The A Priori in Philosophy
The A Priori in Philosophy

Author: Albert Casullo

Publisher:

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 0199695334

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For centuries philosophers have attached much importance to a priori knowledge, but recent work in epistemology and experimental philosophy has questioned this. Leading philosophers discuss explanations of the a priori, challenges to its existence, the status of intuition, and the justification of belief—topics at the centre of current debate.

David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature
David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature

Author: David Fate Norton

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2007-04-19

Total Pages: 752

ISBN-13: 0191569097

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David and Mary Norton present the definitive scholarly edition of one of the greatest philosophical works ever written. This second volume begins with their 'Historical Account' of the Treatise, an account that runs from the beginnings of the work to the period immediately following Hume's death in 1776, followed by an account of the Nortons' editorial procedures and policies and a record of the differences between the first-edition text of the Treatise and the critical text that follows. The volume continues with an extensive set of 'Editors' Annotations', intended to illuminate (though not intepret) Hume's texts; a four-part bibliography of materials cited in both volumes; and a comprehensive index.

In Defense of Pure Reason
In Defense of Pure Reason

Author: Laurence BonJour

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780521597456

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A comprehensive defence of the rationalist view that insight independent of experience is a genuine basis for knowledge.

The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy
The Cambridge Companion to Kant and Modern Philosophy

Author: Paul Guyer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-01-30

Total Pages: 760

ISBN-13: 1139827030

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The philosophy of Immanuel Kant is the watershed of modern thought, which irrevocably changed the landscape of the field and prepared the way for all the significant philosophical movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This 2006 volume, which complements The Cambridge Companion to Kant, covers every aspect of Kant's philosophy, with a particular focus on his moral and political philosophy. It also provides detailed coverage of Kant's historical context and of the enormous impact and influence that his work has had on the subsequent history of philosophy. The bibliography also offers extensive and organized coverage of both classical and recent books on Kant. This volume thus provides the broadest and deepest introduction currently available on Kant and his place in modern philosophy, making accessible the philosophical enterprise of Kant to those coming to his work for the first time.

Rethinking the Ontological Argument
Rethinking the Ontological Argument

Author: Daniel A. Dombrowski

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-05-29

Total Pages: 12

ISBN-13: 1139457144

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In recent years, the ontological argument and theistic metaphysics have been criticised by philosophers working in both the analytic and continental traditions. Responses to these criticisms have primarily come from philosophers who make use of the traditional, and problematic, concept of God. In this volume, Daniel A. Dombrowski defends the ontological argument against its contemporary critics, but he does so by using a neoclassical or process concept of God, thereby strengthening the case for a contemporary theistic metaphysics. Relying on the thought of Charles Hartshorne, he builds on Hartshorne's crucial distinction between divine existence and divine actuality, which enables neoclassical defenders of the ontological argument to avoid the familiar criticism that the argument moves illegitimately from an abstract concept to concrete reality. His argument, thus, avoids the problems inherent in the traditional concept of God as static.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Author: David Hume

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2019-04-04

Total Pages: 121

ISBN-13: 8027303893

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"An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding" is a book by David Hume created as a revision of an earlier work, Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature". The argument of the Enquiry proceeds by a series of incremental steps, separated into chapters which logically succeed one another. After expounding his epistemology, Hume explains how to apply his principles to specific topics. This book has proven highly influential, both in the years that would immediately follow and today. Immanuel Kant points to it as the book which woke him from his self-described "dogmatic slumber."

Maximal God
Maximal God

Author: Yujin Nagasawa

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0198758685

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Yujin Nagasawa presents a new, stronger version of perfect being theism, the conception of God as the greatest possible being. Although perfect being theism is the most common form of monotheism in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition its truth has been disputed by philosophers and theologians for centuries. Nagasawa proposes a new, game-changing defence of perfect being theism by developing what he calls the 'maximal concept of God'. Perfect being theists typically maintain that God is an omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent being; according to Nagasawa, God should be understood rather as a being that has the maximal consistent set of knowledge, power, and benevolence. Nagasawa argues that once we accept the maximal concept we can establish perfect being theism on two grounds. First, we can refute nearly all existing arguments against perfect being theism simultaneously. Second, we can construct a novel, strengthened version of the modal ontological argument for perfect being theism. Nagasawa concludes that the maximal concept grants us a unified defence of perfect being theism that is highly effective and economical.