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Hume and the Problem of Miracles: A Solution
Av M.P. Levine
Inbunden, 1988
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This book developed from sections of my doctoral dissertation, "The Possibility of Religious Knowledge: Causation, Coherentism and Foundationalism," Brown University, 1982. However, it actually had its beginnings much earlier when, as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, I first read …
Rerepresentation
Readings in the Philosophy of Mental Representation
Av S. Silvers
Inbunden, 1988
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This collection of papers on issues in the theory of mental representation expresses a diversity of recent reflections on the idea that C. D. Broad so aptly characterized in the title of his book Mind and the World Order. An important impetus in the project of organizing this work were the …
Philosophy of Thomas Reid
Av M.T. Dalgarno, E.H. Matthews
Inbunden, 1989
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Note on references to the works of Thomas Reid 5 SECTION 1 - Perception Yves Michaud (University of Paris, France) 9 'Reid's Attack on the Theory of Ideas' William P. Alston (Syracuse University, U. S. A. ) 35 'Reid on Perception and Conception' Vere Chappell (University of Massachusetts, U. S. A. …
Hegel’s Epistemological Realism
A Study of the Aim and Method of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Inbunden, 1989
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The scope of this study is both ambitious and modest. One of its ambitions is to reintegrate Hegel's theory of knowledge into main stream epist~ology. Hegel's views were formed in consideration of Classical Skepticism and Modern epistemology, and he frequently presupposes great familiarity with …
Current State of the Coherence Theory
Critical Essays on the Epistemic Theories of Keith Lehrer and Laurence BonJour, with Replies
Av J. Bender
Inbunden, 1989
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The subtitle of this book should be read as a qualification as much as an elaboration of the title. If the goal were completeness, then this book would have included essays on the work of other philosophers such as Wilfrid Sellars, Nicholas Rescher, Donald Davidson, Gilbert Harman and Michael …
Thomas Reid and ‘The Way of Ideas’
Av R.D. Gallie
Inbunden, 1989
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This book is meant to serve as an introduction to the philosophy of Thomas Reid by way of a study of certain themes central to that philosophy as we find it expounded in his extensive and influential published writings. The choice of these themes inevitably reflects philosophical interests of the …
Historical Foundations of Cognitive Science
Av J.C. Smith
Inbunden, 1990
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My interest in gathering together a collection of this sort was generated by a fortuitous combination of historical studies under Professor Keith Lehrer and studies in cognitive science under Professor R. Michael Harnish at the University of Arizona. Work on the volume began there while I was an …
Doubting
Contemporary Perspectives on Skepticism
Inbunden, 1989
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During the summer of 1986 one of the co-editors was a fellow at the Summer Institute in Epistemology held at the University of Colorado in Boulder. It was there that the idea for this volume was born. It was clear from the discussions taking place at the i Institute that works such as Robert …
What is Said
A Theory of Indirect Speech Reports
Av R. Bertolet
Inbunden, 1990
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The notion of what someone says is, perhaps surprisingly, some what less clear than we might be entitled to expect. Suppose that I utter to my class the sentence 'I want you to write a paper reconciling the things Russell claims about propositions in The Philosophy of Mathematics for next week'. A …
Freedom, Rights And Pornography
A Collection of Papers by Fred R. Berger
Inbunden, 1990
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In the essays that follow, Fred Berger argues for freedom of expression, civil disobedience, affirmative action and what he calls liberal judicial activism and against sex-role stereotyping, paternalism and the censorship of pornography. Underlying his liberalism is a unified theory. That theory …
Historical Foundations of Cognitive Science
Av J.C. Smith
Häftad, 1991
1641 kr
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My interest in gathering together a collection of this sort was generated by a fortuitous combination of historical studies under Professor Keith Lehrer and studies in cognitive science under Professor R. Michael Harnish at the University of Arizona. Work on the volume began there while I was an …
Language, Truth and Ontology
Av K. Mulligan
Inbunden, 1991
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"What is there?". Although the question is not a new one in philosophy, analytical philosophers after Frege, Russell and Moore preferred for a long time to address it only indirectly, if at all. The philosophical analysis of language, truth and logic would, it was thought, provide the answer to the …
Cognition, Semantics and Philosophy
Proceedings of the First International Colloqium on Cognitive Science
Av J. Ezquerro, Jesús M. Larrazabal
Inbunden, 1991
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Cognition, Semantics and Philosophy brings together theorists from philosophy, linguistics, psychology and artificial intelligence, in order to develop foundations, to present methodological issues and to point the ways to future theoretical research in cognitive science. The interdisciplinary …
Emotions
A Philosophical Theory
Av O.H Green
Inbunden, 1991
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Philosophical theories of emotions, and to an extent some theories of scientific psychology, represent attempts to capture the essence of emotions basically as they are conceived in common sense psychology. Although there are problems, the success of explanations of our behavior in terms of …
Retribution Reconsidered
More Essays in the Philosophy of Law
Av J.G. Murphy
Inbunden, 1992
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Jeffrie G. Murphy's second collection of essays further pursues the topics of punishment and retribution that were explored in his 1979 collection Retribution, Justice and Therapy. Murphy now explores these topics in the context of political philosophy as well as moral philosophy, and he now begins …
In the Interests of Others
An Essay in Moral Philosophy
Inbunden, 1992
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Are we morally required to act in the interests of others? Does our worth as persons depend in any way on our valuing the good of others? These questions, illustrative of those addressed in this book, concern the relevance of other-interested considerations - of facts about what is good or bad for …
Philosophy of Probability
Av J.P. Dubucs
Inbunden, 1993
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Philosophy of Probability provides a comprehensive introduction to theoretical issues that occupy a central position in disciplines ranging from philosophy of mind and epistemology to cognitive science, decision theory and artificial intelligence. Some contributions shed new light on the standard …
Haecceity
An Ontological Essay
Inbunden, 1993
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Many contemporary philosophers are interested in the scotistic notion of haecceity or `thisness' because it is relevant to important problems concerning identity and individuation, reference, modality, and propositional attitudes. Haecceity is the only book-length work devoted to this topic. The …
Eye and the Mind
Reflections on Perception and the Problem of Knowledge
Av C. Landesman
Inbunden, 1993
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This book is a discussion of some of the major philosophical problems centering around the topic of sense perception and the foundations of human knowledge. It begins with a characterization of our common sense understanding of the role of the senses in the acquisition of belief, and it argues that …
Philosophy in Mind
The Place of Philosophy in the Study of Mind
Av Murray Michael, John O'Leary-Hawthorne
Inbunden, 1994
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Increasingly, the mind is being treated as a fit subject for scientific inquiry. As cognitive science and empirical psychology strive to uncover the mind's secrets, it is fitting to inquire as to what distinctive role is left for philosophy in the study of mind. This collection, which includes …
Moore on Right and Wrong
The Normative Ethics of G.E. Moore
Av W.H. Shaw
Inbunden, 1995
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G.E. Moore's work shaped twentieth century ethics. But while his metaethical doctrines have seen decades of debate, little attention has been paid to his normative theory. Yet Moore broke fresh and important ground in elaborating an indirect, sophisticated, and non-hedonistic form of …
Inquiry, Forms, and Substances
A Study in Plato’s Metaphysics and Epistemology
Inbunden, 1995
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i. Introductory remarks 1 Plato, but not Socrates, concluded that the Forms are substances. Whether the Forms are substances is not an issue that Socrates had in mind. He did not deny it, but neither did he affirm it. If Socrates were asked a series of questions designed to determine whether he …
Agora, Academy, and the Conduct of Philosophy
Av Debra Nails
Inbunden, 1995
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Agora, Academy, and the Conduct of Philosophy offers extremely careful and detailed criticisms of some of the most important assumptions scholars have brought to bear in beginning the process of (Platonic) interpretation. It goes on to offer a new way to group the dialogues, based on important …
Emotion in Aesthetics
Inbunden, 1995
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Emotion in Aesthetics is the first book on aesthetics to provide an extensive theory of emotion; application of the cognitive-emotive theory to aesthetics; analysis of the relationship between aesthetics, metaphor and emotion; a full theory of meaning and its application to aesthetics; discussion …
Frege
Sense and Reference One Hundred Years Later
Inbunden, 1995
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Gottlob Frege's brief article "Uber Sinn und Bedeutung" ("On Sense and Reference") has come to be seen, in the century since its publication in 1892, as one of the seminal texts of analytic philosophy. It, along with the rest of Frege's writings on logic and mathematics, came to mark out a whole …
Persons, Animals, and Fetuses
An Essay in Practical Ethics
Inbunden, 1996
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This work discusses animal rights, obligations concerning future generations, abortion, limiting medical treatment, and euthanasia. Persons are defined as individuals who ought to be treated in accordance with all sound moral principles. The author develops an account of what moral principles are …
Knowledge, Teaching and Wisdom
Av Keith Lehrer, B.J. Lum m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
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This book derives from a 1993 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on Knowledge, Teaching, and Wisdom. The Institute took place at the University of California, Berkeley, and was co-directed by Keith Lehrer and Nicholas D. Smith. The aims of the Institute were several: we sought …
Aristotle’s Idea of the Soul
Av H. Granger
Inbunden, 1996
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Aristotle's Idea of the Soul considers the nature of the soul within Aristotle's psychology and natural philosophy. A survey is provided of the contemporary interpretations of Aristotle's idea of the soul, which are prominent in the Aristotelian scholarship within the analytic tradition. These …
Philosophy and Cognitive Science: Categories, Consciousness, and Reasoning
Proceeding of the Second International Colloquium on Cognitive Science
Av A. Clark, J. Ezquerro m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1641 kr
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PHILOSOPHY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE: CATEGORIES, CONSCIOUSNESS, AND REASONING The individual man, since his separate existence is manifested only by ignorance and error, so far as he is anything apart from his fellows, and from what he and they are to be, is only a negation. Peirce, Some Consequences …
Human Thought
Av J.R. Mendola
Inbunden, 1997
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Conscious experience and thought content are customarily treated as distinct problems. This book argues that they are not. Part One develops a chastened empiricist theory of content, which cedes to experience a crucial role in rooting the contents of thoughts, but deploys an expanded conception of …
