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Preference and Information
Av Dan Egonsson
Inbunden, 2007
2525 kr
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Is it important to our quality of life that the preferences we satisfy are rational and well-informed? Standard preferentialist theories allege that a person's preferences and their satisfaction are the correct measure of well-being. In preference-sensitive theories, preferences are important but …
Meaning and Structure
Structuralism of (Post)Analytic Philosophers
Inbunden, 2001
2673 kr
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In Meaning and Structure, Peregrin argues that recent and contemporary (post)analytic philosophy, as developed by Quine, Davidson, Sellars and their followers, is largely structuralistic in the very sense in which structuralism was originally tabled by Ferdinand de Saussure. The author reconstructs …
Hume's Scepticism and the Science of Human Nature
Inbunden, 2002
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This book explores the relationship between Hume's sceptical philosophy and his Newtonian ambition of founding a science of human nature. Assessing both received and 'new' readings of Hume's philosophy, Stanistreet offers a line of interpretation which, he argues, makes sense of many of the …
Schopenhauer, Religion and Morality
The Humble Path to Ethics
Inbunden, 2003
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This work challenges the textbook assessment of Schopenhauer as militant atheist and absolute pessimist. In examining Schopenhauer's grappling with religion, theology and Kant's moral philosophy, Mannion suggests we can actually discern a 'religious' humility in method in Schopenhauer's work, seen …
Problem of Existence
Inbunden, 2002
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This book explores the question of why there is something instead of nothing. Several responses to this question are possible, but only some of them address the question seriously, respecting its emotional aspects as well as its cognitive dimension. The author carefully distinguishes those answers …
Virtue Ethics and Moral Knowledge
Philosophy of Language after MacIntyre and Hauerwas
Inbunden, 2003
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We live in a time of moral confusion: many believe there are no overarching moral norms, and we have lost an accepted body of moral knowledge. Alasdair MacIntyre addresses this problem in his much-heralded restatement of Aristotelian and Thomistic virtue ethics; Stanley Hauerwas does so through his …
Dieter Henrich and Contemporary Philosophy
The Return to Subjectivity
Inbunden, 2003
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Dieter Henrich is one of the most respected and frequently cited philosophers in Germany today. His extensive and highly innovative studies of German Idealism and his systematic analyses of subjectivity have significantly impacted on advanced German philosophical and theological debates. Dieter …
Incommensurability and Cross-Language Communication
Av Xinli Wang
Inbunden, 2007
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A dominant epistemological assumption behind Western philosophy is that it is possible to locate some form of commonality between languages, traditions, or cultures - such as a common language or lexicon, or a common notion of rationality - which makes full linguistic communication between them …
Dispositional Theories of Knowledge
A Defence of Aetiological Foundationalism
Inbunden, 2003
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This book offers an original examination of human cognition, arguing that cognitive skills are dispositional in nature. Opposing influential views in modern Anglo-American philosophy, Gundersen starts from the received premis that knowledge is analyzable in terms of belief, justification and truth, …
Self-Intellection and its Epistemological Origins in Ancient Greek Thought
Inbunden, 2002
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Can the intellect or the intellectual faculty be its own object of thought, or can it not think or apprehend itself? This book explores the ancient treatments of the question of self-intellection - an important theme in ancient epistemology and of considerable interest to later philosophical …
Spinoza and Deep Ecology
Challenging Traditional Approaches to Environmentalism
Inbunden, 2003
3168 kr
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Spinoza and Deep Ecology explores the philosophical, psychological and political assumptions that underpin a concern for nature, offering specific suggestions how the domination of humans and nature may be overcome. It is primarily intended as an introduction to the philosophy of ecology, known as …
Subjectivity and Irreligion
Atheism and Agnosticism in Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche
Inbunden, 2003
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This book asks specific philosophical questions about the underlying structure of Kant, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche's thoughts on atheism and agnosticism; thoughts that represent one of the most concerted attacks on monotheistic religion in modern philosophy. Yet commentators interested in …
Action and Ethics in Aristotle and Hegel
Escaping the Malign Influence of Kant
Inbunden, 2005
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Pendlebury alleges that abstraction and rationalization have had a strong and malign influence on normative moral philosophy in the 20th century. Criticizing writers such as Hare, Rawls and Scanlon for pursuing a conception of moral philosophy that bears little resemblance to the way in which human …
Logic & Natural Language
On Plural Reference and Its Semantic and Logical Significance
Inbunden, 2004
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Frege's invention of the predicate calculus has been the most influential event in the history of modern logic. The calculus’ place in logic is so central that many philosophers think, in fact, of it when they think of logic. This book challenges the position in contemporary logic and philosophy of …
Slavoj Žižek
A Little Piece of the Real
Inbunden, 2004
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Slavoj Zizek has emerged as the pre-eminent European cultural theorist of the last decade and has been described as the ultimate Marxist/Lacanian cultural studies scholar. His large and growing body of work has generated considerable controversy, yet his texts are not structured as standard …
Davidson and Spinoza
Mind, Matter and Morality
Inbunden, 2007
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Baruch Spinoza a Dutch rationalist philosopher of the 17th century and Donald Davidson one of the most distinguished contemporary American analytic philosophers, are two thinkers not usually analysed in conjunction with each other in the philosophical literature yet there are remarkable parallels …
Stoics on Determinism and Compatibilism
Inbunden, 2005
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The Stoics on Determinism and Compatibilism is an important book which reconstructs the arguments deployed by the Stoics in favour of the view that everything is necessary and examines the development of the different arguments given by the Stoics that this is compatible with moral responsibility …
Negotiating the Good Life
Aristotle and the Civil Society
Inbunden, 2004
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For centuries philosophers have wrestled with the dichotomy between individual freedom on the one hand and collective solidarity on the other. Yet today there is a growing realization that this template is fundamentally flawed. In this book, Mark Young embraces and advocates a more holistic concept …
On Thinking and the World
John McDowell's Mind and World
Inbunden, 2005
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John McDowell's Mind and World has, since its publication in 1994, become a seminal text, putting forward many new ideas on the manner in which concepts mediate the relation between minds and the world. Yet McDowell's ideas are not easy to comprehend. In this book Sandra Dingli both elaborates and …
Liberty, Property and Markets
A Critique of Libertarianism
Av Daniel Attas
Inbunden, 2005
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Libertarianism attempts to establish a set of property rights as a complete political morality, its argument proceeding from liberty tout court, as the unique foundational aspect of well being that grounds rights. In this book, Attas presents a sympathetic reconstruction of the libertarian argument …
Living Without Domination
The Possibility of an Anarchist Utopia
Av Samuel Clark
Inbunden, 2007
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Living Without Domination defends the bold claim that humans can organise themselves to live peacefully and prosperously together in an anarchist utopia. Clark refutes errors about what anarchism is, about utopianism, and about human sociability and its history. He then develops an analysis of …
Politics of Agency
Toward a Pragmatic Approach to Philosophical Anthropology
Inbunden, 2008
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Debates about individualism and holism, reductionism and phenomenology, and naturalism and humanism all turn on how we answer the basic questions about the nature of human agency. This book argues that the traditional emphasis on the accuracy of a given theory of human agency has systematically …
From Concept to Objectivity
Thinking Through Hegel's Subjective Logic
Inbunden, 2006
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From Concept to Objectivity uncovers the nature and authority of conceptual determination by critically thinking through neglected arguments in Hegel’s Science of Logic pivotal for understanding reason and its role in philosophy. Winfield clarifies the logical problems of presuppositionlessness and …
Two Orientations Toward Human Nature
Inbunden, 2007
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Our culture entertains a schizophrenic attitude towards human nature. On the one hand, egoism is held to be our most powerful motive, playing a crucial cultural role by explaining the appeal of capitalism and providing a foundation for individualism. By contrast much of the continental intellectual …
Kristeva, Psychoanalysis and Culture
Subjectivity in Crisis
Inbunden, 2007
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Examining Julia Kristeva's contention that contemporary Western society is witnessing a crisis of subjectivity due to the failure of the paternal function, Gambaudo places Kristeva's thesis within the context of Freudian psychoanalytic thought and shows how Kristeva defends her position against a …
Science and Virtue
An Essay on the Impact of the Scientific Mentality on Moral Character
Inbunden, 2006
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Charting new territory in the interface between science and ethics, Science and Virtue is a study of how the scientific mentality can affect the building of character, or the attainment of virtue by the individual. Drawing on inspiration from virtue-ethics and virtue-epistemology, Caruana argues …
Logic of Expression
Quality, Quantity and Intensity in Spinoza, Hegel and Deleuze
Av Simon Duffy
Inbunden, 2006
3168 kr
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Engaging with the challenging and controversial reading of Spinoza presented by Gilles Deleuze in Expressionism in Philosophy (1968), this book focuses on Deleuze's redeployment of Spinozist concepts within the context of his own philosophical project of constructing a philosophy of difference as …
Truth and Normativity
An Inquiry into the Basis of Everyday Moral Claims
Inbunden, 2007
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Beginning by posing the question of what it is that marks the difference between something like terrorism and something like civil society, Brassington argues that commonsense moral arguments against terrorism or political violence tend to imply that the modern democratic polis might also be …
Protagoras and the Challenge of Relativism
Plato's Subtlest Enemy
Av Ugo Zilioli
Inbunden, 2007
2525 kr
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Protagoras was an important Greek thinker of the fifth century BC, the most famous of the so called Sophists, though most of what we know of him and his thought comes to us mainly through the dialogues of his strenuous opponent Plato. In this book, Ugo Zilioli offers a sustained and philosophically …
Phenomenology of Love and Hate
Inbunden, 2007
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Using phenomenology to uncover the implicit logic in personal love, sexual love, and hatred, Peter Hadreas provides new insights into the uniqueness of the beloved and offers fresh explanations for some of the worst outbreaks of violence and hatred in modern times. Topics discussed include the …
