Analytisk filosofi & logisk positivism

The Prince - Niccolo Machiavelli - Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following observations, be Machiavellian as we understand the disparaging term? 1. So it is that to know the nature of a p...

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Ethics Benedictus de Spinoza - Ethics (1908). This book, "e;Ethics"e;, by James Hayden Tufts, John Dewey, is a replication of a book originally published before 1908. It has been restored by human beings, page by page, so that you may enjo...

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Critias Plato - Critias, one of Plato's late dialogues, recounts the story of the mighty island kingdom Atlantis and its attempt to conquer Athens, which failed due to the ordered society of the Athenians. In this short book "e;Critias"e;,...

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The Seventh Letter Plato - The Seventh Letter of Plato is an epistle that tradition has ascribed to Plato. It is by far the longest of the epistles of Plato and gives an autobiographical account of his activities in Sicily as part of the intrigues...

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Siddhartha Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha, die Legende von der Selbstbefreiung eines jungen Menschen aus familiÿrer und gesellschaftlicher Fremdbestimmung zu einem selbstÿndigen Leben, zeigt, dass Erkenntnis nicht durch Lehren zu vermitteln ist, son...

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Lohengrin Unbekannt - ÿber dem Lande Brabant, wo der Scheldestrom sich mit dem Rhein ins weite Nordmeer ergieÿt, lastete tiefe Trauer, denn Herzog Gottfried, der weise und gerechte Herrscher, lag im Sterben. Viele Jahre hatte er das Herzogtum am...

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The Categories Aristotle - Categories is a text from Aristotle's Organon that enumerates all the possible kinds of things that can be the subject or the predicate of a proposition. They are considered the single most heavily discussed of all Arist...

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This book is about the Americanization of Yugoslav culture and everyday life during the nineteen-sixties. After falling out with the Eastern bloc, Tito turned to the United States for support and inspiration. In the political sphere the distance b...

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In ''Beitrÿge zu einer Kritik der Sprache'' von Fritz Mauthner wird eine radikale Reflexion über die Natur und die Grenzen menschlicher Sprache prÿsentiert. Mauthner analysiert die Sprache als ein System von willkürlichen Zeichen, die kein unm...

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Aforismos y relatos muy breves de orden ético y espiritual que obtienen su inspiración de múltiples filosofÿas de vida, procedentes de las regiones más diversas del planeta. Pensamientos penetrantes y agudos, en ocasiones paradójicos y desco...

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"e;Que Wittgenstein es uno de los grandes nombres de la filosofia del siglo XX es indiscutible. En sus "e;Investigaciones filosoficas"e;, que se edita con nueva traduccion, aborda los dilemas del lenguaje, el verdadero sentido de las p...

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En un libro conciso y claro Peter F. Strawson expone una forma peculiar de naturalismo que permite abordar cuestiones tradicionales filosóficas de la epistemologÿa, la ontologÿa, la filosofÿa del lenguaje o la moralidad. La diversidad de temas...

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Many people go through life in a rather hit-or-miss fashion, casting about for ideas to explain why their projects improve or decline, why they are successful or why they are not. Guessing and "hunches," however, are not very reliable. And without...

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For most early pragmatists, including the founder C.S. Peirce and L. Wittgenstein, vagueness was a real and universal principle and not a mere defect of our knowledge or thought. This volume begins by exploring this pragmatist notion of vagueness ...

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Beyond the Bible, Beyond the West is a research in ontological hermeneutics: it is critical of "textual positivism" - which makes the univocity and clarity of a text the main goal of its task - and also of "cultural positivism" - a cultural matrix...

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Jan Wolenski ¿ and Sandra Lapointe Polish philosophy goes back to the 13th century, when Witelo, famous for his works in optics and the metaphysics of light, lived and worked in Silesia. Yet, Poland's academic life only really began after the Univ...

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Analytic philosophy has been a dominant intellectual movement in the 20th century and a reflection of the cultural pre-eminence of scientism. In response to analytic philosophy's peculiar reticence (and inability) to discuss itself, this book prov...

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I wish to express, first of all, my profound gratitude to Professor J. M. Bochenski, without whose assistance the present work would have not been possible. To be concise, I would like to state that his contribution to this book may be viewed at t...

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De akademiska 60- och 70-talen gick i mångt och mycket i positivismkritikens tecken. Den norske filosofen Hans Skjervheim talade redan 1964 om "det moderna upproret mot positivismen". Den radikala studentrörelse som formerade sig under senare dele...

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Detta är en berättelse om mord och självmord, antisemitism, passion och nervösa sammanbrott som drivs av eldiga kontroverser och djupa filosofiska meningsskjiljaktigheter. I början av 1900-talet hade Wien en central roll inom filosofin. En grupp f...

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Georg Henrik von Wright var såväl en internationellt ryktbar filosof i den analytiska skolan som en uppmärksammad samtidskritisk essäist. Att han vid ett¿framträdande i Stockholm lockade närmare 2 000 personer säger en del om hans stjärnstatus och...

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This¿Institute's Yearbook¿ for the most part, documents its recent activities and provides a forum for the discussion of exact philosophy, logical and empirical investigations, and analysis of language. This volume holds a collection of papers on ...

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This¿Institute's Yearbook¿ for the most part, documents its recent activities and provides a forum for the discussion of exact philosophy, logical and empirical investigations, and analysis of language. This volume holds a collection of papers on ...

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Ernst Mach -- A Deeper Look has been written to reveal to English-speaking readers the recent revival of interest in Ernst Mach in Europe and Japan. The book is a storehouse of new information on Mach as a philosopher, historian, scientist and per...

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Ernst Mach -- A Deeper Look has been written to reveal to English-speaking readers the recent revival of interest in Ernst Mach in Europe and Japan. The book is a storehouse of new information on Mach as a philosopher, historian, scientist and per...

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R. G. Collingwood saw one of the main tasks of philosophers and of historians of human thought in uncovering what he called the ultimate presuppositions of different thinkers, of different philosophical movements and of entire eras of intellectual...

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Analytic philosophy has been a dominant intellectual movement in the 20th century and a reflection of the cultural pre-eminence of scientism. In response to analytic philosophy's peculiar reticence (and inability) to discuss itself, this book prov...

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Con una perspectiva novedosa que contradice la lectura de la violencia únicamente a partir de nociones empÿricas o psicológicas, Miriam Jerade hace una reflexión desde la articulación de los presupuestos que fueron nucleares para la deconstru...

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Este escrito muestra, de la mano de Wittgenstein, la importancia del concepto de expresión, dándole consistencia desde diferentes momentos de la filosofÿa. El uso de un concepto artÿstico en campos filosóficos es más un experimento que un ri...

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