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Moral Philosophy
Häftad, 2022
373 kr
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What is moral philosophy? That is the question with which this important volume grapples. Its starting point is the famous critique made in 1958 by Elizabeth Anscombe, who argued that moral philosophy begins from a mistake: that it is fundamentally wrong about the sort of concept that the word …
Picturing the Apocalypse
The Book of Revelation in the Arts over Two Millennia
Av Anthony O'Hear, Natasha O'Hear
E-bok, 2015
123 kr
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The book of Revelation has been a source of continual fascination for nearly two thousand years. Concepts such as The Lamb of God, the Four Horsemen, the Seventh Seal, the Beasts and Antichrist, the Whore of Babylon, Armageddon, the Millennium, the Last Judgement, the New Jerusalem, and the …
Picturing the Apocalypse
The Book of Revelation in the Arts over Two Millennia
Av Anthony O'Hear, Natasha O'Hear
E-bok, 2015
123 kr
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The book of Revelation has been a source of continual fascination for nearly two thousand years. Concepts such as The Lamb of God, the Four Horsemen, the Seventh Seal, the Beasts and Antichrist, the Whore of Babylon, Armageddon, the Millennium, the Last Judgement, the New Jerusalem, and the …
Beyond Evolution
Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation
Inbunden, 1997
2031 kr
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Anthony O'Hear takes a stand against the fashion for explaining human behaviour in terms of evolution. He maintains, controversially, that while the theory of evolution is successful in explaining the development of the natural world in general, it is of limited value when applied to the human …
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science
Häftad, 1989
1002 kr
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This book is a balanced and up-to-date introduction to the philosophy of science. It covers all the main topics in the area, as well as introducing the student to the moral and social reality of science. The author's style is free from jargon, and although he makes use of scientific examples, these …
Beyond Evolution
Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation
Häftad, 1999
785 kr
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Anthony O'Hear takes a stand against the fashion for explaining human behaviour in terms of evolution. He maintains, controversially, that while the theory of evolution is successful in explaining the development of the natural world in general, it is of limited value when applied to the human …
Picturing the Apocalypse
The Book of Revelation in the Arts over Two Millennia
Av Natasha O'Hear, Anthony O'Hear
Häftad, 2017
177 kr
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The book of Revelation has been a source of continual fascination for nearly two thousand years. Concepts such as The Lamb of God, the Four Horsemen, the Seventh Seal, the Beasts and Antichrist, the Whore of Babylon, Armageddon, the Millennium, the Last Judgement, the New Jerusalem, and the …
Picturing the Apocalypse
The Book of Revelation in the Arts over Two Millennia
Av Natasha O'Hear, Anthony O'Hear
Inbunden, 2015
272 kr
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The book of Revelation has been a source of continual fascination for nearly two thousand years. Concepts such as the Lamb of God, the Four Horsemen, the Seventh Seal, the Beasts and Antichrist, the Whore of Babylon, Armageddon, the Millennium, the Last Judgement, the New Jerusalem, and the …
Transcendence, Creation and Incarnation
From Philosophy to Religion
Häftad, 2022
704 kr
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This book expounds and analyses notions of transcendence, creation and incarnation reflectively and personally, combining both philosophical and religious insights. Preferring tender-minded approaches to reductively materialistic ones, it shows some ways in which reductive approaches to human …
Transcendence, Creation and Incarnation
From Philosophy to Religion
Inbunden, 2020
2126 kr
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This book expounds and analyses notions of transcendence, creation and incarnation reflectively and personally, combining both philosophical and religious insights. Preferring tender-minded approaches to reductively materialistic ones, it shows some ways in which reductive approaches to human …
Karl Popper
2003
16099 kr
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Born in Austria, Karl Popper (1902-1994) was one of the dominant philosophical thinkers of the 20th century. A ground-breaking thinker, he saw the essence of true science as being the readiness to submit theories to severe testing and to reject them when refuted by test. His first major book in …
Popper-Arg Philosophers
Inbunden, 1999
3055 kr
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First Published in 1999. The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical introduction to the work of a philosopher of major influence and significance. This is a critical account …
Popper-Arg Philosophers
Häftad, 2008
750 kr
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First Published in 1999. The purpose of this series is to provide a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical introduction to the work of a philosopher of major influence and significance. This is a critical account …
Education, Society and Human Nature (RLE Edu K)
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
Inbunden, 2011
2433 kr
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Intended primarily for education students this book provides an introduction to the philosophy of education that tackles educational problems and at the same time relates them to the mainstream of philosophical analysis. Among the educational topics the book discusses are the aims of education, the …
Element of Fire (Routledge Revivals)
Science, Art and the Human World
Inbunden, 2013
2504 kr
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First published in 1988, the aim of this book can be stated in Nietzsche’s words: ‘To look at science from the perspective of the artist, but at art from that of life’. The title contests the notions that science alone can provide us with the most objective truth about the world, and that artistic …
Element of Fire (Routledge Revivals)
Science, Art and the Human World
Häftad, 2015
646 kr
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First published in 1988, the aim of this book can be stated in Nietzsche’s words: ‘To look at science from the perspective of the artist, but at art from that of life’. The title contests the notions that science alone can provide us with the most objective truth about the world, and that artistic …
Experience, Explanation and Faith
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion
Inbunden, 2013
2504 kr
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In this book Anthony O’Hear examines the reasons that are given for religious faith. His approach is firmly within the classical tradition of natural theology, but an underlying theme is the differences between the personal Creator of the Bible or the Koran and a God conceived of as the …
Philosophy at the New Millennium
Av Anthony O'Hear, Anthony O'Hear
Häftad, 2001
439 kr
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Where is philosophy at the year 2000 and where should it be going in the new millennium? Based on the Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Lecture Series 1999-2000, this book is written by leading international philosophers and covers the broad range of philosophical enquiry including ethics, …
Conceptions of Philosophy
Häftad, 2010
573 kr
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Is philosophy capable of establishing truths scientifically? If not, what can it do? What is its standing and what are its credentials? Is philosophy an essential element in humane study? Can philosophy establish anything at all? Philosophy asks questions about all areas of experience, but what …
Epistemology
Häftad, 2009
536 kr
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Based on the London Lecture Series of the Royal Institute of Philosophy for 2006-7, this collection brings together essays from leading figures in a rapidly developing field of philosophy. Contributors include: Alvin Goldman, Timothy Williamson, Duncan Pritchard, Miranda Fricker, Scott Sturgeon, …
Logic, Thought and Language
Häftad, 2002
699 kr
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Much contemporary philosophical debate centres on the topics of logic, thought and language, and on the connections between these topics. This collection of articles is based on the Royal Institute of Philosophy's annual lecture series for 2000-2001. Its contributors include a number of those …
Karl Popper
Philosophy and Problems
Av Anthony O'Hear, Anthony O'Hear
Häftad, 1996
605 kr
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Few philosophers in this century have had either Karl Popper's range or his influence, inside and outside philosophy. This collection of essays by fifteen distinguished philosophers, several of whom have been closely associated with Popper and his work, provides a timely assessment of Popper's …
Verstehen and Humane Understanding
Av Anthony O'Hear, Anthony O'Hear
Häftad, 1997
525 kr
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This 1997 collection of essays addresses topics that are of crucial importance to the lives of us all. Is there a mode of thinking peculiar to human life and its concerns, which is different from and irreducible to scientific rationality? Is historical understanding different from scientific …
Modern Moral Philosophy
Häftad, 2004
667 kr
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Although this collection of articles is not formally a commentary on Elizabeth Anscombe's famous article of the same title, in which she criticised the moral philosophy prevalent in 1958, a number of the contributors do take Anscombe's work as a starting point. Taken together the collection could …
Contemporary Issues in the Philosophy of Mind
Häftad, 1998
667 kr
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What is the mind? How does it relate to the body and the world? What is consciousness? What is experience? How free are we? Do we have special insights into ourselves? These perennial questions are at the forefront of the philosophical concerns today. Much of the most exciting and innovative work …
German Philosophy since Kant
Häftad, 1999
585 kr
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This collection of essays from the Royal Institute of Philosophy shows the connections and interrelations between the analytic and hermeneutic strains in German philosophy since Kant, partly to challenge the idea that there are two separate, non-communicating traditions. The distinguished …
Philosophy, Biology and Life
Häftad, 2005
653 kr
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It has been claimed that following the decline of Marxism and Freudianism, Darwinism has become the dominant intellectual paradigm of our day. In the mass media there are many bitter disputes between today's new Darwinians and their opponents, often over religion. But the 'neo-Darwinian paradigm' …
Political Philosophy
Häftad, 2007
413 kr
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This collection of essays from the Royal Institute of Philosophy, first published in 2007, looks at a wide range of topics in political philosophy ranging from issues such as terrorism, egalitarianism and the just war to considerations of the political philosophy of Edmund Burke, of philosophical …
Philosophy, the Good, the True and the Beautiful
Av Anthony O'Hear, Anthony O'Hear
Häftad, 2000
455 kr
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Discussions of value play a central role in contemporary philosophy. This book considers the role of values in truth seeking, in morality, in aesthetics and also in the spiritual life. We have got beyond the simplistic view that values are simply expressions of feeling, but their precise …
New Century Philosophy
Inbunden, 2003
657 kr
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O'Hear argues that philosophy should work with the grain of tradition and commonsense to help us understand politics, religion, aesthetics and the vast number of ethical questions that continue to arise as the scientific and technical revolution continues to accelerate.
