Conceivability and Possibility
Author: Tamar Gendler
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 507
ISBN-13: 9780198250906
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Author: Tamar Gendler
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 507
ISBN-13: 9780198250906
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Author: Tamar Szabo Gendler
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2002-07-25
Total Pages: 522
ISBN-13: 0191591866
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Perry
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780262661355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhysicalism is the idea that if everything that goes on is physical, our consciousness and feelings must also be physical. This book defends a view called antecedent physicalism.
Author: Elizabeth Katkin
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2019-06-25
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1501142372
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe “Jason Bourne of fertility” (The New York Times Book Review) presents a personal and deeply informative account of one woman’s journey through the global fertility industry. On paper, conception may seem like a simple biological process, yet this is often hardly the case. While many would like to have children, the road toward conceiving and maintaining a pregnancy can be unexpectedly rocky and winding. Lawyer Elizabeth Katkin never imagined her quest for children would ultimately involve seven miscarriages, eight fresh IVF cycles, two frozen IVF attempts, five natural pregnancies, four IVF pregnancies, ten doctors, six countries, two potential surrogates, nine years, and roughly $200,000. Despite her three Ivy League degrees and wealth of resources, Katkin found she was woefully undereducated when it came to understanding and confronting her own difficulties having children. After being told by four doctors she should give up, but without an explanation as to what exactly was going wrong with her body, Katkin decided to look for answers herself. The global investigation that followed revealed that approaches to the fertility process taken in many foreign countries are vastly different than those in the US and UK. In Conceivability, Elizabeth Katkin, now a mother of two, exposes eye-opening information about the medical, financial, legal, scientific, emotional, and ethical issues at stake. “A well-researched, informative, and positive account of a very long journey to motherhood” (Kirkus Reviews), Conceivability sheds light on the often murky and baffling world of conception science. Her book is an invaluable and inspiring text that will be a boon to others navigating the deep and “choppy waters” of fertility treatment (Publishers Weekly), and her chronicle of one of the most difficult, painful, rewarding, and loving journeys a woman can take is as informative as it is poignant.
Author: Benedikt Paul Göcke
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-09-29
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 1137412828
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Theory of the Absolute develops a worldview that is opposed to the dominant paradigm of physicalism and atheism. It provides powerful arguments for the existence of the soul and the existence of the Absolute. It shows that faith is not in contradiction to reason.
Author: Tamar Gendler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010-12-09
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 0199589763
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTamar Gendler draws together in this book a series of essays in which she investigates philosophical methodology, which is now emerging as a central topic of philosophical discussions. Three intertwined themes run through the volume: imagination, intuition and philosophical methodology. Each of the chapters focuses, in one way or another, on how we engage with subject matter that we take to be imaginary. This theme is explored in a wide range of cases, including scientific thought experiments, early childhood pretense, thought experiments concerning personal identity, fictional emotions, self-deception, Gettier cases, and the general relation of conceivability to possibility. Each of the chapters explores, in one way or another, the implications of this for how thought experiments and appeals to intuition can serve as mechanisms for supporting or refuting scientific or philosophical claims. And each of the chapters self-consciously exhibits a particular philosophical methodology: that of drawing both on empirical findings from contemporary psychology, and on classic texts in the philosophical tradition (particularly the work of Aristotle and Hume.) By exploring and exhibiting the fruitfulness of these interactions, Gendler promotes the value of engaging in such cross-disciplinary conversations in illuminating philosophical issues.
Author: Hans-Johann Glock
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780199252824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKant is generally regarded as the greatest modern philosopher. But that analytic philosophers treat him as a central voice in contemporary debates is largely due to Sir Peter Strawson, the most eminent philosopher living in Britain today. In this collection, leading Kant scholars and analytic philosophers, including Strawson himself, for the first time assess his relation to Kant. The essays raise questions about how philosophy should deal with its past, what kind of insights it can achieve, and whether we can have knowledge of an objective reality.
Author: Michael Jubien
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-02-12
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0199232784
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPossibility is a philosophical treatise on the metaphysical concepts of possibility and necessity. Jubien rejects the idea of possible worlds, and starts instead the notion of a physical object and the positing of properties and relations. He has new things to say about such topics as essentialism, natural kinds, and proper names.
Author: Mark Rowlands
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-10-11
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 113943098X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Nature of Consciousness, Mark Rowlands develops an innovative account of the nature of phenomenal consciousness, one that has significant consequences for attempts to find a place for it in the natural order. The most significant feature of consciousness is its dual nature: consciousness can be both the directing of awareness and that upon which awareness is directed. Rowlands offers a clear and philosophically insightful discussion of the main positions in this fast-moving debate, and argues that the phenomenal aspects of conscious experience are aspects that exist only in the directing of experience towards non-phenomenal objects, a theory that undermines reductive attempts to explain consciousness in terms of what is not conscious. His book will be of interest to a wide range of readers in the philosophy of mind and language, psychology and cognitive science.
Author: Anders Berglund
Publisher: University of Iceland Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9789173058612
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