Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis – serie
Visar alla böcker i serien Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.
71 produkter
Wissenschaft und Kunst der Modellierung
Av Bernhard Thalheim, Ivor Nissen
Inbunden, 2015
2035 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Objects and Pseudo-Objects
Ontological Deserts and Jungles from Brentano to Carnap
Av Bruno Leclercq, Sebastien Richard m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1490 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The development of science, logic, mathematics, and psychology in the 19th century made it necessary to introduce a growing number of new entities, of which classical empiricism and strong extensionalism were unable to give a wholly satisfying account. One of the major issues confronting the 20th …
How to Do Things with Silence
Inbunden, 2015
1490 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This work is a detailed analytical study of different forms of silent doing. It explores a range of topics related to silence, including the theory of silent doing and its relationship to other forms of action and communication, silence and aesthetics, the ethics and politics of silence, and the …
Wie Dinge sind
Inbunden, 2016
2035 kr
Lägg i varukorg
„Wie Dinge sind" steht für das klassische Themenfeld der Eigenschaften oder Akzidentien. Im Buch wird von einer Ding- oder Substanzontologie ausgegangen, die deskriptiv oder alltagsontologisch ausgerichtet ist. Der Untertitel „noch eine Alltagsontologie" bezieht sich auf den Untertitel („eine …
Castañeda and his Guises
Essays on the Work of Hector-Neri Castañeda
Inbunden, 2014
1579 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This volume responds to and reassesses the work of Hector-Neri Castañeda (1924-1991). The essays collected here, written by his students, followers, and opponents, examine Castañeda’s seminal views on deontic logic, metaethics, indedicality, praticitions, fictions, and metaphysics, utilizing the …
Morality in Times of Naturalising the Mind
Inbunden, 2014
1579 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Since the millennium, the neurophysiological and psychological bases of moral judgements and actions have been the topic of much empirical research. This volume discusses the relevance and possible usage of this research for (meta-)ethics and action theory. An overview of the empirical research, …
Substantiality and Causality
Av Miroslaw Szatkowski, Marek Rosiak
Inbunden, 2014
1579 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The content of the volume is divided as follows: after presenting two rival approaches to substantiality and causality: a traditional (ontological) view vs. a transcendental one (Rosiak) there follow two sections: the first presents studies of substance as showing some causal aspects (Buchheim, …
Nature’s Teleological Order and God’s Providence
Are they compatible with chance, free will, and evil?
Inbunden, 2014
1579 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The book defends that there is both teleological order (design) and chance in non-living and in living systems of nature including man. This is done by giving exact definitions of different types of order and teleological order on the one hand and of different types of chance on the other. For …
Property Possession as Identity
An Essay in Metaphysics
Inbunden, 2011
1665 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this essay, Monaghan argues for an account of property possession as strict, numerical identity. According to this account, for an entity to possess a property is for that entity and that property to be numerically identical to each other. To defend this view, he argues against two views he call …
Truth: Its Nature, Criteria and Conditions
Inbunden, 2011
1351 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Truth: Its criteria and conditions is an in-depth critical-and-constructive inquiry in almost equal measure. The theories of the nature of empirical truth critically considered include two forms of the traditional correspondence theory; truth as appraisal; truth as identity of proposition and …
Ways Things Are
Studies in Ontology
Av Christian Kanzian, Winfried Löffler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1701 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book is a collection of essays in systematic ontology. The parts of its title – “Things” and “Ways They Are” – are indicative of two broadly and intensively discussed issues in current ontology, namely, what categories of entities there are and in what ways they are relevant for our …
Robust Reality
An Essay in Formal Ontology
Inbunden, 2011
1758 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Contemporary analytic philosophy can generally be characterized by the following tendencies: commitment to first-order predicate logic as the only viable formal logic; rejection of correspondence theories of truth; a view of existence as something expressed by the existential quantifier; a …
Consciousness and Subjectivity
Av Sofia Miguens, Gerhard Preyer
Inbunden, 2012
2141 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Issues of subjectivity and consciousness are dealt with in very different ways in the analytic tradition and in the idealistic–phenomenological tradition central to continental philosophy. This book brings together analytically inspired philosophers working on the continent with English-speaking …
Reason and Rationality
Av Maria Cristina Amoretti, Nicla Vassallo
Inbunden, 2013
1791 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Reason and rationality represent crucial elements of the self-image of human beings and have unquestionably been among the most debated issues in Western philosophy, dating from ancient Greece, through the Middle Ages, and to the present day. Many words and thoughts have already been spent trying …
Ontological Proofs Today
Inbunden, 2012
2842 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The book Ontological Proofs Today, apart from the introduction, consists of six parts. Part II comprises papers each of which pertains either to historical ontological arguments, or to some other, rather new, ontological arguments, but what makes them stand out from the other papers in this volume, …
Problem of Relativism in the Sociology of (Scientific) Knowledge
Av Richard Schantz, Markus Seidel
Inbunden, 2011
1992 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This volume comprises original articles by leading authors – from philosophy as well as sociology – in the debate around relativism in the sociology of (scientific) knowledge. Its aim has been to bring together several threads from the relevant disciplines and to cover the discussion from …
Necessary Structure of the All-pervading Aether
Inbunden, 2013
1791 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this book I investigate the necessary structure of the aether – the stuff that fills the whole universe. Some of my conclusions are. 1. There is an enormous variety of structures that the aether might, for all we know, have. 2. Probably the aether is point-free. 3. In that case, it should be …
Fostering the Ontological Turn
Gustav Bergmann (1906-1987)
Av Rosaria Egidi, Guido Bonino
Inbunden, 2008
1962 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Gustav Bergmann (1906-1987) was, arguably, one of the greatest ontologists of the twentieth century. In 2006 and 2007, after a period of relative neglect, international conferences devoted solely to Bergmann's work were held at the University of Iowa in the USA, Université de Provence in France, …
Gustav Bergmann
Phenomenological Realism and Dialectical Ontology
Av Bruno Langlet, Jean-Maurice Monnoyer
Inbunden, 2009
2035 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The texts of the book are concerned with G. Bergmann's open and new problems and their active role on issues in contemporary metaphysics, like the ontology of ties, connexions and relations, problems of exemplification, substrates and tropes theories, particulars, persistence and the metaphysics of …
States of Affairs
Inbunden, 2009
1758 kr
Lägg i varukorg
States of affairs raise, among others, the following questions: What kind of entity are they (if there are any)? Are they contingent, causally efficacious, spatio-temporal and perceivable entities, or are they abstract objects? What are their constituents and their identity conditions? What are the …
Phenomenological Realism Versus Scientific Realism
Reinhardt Grossmann - David M. Armstrong Metaphysical Correspondence
Av Javier Cumpa, Erwin Tegtmeier
Inbunden, 2009
1514 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The two eminent metaphysicians Armstrong and Grossmann exchanged letters for ten years in which they discussed crucial points of their respective ontologies. They have a common basis. Both do metaphysics proper and not linguistic philosophy. Both advocate universals and acknowledge the key position …
Modelling Metaphysics
The Metaphysics of a Model
Av Uwe Meixner
Inbunden, 2009
1758 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book models and simulates metaphysics by presenting the metaphysics of a model. The small size of the model makes it possible to treat metaphysical matters with a more than usual systematicity and comprehensiveness. In the mirror of sustained analogy, simulation-metaphysics offers a wealth of …
Universality in Set Theories
A Study in Formal Ontology
Inbunden, 2010
1514 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The book discusses the fate of universality and a universal set in several set theories. The book aims at a philosophical study of ontological and conceptual questions around set theory. Set theories are ontologies. They posit sets and claim that these exhibit the essential properties laid down in …
Ultimate Constituents of the Material World
In Search of an Ontology for Fundamental Physics
Inbunden, 2010
2394 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Today, quantum field theory (QFT)—the mathematical and conceptual framework for contemporary elementary particle physics—is the best starting point for analysing the fundamental building blocks of the material world. QFT if taken seriously in its metaphysical implications yields a picture of the …
Truth in Fiction
Inbunden, 2010
2321 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The essays collected in this volume are all concerned with the connection between fiction and truth. This question is of utmost importance to metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic and epistemology, raising in each of these areas and at their intersections a large number of issues …
Triangulation
From an Epistemological Point of View
Av Maria Cristina Amoretti, Gerhard Preyer
Inbunden, 2011
1920 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This volume breaks new grounds by bringing together a great variety of innovative contributions on triangulation, epistemology, and mind. The notion of “triangulation”, developed by Donald Davidson (1917-2003) during the last two decades of his life, has changed our understanding of the …
Relations and Predicates
Av Herbert Hochberg, Kevin Mulligan
Inbunden, 2004
1669 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Interest in the age-old problems of universals and individuation has received a new impetus from the current revival of ontology in the analytic tradition, the development of theories of individual properties (and the related application of mereological calculi to the analysis of predication), and …
