Studia Philosophica Wratislavienisia
Studia Philosophica Wratislavienisia

Author: Damian Leszczyński

Publisher: Instytut Filozofii Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, Polskie Forum Filozoficzne

Published: 2013-12-01

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 8364208047

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The set of philosophical papers.

Substantiality and Causality
Substantiality and Causality

Author: Miroslaw Szatkowski

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2014-12-11

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1614518696

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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, Keinänen, Kovac, Piwowarczyk), whereas the other contains investigations of causality showing in a way its reference to the category of substance (Kobiela, Meixner, Mitscherling, Wroński). The last, short section contains two studies of extension (Leszczyński and Skowron) which can be regarded as a conceptual background of both substantiality and causality. The book gives a very colourful picture of the discussions connected with substantiality and causality which may be of potential interest for the readers.

Contemporary Influences of C. G. Jung's Thought
Contemporary Influences of C. G. Jung's Thought

Author: Andrew Kuzmicki

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-11-26

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 900433663X

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The book is a volume of the collected works of sixteen different authors. They reflect the contemporary meaning of C. G. Jung’s theory on many fields of scientific activity and in a different cultural context: Japanese, South American and North American, as well as European: English, Italian and Polish. The authors consider a specific milieu of Jung’s theory and his influence or possible dialogue with contemporary ideas and scientific activity. A major task of the book will be to outline the contemporary—direct or indirect—usefulness and applicability of Jung's ideas at the beginning of the twenty-first century while simultaneously making a critical review of this theory.

Feyerabend's Philosophy
Feyerabend's Philosophy

Author: Eric Oberheim

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-02-13

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 311089176X

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Paul Feyerabend ranks among the most exciting and influential philosophers of science of the twentieth century. This reconstruction of his developing ideas combines historical and systematic considerations. Part I examines the three main influences on Feyerabend’s philosophical development: Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, Popper critical rationalism and Ehrenhaft’s experimental effects. Part II focuses on Feyerabend’s development and use of the notion of incommensurability at the heart of his philosophical critiques, and investigates his relation to realism. Feyerabend initially developed the notion of incommensurability from ideas he found in Duhem. He used the notion of incommensurability to attack many different forms of conceptual conservativism in philosophy and the natural sciences. He argued against many views on the grounds that that they would constrain the freedom necessary to develop alternative points of view, and thereby hinder scientific advance. Contrary to widespread opinion, he was never a scientific realist. Part III reconstructs Feyerabend’s pluralistic conception of knowledge in the context of his pluralistic philosophical method. Feyerabend was a philosophical pluralist, who practiced pluralism in pursuit of progress.

Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation
Explanation, Prediction, and Confirmation

Author: Dennis Dieks

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2011-03-24

Total Pages: 525

ISBN-13: 9400711808

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This volume, the second in the Springer series Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective, contains selected papers from the workshops organised by the ESF Research Networking Programme PSE (The Philosophy of Science in a European Perspective) in 2009. Five general topics are addressed: 1. Formal Methods in the Philosophy of Science; 2. Philosophy of the Natural and Life Sciences; 3. Philosophy of the Cultural and Social Sciences; 4. Philosophy of the Physical Sciences; 5. History of the Philosophy of Science. This volume is accordingly divided in five sections, each section containing papers coming from the meetings focussing on one of these five themes. However, these sections are not completely independent and detached from each other. For example, an important connecting thread running through a substantial number of papers in this volume is the concept of probability: probability plays a central role in present-day discussions in formal epistemology, in the philosophy of the physical sciences, and in general methodological debates---it is central in discussions concerning explanation, prediction and confirmation. The volume thus also attempts to represent the intellectual exchange between the various fields in the philosophy of science that was central in the ESF workshops.

Religion of Reason Out of the Sources of Judaism
Religion of Reason Out of the Sources of Judaism

Author: Hermann Cohen

Publisher: AAR Religions in Translation

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780788501029

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It is at once a Jewish book and a philosophical one: Jewish because it takes its material from the literary tradition that extends from the Bible to the rabbis to the great medieval philosophers; philosophical, because it studies that material in order to construct a worldview that is rational in the broadest sense of the term. This edition is designed for classroom use. It reprints a 1972 introduction by Leo Strauss and includes an essay on the work by Steven Schwarzschild. A new introduction by Kenneth R.

What's the Use of Truth?
What's the Use of Truth?

Author: Richard Rorty

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780231140140

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American pragmatist Rorty and the French analytic philosopher Engel present their radically different perspectives on truth and its correspondence to reality. "What's the Use of Truth?" is a rare opportunity to experience each side of this impassioned debate clearly and concisely.