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Political Epistemology
Av Elizabeth Edenberg, Michael Hannon
Inbunden, 2021
1376 kr
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This collection explores one of the most rapidly growing area of philosophy: political epistemology. Epistemological issues are at the center of our political lives. It has become increasingly difficult to discern legitimate sources of evidence, misinformation spreads faster than ever, and the role …
The Language of Ontology
Inbunden, 2021
1205 kr
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Metaphysical and ontological debates, concerning what exists and the nature of reality, are perennial features of the philosophical landscape. However, some have argued that ontological debates are non-substantive, pointless, trivial, incoherent, or impossible. Debates about whether tables exist, …
Reality, Representation and Projection
Av John Haldane, Crispin Wright
Inbunden, 1994
2352 kr
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This book is an important collection of new essays on various topics relating to realism and its rivals in metaphysics, logic, metaethics, and epistemology. The contributors include some of the leading authors in these fields and in several cases their essays constitute definitive statements of …
Machines and Thought
The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume 1
Av P. J. R. Millican, A. Clark
Inbunden, 1996
2288 kr
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This is the first of two volumes of essays in commemoration of Alan Turing, whose pioneering work in the theory of artificial intelligence and computer science continues to be widely discussed today. A group of prominent academics from a wide range of disciplines focus on three questions famously …
Connectionism, Concepts, and Folk Psychology
The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume 2
Av Millican Clark, Andy Clark m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
2581 kr
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This is the second of two volumes of essays in commemoration of Alan Turing; it celebrates his intellectual legacy within the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. A distinguished international cast of contributors focus on the relationship beteen a scientific, computational image of the mind …
Appearance versus Reality
New Essays on Bradley's Metaphysics
Av Guy Stock
Inbunden, 1998
1225 kr
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Appearance versus Reality is a collection of new studies of the work of F. H. Bradley, a leading British philosopher of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, and one of the key figures in the emergence of Anglo-American analytic philosophy. In recent years there has been a widespread …
Knowing Our Own Minds
Av Crispin Wright, Barry C. Smith m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1346 kr
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Self-knowledge is the focus of considerable attention from philosophers: Knowing Our Own Minds gives a much-needed overview of current work on the subject, bringing together new essays by leading figures. Knowledge of one's own sensations, desires, intentions, thoughts, beliefs, and other attitudes …
Transcendental Arguments
Problems and Prospects
Av Clarrmont Stern, Robert Stern
Inbunden, 2000
2581 kr
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Fourteen new essays by a distinguished team of authors offer a broad and stimulating re-examination of transcendental arguments. This is the philosophical method of arguing that what is doubted or denied by the opponent must be the case, as a condition for the possibility of experience, language, …
Connectionism, Concepts, and Folk Psychology
The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume II
Häftad, 1999
986 kr
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This is the second of two volumes of essays in commemoration of Alan Turing; it celebrates his intellectual legacy within the philosophy of mind and cognitive science. A distinguished international cast of contributors focus on the relationship beteen a scientific, computational image of the mind …
Machines and Thought
The Legacy of Alan Turing, Volume I
Häftad, 1999
876 kr
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This is the first of two volumes of essays in commemoration of Alan Turing, whose pioneering work in the theory of artificial intelligence and computer science continues to be widely discussed today. A group of prominent academics from a wide range of disciplines focus on three questions famously …
Perspectives on Thomas Hobbes
Häftad, 1990
968 kr
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The papers in this collection provide views on central aspects of Thomas Hobbes's (1588-1679) life and work. The collection testifies to his enduring importance as a major philosopher four hundred years after his birth, and helps to unravel aspects of his intellectual biography which are relevant …
The Highest Good in Aristotle and Kant
Av BADER AUFDERHEIDE, Joachim Aufderheide m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1894 kr
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The notion of the highest good used to occupy a primary role in ethical theorising, but has largely disappeared from the contemporary landscape. The notion was central to both Aristotle's and Kant's ethical theories, however--a surprising observation given that their approaches to ethics are …
Foundations of Logical Consequence
Av HJORTLAND CARET, Colin R. Caret m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2062 kr
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Logical consequence is the relation that obtains between premises and conclusion(s) in a valid argument. Orthodoxy has it that valid arguments are necessarily truth-preserving, but this platitude only raises a number of further questions, such as: how does the truth of premises guarantee the truth …
Thomas Reid on Mind, Knowledge, and Value
Av Rebecca Copenhaver, Rebecca Copenhaver m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1965 kr
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This volume offers a fresh view of the work of Thomas Reid, a leading figure in the history of eighteenth-century philosophy. A team of leading experts in the field explore the significance of Reid's thought in his time and ours, focusing in particular on three broad themes: mind, knowledge, and …
The Metaphysics of Relations
Av YATES MARMODORO, Anna Marmodoro m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1848 kr
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This volume presents thirteen original essays which explore both traditional and contemporary aspects of the metaphysics of relations. It is uncontroversial that there are true relational predications-'Abelard loves Eloise', 'Simmias is taller than Socrates', 'smoking causes cancer', and so forth. …
Reality Making
Av Mark Jago
Inbunden, 2016
1445 kr
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What makes up reality, and how? What kinds of entity are fundamental to reality, and how do dependent entities depend on the fundamental ones? How does one entity metaphysically ground another? These questions are central to contemporary metaphysics. The papers in this collection, written by a new …
The Epistemic Life of Groups
Essays in the Epistemology of Collectives
Av FRICKER BRADY, Michael S. Brady m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1557 kr
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Social epistemology has been flourishing in recent years, expanding and making connections with political philosophy, virtue epistemology, philosophy of science, and feminist philosophy. The philosophy of the social world too is flourishing, with burgeoning work in the metaphysics of the social …
The Social and Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft
Av Sandrine Berges, Sandrine Bergès m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1682 kr
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Interest in the contribution made by women to the history of philosophy is burgeoning. Intense research is underway to recover their works which have been lost or overlooked. At the forefront of this revival is Mary Wollstonecraft. While she has long been studied by feminists, and later discovered …
Thinking about the Emotions
A Philosophical History
Inbunden, 2017
1755 kr
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Philosophical reflection on the emotions has a long history stretching back to classical Greek thought, even though at times philosophers have marginalized or denigrated them in favour of reason. Fourteen leading philosophers here offer a broad survey of the development of our understanding of the …
Art, Mind, and Narrative
Themes from the Work of Peter Goldie
Inbunden, 2016
1682 kr
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This volume presents new essays on art, mind, and narrative inspired by the work of the late Peter Goldie, who was Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester until 2011. Its three sections cover Narrative Thinking; Emotion, Mind, and Art; and Art, Value, and Ontology. …
Common Sense in the Scottish Enlightenment
Av C. B. Bow
Inbunden, 2018
1495 kr
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Common sense philosophy was one of eighteenth-century Scotland's most original intellectual products. It developed as a viable alternative to modern philosophical scepticism, known as the 'Ideal Theory' or 'the way of ideas'. The nine specially written essays in this volume explore the …
Evaluative Perception
Av Anna Bergqvist, Robert Cowan
Inbunden, 2018
1376 kr
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Evaluation is ubiquitous. Indeed, it isn't an exaggeration to say that we assess actions, character, events, and objects as good, cruel, beautiful, etc., almost every day of our lives. Although evaluative judgement - for instance, judging that an institution is unjust - is usually regarded as the …
The Actual and the Possible
Modality and Metaphysics in Modern Philosophy
Av Mark Sinclair, Mark Sinclair
Inbunden, 2017
1536 kr
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The Actual and the Possible presents new essays by leading specialists on modality and the metaphysics of modality in the history of modern philosophy from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. It revisits key moments in the history of modern modal doctrines, and illuminates lesser-known …
Art and Belief
Av Ema Sullivan-Bissett, Helen Bradley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1191 kr
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Art and Belief presents twelve new essays at the intersection of philosophy of mind and philosophy of art, particularly to do with the relation between belief and truth in our experience of art. Several contributors discuss the cognitive contributions artworks can make and the questions surrounding …
In the Light of Experience
New Essays on Perception and Reasons
Av Johan Gersel, Rasmus Thybo Jensen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1628 kr
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How does the idea that perception must provide reasons for our empirical judgements constrain our conception of our perceptual experiences? This volume presents ten new essays on perception which in different ways address this fundamental question. Charles Travis and John McDowell debate whether we …
The Measure of Greatness
Philosophers on Magnanimity
Inbunden, 2019
1376 kr
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Magnanimity is a virtue that has led many lives. Foregrounded early on by Plato as a philosophical virtue par excellence, it became one of the crown jewels in Aristotle's account of human excellence and was accorded equally salient place by other ancient thinkers. It is one of the most distinctive …
Quine, Structure, and Ontology
Av Janssen-Lauret, Frederique Janssen-Lauret
Inbunden, 2020
1419 kr
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W.V. Quine, a champion of philosophical naturalism and pioneer of mathematical logic, was one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century. Contemporary thought in ontology, epistemology, and the philosophy of logic and language owes much to his influence, yet recent work in these areas …
Belief, Imagination, and Delusion
Inbunden, 2024
1171 kr
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This volume brings together recent work on the nature of belief, imagination, and delusion. Whilst philosophers of mind and epistemology employ notions of belief and imagination in their theorizing, parallel work seeking to make these notions more precise continues. Delusions are standardly taken …
The Future of Normativity
Inbunden, 2025
1618 kr
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The past few decades have witnessed an intense focus on the notion of normativity. We orientate ourselves to think about normativity by asking a range of questions. There are ways we act and think, and ways in which the world is. But as well as what there is and what we do, what should or ought we …
Objects and Properties
New Perspectives
Inbunden, 2025
1262 kr
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This edited volume features a range of essays from world-leading philosophers discussing the key philosophical concepts of 'object' and 'property'. Arguably, these are two of the most fundamental concepts in metaphysics. Nor is it hard to see why. If one of the central goals of metaphysics is to …
