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Molyneux's Problem in Action
Av Gabriele Ferretti, Brian Glenney
Häftad, 2027
541 kr
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This book offers a novel action-based pluralist analysis of Molyneux’s question, which asks whether a subject born blind yet able to discriminate specific shapes by touch alone can immediately recognize, if their vision is suddenly restored, the same shapes placed before their eyes by sight alone. …
One-dot Theory Described, Explained, Inferred, Justified, and Applied
Häftad, 2011
552 kr
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The ancient Chinese scholars are fond of applying the Yin and Yang diagram to correlate almost everything. This book continues that tradition and uses the model to study other non-“dialectical” theories and models. The major finding qua contribution in this publication is to point out that the four …
Description of Situations
An Essay in Contextualist Epistemology
Häftad, 2018
551 kr
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This book approaches classic epistemological problems from a contextualist perspective. The author takes as his point of departure the fact that we are situated beings, more specifically that every single moment in our lives is already given within the framework of a specific context in the midst …
Arnheim, Gestalt and Media
An Ontological Theory
Häftad, 2019
551 kr
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This monograph presents a synthesis and reconstruction of Rudolf Arnheim’s theory of media. Combining both Arnheim’s well-known writings on film and radio with his later work on the psychology of art, the author presents a coherent approach to the problem of the nature of a medium, space and time, …
Socrates on the Life of Philosophical Inquiry
A Companion to Plato’s Laches
Häftad, 2018
665 kr
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This book offers the first systematic reading of Plato’s Laches in English after three decades of scholarly silence. It rekindles interest in this much-neglected dialogue by providing a fresh discussion of the major issues that arise from the text. Among these issues, pride of place is taken by the …
Traditional and Complementary Medicines: Are they Ethical for Humans, Animals and the Environment?
Häftad, 2018
551 kr
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This book provides a systematic analysis of the ethical implications of traditional and complementary medicine (T&CM), focusing on pragmatic solutions. The author uses a bioethical methodology called the “Ethical Matrix,” to consider the impact of T&CM use for animals and the environment as well as …
Mind and Matter
Panpsychism, Dual-Aspect Monism, and the Combination Problem
Häftad, 2018
660 kr
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In this book, the author takes a stand for a variant of panpsychism as being the best solution available to the mind-body problem. More exactly, he defends a view that can be labelled 'dual-aspect-pan-proto-psychism'. Panpsychism claims that mentality is ubiquitous to reality, and in combination …
Dialogue on Explanation
Häftad, 2019
551 kr
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This book introduces a panorama of the philosophical theory of explanation. Written as a philosophical dialogue between two interlocutors, Philip and a student, it presents a defense of the position of explanatory pluralism. The fictional dialogue takes place on Cape Sounion, near Athens, where the …
Science and Enlightenment
Two Great Problems of Learning
Häftad, 2019
551 kr
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This book argues that two great problems of learning confront humanity: learning about the nature of the universe and about ourselves and other living things as a part of it; and learning how to become civilized. The author proposes that with the creation of modern science in the 17th century, the …
New Conversations on the Problems of Identity, Consciousness and Mind
Av Jonathan O. Chimakonam, Uti Ojah Egbai m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
551 kr
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This book introduces concepts in philosophy of mind and neurophilosophy. Inside, three scholars offer approaches to the problems of identity, consciousness, and the mind. In the process, they open new vistas for thought and raise fresh controversies to some of the oldest problems in philosophy. The …
Contextualism, Factivity and Closure
A Union That Should Not Take Place?
Av Stefano Leardi, Nicla Vassallo
Häftad, 2019
551 kr
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This book analyses an inconsistency within epistemic contextualism known as the factivity problem. It also provides key insights into epistemic contextualism, an important innovation in contemporary epistemology, enabling readers to gain a better understanding of the various solutions to the …
Seemings and Epistemic Justification
How Appearances Justify Beliefs
Av Luca Moretti
Häftad, 2020
551 kr
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This book examines phenomenal conservatism, one of the most influential and promising internalist conceptions of non-inferential justification debated in current epistemology and philosophy of mind. It also explores the significance of the findings of this examination for the general debate on …
Irreducible Reality of the Object
Phenomenological and Speculative Theories of Equipmentality
Häftad, 2020
551 kr
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This intriguing and compact book investigates whether or not philosophy can have a use in the face of ‘capitalist realism’ today. Can philosophy study everyday objects like computers and mobile phones? Can it think of advertising, the population, electricity, buildings and even dreams as ‘objects’ …
Visible, the Sublime and the Sensus Communis
Kant’s Theory of Perception
Häftad, 2020
551 kr
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This book argues that Kant develops a theory of perception in the Critique of Judgment from which one can redefine his entire project, viewing and using aesthetics as its backbone, from the transcendental aesthetic of the First Critique to the Critique of Taste in the Third. The author shows us how …
Limits of Art
On Borderline Cases of Artworks and their Aesthetic Properties
Häftad, 2020
333 kr
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This open access book is about exploring interesting borderline cases of art. It discusses the cases of gustatory and olfactory artworks (focusing on food), proprioceptive artworks (dance, martial arts, and rock climbing qua proprioceptive experiences), intellectual artworks (philosophical and …
Dialogue on Institutions
Häftad, 2021
551 kr
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This book consists of a dialogue between two interlocutors, Pablo and a student, who discuss a great range of issues in social philosophy and political theory, and in particular, the emergence, working properties and economic effects of institutions. It uses the dialogical form to make philosophy …
Aesthetics and the Iconoclasm of Contemporary Art
Pictures Without a World
Av Žarko Paić
Häftad, 2021
769 kr
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The main themes and aims of this book are understanding aesthetics, contemporary art and the end of the avant-garde not from the traditional viewpoint of the metaphysics of the beautiful and the sublime but rather thru close connection to the techno-genesis of virtual worlds. This book tackles …
Risk Theory
Rational Decision in the Face of Chance, Uncertainty, and Risk
Häftad, 2021
769 kr
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Apart from its foray into technical issues of risk assessment and management, this book has one principal aim. With situations of chancy outcomes certain key factors—including outcome possibilities, overall expectation, threat, and even luck—are measurable parameters. But risk is something …
Saving Cities
A Taxonomy of Urban Technologies
Av Shane Epting
Häftad, 2021
660 kr
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This book makes the case that several urban technologies contribute to wicked problems such as climate change and vast social and economic inequalities. Such situations often create unfavorable conditions for mental life in cities. These conditions force us to expand the taxonomy of technology to …
New Foundations for Information Theory
Logical Entropy and Shannon Entropy
Häftad, 2021
716 kr
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This monograph offers a new foundation for information theory that is based on the notion of information-as-distinctions, being directly measured by logical entropy, and on the re-quantification as Shannon entropy, which is the fundamental concept for the theory of coding and …
Aristotelian Assertoric Syllogistic
Incorporating the Aristotelian Assertoric Syllogistic in the Contemporary Symbolic Logic
Häftad, 2022
716 kr
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This book is a treatise on Aristotelian assertoric syllogistic, which is currently of growing interest. Some centuries ago, it attracted the attention of the founders of modern logic, who approached it in several (semantical and syntactical) ways. Further approaches were introduced later on. In …
Mind-Body Entanglement
Theory and Therapies
Av Pierre Uzan
Häftad, 2021
716 kr
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This book suggests a radical departure in approaching the mind-body problem. Instead of trying to causally relate subjective experience to the functioning of the body, it begins with the notion of the psychosomatic unity of the individual and looks for its conditions of possibility. This text shows …
Wittgenstein's On Certainty: Insight and Method
Häftad, 2022
825 kr
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This book considers the important twentieth century Austrian philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and his conception of certainty. In his work entitled On Certainty, Wittgenstein provides not only a brilliant solution to a previously intractable philosophical problem, but also the elements of an …
Human Dignity in African Philosophy
A Very Short Introduction
Häftad, 2022
716 kr
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This book throws a spotlight on the under-explored African perspective on the mercurial concept of human dignity. To do so, it employs two strategies. In the first instance, it considers African theories of human dignity: (1) vitality; (2) community; (3) Personhood. Secondly, it explores the …
Modal Logic of John Fabri of Valenciennes (c. 1500)
A Study in Token-Based Semantics
Av Christophe Geudens, Lorenz Demey
Häftad, 2022
607 kr
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The first book-length study to address issues in modal logic at the eve of the Renaissance, this monograph provides important new insights into the way the debates on modal logic during the post-medieval period tied in with the so-called Wegestreit, the divide between the via antiqua and via …
Synthetic Biology and the Question of Public Participation
Governance and Ethics in Dealing with Emerging Technologies
Av Stephanie Siewert, Katharina Kieslich m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
498 kr
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The book considers the relationship between governance and participation, and the ways participation has been understood, framed and applied in the context of synthetic biology (SB) governance approaches. Based on fundamental questions about the scope, purpose, and responsibilities assigned to …
Sisters of the Brotherhood: Alienation and Inclusion in Learning Philosophy
Häftad, 2023
333 kr
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This open access book explores the gendered reality of learning philosophy at the university level, investigating the ways in which women and minority students become alienated from the social practices of a male-dominated field, and examining pedagogical solutions to this problem. It covers the …
Understanding the Impact of Machine Learning on Labor and Education
A Time-Dependent Turing Test
Av Joseph Ganem
Häftad, 2023
551 kr
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This book provides a novel framework for understanding and revising labor markets and education policies in an era of machine learning. It posits that while learning and knowing both require thinking, learning is fundamentally different than knowing because it results in cognitive processes that …
Critical Distance: Ethical and Literary Engagements with Detachment, Isolation, and Otherness
Av Sami Pihlström, Sari Kivistö
Häftad, 2023
665 kr
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This book argues that no ethically appropriate relation to other human beings is possible unless we treat them as genuinely other. The authors provide reasons to be critical of various attempts, many of them popular in our contemporary (Western) culture, to encourage deeper attachment to and …
Universal Aspects of Scientific Practice: Commitment, Methodology, and Technique
Av Giora Hon, Bernard R. Goldstein
Häftad, 2023
551 kr
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This book provides a unique contribution to philosophy of science from the perspective of the practice of science. It focuses on processes that generate scientific knowledge and seeks general and universal features that characterize scientific practice; features that are inherent to the practice of …
