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Mind and Cosmos - Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False
(1 röst)In Mind and Cosmos, Thomas Nagel argues that the widely accepted world view of materialist naturalism is untenable. The mind-body problem cannot be confined to the relation between animal minds and animal bodies. If materialism cannot accommodate ...
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(1 röst)Heidegger talar om språket som en boning. Han vill uppenbarligen göra språket, inklusive det i Wittgensteinsk mening outsägbara, till en värld att leva i. Det är kanske inte lätt att leva i den världen. Men vem har sagt att det som är viktigt, liv...
Konstruktionen av den sociala verkligheten
John Searle, en av samtidens mest betydelsefulla språkfilosofer, undersöker i Konstruktionen av den sociala verkligheten vad vår värld egentligen består av. Pengar, äktenskap, egendom, styrelseskick - det är alltsammans fenomen som existerar endas...
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Prolegomena - Till varje framtida metafysik som skall kunna uppträda som ve
Prolegomena kom ut två år efter Kritik av det rena förnuftet. Kant söker här sammanfatta tankegångarna i sitt huvudverk och tillrättavisa några av de missförstånd som det gav upphov till. Boken är uppbyggd kring frågor som är implicita i Kritiken ...
Nothing: A Very Short Introduction
What is 'nothing'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - a void - exist? This Very Short Introduction explores the science and history of the elusive void: from Aristotle's theories to black holes and quantum particles,...
Every Thing Must Go - Metaphysics Naturalized
Every Thing Must Go argues that metaphysics must be based on contemporary science as it really is, and not on philosophers' intuitions, common sense, or simplifications. Metaphysicians must abandon the picture of the world as composed of self-subs...
Being and Time - A Revised Edition of the Stambaugh Translation
A revised translation of Heidegger's most important work.
Three Waved of Volunteers and the New Earth
This is a fascinating narrative that reveals the cosmic forces that have been in play over the past 66 years. Help has come from the outside to preserve the human race. In 1945 when the atomic bombs, our "protectors" and "watchers&q...
Become a Magnet to Money Through the Sea of Unlimited Consciousness
The 2nd edition of this profound book, by the best selling author Bob Proctor (teacher of The Secret & Beyond The Secret) and Michele Blood, is destined to become a classic for millions of people wishing to go Beyond The Secret. It covers the basi...
Riddles of Existence - A Guided Tour of Metaphysics
The questions of metaphysics are the deepest and most puzzling questions there are. What is time? Am I free in my actions? What makes me the same person I was as a child? What is it for one thing to cause another? Riddles of Existence is the first...
Meditations
Widely regarded as the father of modern Western philosophy, Descartes sought to look beyond established ideas and create a thought system based on reason. In this profound work he meditates on doubt, the human soul, God, truth and the nature of ex...
What is a Person? - Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up
What is a person? This fundamental question is a perennial concern of philosophers and theologians. But, Christian Smith argues, it also lies at the center of the social scientist's quest to interpret and explain social life. In this ambitious boo...
Fashionable Nonsense - Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science
In 1996, Alan Sokal published an essay in the hip intellectual magazine "Social Text" parodying the scientific but impenetrable lingo of contemporary theorists. Here, Sokal teams up with Jean Bricmont to expose the abuse of scientific co...
My Big Toe - A Trilogy Unifying Philosophy, Physics, and Metaphysics: Awakening, Discovery, Inner Workings
Cosmic Consciousness - A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind
(1 röst)A classic modern study of the mystical experience, this pioneering work remains as valuable today as it was upon its 1901 publication. Prompted by his firsthand experience, the author explores the phenomenon of transcendent realization, or illumin...
Wickedness - A Philosophical Essay
To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture, yet here Mary Midgley does so with her customary brilliance and clarity - to read Wickedness is to understand her reputation as one of the great moral philosophers.
Convoluted Universe: Bk. 1
This is the sequel to 'The Custodians'. The book contains some of the more complicated concepts in Metaphysics that Dolores Cannon discovered through twenty years of using deep hypnosis to explore the subconscious mind. Some of the topics explored...
The Meme Machine
(1 röst)Humans are extraordinary creatures, with the unique ability among animals to imitate and so copy from one another ideas, habits, skills, behaviours, inventions, songs, and stories. These are all memes, a term first coined by Richard Dawkins in 197...
Ride the Tiger - A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul
Julius Evola's final major work, which examines the prototype of the human being who can give absolute meaning to his or her life in a world of dissolution<p>- Presents a powerful criticism of the idols, structures, theories, and illusions o...
Grundläggning av sedernas metafysik
Immanuel Kant var en av de första tänkarna som förkunnade människovärdets totala oberoende av ras, nationalitet eller samhällsställning. I Grundläggning av sedernas metafysik från 1785, Kants första systematiska framställning av etiken, skriver ha...
The Body Multiple - Ontology in Medical Practice
"The Body Multiple" is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, Annemarie Mol looks at the day-to-day diagnosis and treatment of atherosclerosis. A patient information leaf...
The Body in Pain - The Making and Unmaking of the World
Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, this profoundly original work explores the nature of physical suffering. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on tort...
Truth -- Meaning -- Reality
Truth -- Meaning -- Reality presents a broad and unified deflationism that encompasses language, thought, knowledge, and reality. Horwich's story begins with his minimalist view of truth -- paving the way to an account of meaning as use. The fourt...
Reality: A Very Short Introduction
'What is real?' has been one of the key questions of philosophy since its beginning in antiquity. But it is not just a question that philosophers ask. This Very Short Introduction discusses what reality is by looking at a variety of arguments, the...
Making the Social World - The Structure of Human Civilization
The renowned philosopher John Searle investigates the nature of social reality. How do institutions such as money, marriage, and government arise from the mere power of words? And how do mind, language, reason, and freedom come into being from the...
The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
Logical Atomism is a philosophy that sought to account for the world in all its various aspects by relating it to the structure of the language in which we articulate information. In The Philosophy of Logical Atomism, Bertrand Russell, with input ...
Being and Nothingness - A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology
The often criticized philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre encompasses the dilemmas and aspirations of the individual in contemporary society. This work of power and epic scope provides a vivid analysis for all who would understand one of the most influe...
Metaphysics
This core text introducing readers to the field of metaphysics is now revised and updated with a new chapter on being. This essential core text introduces readers to metaphysics. In thoughtful and engaging prose, Peter van Inwagen examines three p...
Why Does the World Exist? - An Existential Detective Story
Whether framed philosophically as "Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?" or more colloquially as "But, Mommy, who made God?" the metaphysical mystery about how we came into existence remains the most fractious and f...
