it fully encompasses ourselves as specifically minded social animals. This major new work of philosophy will be of interest to students and scholars throughout the humanities and to anyone interested in contemporary philosophy and social thought.
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Austin Macauley Publishers The Theory of Material Mind
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Angelico Press Person, Soul, and Identity: Philosophy and the
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Mango Media Life's Big Questions: 200 Ways to Explore Your
Book SynopsisAnswer Life’s Questions with A New Perspective"...200 questions that can truly impact your life in positive ways...to help us bring meaning and exploration back into our daily lives.“ —Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of Love, Medicine, and MiraclesFilled with questions, inspiring anecdotes, and guided meditations, Life's Big Questions invites readers to examine their beliefs about spirituality and learn new ways to encounter sacred moments.A perceptive guidebook on life. Why does evil exist? What is the meaning of death and dying? What can meditation and mindfulness do for you? When should you begin to think about your sacred destiny? Do miracles actually exist? This book about the big stuff aims to answer all of life’s questions—or at least some of them. A book about a bigger perspective. While you may recognize author Jonathan Robinson from his appearances on the Oprah Winfrey Show, he is also a bestselling author and professional psychotherapist. He spends his days thinking deeply about life’s questions—and he is ready to share his thoughts with you. A book of meditations, Life’s Big Questions approaches the answers to life's most sacred questions from both a spiritual and a therapeutic viewpoint. Inside Life’s Big Questions, you’ll find: Answers to some of the most fundamental of life’s questions—from a fresh perspective Examples and suggestions on new ways to encounter the sacred in your daily life Meditations on self love, the meaning of life, how to let go, and more If you liked books about meditation, mindfulness, and life’s questions such as The Purpose Driven Life, The Book of Secret Wisdom, or Cosmic Queries, you’ll love Life’s Big Questions.Trade Review”Asking good questions is an important ingredient to new learning and greater awareness. In this book, Jonathan Robinson asks 200 questions that can truly impact your life in positive ways... With the many inspiring questions and anecdotes in this book, Robinson has found a way to help us bring meaning and exploration back into our daily lives.“—Dr. Bernie Siegel, author of Love, Medicine, and Miracles (from the foreword)
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Lexington Books Ayahuasca as Liquid Divinity: An Ontological
Book SynopsisAyahuasca often yields transformative experiences that merge such familiar categories as the sacred and the secular, transcendence and immanence, subject and object, and the human and the nonhuman. However, such experiences are interpreted differently by Western and indigenous discourses. Using the work of French philosopher Bruno Latour, André van der Braak asks fundamental ontological questions in order to reimagine ayahuasca as liquid divinity, shifting the focus from ayahuasca experiences to ayahuasca-based ritual practices that aim to cultivate relationships with more-than-human powers, described by Latour as "beings of transformation and religion." Ayahuasca as Liquid Divinity: An Ontological Approach describes Santo Daime practices as a contemporary form of “theurgy” (god-work), as defined by the third-century Platonic philosopher and mystagogue Iamblichus. Theurgical practices aim at drawing down divine action through ritual procedures, using the imagination as an active faculty. Van der Braak argues that ayahuasca religiosity is ultimately not about individual recreation or healing, or even personal visions, but rather about engaging in communal transformative ecodelic practices that let us work as companions of the gods in order to practice solidarity with all sentient beings.Trade ReviewThis compelling book delves into the still underexplored territory of what ayahuasca can mean for human beings and the challenge this beverage poses for interfaith religious studies. Throughout this lucid and thoughtful text, André van der Braak analyses the ontology of ayahuasca as a liquid object/subject relative to social contexts of ayahuasca traditions like Santo Daime, expertly integrating his philosophical observations with references to the anthropological literature. The result is a text that is a pure joy to read while at the same time offering new questions upon which future scholars can build. -- Marc Blainey, author of Christ Returns from the Jungle: Ayahuasca Religion as Mystical Healing (2021)In this clear-headed, thoughtful, and groundbreaking text, the comparative philosopher André van der Braak grapples with the “ontological shock” that can emerge in those who engage, in an ongoing and overtly religious way, with ayahuasca – a mind-altering brew originally found in indigenous contexts in the Amazonian rainforest, and which is now the sacramental center of a variety of religious traditions found across the globe. Van der Braak, drawing upon the “experimental metaphysics” of the French thinker Bruno Latour, argues that the often earth-shattering experiences and transformative practices linked to ayahuasca religiosity should encourage us to create a more “fluid” ontology that makes room for “more than human” entities or powers, even while he refuses to endorse any particular substantive ontology. This wide-ranging, courageous, and self-reflexive text not only directly addresses the philosophical ramifications of the relatively recent encounter between Amazonian ayahuasca religiosity with the secular assumptions of the modern Western worldview, but also underscores the societal relevance of this newly emerging contemplative tradition for a “Gaian” religiosity in which human beings become interconnected participants with the natural world. Read this text and emerge with your own ontological assumptions profoundly shaken. -- G. William Barnard, Southern Methodist UniversityTable of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: AyahuascaChapter 1: Making Sense of Ayahuasca in the WestChapter 2: Latour’s Experimental MetaphysicsChapter 3: Reimagining AyahuascaPart 2: Ayahuasca ReligiosityChapter 4: Religiosity as Engaging with Beings of ReligionChapter 5: Santo Daime Religiosity as TheurgyChapter 6: Facing Gaia Through Ayahuasca
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Virgilian Publishing The Virgilian Book of Spiritual Essays
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John Hunt Networkologies A Philosophy of Networks for a
Book SynopsisNetworks are the future: here's the first philosophy based on networks, a new image of thought for a hyperconnected age.
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Agenda Publishing Freedom: An Impossible Reality
Book SynopsisThe question of free will has preoccupied philosophers for millennia. In recent years the debate has been reinvigorated by the findings of neuroscience and, for some, the notion that we have free will has finally been laid to rest. Not so, says Raymond Tallis. In his quest to reconcile our practical belief in our own agency with our theoretical doubts, Tallis advances powerful arguments for the reality of freedom. Tallis challenges the idea that we are imprisoned by laws of nature that wire us into a causally closed world. He shows that our capacity to discover and exploit these laws is central to understanding the nature of voluntary action and to reconciling free will with our status as material beings. Bringing his familiar verve and insight to this deep and most intriguing philosophical question, one that impacts most directly on our lives and touches on nearly every other philosophical problem – of consciousness, of time, of the nature of the natural world, and of our unique place in the cosmos – Tallis takes us to the heart of what we are. By understanding our freedom he reveals our extraordinary nature more clearly.Trade Review... classic Tallis. He deploys his typical analytic dexterity to establishing the reality of free will in opposition to all advocates for materialist reductionism — but it is 'an impossible reality'. By this he means that natural science, and the simplified metaphysics we take from it, are incomplete accounts of the world and, importantly, of human life, and 'to assert the undeniable reality of human agency is not, however, to deny its mystery' ... lucidly accessible to the non-specialist, but with a series of appendices provided for those disposed to delve deeper. -- John Saxbee, Church TimesThe very title of Raymond Tallis’ new book tells us where he stands. Freedom is an ‘impossible reality’ – impossible according to theory, and yet affirmed by our every action. For Tallis, the experience of freedom is non-negotiable: we cannot but experience ourselves as choosing and deciding, intervening in the world in ways that make a difference to it. Beginning from the reality of this experience, Tallis argues that where our theories appear to contradict free will, it is a sign we have misinterpreted those theories. Scientific theories, far from providing arguments against free will, are powerful evidence for its existence ... Tallis does not suffer from the inhibition of academic philosophers, or share the restraint of their conclusions. This makes for an unusually invigorating treatise, especially in the critical sections. -- The New HumanistTable of ContentsOverture: intention and intentionality1. The impossibility of free will 2. Bringing the laws on side3. Unpicking causation4. Actions5. The human agent6. The limits of freedomCodaAppendices
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Imprint Academic Consciousness and Its Place in Nature
Book SynopsisPanpsychism is the philosophical view that consciousness, mentality, or ''mindedness'' in some form is fundamental in the universe. The idea has existed for centuries, but only recently has it had a serious resurgence.Galen Strawson has been on the front line of the battlefield on the topic of panpsychism since the 1990s. His paper on realistic monism', contained in this volume and originally published in 2006, is now considered something of a classic and a catalyst for panpsychism's recent revival.This long overdue new edition of the book gives the original commentators, where they feel they have something more to add, an opportunity to update their thinking on the topic of panpsychism in general and Strawson's realistic monism in particular. Seven new postscripts are included, which aim to enhance the original collection and push the discussion onwards. Eighteen years have passed since the first edition of this groundbreaking volume, and Strawson remains a distinctiv
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Collective Ink Demarcation and Demystification: Philosophy and
Book SynopsisMarx once declared that philosophers have only interpreted the world, but the point is to change it. Demarcation and Demystification examines the ways in which a radical practice of philosophy is possible under the aegis of Marx's 11th thesis, arguing that philosophy's radicality is discovered by understanding that it can only ever interpret the world; that social transformation lies beyond the sphere of its operations. 'Demarcation and Demystification is a major statement on the gulf between what philosophers actually do, and what they think they do.' Matthew R. McLennan, author of Philosophy and Vulnerability
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John Hunt Tenant in the Mind The Consciousness and Its Imperatives
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Anthem Press Theory of Categories: Key Instruments of Human
Book SynopsisCategorization is an essential and unavoidable instrumentality for conceptually navigating a world—indeed for being able to conceptualize a world to be navigated. Classification is a pivotal instrument for scientific systemization, featured as a basis for the philosophical understanding of reality since Aristotle, but classificatory concepts of sorts, types and natural kinds inevitably pervade our understanding of ourselves and our position in the social as well as the natural world at all levels. The authors argue that the character, purpose-, context-, and culture-relativity of categories and categorization have been widely misunderstood—that standard philosophical views are substantially correct in some respects but markedly mistaken in others. The book offers a comprehensive survey of basic principles of classification and categorization, a survey of relevant empirical work, and a multitude of illustrative examples accompanied by instructive analysis of ways and means. The work traces wide-ranging implications of the current approach for philosophical problematic and paradox in philosophy of mind, epistemology and metaphysics, philosophy of science, social philosophy and ethics. Trade Review“Grim and Rescher’s Theory of Categories is a philosophically sophisticated and historically informed study of categoricity in virtually all its aspects. It has insightful treatments of categories in metaphysics, scientific inquiry, philosophical analysis, and other areas, and it is particularly informative on specific issues such as the problem of induction and, throughout, in distinguishing defensible generalities from convenient stereotypes”— Robert Audi, John A. O’Brien Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, USA.“Patrick Grim and Nicholas Rescher wrote a fascinating and engaging book about every possible categorization aspect. Categories are fundamental tools of human understanding and thinking. The analysis starts with categories’ nature and category theories’ history. It unifies the perspective of philosophy, logic, and cognitive science. “Theory of categorization” is a scholarly book that helps us manage category mistakes and paradoxes”— Péter Érdu, Henry Luce Professor of Complex Systems Studies, Kalamazoo College, USA.“Categories, categories. Who needs them? Everyone, according to this book, complete with glossaries, taxonomies, diagrams, paradoxes, and, of course, categories. The authors shed light on many areas of classification, across various disciplines”— Paul K. Moser, Loyola University Chicago, USA.Table of ContentsPreface; Chapter 1: The Nature of Categories; Chapter 2: The History of Categorization; Chapter 3: Empirical Issues in Categorization; Chapter 4: Categories in Science; Chapter 5: Category Mistakes and Philosophical Paradoxes; Chapter 6: Ethical and Social Categories; References; Index
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Imprint Academic Subjectivity and Being Somebody: Human Identity
Book SynopsisThis book uses a neo-Aristotelian framework to examine human subjectivity as an embodied being. It examines the varieties of reductionism that affect philosophical writing about human origins and identity, and explores the nature of rational subjectivity as emergent from our neurobiological constitution. This allows a consideration of the effect of neurological interventions such as psychosurgery, neuroimplantation, and the promise of cyborgs on the image of the human. It then examines multiple personality disorder and its implications for narrative theories of the self, and explores the idea of human spirituality as an essential aspect of embodied human subjectivity.
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Aurea Vidya The Science of Love: From the Desire of the
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Prav Publishing Eurasian Universism: Sinitic Orientations for
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Into the World: The Movement of Patočka's Phenomenology
Book SynopsisCritically evaluating and synthesizing all the previous research on the phenomenology of Czech philosopher Jan Patočka, the book brings a new voice into contemporary philosophical discussions. It elucidates the development of Patočka’s phenomenology and offers a critical appropriation of his work by connecting it with non-phenomenological approaches.The first half of the book offers a succinct, and systematizing, overview of Patočka’s phenomenology throughout its development to help readers appreciate the motives behind and grounds for its transformations. The second half systematically explicates, critically examines and creatively develops Patočka’s concept of the movement of existence as the most promising part of his asubjective phenomenology.The book appeals to new readers of Patočka as well as his scholars, and to students and researchers of contemporary philosophy concerned with topics such as embodiment, personal identity, intersubjectivity, sociality, or historicity. By re-assessing Patočka’s philosophy of history and his civilizational analysis, it also helps to better articulate the question of the place of Europe in the post-European world.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Seeking Evidence: With Husserl Beyond Husserl.- Chapter 3. The Hubris of Transcendental Idealism.- Chapter 4. The Life of Inwardness. Asubjectivity in Patočka’s War Manuscripts.- Chapter 5. The Protester: The Basically Negative Being in the World.- Chapter 6. The Call of Transcendence.- Chapter 7. At the Heart of Space.- Chapter 8. Being Turned (to) Appearing.- Chapter 9. The Movement of Existence.- Chapter 10. (Dis)Appropriating (the) Body.- Chapter 11. Performing the Soul through Movement.- Chapter 12. Passing Through the World (as) Crisis.- Chapter 13. Supercivilization.- Chapter 14. From Asubjectivity to Mediality.- Chapter 15. Omnia Vincit Amor.
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Springer International Publishing AG Existential Inertia and Classical Theistic Proofs
Book SynopsisThis book critically assesses arguments for the existence of the God of classical theism, develops an innovative account of objects’ persistence, and defends new arguments against classical theism. The authors engage the following classical theistic proofs: Aquinas’s First Way, Aquinas’s De Ente argument, and Feser’s Aristotelian, Neo-Platonic, Augustinian, Thomistic, and Rationalist proofs. The authors also provide the first systematic treatment of the ‘existential inertia thesis’. By connecting the thesis to relativity theory and recent developments in the philosophy of physics, and by developing a variety of novel existential-inertia-friendly explanations of persistence, they mount a formidable new case against classical theistic proofs. Finally, they defend new arguments against classical theism based on abstract objects and changing divine knowledge. The text appeals to students, researchers, and others interested in classical theistic proofs, the existence and nature of God, and the ultimate explanations of persistence, change, and contingency.Table of ContentsChapter. 1. IntroductionChapter. 2. Aquinas’s First WayChapter. 3. Stage One of the Aristotelian ProofChapter. 4. Existential Inertia and the Aristotelian Causal PrincipleChapter. 5. Existential Inertia: Thesis and TaxonomyChapter. 6. The Metaphysics of Existential InertiaChapter. 7. Existential Inertia: Motivations and DefenseChapter. 8. Mind the GapChapter. 9. The Neo-Platonic ProofChapter. 10. The Augustinian Proof and Theistic ConceptualismChapter. 11. The Thomistic and Rationalist ProofsChapter. 12. Conclusion
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De Gruyter Eigentum und Staatsbegründung in Kants
Book Synopsis Unlike conventional interpretations of Kant's Rechtslehre, Rainer Friedrich demonstrates that Kant does not derive the necessity of a state of public law from natural property law. Rather, the innate human right of liberty forms the subjective legal basis of the state. The close textual analysis both consults the preparatory studies to the doctrine of law and virtue and Kant's relevant lectures and considers contemporary commentaries. The study emphasizes the systematicity of duty underlying the Rechtslehre, Kant's doctrine of subjective rights, the doctrine of original acquisition and the significance of the general will for private law, together with the transition from private to public law. Rainer Friedrich provides a coherent historically and systematically arranged reconstruction of Kant's rationality of law.
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Springer International Publishing AG Exploring Ātman from the Perspective of the Vivekacūḍāmaṇi
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Infinit Science Astronomy Understanding Our Universe Notebook:
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Bubok Publishing S.L. LA EVOLUCION DE LA CONSCIENCIA Psicologia del
Book SynopsisPsicologia delAlma Tomo I y Tomo II En estos dos libros, mi querido amigo desconocido, se desvelauno de los grandes enigmas acerca del significado de la Evolución de la Consciencia del ser humano, aportando respuestas encuanto a quiénes somos realmente. En el primero de ellos explico el “terreno”dónde la Evolución de nuestra Consciencia tiene lugar, y en el segundo, quedanespecificadas las Nueve Etapas de laEvolución Humana. Uno de los descubrimientos más importantes yrevolucionarios en el conocimiento de laEstructura de la Psique Humana lo realizó Sigmund Freud al demostrar laexistencia de una parte desconocida, oscura y aparentemente autóctona –elInconsciente-, capaz de influir en la conducta racional de todos nosotros –elConsciente-. Afortunadamente, un sabio contemporáneo de Freud, Carl Gustav Jung, mostro un rostro másamable en cuanto a esta Estructura de la Psique Humana al postular laexistencia en éste de un Nivel de Consciencia superior –el Supraconsciente-, capaz de dirigir acertadamente a nuestranaturaleza racional –el Consciente-. De esta manera, Jung –un verdadero expertoen Astrología y Alquimia-, dio una visión no sólo más optimista, sino tambiénmás holística del ser humano al postular en éste no sólo la existencia de unNivel Consciente y otro Inconsciente, sino también la de un Tercer Nivel, elSupraconsciente, lo cual ha tenido como efecto el devolver al hombre “el Alma” quetodavía hoy la Psicología oficial rechaza o, por lo menos, no tiene en cuenta.A partir de Carl Jung han ido apareciendo a lo largo delsiglo XX, y a modo de una progresión a su concepción de la Psique Humana,Escuelas de Psicología Transpersonal dela mano de Roberto Assagioli, Stanislav Grof, Ken Wilber o Douglas Baker, etc…Sin embargo, y a pesar de los grandes logros conseguidos porla Psicología Transpersonal, también es cierto que nunca ha dado una explicaciónclara de las fases o Etapas de que consta la Evolución de la ConscienciaHumana. A través de las páginas de estas dos obras, comprenderásclaramente el sentido y el porqué de esta Evolución, una espiral que se vadesarrollando a lo largo y a lo ancho de sucesivas encarnaciones y que constade Nueve Etapas, así como el NivelEvolutivo en el que nos encontramos cada uno de nosotros. Conocer elSentido de la Vida es hallar la Paz, sea pues ésta siempre contigo, yconviértete tú también en el cambio que quieres ver en el mundo.Un fuerte abrazo, Eva María Monferrer Sena
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Cogitamus Pax Æterna: Ensaio sobre o sujeito atômico
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Aarhus University Press Imagining Nature: Practices of Cosmology &
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De Gruyter Modern Aesthetics
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Springer Nonexistent Objects: Meinong and Contemporary
Book SynopsisIssues surrounding the status and nature of `nonexistent objects' constitute one of philosophy's oldest and densest thickets. In this book Perszyk takes his readers surefootedly through this thicket, informed both historically and at the level of contemporary discussion of relevant themes. His main aim is to develop a `bundle' or `set of properties' interpretation of Meinong's theory of nonexistent objects (as opposed to a set of properties neo-Meinongian metaphysics), and to defend this nonstandard interpretation against competing views in both the philosophical and scholarly literature on Meinong. The Meinong who emerges is neither the hero nor the villain his friends and foes have commonly led us to believe. This clearly written book is a valuable addition both to the literature on Meinong and to contemporary metaphysics of modality. It is written for students and professionals interested in these, and related, areas.Table of ContentsPreface. 1: Introductory Considerations. 1.1. The impasse. 1.2. What might the claim that there `are' nonexistent objects mean. 1.3. Methodological concerns. 2: Meinong's Theory of Objects. 2.1. The Independence and Indifference principles. 2.2. The Independence principle: initial reaction. 2.3. The Indifference principle: initial reaction. 2.4. Is there a third mode of being? 2.5. Meinong and his historical precursors. 3: The Nature of Meinong's Objects: Existent and Nonexistent. 3.1. Incomplete objects and the nature of existents. 3.2. Incomplete objects and the nature of nonexistents. 3.3. More on the particular-general and concrete-abstract distinctions. 4: Two Main Arguments for Nonexistents. 4.1. The argument from negative existentials. 4.2. The argument from intentionality. 5: Main Arguments against Nonexistents. 5.1. Definitions of object-possiblity and object-impossibility. 5.2. Theories of nonexistents are inconsistent or apt to infringe the law of non-contradiction. 5.3. Nonexistent aren't objects. 5.4. An existence objection. 5.5. There are no impossible worlds or individuals. Bibliography. List of Meinong's Writings Consulted. General Bibliography.
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Springer Virtues and Passions in Literature: Excellence, Courage, Engagements, Wisdom, Fulfilment
Book SynopsisThe Human Condition prompts our creative strivings beyond the natural round of life toward outstanding achievements. This book explains how the emergence of Human Condition lifts natural endowment of the individual to the level of excellence. It shows how natural forces and promptings of life transmute through creative Human Condition subliminal passions of the soul into innumerable streaks of spiritual significance.Table of ContentsTHEMATIC STUDY: LITERATURE AND THE PASSION OF VIRTUE; L. Kimmel. Part I. HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY VIRTUES AS REFLECTED IN CHINESE LITERATURE; T-I Dow. REVISITING THE TRADITIONAL VIRTUES OF THE HERO: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF WILFRED OWEN’S DISABLED SOLDIER; B. Micallef. BEAUTY, TASTE AND ENLIGHTENMENT IN HUME’S AESTHETIC THOUGH; V.G. Rivas. Part II. VIRTUES OF THE HEART: FEODOR DOSTOEVSKY AND THE ETHIC OF LOVE; E. Cherkasova. THE WILLING SUBJECT AND THE NON-WILLING IN THE TAO TE CHING AND NIETZSCHE’S HYPERBOREAN: TAOIST AND DECONSTRUCTIVE CHALLENGES TO THE IDEA OF VIRTUE; B. Ross. SPIRITUAL VIRTUE IN MARILYNNE ROBINSON’S GILEAD; R.M. Painter. Part III. INHERENT AND INTENTIONAL INQUIRIES ON VIRTUES; A. Ashvo-Munoz. STRIVING AND ACCEPTING LIMITS AS COMPETING META-VIRTUES: GOETHE’S FAUST AND IBSEN’S THE WILD DUCK; R.J. Wilson III. HAPPINESS, DIVISION, AND ILLUSIONS OF THE SELF IN PLATO’S SYMPOSIUM; P. Weigel. THE VIRTUE OF RESPONSIBILITY: FEMININITY, TEMPORALITY, AND SPACE IN MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM’S THE HOURS; A. Ljung-Baruth. Part IV. ENLIGHTENMENT, HUMANIZATION AND BEAUTY IN THE LIGHT OF SCHILLER’S LETTERS ON THE AESTHETIC EDUCATION OF MAN; V.G. Rivas. BEYOND ADAPTATION: STOICISM, TRANSCENDENCE, AND MOVIEGOING IN WALKER PERCY AND STANLEY CAVELL; L.F. Rhu. BETWEEN THE IRONIC AND THE IRENIC: HAPPINESS, CONTINGENCY AND THE POETICS OF RECURRENCE; J. Baldacchino. PHENOMENOLOGICAL TEMPORALITY AND PROUSTIAN NOSTALGIA; R. Kaushik. Part V. ART AND AWARENESS; J. Jandovitz. THE IMAGE OF HISTORY IN THOUGHT; E. Escher. NARRATIVE, CONVENTION, AND REALITY 2; M. Holt. POLITICAL SYMBOLISM IN THE SAINT ANTOINE GATE, 1585-1672; W. Roberts. MUSIC THEORYAND PHENOMENOLOGY OF MUSICAL PERFORMANCE, A CASE STUDY: FIVE NOTES IN JOEL DURAND’S UN FEU DISTINCT; M. Beken
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Springer Destiny, the Inward Quest, Temporality and Life
Book Synopsis“There is no greater gift to man than to understand nothing of his fate”, declares poet-philosopher Paul Valery. And yet the searching human being seeks ceaselessly to disentangle the networks of experiences, desires, inward promptings, personal ambitions, and elevated strivings which directed his/her life-course within changing circumstances in order to discover his sense of life. Literature seeks in numerous channels of insight the dominant threads of “the sense of life”, “the inward quest”, “the frames of experience” in reaching the inward sources of what we call ‘destiny’ inspired by experience and temporality which carry it on. This unusual collection reveals the deeper generative elements which form sense of life stretching between destiny and doom. They escape attention in their metamorphic transformations of the inexorable, irreversibility of time which undergoes different interpretations in the phases examining our life. Our key to life has to be ever discovered anew.Table of ContentsINAUGURAL ADDRESS: Anna-Teresa TymienieckaSECTION I: THE SENSE OF LIFEPRESENT ETERNITY: QUESTS OF TEMPORALITY IN THE LITERARY PRODUCTION OF THE <> IN FRANCE (THE WRITINGS OF DOMINIQUE FOURCADE AND EMMANUEL HOCQUARD)Silvia RivaA SENSE OF LIFE IN LANGUAGE LOVE AND LITERATURELawrence KimmelTHE GARDEN THEN AND NOW; SENSE OF LIFE – CONTEMPORARY AND IN GENESISBernadette ProchaskaTHE STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS: LITERARY PSYCHOLOGY AS THE FIRST UNIQUELY AMERICAN EXPRESSION OF PHENOMENOLOGY IN WILLIAM JAMES AND HIS SWEDENBORGIAN AND TRANSCENDENTALIST MILIEUEugene TaylorSECTION II: THE INWARD QUESTTHE EVOLUTION OF JUSTICE IN THE ORESTEIAHeidi SilcoxA DOUBLE PHENOMENOLOGICAL SENSE OF THE HYBRID OF FATE AND DESTINY IN COMMUNITY IN ACHEBE’S ARROW AND HEAD’S TREASURESImafedia OkhamafeWHAT MASIE KNEW IN WHAT MASIE KNEWVictor Gerald RivasSTYLE MATTERS: THE LIFE-WORLDS OF ANCIENT LITERATUREDamian StockingJAMES JOYCE’S IVY DAY IN THE COMMITTEE ROOM AND THE FIVE CODES OF FICTIONRaymond WilsonSECTION III: HISTORICITY AND LIFETEMPORALITY IN FITZGERALD’S BABYLON REVISITEDBernadette ProchaskaON THE METAPHYSICAL BRUTISHNESS OF LIFE IN THE LIGHT OF ZOLA’S THE HUMAN BEASTVictor G. Rivas“MAIS PERSONNE NE PARAISSAIT COMPRENDRE” (“BUT NO ONE SEEMED TO UNDERSTAND”): ATHEISM, NIHILISM, AND HERMENEUTICS IN ALBERT CAMUS’ L’ETRANGER / THE STRANGERGeorge HeffernanHISTORICAL DISTORTIONS AND LITERARY DISCLOSURES IN D.M. THOMAS’S THE WHITE HOTELLewis LivesayMORAL SHAPES OF TIME IN HENRY JAMESMeili SteeleSECTION IV: THE LIMITS OF ORDINARY EXPERIENCE“THE LIMITS OF ORDINARY EXPERIENCE”: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL READING OF RAPPACCINI’S DAUGHTERR. Kenneth KirbyGOING BEYOND THE SELF AS THE KNOWLEDGE OF ONESELF AND THE SENSE OF THE UNIVERSEBronislaw BombalaTHE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS: EPIPHANY AND SOCIAL COMMUNION IN PAUL THEROUX’S TRAVEL WRITINGBruce RossEMERSON AFFINITIES: READING RICHARD FORD THROUGH STANLEY CAVELLLawrence F. RhuFAULKNER’S THE SOUND AND THE FURY AS ANTI-ENTROPIC NOVELJerre Collins SECTION V: DESTINY, EXPERIENCE AND TIMEW.B. YEATS, UNITY OF CULTURE, AND THE SPIRITUAL TELOS OF IRELANDR. Kenneth KirbyDOOM, DESTINY, AND GRACE: THE PRODIGAL SON IN MARILYNNE ROBINSON’S HOMERebecca M. PainterMAN’S DESTINY IN TISCHNER’S PHILOSOPHY OF DRAMALeszek PyraTHE SOURCE FORM, AND GOAL OF ART IN ANTON CHEKHOV’S THE SEA GULLRaymond J. Wilson, IIISECTION VI: THE ARTISTIC QUEST VERSUS THE DISCERNMENT OF TRUTH A SHORT STUDY OF THE JAPANESE RENGA: THE TRANS-SUBJECTIVE CREATION OF POETIC ATMOSPHERE: Tadashi OgawaALTERED STATES: THE ARTISTIC QUEST IN THE STONE FLOWER AND LA SYLPHIDEBruce RossTOO MUCH HAPPINESS, TOO MUCH SUFFERING… NEVER ENOUGH REALITY TRANSFORMED BY NARRATIVERebecca PainterTHE PHENOMENOLOGY OF MERLEAU-PONTY AND LITERARY ARTSPiotr MrozREVISITING STEINBECK’S LITTORAL PHENOMENOLOGY: HUSSERLIAN ELEMENTS IN THE LOG FROM THE ‘SEA OF CORTEZ’Gretchen GusichTHE ROLE OF ART IN CAMUS AND SARTREJoanna Handerek STAGING HEIDEGGER: CORPOREAL PHILOSOPHY, COGNITIVE SCIENCE, AND THE THEATERThomas BlakeINDEX OF NAMESPROGRAMS FROM THE 2009 AND 2010 PHENOMENOLOGY AND LITERATURE CONFERENCES
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Springer Heaven, Earth, and In-Between in the Harmony of Life
Book SynopsisThis volume marks a phase of accomplishment in the work of the World Phenomenology Institute in unfolding a dialogue between Occidental phenomenology and the Oriental/Chinese classic philosophy. Going beyond the stage of reception, the Oriental scholars show in this collection of studies their perspicacity and philosophical skills in comparing the concepts, ideas, the vision of classic phenomenology and Chinese philosophy toward uncovering their common intuitions. This in-depth probing aims at reviving Occidental thinking, reaching to its intuitive sources, as well as providing Chinese thinking with a precise apparatus of expression toward its rejuvenation in a new significance. Studies by Korean and Chinese phenomenologists: Nam-In Lee, Inhui Park, Benjamin I. Schwartz, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Sitansu Ray, Zhang Xian, Zhang Qingxiong, Tsung-I Dow, Ashok K. Gangadean, Yushiro Takei, Louise Sunderarajan, Gregory Tropea, James Sellmann, Tyong Bok Rhie, Sang-Ki Kim, Daniel Zelinski, Qingjie Wang, Calvin O. Schrag, Jung-Sun Han. Table of ContentsThe Theme: The Metaphysical Harmony of Life as the Vocation of Philosophy: Oriental Philosophy in a Dialogue with Phenomenology. Inaugural Reflections. The Ethical and the Meta-Ethical in Chinese High Cultural Thought; B.I. Schwartz. Part I: Phenomenology of Life Answering the Call of our Times for the Harmony of the Spheres of Existence: Cosmos, Bios, Culture. Nature in the Ontopoiesis of Life: From the Cosmic Dissemination to the Human Cultivation of the Logos; A-T. Tymieniecka. Wissenschaftliche Lebensphilosophie als Grundcharakter der Phänomenologie; Nam-In Lee. The Natural and the Cultural; Inhui Park. The Tagore-Einstein Conversations: Reality and the Human World, Causality and Chance; S. Ray. Part II: Constituting/Reconstituting the Human World of Life: Consciousness, Subject, Intentionality, Mind. Husserl's Intentionality and the `Mind' in Chinese Philosophy; Zhang Xian. Die Grundstruktur des Bewußtseins: Husserl und Xiong Shili im Vergleich; Qingxiong Zhang. The Twofold Phenomenon in Naming: a Reflection from the Confucian-Taoist Yin-Yang Dialectical, Monistic Perspective; Tsung-I Dow. Phenomenology as a Critique of Cognition - A Dialogue on Husserl's `The Idea of Phenomenology'; Zhang Qingxiong. Meditative Reason and the Holistic Turn to Natural Phenomenology; A.K. Gangadean. Part III: The Poetic Divination as the Gist of Life. The Aesthetics of Process and Human Life; Y. Takei. Dwelling Poetically: a Heideggerian Interpretation of Ssu-K'ung T'u's Poetics; L. Sundararajan. I'Ching Divination and the Absolutely Poetic Reconstruction of Intentionality; G. Tropea. Part IV: Heaven and Earth and In-Between. On the Myth ofCosmogony in Ancient China; J. Sellmann. Eine Hermeneutik des Symbols im `Buch der Wandlungen' und die Seinserhellung; Tyong Bok Rhie. The Religious-Mythical Attitudes of the East Asians and Husserl's Phenomenology; Sang-Ki Kim. Towards a Phenomenology of Mystical Being; D. Zelinski. Part V: Metaphysical Underpinnings of the Intercultural Dialogue. Heidegger and Inter-Cultural Dialogue; Qingjie Wang. Communication in the Context of Cultural Diversity; C.O. Schrag. Kritik an der neokonfuzianischen Vernunft; Jung-Sun Han. Annex: Opening Statement of the Conference in Seoul, August 17th&endash;18th, 1992; Young-Ho Lee. Index of Names.
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Broadview Press Ltd Incompatibilism's Allure: Principle Arguments for
Book SynopsisThe role of freedom in assigning moral responsibility is one of the deepest problems in metaphysics and moral theory. Incompatibilism’s Allure provides original analysis of the principal arguments for incompatibilism. Ishtiyaque Haji incisively examines the consequence argument, the direct argument, the deontic argument, the manipulation argument, the impossibility argument and the luck objection. He introduces the most important contemporary discussions in a manner accessible to advanced undergraduates, but also suited to professional philosophers. The result is a unique and compelling account for incompatibilism’s continuing allure.Trade Review“Incompatibilism’s Allure offers by far the most comprehensive and accessible treatment of the thesis that determinism is incompatible with both free will and moral responsibility. Haji has carefully examined every major argument for incompatibilism, exposing each to thorough scrutiny, and offering a judicious assessment of the credibility of this age old thesis. An especially noteworthy asset of Incomaptibilism’s Allure is its teachability. It is clear, accessible, and organized in the best way possible for the purposes of introducing these complex ideas to the uninitiated. Nevertheless, Haji also manages to make important contributions to work on free will and moral responsibility. Anyone with an interest in this topic will certainly profit from Haji’s fine effort.” — Michael McKenna, Florida State University“Haji lucidly explains and critically assesses the leading arguments for the view that determinism is incompatible with free will and moral responsibility. I strongly recommend Incompatibilism’s Allure for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on free will and moral responsibility. Students will find this book extremely useful, and people who publish on Haji’s topics will benefit from it as well.” — Alfred R. Mele, Florida State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsONE INTRODUCTION The Robert Harris Case The Ann/Beth Cases Responsibility, Causal Determinism, and Free Action Two Views About the Concept of Responsibility Free Action Causal Determinism Some Definitions: Incompatibilism, Compatibilism, and Libertarianism Different Pathways to Incompatibilism Prospectus TWO THE CONSEQUENCE ARGUMENT The Consequence Argument The Logical Modalities Peter van Inwagen’s Version of the ConsequenceArgument A Problem Concerning the Interpretation of ‘Can’ The Hypothetical Sense of ‘Can’ The Categorical Sense of ‘Can’ The Reformulated Consequence Argument Control Active Control The Event Causal Theory of Action and Deviance Ultimate Control The Negative Conception of Ultimate Origination The Positive Conception of Ultimate Origination Compatibilist Conceptions of Ultimate Origination Assessing the Reformulated Consequence Argument The Basic Version of the Consequence Argument Appendix Local Miracle CompatibilismA.1 Local Miracle CompatibilismA.2 An Objection to Local Miracle CompatibilismTHREE ALTERNATIVE POSSIBILITIES AND MORAL RESPONSIBILITY The Consequence Argument and Freedom to do Otherwise Frankfurt-Type Examples and Freedom to do Otherwise The Dilemma Objection Mele and Robb’s Reply to the Dilemma Objection Another Reply to the Dilemma Objection Luck and Alternative Possibilities FOUR THE DIRECT ARGUMENT Introduction The Direct Argument Transfer NR and Two-Path Cases David Widerker’s Response to the Direct Argument Widerker’s Concerns Reply to Widerker A New Counterexample On the Epistemic Condition of Moral Responsibility A Requirement of Alternative Possibilities for Obligation An Informal Presentation of the Counterexample to Transfer NR Filling in the Details of the Counterexample FIVE THE DEONTIC ARGUMENT Introduction The Deontic Argument Problems with the Deontic Argument Genuine Moral Dilemmas and “Ought” Implies “Can” Self-Imposed Impossibility and “Ought” Implies “Can” Changing Obligations with Passing Time Reply to the Objection Negative Duties and “Ought Not” Implies “Can Refrain From” Does Blameworthiness Require Wrongness and Does Praiseworthiness Require Obligatoriness? A Counterexample to the Principle that Blameworthiness Requires Wrongness Supererogatory and Suberogatory Actions The Coming Apart of Blameworthiness and Wrongness Blameworthiness and Frankfurt Examples SIX THE MANIPULATION ARGUMENT The Basic Contours of the Argument The Manipulation Argument Hard Incompatibilism and the Four-Case Argument McKenna’s Hard-Line Response to the Argument The Hard-Line Reply Concerns with the Hard-Line Reply On Pereboom’s Principle O of Ultimate Origination Principle O, Magical Agents, and God Principle O and Indoctrination Principle O and Control A Proposal SEVEN AUTHENTIC SPRINGS OF ACTION Toward a Soft-Line Reply to the Manipulation Argument Internalism versus Externalism Magical Agents and Global Manipulation: An Argument forInternalism Why the Argument Fails An Agency Requirement of Responsibility Children and the Authenticity of their Developing Evaluative Schemes Authentic Evolved Schemes Some Objections and Responses Evaluative Schemes and Personal Identity Evaluative Schemes and Drastic Change Evaluative Schemes and Ambiguity of ‘Autonomy’ Reply to the Magical Agents Argument Internalism’s Domain A Soft-Line Reply to the Four-Case Argument EIGHT THE IMPOSSIBILITY ARGUMENT Introduction The Impossibility Argument Assessing the Impossibility Argument A Problem Concerning Magical Agents and God A Problem Concerning Agency A Problem Concerning Control The Impossibility Argument and Negative Ultimate Control The Impossibility Argument and Agent-Causal Ultimate Control The Impossibility Argument and Compatibilist Ultimate Control NINE LIBERTARIANISM AND THE LUCK OBJECTION Libertarianism and Luck Event Causal Modest Libertarianism Nonaction-Centered Modest Libertarianism Action Centered Modest Libertarianism Introducing the Luck Objection Luck, Explanation, and Control Akratic Action Modest Libertarianism, Luck, and Akratic Action Luck’s Persistence Clarke’s Hybrid Account and the Luck Objection Accounts of Causation Clarke’s Hybrid Agent-Causal Account The Hybrid Account and Luck Mele’s Daring Soft-Libertarian Reply Akratic Action vs. Actions that Manifest Agency Breakdown The Daring Reply Brief Wrap-Up ReferencesIndex
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Broadview Press Ltd Opposition and Paradoxes: Philosophical
Book SynopsisSince antiquity, opposed concepts such a s t he One and the Many, the Finite and the Infinite, and the Absolute and the Relative, have been a driving force in philosophical, scientific, and mathematical thought. Yet they have also given rise to perplexing problems and conceptual paradoxes which continue to haunt scientists and philosophers. In Oppositions and Paradoxes, John L. Bell explains and investigates the paradoxes and puzzles that arise out of conceptual oppositions in physics and mathematics. In the process, Bell not only motivates abstract conceptual thinking about the paradoxes at issue, he also offers a compelling introduction to central ideas in such otherwise-di¬ cult topics as non-Euclidean geometry, relativity, and quantum physics.These paradoxes are often as fun as they are flabbergasting. Consider, for example, the Tristram Shandy paradox: an immortal man composing an autobiography so slowly as to require a year of writing to describe each day of his life—he would, if he had infinite time, never complete the work, although no individual part of it would remain unwritten … Or imagine an English professor who time-travels back to 1599 to offer a printing of Hamlet to William Shakespeare, so as to help the Bard overcome writer’s block and author the play which will centuries later inspire an English professor to travel back in time … These and many other of the book’s paradoxes straddle the boundary between physics and metaphysics, and demonstrate the hidden difficulty of many of our most basic concepts.Trade Review“Who else but John Bell could write a book like this one? One of the leading logicians of our day, Bell uses the role of conceptual oppositions and the paradoxes to which they occasionally give rise to take readers on a whirlwind tour through great swaths of the history of human thought. The sophisticated discussion of deep and difficult topics is highly digestible thanks to Bell wearing his expertise lightly and presenting things with dollops of his clever—and sometimes silly—humour.” — David DeVidi, University of Waterloo“Bell is a master of simplicity and clarity, while sacrificing nothing of accuracy and erudition. His enthusiasm for his subject is palpable and infectious. Oppositions and Paradoxes is a pleasure to read.” — Graham Priest, CUNY Graduate Center“John L. Bell is the true philosophical heir of Bertrand Russell, and his new book, Oppositions and Paradoxes, exemplifies all the best traits in Russell’s legacy. His presentation of philosophical paradoxes and perplexities in logic, mathematics, and physics is a model of lucidity and economy, and his analysis of these problems is secure and sane. Oppositions and Paradoxes is readily accessible and a sure path into some of philosophy’s greatest themes.” — Bradley Bassler, University of GeorgiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsWhat Is This Book About?Chapter I: The Continuous and the DiscreteContinuity and DiscretenessThe Pythagorean School and Incommensurable MagnitudesAtomismThe Stoics and the Continuum Theory of MatterZeno’s ParadoxesContemporary Versions of Zeno’s Paradoxes: SupertasksInfinitesimalsChapter II: Oppositions and Paradoxes in Mathematics: Set Theory and the InfiniteSet Theory and the One/Many OppositionParadoxes of the InfiniteUncountable InfinitiesSet-Theoretic AntinomiesThe Axiom of ChoiceChapter III: The Strange Universe of Non-Euclidean GeometryHyperbolic GeometryRiemannian GeometryChapter IV: Puzzles and Paradoxes of Time TravelTime Travel into the Past: Branching TimelinesTemporal LoopsTime Travel into the FutureThe Future Time ViewerTwo-Dimensional TimeTemporal InterdictsTime Travel as a Physical PossibilityChapter V: Puzzles and Paradoxes of Relativity TheorySpecial RelativitySpacetimeFaster-than-Light Particles in Special Relativity: TachyonsGeneral Relativity: The Principle of EquivalenceBlack HolesChapter VI: Puzzles and Paradoxes in Quantum PhysicsWaves vs. ParticlesHeisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle and Bohr’s Principle of ComplementarityQuantum TunnelingThe Riddle of PolarizationSchrödinger’s Cat ParadoxInterpretations of Quantum TheoryThe EPR Paradox and NonlocalityChapter VII: Cosmic EnigmasThe Beginnings of CosmologySteady-State vs. Big BangThe Problem of the Origin of the UniverseDark Matter, Dark Energy, and Cosmic AccelerationThe Argument from Design vs. the MultiverseA Philosophical CodaAppendix 1: Paradoxes in Logic and LanguageThe Liar ParadoxThe Liar, the Truth-Teller, and the Dice ManCurry’s ParadoxThe Grelling-Nelson ParadoxBerry’s ParadoxRichard’s ParadoxThe Paradox of the HeapAppendix 2: Reflections on the Constant and the ChangingAppendix 3: Oppositions in Kant’s PhilosophyAppendix 4: The Principle of Microstraightness, Nilpotent Infinitesimals, and the Differential CalculusFurther ReadingList of OppositionsList of ParadoxesIndex
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Broadview Press Ltd Knowing Reality: A Guided Introduction to
Book SynopsisKnowing Reality is a guided introduction to metaphysics and epistemology. Each of the book's twelve chapters contains extended excerpts from influential historical and contemporary philosophers, as well as a guided exposition of their views and their locations within the logical space of the issues at play. Topics are introduced through engaging thought experiments, with relevant philosophical puzzles sprinkled throughout. Complex issues are explained using down-to-earth examples, with illustrations provided to connect with readers and assist them in understanding the sophisticated concepts under discussion.Trade Review“Dwayne Moore’s book is a real advance on the usual introductions to metaphysics and epistemology, which are often too difficult (as with dense anthologies) or too superficial (as with single-author ‘here’s what I think’ glosses). Moore structures and explains each topic, making clear the main debates and what’s at stake in different positions held by historical and contemporary philosophers, excerpting from original texts and drawing illuminating connections to current culture along the way. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in a lively and informed introduction to the eye-opening world of ‘M&E.’” — Jessica Wilson, University of Toronto“Knowing Reality is a wonderful textbook for use in an introduction to metaphysics and epistemology course. It is a complete resource, in that it includes excerpts from primary sources, targeted commentaries on those excerpts, and general discussions of philosophical issues written in snappy, engaging, and clear prose. Each chapter opens with a thought experiment, often taken from popular culture, and closes with a list of references to television and film in which ideas from the chapter find expression. The book also provides a lovely introduction to the difference between philosophy and sophistry and an appendix on how to write a philosophy paper.” — Jeremy Fantl, University of Calgary“In Knowing Reality, Moore invites students to make connections between their lives and the major issues in metaphysics and epistemology. I especially appreciate that he illustrates philosophical problems with texts from popular culture (film and television in particular), and he treats these texts with as much respect as he does primary sources. In this way, Moore breaks down divisions between professional discourse and the experiences of students, who can use philosophy to enrich their daily lives.” — Doug Eskew, Colorado State University, PuebloTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: Philosophy and Sophistry 1.1 Ancient Greek Mythology 1.2 Ancient Greek Philosophy 1.3 Sophism 1.4 The Upside of Philosophy 1.5 How to Win an Argument Summary Chapter 2: Truth and Relativism 2.1 Correspondence Theory 2.2 Coherence Theory 2.3 Pragmatic Theory 2.4 Relativism Summary Chapter 3: Substances – Change and Sameness 3.1 Milesian Materialism 3.2 Eleatic Idealism 3.3 Substratum Theory 3.5 Perdurantism Summary Chapter 4: Personal Identity 4.1 Soul Theory 4.2 Bundle Theory 4.3 Psychological Theory Summary Chapter 5: Mind and Brain 5.1 Dualism 5.2 Mind-Brain Identity Theory 5.3 Functionalism 5.4 Eliminative Materialism 5.5 Idealism Summary Chapter 6: Free Will and Determinism 6.1 Hard Determinism 6.2 Libertarianism 6.3 Compatibilism Summary Chapter 7: Knowledge 7.1 Propositional Knowledge 7.2 Descartes’ Rationalism 7.3 Hume's Empiricism 7.4 Naturalized Epistemology 7.5 Social Epistemology Summary Chapter 8: Perception 8.1 Direct Realism 8.2 Skepticism 8.3 Representational Model 8.4 Idealism 8.5 Intentionalism Summary Chapter 9: Self-Knowledge 9.1. Inner Sense Model 9.2 Behaviourism 9.3 Acquaintance Model 9.4 Externalist Models 9.5 Self-Deception 9.6 Rationality and Irrationality Summary Chapter 10: Philosophy of Science 10.1 Aristotle 10.2 Francis Bacon 10.3 David Hume 10.4 Immanuel Kant 10.5 Logical Positivism 10.6 W. V. O. Quine 10.7 Helen Longino Summary Chapter 11: God and Naturalism 11.1 The Cosmological Argument for Theism 11.2 The Naturalistic Argument for Naturalism 11.3 The Teleological Argument for Theism 11.4 The Problem of Evil Summary Chapter 12: Religious Experience, Faith, and Reason 12.1 Varieties of Religious Experience 12.2 Religious Experience as Delusions 12.3 The Principle of Credulity and the Principle of Testimony 12.4 Naturalistic Accounts 12.5 Reason and Faith 12.6 Fideism 12.7 Evidentialism 12.8 The Belief Model Summary Appendix 1: How to Write an 'A' Paper 1. Thesis Statement 2. Roadmap 3. Logical Structure 4. Sentence Structure 5. Original Ideas 6. Accurate Portrayal of Philosophical Positions 7. Effective Critiques of Philosophical Positions 8. Quotations and References
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Assemblage Theory and Method
Book SynopsisWhat do we mean by ''assemblage'' in contemporary theory? The constant and seemingly limitless expansion of the concept's range of applications begs the question, if any and every kind of collection of things is an assemblage, then what advantage is there is in using this term and not some other term, or indeed no term at all? What makes an assemblage an assemblage, and not some other kind of collection of things? This book advances beyond this impasse and offers practical help in thinking about and using assemblage theory for contemporary cultural and social research, in order to:- Answer the question: what is an assemblage?- Explain why assemblage theory is necessary- Provide clear instructions on how to use assemblage theoryIan Buchanan maps the beginnings of a brand new field within the humanities.Trade ReviewIn this manuscript Buchanan clarifies some of the most powerful, widely used and generally misunderstood concepts advanced by Deleuze and Guattari that comprise assemblage theory. * Sue Ruddick, Professor of Geography, University of Toronto, Canada *By carefully returning to their texts to excavate not only the concept of the assemblage but the related notions of stratification, desire, territorialization, the body without organs, the virtual and the actual, and more, Buchanan corrects many of the modish and often ad hoc appropriations of Deleuze and Guattari’s work so often found in works of contemporary theory. * Nathan Widder, Professor of Political Theory, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK *Ian Buchanan shows that the assemblage does not refer to things nor to an ensemble of parts, but rather to the constitution of life in chaos. As such, he reveals that the key to analysing new, ever more subtle, forms of social control is to repeat the tasks of schizoanalysis: mapping the intimate connection between stratification and desire in the configuration of territories that make both life, and its annihilation, possible. * Patricio Landaeta, Professor of Philosophy, Center of Advanced Studies, University of Playa Ancha, Chile *Buchanan has succeeded in offering the clearest and most precise articulation of the concept of assemblage. Displaying an admirable ability to bring the abstract and theoretical to life through vivid, culturally relevant applications, this is a must read for anyone interested in returning to a conceptually rigorous understanding of assemblage that incorporates the full complexity of the term as Deleuze and Guattari intended. * Janae Sholtz, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Alvernia University, Pennsylvania, USA *Ian Buchanan’s book succeeds in carving out the ‘assemblage theory’ of Deleuze and Guattari against suitors to the illegitimate uses of the concept. By calling into question the condition of the possibility of critical thinking itself, his ruthless and passionate intervention into the debate is the very way that Deleuze and Guattari do European philosophy. His rare achievement reaffirms the view that Deleuze and Guattari are now global thinkers and for everyone interested in the global theory of Deleuze and Guattari, this book proves to be an excellent resource in the ‘minor’ exercise of Deleuze and Guattari. You can resist it but do so at your own risk. * Alex Taek-Gwang Lee, Professor of Cultural Studies, Kyung Hee University, South Korea *Assemblage Theory and Method ... [is an] excellent teaching tool that you can trust to give an erudite exposition of Deleuze and Guattari’s writing. * Avello Publishing Journal *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1 The Problem of Strata Chapter 2 Desire and Machines Chapter 3 Territory Chapter 4 Expressive Materialism Chapter 5 Control Assemblage Bibliography Index
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Transcript Verlag Reference and Contemporaneity in Architecture
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Princeton University Press Think Least of Death
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Aiming to extract life lessons from the philosophy of Spinoza, this vibrant study focusses on the concept of ‘homo liber,’ or the free person, a supremely rational figure continually striving for power and virtue. . . . Spinoza’s work serves as a hopeful, timely statement of what the truth-seeking individual can accomplish." * New Yorker *"As an accessible introduction to the complex thought of Spinoza, it is a success."---Jeffrey Collins, Wall Street Journal"If you want to become a better person, you ought to study the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza. That at least is the message of Steven Nadler’s delightful new book."---Jonathan Rée, Literary Review"A helpful explication of [Spinoza’s] ideas about ethics, the afterlife, and human nature." * Kirkus Reviews *"If you want the clearest and most sympathetic introduction as exists to Spinoza’s ideas . . . then Nadler’s your man. This, his latest book, is a must-read for our present, troubled times."---David Conway, Jewish Chronicle
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Andean Ontologies New Archaeological
Book SynopsisOffers a fascinating interdisciplinary investigation of how ancient Andean people understood their world and the nature of being. Exploring pre-Hispanic ideas of time, space, and the human body, these essays highlight a range of beliefs across the region's different cultures, emphasizing the relational aspects of identity in Andean worldviews.
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Editiones Scholasticae Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary
Book Synopsis Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction provides an overview of Scholastic approaches to causation, substance, essence, modality, identity, persistence, teleology, and other issues in fundamental metaphysics. The book interacts heavily with the literature on these issues in contemporary analytic metaphysics, so as to facilitate the analytic reader's understanding of Scholastic ideas and the Scholastic reader's understanding of contemporary analytic philosophy. The Aristotelian theory of actuality and potentiality provides the organizing theme, and the crucial dependence of Scholastic metaphysics on this theory is demonstrated. The book is written from a Thomistic point of view, but Scotist and Suarezian positions are treated as well where they diverge from the Thomistic position.Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Act and potency2. Causation3. Substance4. Essence and existence
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Headline Publishing Group Light in the Darkness
Book SynopsisAs featured in THE EDGE OF ALL WE KNOW - the new Netflix documentary about Black HolesFor readers of Stephen Hawking, a fascinating account of the universe from the perspective of world-leading astrophysicist Heino Falcke, who took the first ever picture of a black hole.10th April 2019: a global sensation. Heino Falcke, a man working at the boundaries of his discipline and therefore at the limits of the universe had used a network of telescopes spanning the entire planet to take the first picture of a black hole.Light in the Darkness examines how mankind has always looked to the skies, mapping the journey from millennia ago when we turned our gaze to the heavens, to modern astrophysics. Heino Falcke and Jorg Romer entertainingly and compellingly chart the breakthrough research of Falcke''s team, an unprecedented global community of international colleagues developing a telescope complex enough to look directly into a black hole - a hole wTrade ReviewHeino Falcke's book shows us how much stamina, curiosity, and fascination are required to persevere with a great scientific project against all naysayers * Berliner Zeitung *The technological and logistical challenges that the scientists engaged in the endeavour to produce an image of a black hole were faced with, and how they finally succeeded in the Spring of 2017 - all of this Falcke, with the help of journalist Jörg Römer, has turned into a wonderful book. * Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung *Light in the Darkness succeeds in making the invisible visible and the unimaginable imaginable * Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger *Falcke asks that we take seriously what black holes have to tell us and that we accept the limits of our knowledge. You don't see it very often that a scientist shows such modesty at the moment of his greatest triumph. One of the many strengths of this book * Neue Zürcher Zeitung *Heino Falcke's very personal book provides surprisingly revealing insights into the life of a researcher. It introduces the reader to the early history of astronomy and its modern foundation and does so in an accessible way * Neue Zürcher Zeitung am Sonntag *Heino Falcke does ground-breaking research into the universe's most mysterious phenomenon and at the very edge of space and time * From the statement of the jury for the Spinoza Prize *For me, Heino Falcke is the Man of the Year 2019, and the image of the black hole in the M87 galaxy that he and his team produced immediately became iconic. But Falcke isn't only a fantastic scientist, but also a gifted storyteller * New Scientist (Dutch edition) *Whoever reads Falcke's book won't just dive into a breathtaking scientific story but will also be in awe of the man himself. In spite - or maybe precisely because? - of his rigorous scientific work, this practicing Christian and minister keeps a room for god in his heart * Neue Ruhr Zeitung *Falcke and Römer pull off the trick of combining an individual and a cosmic perspective in the most illuminating and entertaining fashion * Der Freitag *
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Taylor & Francis The Epistemological Skyhook Determinism Naturalism and SelfDefeat Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
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Tarcher/Putnam,US SELFAWARE UNIVERSE by etc Author Dec 011993
Book SynopsisIn this stimulating and timely book, Amit Goswami, PhD, shatters the widely popular belief held by Western science that matter is the primary stuff of creation and proposes instead that consciousness is the true foundation of all we know and perceive. His explanation of quantum physics for lay readers, called a model of clarity by Kirkus Reviews, sets the stage for a voyage of discovery through the common ground of science and religion, the entwined nature of mind and body, and our interconnectedness with all of creation.
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