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French Philosophy
A Very Short Introduction
Av Stephen Gaukroger, Knox Peden
Häftad, 2020
135 kr
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French culture is unique in that philosophy has played a significant role from the early-modern period onwards, intimately associated with political, religious, and literary debates, as well as with epistemological and scientific ones. While Latin was the language of learning there was a universal …
Failures of Philosophy
A Historical Essay
Häftad, 2023
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
237 kr
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The first book to address the historical failures of philosophy—and what we can learn from themPhilosophers are generally unaware of the failures of philosophy, recognizing only the failures of particular theories, which are then remedied with other theories. But, taking the long view, philosophy …
Knowledge in Modern Philosophy
Häftad, 2024
365 kr
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To know epistemology’s history is to know better what contemporary epistemology could be and perhaps should be – and what it need not be and perhaps ought not to be. Knowledge in Modern Philosophy presents the history of one of Western philosophy’s greatest challenges: understanding the nature of …
Objectivity
A Very Short Introduction
Häftad, 2012
4,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
113 kr
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- Is objectivity possible?- Can there be objectivity in matters of morals, or tastes?- What would a truly objective account of the world be like?- Is everything subjective, or relative? - Are moral judgments objective or culturally relative? Objectivity is both an essential and elusive …
Philosophy of Knowledge: A History
Av Stephen Hetherington, Nicholas D. Smith m. fl.
2024
1501 kr
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Within these four volumes, we meet much of whatever epistemology has been and is. Why is this form of historical engagement philosophically important?The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History presents the history of one of Western philosophy’s greatest challenges: understanding the nature of …
Natural and the Human
Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841
E-bok, 2016
472 kr
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Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century. Since the seventeenth century, science in the west has undergone a unique form of cumulative development in which it has been consolidated …
Natural and the Human
Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841
E-bok, 2016
472 kr
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Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century. Since the seventeenth century, science in the west has undergone a unique form of cumulative development in which it has been consolidated …
Descartes and Cartesianism
Essays in Honour of Desmond Clarke
Av Catherine Wilson, Stephen Gaukroger
E-bok, 2017
1027 kr
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This volume is a collection of original essays dealing with Cartesian themes and problems, especially as these arise in connection with Cartesian natural science and the theory of perception, agency, mentality, divinity, and the passions. It focuses in particular on Desmond Clarke''s important …
Descartes and Cartesianism
Essays in Honour of Desmond Clarke
Av Catherine Wilson, Stephen Gaukroger
E-bok, 2017
1027 kr
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This volume is a collection of original essays dealing with Cartesian themes and problems, especially as these arise in connection with Cartesian natural science and the theory of perception, agency, mentality, divinity, and the passions. It focuses in particular on Desmond Clarke''s important …
Emergence of a Scientific Culture
Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685
E-bok, 2008
554 kr
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Why did science emerge in the West and how did scientific values come to be regarded as the yardstick for all other forms of knowledge? Stephen Gaukroger shows just how bitterly the cognitive and cultural standing of science was contested in its early development. Rejecting the traditional picture …
Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility
Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760
E-bok, 2010
620 kr
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Understanding the emergence of a scientific culture - one in which cognitive values generally are modelled on, or subordinated to, scientific ones - is one of the foremost historical and philosophical problems with which we are now confronted. The significance of the emergence of such scientific …
Objectivity
A Very Short Introduction
E-bok, 2012
92 kr
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- Is objectivity possible? - Can there be objectivity in matters of morals, or tastes? - What would a truly objective account of the world be like? - Is everything subjective, or relative? - Are moral judgments objective or culturally relative? Objectivity is both an essential and elusive …
Objectivity
A Very Short Introduction
E-bok, 2012
92 kr
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- Is objectivity possible? - Can there be objectivity in matters of morals, or tastes? - What would a truly objective account of the world be like? - Is everything subjective, or relative? - Are moral judgments objective or culturally relative? Objectivity is both an essential and elusive …
French Philosophy
A Very Short Introduction
Av Knox Peden, Stephen Gaukroger
E-bok, 2020
92 kr
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French culture is unique in that philosophy has played a significant role from the early-modern period onwards, intimately associated with political, religious, and literary debates, as well as with epistemological and scientific ones. While Latin was the language of learning there was a universal …
French Philosophy
A Very Short Introduction
Av Knox Peden, Stephen Gaukroger
E-bok, 2020
92 kr
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French culture is unique in that philosophy has played a significant role from the early-modern period onwards, intimately associated with political, religious, and literary debates, as well as with epistemological and scientific ones. While Latin was the language of learning there was a universal …
Civilization and the Culture of Science
Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1795-1935
E-bok, 2020
310 kr
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How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did cognitive values—and subsequently moral, political, and social ones—come to be modelled around scientific values? In Civilization and the Culture of Science , Stephen Gaukroger explores how these values were shaped …
Civilization and the Culture of Science
Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1795-1935
E-bok, 2020
310 kr
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How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did cognitive values—and subsequently moral, political, and social ones—come to be modelled around scientific values? In Civilization and the Culture of Science , Stephen Gaukroger explores how these values were shaped …
Charles Bonnet, Analytical Essay on the Faculties of the Soul
Inbunden, 2022
1376 kr
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In the course of the eighteenth century, understanding human cognitive life came to be construed as something to be explored in terms of the physiology of the sensory organs, the nerves, and the brain: a form of naturalization that effectively moved cognition out of the realm of philosophy as it …
Civilization and the Culture of Science
Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1795-1935
Häftad, 2022
463 kr
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How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did cognitive values—and subsequently moral, political, and social ones—come to be modelled around scientific values? In Civilization and the Culture of Science, Stephen Gaukroger explores how these values were shaped and how …
Descartes: An Intellectual Biography
Häftad, 1997
931 kr
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René Descartes (1596-1650) is the father of modern philosophy, and one of the greatest of all thinkers. This is the first intellectual biography of Descartes in English; it offers a fundamental reassessment of all aspects of his life and work. Stephen Gaukroger, a leading authority on Descartes, …
Descartes: An Intellectual Biography
Inbunden, 1995
2156 kr
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Descartes is one of the greatest of all thinkers. Modern philosophy is generally taken to begin with him. His unique contribution to Western thought covers not only philosophy but also science and mathematics; his studies in mechanics and optics have provided modern science with tools still used …
Cartesian Logic
An Essay on Descartes's Conception of Inference
Inbunden, 1989
2902 kr
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This book deals with a neglected episode in the history of logic and theories of cognition: the way in which conceptions of inference changed during the seventeenth century. The author focuses on the work of Descartes, contrasting his construal of inference as an instantaneous grasp in accord with …
The Natural and the Human
Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841
Inbunden, 2016
1225 kr
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Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century. Since the seventeenth century, science in the west has undergone a unique form of cumulative development in which it has been consolidated …
Descartes and Cartesianism
Essays in Honour of Desmond Clarke
Av Stephen Gaukroger, Catherine Wilson
Inbunden, 2017
1262 kr
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This volume is a collection of original essays dealing with Cartesian themes and problems, especially as these arise in connection with Cartesian natural science and the theory of perception, agency, mentality, divinity, and the passions. It focuses in particular on Desmond Clarke's important …
The Natural and the Human
Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1739-1841
Häftad, 2018
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
616 kr
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Stephen Gaukroger presents an original account of the development of empirical science and the understanding of human behaviour from the mid-eighteenth century. Since the seventeenth century, science in the west has undergone a unique form of cumulative development in which it has been consolidated …
Civilization and the Culture of Science
Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1795-1935
Inbunden, 2020
948 kr
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How did science come to have such a central place in Western culture? How did cognitive values--and subsequently moral, political, and social ones--come to be modelled around scientific values? In Civilization and the Culture of Science, Stephen Gaukroger explores how these values were shaped and …
The Emergence of a Scientific Culture
Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685
Inbunden, 2006
2260 kr
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Why did science emerge in the West and how did scientific values come to be regarded as the yardstick for all other forms of knowledge? Stephen Gaukroger shows just how bitterly the cognitive and cultural standing of science was contested in its early development. Rejecting the traditional picture …
The Emergence of a Scientific Culture
Science and the Shaping of Modernity 1210-1685
Häftad, 2008
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
681 kr
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Why did science emerge in the West and how did scientific values come to be regarded as the yardstick for all other forms of knowledge? Stephen Gaukroger shows just how bitterly the cognitive and cultural standing of science was contested in its early development. Rejecting the traditional picture …
The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility
Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760
Inbunden, 2010
1629 kr
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Understanding the emergence of a scientific culture - one in which cognitive values generally are modelled on, or subordinated to, scientific ones - is one of the foremost historical and philosophical problems with which we are now confronted. The significance of the emergence of such scientific …
The Collapse of Mechanism and the Rise of Sensibility
Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1680-1760
Häftad, 2012
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
895 kr
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Understanding the emergence of a scientific culture - one in which cognitive values generally are modelled on, or subordinated to, scientific ones - is one of the foremost historical and philosophical problems with which we are now confronted. The significance of the emergence of such scientific …
