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19 produkter
Truth's Debt to Value
Häftad, 2006
583 kr
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Is something true because we believe it to be so or because it is true? How can a culturally bound community achieve scientific knowledge when values, attitudes, and desires shape its beliefs? In this book an eminent philosopher considers various schools of thought on the nature of truth. David …
Social Ontology
Häftad, 2013
620 kr
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Moral and social philosophers often assume that humans beings are and ought to be autonomous. This tradition of individualism, or atomism, underlies many of our assumptions about ethics and law; it provides a legitimating framework for liberal democracy and free market capitalism. In this powerful …
Hypothesis and the Spiral of Reflection
Häftad, 1989
463 kr
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This book describes a realist, fallibilist alternative when intuitionism and its psychocentric ontology are rejected. Weissman proposes an agenda for metaphysical inquiry and also a method for testing metaphysical claims. Arguing that science and metaphysics are successive refinements of the maps …
Lost Souls
The Philosophic Origins of a Cultural Dilemma
Häftad, 2003
463 kr
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Traces the history of mind-body dualism.Lost Souls examines the origins and consequences of the philosophic idea that mind and body are distinct. The author traces mind-body dualism from Plato, Plotinus, Augustine, and Proclus through Descartes and Kant to Nietzsche, Heidegger, Carnap, and Quine. …
Bulletproof
Writing Scripts that Don't Get Shot Down
Av David Diamond, David Weissman
Häftad, 2019
340 kr
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Sensibility and the Sublime
Inbunden, 2012
1408 kr
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Philosophic attention shifted after Hegel from Kant’s emphasis on sensibility to criticism and analyses of the fine arts. The arts themselves seemed as ample as nature; a disciplined science could devote as much energy to one as the other. But then the arts began to splinter because of new …
Cities, Real and Ideal
Categories for an Urban Ontology
Inbunden, 2010
2321 kr
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Cities are conspicuous among settlements because of their bulk and pace: Venice, Paris, or New York. Each is distinctive, but all share a social structure that mixes systems (families, businesses, and schools), their members, and a public regulator. Cities alter this structure in ways specific to …
Zone Morality
Inbunden, 2014
1482 kr
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Traditional moral theory usually has either of two emphases: virtuous moral character or principles for distributing duties and goods. Zone Morality introduces a third focus: families and businesses are systems created by the causal reciprocities of their members. These relations embody the duties …
Spinoza’s Dream
On Nature and Meaning
Inbunden, 2016
1612 kr
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Meaning (significance) and nature are this book’s principal topics. They seem an odd couple, like raisins and numbers, though they elide when meanings of a global sort—ideologies and religions, for example—promote ontologies that subordinate nature. Setting one against the other makes reality …
Community
Häftad, 2025
349 kr
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Communities are vital to personal and social well-being because collaboration is required where skills and resources are scarce; their pathologies—anonymity and isolation, tribalism and murder—defeat us.Community is often invoked respectfully but without a clear referent. The word is said to be …
Community
Inbunden, 2025
1274 kr
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Communities are vital to personal and social well-being because collaboration is required where skills and resources are scarce; their pathologies—anonymity and isolation, tribalism and murder—defeat us.Community is often invoked respectfully but without a clear referent. The word is said to be …
Discourse on the Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
Av René Descartes, David Weissman
Häftad, 1996
333 kr
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Descartes' ideas not only changed the course of Western philosophy but also led to or transformed the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, physics and mathematics, political theory and ethics, psychoanalysis, and literature and the arts. This book reprints Descartes' major works, Discourse on …
Cage
Must, Should, and Ought from Is
Inbunden, 2006
1111 kr
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Philosophical examination of the relationship of normativity and freedom.Hume argued that is does not entail ought; that we cannot infer necessity or obligation from any description of actual states of affairs. His philosophical heirs continue to argue that nothing outside ourselves constrains us. …
Cage
Must, Should, and Ought from Is
Häftad, 2007
422 kr
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Philosophical examination of the relationship of normativity and freedom.Hume argued that is does not entail ought; that we cannot infer necessity or obligation from any description of actual states of affairs. His philosophical heirs continue to argue that nothing outside ourselves constrains us. …
Styles of Thought
Interpretation, Inquiry, and Imagination
Inbunden, 2007
1111 kr
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Differentiates inquiry from interpretation in order to secure a foundation for truth.Every man and woman is located in two ways. One is stolidly physical: each human body has a unique address and trajectory. The other comes with beliefs that locate us by answering a salvo of questions: Who, what, …
Styles of Thought
Interpretation, Inquiry, and Imagination
Häftad, 2009
394 kr
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Differentiates inquiry from interpretation in order to secure a foundation for truth.Every man and woman is located in two ways. One is stolidly physical: each human body has a unique address and trajectory. The other comes with beliefs that locate us by answering a salvo of questions: Who, what, …
Intuition and Ideality
Häftad, 1987
422 kr
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This book shows how idealism is a consequence of the intuitionist method. Idealism develops from mental content inspected by mind, or as mind characterizing itself. Weissman declares that the idea of an independent world, of a nature whose character and existence are independent of mind, cannot be …
