The Philosophy of History
Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher:
Published: 1902
Total Pages: 586
ISBN-13:
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Theory and Reality
Author: Peter Godfrey-Smith
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021-07-16
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 022677113X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow does science work? Does it tell us what the world is “really” like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour of more than a hundred years of debate about science. The result is a completely accessible introduction to the main themes of the philosophy of science. Examples and asides engage the beginning student, a glossary of terms explains key concepts, and suggestions for further reading are included at the end of each chapter. Like no other text in this field, Theory and Reality combines a survey of recent history of the philosophy of science with current key debates that any beginning scholar or critical reader can follow. The second edition is thoroughly updated and expanded by the author with a new chapter on truth, simplicity, and models in science.
What Truth is
Author: Mark Jago
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0198823819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMark Jago offers a new metaphysical account of truth. He argues that to be true is to be made true by the existence of a suitable worldly entity. Truth arises as a relation between a proposition - the content of our sayings, thoughts, beliefs, and so on - and an entity (or entities) in the world.
Philosophy and Temporality from Kant to Critical Theory
Author: Espen Hammer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-03-31
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1139501283
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a critical analysis of how key philosophers in the European tradition have responded to the emergence of a modern conception of temporality. Espen Hammer suggests that it is a feature of Western modernity that time has been forcibly separated from the natural cycles and processes with which it used to be associated. In a discussion that ranges over Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Adorno, he examines the forms of dissatisfaction which result from this, together with narrative modes of configuring time, the relationship between agency and temporality, and possible challenges to the modern world's linear and homogenous experience of time. His study is a rich exploration of an enduring philosophical theme: the role of temporality in shaping and reshaping modern human affairs.
The Theory and Practice of Experimental Philosophy
Author: Justin Sytsma
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2015-11-27
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 146040288X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years, developments in experimental philosophy have led many thinkers to reconsider their central assumptions and methods. It is not enough to speculate and introspect from the armchair—philosophers must subject their claims to scientific scrutiny, looking at evidence and in some cases conducting new empirical research. The Theory and Practice of Experimental Philosophy is an introduction and guide to the systematic collection and analysis of empirical data in academic philosophy. This book serves two purposes: first, it examines the theory behind “x-phi,” including its underlying motivations and the objections that have been leveled against it. Second, the book offers a practical guide for those interested in doing experimental philosophy, detailing how to design, implement, and analyze empirical studies. Thus, the book explains the reasoning behind x-phi and provides tools to help readers become experimental philosophers.
A History of Literary Criticism
Author: M. A. R. Habib
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 848
ISBN-13: 1405148845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive guide to the history of literary criticism from antiquity to the present day provides an authoritative overview of the major movements, figures, and texts of literary criticism, as well as surveying their cultural, historical, and philosophical contexts. Supplies the cultural, historical and philosophical background to the literary criticism of each era Enables students to see the development of literary criticism in context Organised chronologically, from classical literary criticism through to deconstruction Considers a wide range of thinkers and events from the French Revolution to Freud’s views on civilization Can be used alongside any anthology of literary criticism or as a coherent stand-alone introduction
The Meaning of Meaning
Author: Charles Kay Ogden
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 363
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe History of Philosophy
Author: A. C. Grayling
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2019-06-20
Total Pages: 559
ISBN-13: 0241980860
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAUTHORITATIVE AND ACCESSIBLE, THIS LANDMARK WORK IS THE FIRST SINGLE-VOLUME HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY SHARED FOR DECADES 'A cerebrally enjoyable survey, written with great clarity and touches of wit' Sunday Times The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some of the most creative minds known to humanity. But there has been no comprehensive history of this great intellectual journey since 1945. Intelligible for students and eye-opening for philosophy readers, A. C. Grayling covers with characteristic clarity and elegance subjects like epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, logic, and the philosophy of mind, as well as the history of debates in these areas, through the ideas of celebrated philosophers as well as less well-known influential thinkers. The History of Philosophy takes the reader on a journey from the age of the Buddha, Confucius and Socrates. Through Christianity's dominance of the European mind to the Renaissance and Enlightenment. On to Mill, Nietzsche, Sartre, then the philosophical traditions of India, China and the Persian-Arabic world. And finally, into philosophy today.
The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-04-24
Total Pages: 575
ISBN-13: 0486132781
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Free Will: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Thomas Pink
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2004-06-24
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 0192853589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery day we seem to make and act upon all kinds of free choices - but are these choices really free? Or are we compelled to act the way we do by factors beyond our control? This book looks at free will.
