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33 produkter
Personal Agency
The Metaphysics of Mind and Action
Av E. J. Lowe
E-bok, 2008
510 kr
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Personal Agency consists of two parts. In Part II, a radically libertarian theory of action is defended which combines aspects of agent causalism and volitionism. This theory accords to volitions the status of basic mental actions, maintaining that these are spontaneous exercises of the will—a …
Mental Causation and Ontology
Av R. D. Ingthorsson, E. J. Lowe m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
1210 kr
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An international team of contributors presents new work on the importance of ontology for a central debate in philosophy of mind. Mental causation has been a hotly disputed topic in recent years, with reductive and non-reductive physicalists vying with each other and with dualists over how to …
The Possibility of Metaphysics
Substance, Identity, and Time
Av E. J. Lowe
Inbunden, 1998
3565 kr
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Jonathan Lowe argues that metaphysics should be restored to a central position in philosophy, as the most fundamental form of rational inquiry, whose findings underpin those of all other disciplines. He portrays metaphysics as charting the possibilities of existence, by identifying the categories …
A Survey of Metaphysics
Av E. J. Lowe
Häftad, 2002
771 kr
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A Survey of Metaphysics provides a systematic overview of modern metaphysics, covering all of the most important topics likely to be encountered on a metaphysics course. The conception of metaphysics underlying the book is the fairly traditional and widely-shared one that metaphysics deals with the …
Personal Agency
The Metaphysics of Mind and Action
Av E. J. Lowe
Inbunden, 2008
2260 kr
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Personal Agency consists of two parts. In Part II, a radically libertarian theory of action is defended which combines aspects of agent causalism and volitionism. This theory accords to volitions the status of basic mental actions, maintaining that these are spontaneous exercises of the will--a …
The Four-Category Ontology
A Metaphysical Foundation for Natural Science
Av E. J. Lowe
Häftad, 2007
1151 kr
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E. J. Lowe sets out and defends his theory of what there is. His four-category ontology is a metaphysical system that recognizes two fundamental categorial distinctions which cut across each other to generate four fundamental ontological categories. The distinctions are between the particular and …
The Possibility of Metaphysics
Substance, Identity, and Time
Av E. J. Lowe
Häftad, 2001
1316 kr
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Jonathan Lowe argues that metaphysics should be restored to a central position in philosophy, as the most fundamental form of rational inquiry, whose findings underpin those of all other disciplines. He portrays metaphysics as charting the possibilities of existence, by idetifying the categories of …
The Four-Category Ontology
A Metaphysical Foundation for Natural Science
Av E. J. Lowe
Inbunden, 2005
2411 kr
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E. J. Lowe sets out and defends his theory of what there is. His four-category ontology is a metaphysical system that recognizes two fundamental categorial distinctions which cut across each other to generate four fundamental ontological categories. The distinctions are between the particular and …
Personal Agency
The Metaphysics of Mind and Action
Av E. J. Lowe
Häftad, 2010
813 kr
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Personal Agency consists of two parts. In Part II, a radically libertarian theory of action is defended which combines aspects of agent causalism and volitionism. This theory accords to volitions the status of basic mental actions, maintaining that these are spontaneous exercises of the will--a …
Mental Causation and Ontology
Av S. C. Gibb, S. C. Gibb m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1901 kr
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An international team of contributors presents new work on the importance of ontology for a central debate in philosophy of mind. Mental causation has been a hotly disputed topic in recent years, with reductive and non-reductive physicalists vying with each other and with dualists over how to …
Analytic Philosophy Without Naturalism
Av Antonella Corradini, Sergio Galvan m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
750 kr
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In recent years numerous attempts have been made by analytic philosophers to naturalize various different domains of philosophical inquiry. All of these attempts have had the common goal of rendering these areas of philosophy amenable to empirical methods, with the intention of securing for them …
Routledge Guidebook to Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Av E. J. Lowe
Inbunden, 2013
2133 kr
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John Locke is widely acknowledged as the most important figure in the history of English philosophy and An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is his greatest intellectual work, emphasising the importance of experience for the formation of knowledge. The Routledge Guidebook to Locke’s Essay …
Routledge Guidebook to Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Av E. J. Lowe
Häftad, 2013
429 kr
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John Locke is widely acknowledged as the most important figure in the history of English philosophy and An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is his greatest intellectual work, emphasising the importance of experience for the formation of knowledge. The Routledge Guidebook to Locke’s Essay …
Subjects of Experience
Av E. J. Lowe
Häftad, 2006
813 kr
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In this innovative study of the relationship between persons and their bodies, E. J. Lowe demonstrates the inadequacy of physicalism, even in its mildest, non-reductionist guises, as a basis for a scientifically and philosophically acceptable account of human beings as subjects of experience, …
Subjects of Experience
Av E. J. Lowe
Inbunden, 1996
1710 kr
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In this innovative study of the relationship between persons and their bodies, E. J. Lowe demonstrates the inadequacy of physicalism, even in its mildest, non-reductionist guises, as a basis for a scientifically and philosophically acceptable account of human beings as subjects of experience, …
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind
Av E. J. Lowe
Inbunden, 2000
1628 kr
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In this book Jonathan Lowe offers a lucid and wide-ranging introduction to the philosophy of mind. Using a problem-centred approach designed to stimulate as well as instruct, he begins with a general examination of the mind-body problem and moves on to detailed examination of more specific …
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind
Av E. J. Lowe
Häftad, 2000
553 kr
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In this book Jonathan Lowe offers a lucid and wide-ranging introduction to the philosophy of mind. Using a problem-centred approach designed to stimulate as well as instruct, he begins with a general examination of the mind-body problem and moves on to detailed examination of more specific …
Forms of Thought
A Study in Philosophical Logic
Av E. J. Lowe
Inbunden, 2013
1628 kr
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Forms of thought are involved whenever we name, describe, or identify things, and whenever we distinguish between what is, might be, or must be the case. It appears to be a distinctive feature of human thought that we can have modal thoughts, about what might be possible or necessary, and …
Forms of Thought
A Study in Philosophical Logic
Av E. J. Lowe
Häftad, 2015
569 kr
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Forms of thought are involved whenever we name, describe, or identify things, and whenever we distinguish between what is, might be, or must be the case. It appears to be a distinctive feature of human thought that we can have modal thoughts, about what might be possible or necessary, and …
More Kinds of Being
A Further Study of Individuation, Identity, and the Logic of Sortal Terms
Av E. J. Lowe
Häftad, 2015
482 kr
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Taking into account significant developments in the metaphysical thinking of E. J. Lowe over the past 20 years, More Kinds of Being: A Further Study of Individuation, Identity, and the Logic of Sortal Terms presents a thorough reworking and expansion of the 1989 edition of Kinds of Being. Brings …
Analytic Philosophy Without Naturalism
Av E. J. Lowe, Sergio Galvan m. fl.
E-bok, 2006
858 kr
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In recent years numerous attempts have been made by analytic philosophers to naturalize various different domains of philosophical inquiry. All of these attempts have had the common goal of rendering these areas of philosophy amenable to empirical methods, with the intention of securing for them …
Analytic Philosophy Without Naturalism
Av E. J. Lowe, Sergio Galvan m. fl.
E-bok, 2006
883 kr
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In recent years numerous attempts have been made by analytic philosophers to naturalize various different domains of philosophical inquiry. All of these attempts have had the common goal of rendering these areas of philosophy amenable to empirical methods, with the intention of securing for them …
Routledge Guidebook to Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Av E. J. Lowe
E-bok, 2013
492 kr
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John Locke is widely acknowledged as the most important figure in the history of English philosophy and An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is his greatest intellectual work, emphasising the importance of experience for the formation of knowledge. The Routledge Guidebook to Locke’s Essay …
Routledge Guidebook to Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding
Av E. J. Lowe
E-bok, 2013
502 kr
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John Locke is widely acknowledged as the most important figure in the history of English philosophy and An Essay Concerning Human Understanding is his greatest intellectual work, emphasising the importance of experience for the formation of knowledge. The Routledge Guidebook to Locke’s Essay …
Truth and Truth-making
Av A. Rami, E. J. Lowe
E-bok, 2014
746 kr
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Truth depends in some sense on reality. But it is a rather delicate matter to spell this intuition out in a plausible and precise way. According to the theory of truth-making this intuition implies that either every truth or at least every truth of a certain class of truths has a so-called …
Truth and Truth-making
Av A. Rami, E. J. Lowe
E-bok, 2014
762 kr
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Truth depends in some sense on reality. But it is a rather delicate matter to spell this intuition out in a plausible and precise way. According to the theory of truth-making this intuition implies that either every truth or at least every truth of a certain class of truths has a so-called …
More Kinds of Being
A Further Study of Individuation, Identity, and the Logic of Sortal Terms
Av E. J. Lowe
Inbunden, 2009
1318 kr
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Taking into account significant developments in the metaphysical thinking of E. J. Lowe over the past 20 years, More Kinds of Being: A Further Study of Individuation, Identity, and the Logic of Sortal Terms presents a thorough reworking and expansion of the 1989 edition of Kinds of Being. Brings …
More Kinds of Being
A Further Study of Individuation, Identity, and the Logic of Sortal Terms
Av E. J. Lowe
E-bok, 2009
1548 kr
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Taking into account significant developments in the metaphysical thinking of E. J. Lowe over the past 20 years, More Kinds of Being: A Further Study of Individuation, Identity, and the Logic of Sortal Terms presents a thorough reworking and expansion of the 1989 edition of Kinds of Being . Brings …
Truth and Truth-making
Av E. J. Lowe, A. Rami
Häftad, 2008
821 kr
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Truth depends in some sense on reality. But it is a rather delicate matter to spell this intuition out in a plausible and precise way. According to the theory of truth-making this intuition implies that either every truth or at least every truth of a certain class of truths has a so-called …
